For some years,Luton Someries has had a relationship with a small town called Valka, on theLatvia-Estonia border. Along with our twinned Rotary Club of Iserlohn (Germany) and a Rotary Club in Holland with the extensive name of Gemert-Beek & Donk-Lieshout, we have sent Christmas parcels and supported several of their kindergartens and children’s homes with funds for equipment, furnishings andimprovements. 

In July 2006 we went further with a work team of 19 people to spend a week carrying out building works at the Pasacina kindergarten.

Stevenage Grange Rotary Club is delighted to announce, that following successful trialling of the Optyse^TM, Sightsavers International has now agreed to become an official ROI partner.

Sightsavers will now help promote the Initiative at RIBI & Inner Wheel Conferences. Inaddition Russell Richards and his team of volunteer speakers will provide a mailshot to all Clubs, and link with colleague Phillip Hoare to facilitate global distribution. 

More than 2 million children in southernand eastern Afghanistan were targeted by a new 3-day polio eradication drive, launched atthe beginning of May. The immunisation campaign comes shortly after thecountry’s health authorities reported a sixth case of polio in the south of thecountry this year.