ROTAKIDS OFFICIAL CHARTER

Mary Adams, past president of The Narberth and Whitland Rotary Club, is delighted to announce that Narberth RotaKids will receive their official RotaKids in Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland Charter, on January 22, at Narberth Primary School.

Rotary’s association with the school goes back two years ago to the Rotary shoebox scheme. Last year, they helped raise awareness of the End Polio Now scheme which Rotary and the Bill Gates Foundation has done so much to eradicate Polio Worldwide. Before Christmas, the school came to sing at the community dementia cafe living memory group at the group’s Christmas party.

More recently, the Rotary Club introduced the school to Roko 20 Academy, a school in Kenya, whose pupils suffer from the disease Jiggers where insects lay eggs in the children’s feet whilst they sleep on hessian sacks at night.

The school collected flip flops in a campaign called Operation Flip Flop to send to the school.

The two schools have developed an educational plan to link work schemes and share videos so both schools can see how they differ across the globe.

It’s really an exciting project and Narberth and Whitland Rotary Club are looking forward to working with the RotaKids club in a really exciting future.

FLIP FLOP SUCCESS IN KENYA

Co-ordinated by the Rotary Club of Narberth and Whitland, the Flip Flop Campaign was a great success thanks to the children and staff at Narberth Community Primary School, members of Narberth and Whitland Rotary Club and Jelly Egg Footwear of Narberth, we received a lot of flip flops, shoes and crocs. The children were delighted with the donation of their footwear, as you can see in the photo. This was taken at the Roko 20 Academy in Kenya. Roko 20 Academy is a primary school opened in 2014. Situated in Kamira, rural Kenya, the school provides children with a free education, clothes, food and basic healthcare.

Roko 20 encourages children to become self-sufficient from an early age. They are taught skills that they can use outside of school such as gardening, caring for animals, needlework and carpentry.

PURPLE POLIO CAMPAIGN

The busy Rotary Club organised an event called Purple Polio during which the Queen’s Hall, Narberth, was floodlit for one week with purple coloured lights to publicise fundraising campaigns to eradicate polio in third world countries.

Members of Narberth and Whitland were pleased to receive updates this month which showed the results of the immunisation programme sponsored throughout the world by Rotary International.