2014-2015

We live in a world where international projects mean the difference between war and peace, conflict and cooperation, wealth and poverty, power and change; and, understanding and tolerance. Your actions make the world a better place - one individual and one project at a time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Step 1: Commitment Level Identification
Board of Directors AND Club Assembly
• What are your club resources?
• What is the term of your club commitment?
– short term
– long term
– unsure
• What is the level of your commitment?
– project development
– project assistance
– project funding
• What is the level of commitment of club members?

Step 2: Develop a Team & Plan
• International Projects Chair (2-3 year term)
• Committee Members (minimum of 4)
– consider rotating positions
– 1 in 1 out
• Based on the term and level of commitment identified:
– Identify club resources that will be allocated towards the project [money, labor, time, human capital]
– Develop project accountability tools to measure impact and value
– Contingency Plan

• Basic Education and Literacy
• Disease Prevention and Treatment
• Economic and Community Development
• Maternal and Child Health
• New Generations
• Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution
• Polio
• Vocational Service
• Water and Sanitation
• Other

• Make Contact
– Online vs. In-Person
• Perform Discovery
– What is the status of the project?
– What are the project accountability tools in place?
– Will your club resources fulfill a need?
– What are the expectations?
• Make a Final Decision

• Resource
– Does the committee/club utilize existing technology platforms available to provide easy access to the local community about the project to build renewable interest?
• Economic
– Does the committee/club have an ongoing source of funds to cover maintenance and any necessary improvements?
• Cultural
– Does the committee/club take club norms into account by including long-standing and new members in an active role?
• Social
– Does the project allow for involvement outside the club? Can social networks be developed to strengthen the project commitment and the club?

9:30 – 9:50: Project Hope
9:50 – 10:10: Garbis Peace Institute
10:10 – 10:30: One Drop
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 11:05: Rotaplast
11:05 – 11:15: Open World
11:15 – 11:25: Community First Initiative
11:25 – 11:35: Health & Hunger
11:35 – 11:50: Job Creation & Entrepreneurship
11:50 – 12:00: Questions and closing remarks

2014-2017

To engage both adults and youth in active dialogue with a focus on community building and promoting global peace through peace conferences, workshops, seminars, lecture series, research, public diplomacy sojourns, web site youth forums, and multicultural events.
2015 Theme: The Middle East in Crises: Prospects for peace
Date: March 14, 2015
Location: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA

One Drop&
Rotary International project
Fred Fukumoto, Co-Chair
Las Vegas Southwest Rotary
425-208-2986
Dr. Clive Houston-Brown, Co-Chair
Pomona Rotary Club
909-2086193

• 80% of disease in third world countries is caused by contaminated water.
• Over 1 billion people
• have NO ACCESS to
• clean water.
• Every 8 seconds,
• a child dies from
• waterborne diseases.

Burkina Faso
5 year $5 million water, sanitation and education campaign

• Ranked 181 out of 187 on the UN Human
Development Index
• Population lives on $2/day
• Main source of income is Agriculture
• There is 850 m3 per year per inhabitant available water, while the amount needed for survival is estimated at 1,000 m3.
• Life expectancy 55.4 years

• Non-profit organization established in 2007 by Guy
Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil that strives to ensure that water is accessible to all, today and forever.
• ONE DROP develops integrated and sustainable programs aimed at improving water-access and management
– The Water-Access and Management component for drinking, agricultural and livestock production as well as domestic uses;
– The Microfinance component to grant loans to populations so they may start productive revenue-generating activities;
– The Social Art and Popular Education component to ensure sound water management and preservation techniques become ingrained in collective behaviors.
• International and local partners

• The goals of the project:
• improve access to safe water to increase the level of health and agricultural output,
• ensure food security, increase household incomes,
• raise awareness of water-related issues, promote gender equality,
• and develop leadership and mobilize youths to transform them into agents of change .

