The following is an excerpt from an Award to our club for our involvement with projects in the Philippines. This Award is important because the Municipalities of the Philippines represent a layer of Government.

Have you heard of the Rotary Shelter Box Project? It´s a great project to help in disaster relief. Read about it Here.

The Rotary Club of Port Pirie support this magnificent project by increasing community awareness of the programme and making donations of boxes. We have donated 6 boxes so far and members of our club have also made personal donations.

The best part of this project is that via the WWW, you can check exactly where your donation has gone. RC Port Pirie Boxes can be traced here although ony 2 are showing at the moment.

PP Philip Johns was selected as team leader for the 2009 GSE team to D1150 in Wales.
They departed on the 18th September bound for Cardif. Excepts from their Blog can be found can be found HERE, or everything including the itinery HERE.

The Wales team that visited out club on 8th of October gave us a great presentation on their interests and Wales. They have a blog HERE.

The Rotary Foundation's Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for businesspeople and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers.

After an initial visit over 4 years ago, a generous donation by some unselfish Rotarians, overseas trips and a matching grant, some Aeta's (natives of the Philippines) now have year round drinking water.
This article is an email from PP Sonny, of the Rotary Club of Dau, the recipient club for the matching grant.

The Rotary Club of Port Pirie again delivered posies on Mother's Day to the ladies residing in Halliday St Lealholm, Senate Rd Lealholm, St Josephs House, Charles Robertson Cottages, Port Pirie Hospital Wards A & C and to Hammill House.