Iowa City Noon Rotary Awards – The following members were recognized by our club:

 

Herb Wilson                Sponsor, Level 2

Jody Braverman          Sponsor, Level 4

 

Update on Club Projects
Tom Cilek introduced the program on club projects that our club has done locally to help our community, our state, our nation and the world.

 

The Xicotepec Project (Chris Catney): The dynamic work of many hearts, minds and hands that has involved 841 participants to date in Xicotepec, Mexico since 2002. The goal is to serve community-minded projects through hard work, strong values and the commitment to develop young people through humanitarian efforts and address the most urgent needs including contruction, dental and medical care, education and more during the annual visits to Xicotepec. The project is a collaboration between the Rotary Club of Xicotepec and Rotary District 6000, which includes 64 Rotary Clubs in roughly the southern half of Iowa. The application period is open until November 18. To apply for the March 2016 trip visit: www.xicoproject.org.

 

Find them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/xicoproj.

 

IowaMOST (Gary Pacha & Deb Dunkhase): The Miles of Smiles Team has been making annual trips to Guatemala since 2006. The group works to bring hope and healing to children and adults living in the region who need cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries. Their partners at the hospital in Hueheutenango work side by side with them each year. 1 in 600 children are born with cleft defects each year in Guatemala. Due to the extreme poverty it is very hard for these children to receive the corrective surgery. Through their efforts many of these affected children in this impoverished area will no longer be ostracized by their community. The next trip will take place from February 4-February 14 in 2016. Doctors, dentists, nurses, medical students, Rotarians and many other volunteers are needed to make the next trip a success. 

 

For more information visit: www.iowamost.org.

 

Rag4Clubfoot (Herb Wilson): The mission is to support activities to assure timely treatment and appropriate care for children born with clubfoot deformity worldwide. Ponseti Method is a low cost, low-tech, non-surgical, highly effective treatment for correcting clubfoot deformity. Rotarians are helping by: recruiting fellow Rotarians to join Rag4Clubfoot; raising awareness that “Clubfoot is treatable”; assisting to educate the general public, health professionals at all levels, and government officials about Ponseti Method; assisting to care for clubfoot patients in their local medical facilities/communities and more. Every 3 minutes a child is born with clubfoot. That is 200,000 children each year. Hundreds of thousands of these children will live with a deformity that will limit their mobility and greatly affect their future. We can not eliminate clubfoot but we can fix it!

 

For more information visit: www.rag4clubfoot.org.

 

FAMSCO (John Ockenfels): A 501(c)3 organization, staffed 100% with volunteer Rotarians, whose purpose is to send humanitarian shipments of fire, medical, and other equipment and supplies to global communities. This is accomplished through partnerships with Rotarians in the communities of need. Iowa District 6000 Rotarians have shipped more than 75 vehicles and 250 tons of equipment over the past 25 years. Currently, the organization is looking for 5,000-6,000 square feet locally to store their equipment. If you have space you would like to donate you can contact the organization at: info@famsco.org.  

 

For more information visit: http://famsco.org/

 

November 17    Program Committee Meeting at 7:45 a.m. at 122 South Linn (Bob Downer's Office)