Congratulations and thanks to those 36 Clubs  supportinginternational activities this year

These include the District coordinated and Gt Missenden's Dictionaries for Life (literacy) projects, the Box Appeals and 5 other Foundation supported matching grant projects. Supporting Education, Water and Health programmes, the matching grant projects are variousely sponsored by Amptill & District, Luton, Milton Keynes, Stevenage Grange & Wolverton & Stony Stratford.

Help us champion and celebrate your international [and other] projects: As Stephen Sypula (International Chair) and Mervyn Edwards (Foundation Chair) complete their experiment to conduct six joint half-year zone based rallies, it is evident that so much more is happening on the International front that goes un-recorded and is lost therfore for the benefit of others.

Few annual RIBI returns are completed because they are too negative or overly complex we have been told, and yet here on the D1260 website we do offer a simple one page International project sheet that might help us, help you, gather Foundation and other support as you plan for 2010/11. Do check it out here:-

 Use the Club ISC Project Sheet to gain support 

Please do support D1260 Club projects and on-going programmes.  Doing things, sharing knowledge, experiences, contacts and making a difference is what Rotary is all about ...

Taking just one example from the Stevenage Grange ROI project sheet ... Did you know that the World Health Organistion (WHO) advise that saving sight is one one of the most cost effective, productive and socially beneficial health interventions. WHO estimate that saving or restoring sight for an individual saves or adds £1,200 to the local economy each year. On that basis, Stevenage Grange Rotary Club's global Make Blindness History programme has already added £5.3m to local economies in developing countries, by funding over 4,500 cataract operations, as well as providing their 'Donated by Rotarians' engraved low cost ophthalmoscopes to over 44 developing countries in the last three years. 

Ted Coles, IPP and Chairman of the Grange's ROI Committee commented  ...."whilst we were delighted by the initial response to the initiative, subsequent donations by Clubs in D1260 have slowed considerable. Through ROI, Rotarians can save sight by funding  a cataract operation for less that £5 with TRF support. Two million people go blind needlessly, and when 75%  of blindness is curable or treatable it is my hope that Clubs in 1260 will continue to support this D1260 Centennial Club project and help make blindness history for many"

Please do let us have your project details so we can help you to get your message to a wider audience.