4,000 beneficiaries
• 123 Latrines
– community members trained to maintain facilities and as masons.
• 100 Catch Basins
– minimize stagnant water which hosts bacteria and disease
• 100 Household Wash Stations
– brick and cement connected to catch basins
• 4 Waste Disposal Communes
• Micro lending for empowerment

Example
Rotary Clubs donate
District 5300 matches 100%
TRF matches
District 100%
TRF matches Clubs
50%
Total Grant
Current
$28,600
28,600
28,600
14,300
$100,100
Prior
$3,500
3,500
3,500
1,750
$12,250

2014-2015

Please return by 10:45

District 5300’s Next Rotaplast Mission
Rotary Basics Seminar
By Angela Brooks

Rotary Open World
Authorized by Congress in 2000
Special program funded by federal grant to Rotary International
Brings leaders from Russian Federation to U.S. to study democracy & free enterprise
In Las Vegas
Participants study U.S. government at federal, state and local levels
Participants engage in both dialogue and hands-on experiences while in the U.S.
Karen Whisenhunt (Co-Coordinator, Southern Nevada)
District 5300

Rotary Open World
• Civic Themes
– Economic Development
– Environment
– Local Governance
– Health & Social
Development
• Includes Youth Issues &
Education sub-themes
– Women as Leaders
• Rule of Law
– Judicial delegations
Judicial delegation from Estonia visit Las Vegas,
2013. Hosted by Federal Judge Lloyd George and Rotary Clubs from Southern Nevada.
Karen Whisenhunt (Co-Coordinator, Southern Nevada)
District 5300

Rotary Open World
CLUB RESPONSIBILITIES
• Home-stay for 8 days & 9 nights – Hotels in Las Vegas
• Vocational program for selected theme
• Daily meals
• Transportation
• Cultural and social events
• Hiring a professional interpreter
PROGRAM SCHEDULE – 8 DAY PROGRAM
• 32 hours of formal theme-related activities
• Social and cultural events
• Local Rotary clubs meetings and fellowship
• Las Vegas Open World – Estonia, April 20-27, 2013
• Las Vegas Open World – Kazakstan, September 28-October 5, 2013
District 5300

Rotary Open World
Federal Judge Lloyd George,
Rotarian Karen Whisenhunt and Melanie Muldowny greet arriving delegation.
Delegations join Rotary Clubs for lunch.
Karen Whisenhunt (Co-Coordinator, Southern Nevada)
District 5300

Rotary Open World
Senior US District Judge Lloyd D. George for the District of Nevada, received award for years of dedication to the Rule of Law and the Open World Program. Presented by Open World Ambassador and staff along with Congress woman Dina Titus and Senator Harry Reid.
Left: US Sr. Federal Judge Lloyd D.
George, Estonian Delegation,
Estonian Consul, Jaak Treiman,
Chief Protocol Office Gayle
Anderson, and Rotary OW chair,
Karen Whisenhunt
Right: Russian Delegation along with Judge Lloyd D. George, US
Marshals and Rotarians Karen
Whisenhunt and Roy York at
Fremont Street Rotary Block Party
Karen Whisenhunt (Co-Coordinator, Southern Nevada)
District 5300

Rotary Open World
TOOLS FOR YOU
Visit the RI website at www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellowship/Fellowship/OpenWorld
CD or Online
Open World PowerPoint Presentation
Open World FAQ’s
Open World Brochure
District Chair
Hassan Kheradmandan - California
Karen Whisenhunt – Southern Nevada
Karen Whisenhunt (Co-Coordinator, Southern Nevada)
District 5300

GPS Location: 13 ° 35’N 103 ° 30’E
Sen Sok Community – Kralanh District Siem Reap
Province, Northwestern Cambodia

Less than half of the children will complete primary school
One in two woman has to leave their family to seek work in sweatshops
Over 2 million people were killed in during the infamous
Pol Pot regime (1975-79), that’s about a third of the population at the time
While GDP per capita is $2,300,
Rural Cambodians rarely make over $400 in a year
People are lucky to live past age 60
Almost half of the rural population has no access to safe water
Of the 14 million people, a third live below the poverty line
5% of babies born there will not live to be children

What it means to families
A significant impact on their ever yday life

Health & Hunger Rotary Projects
30 Million people die each year from hunger

OVER 700
TRAINED

HASSAN KHERADMANDAN, CHAIR
HASSANK@SBCGLOBAL.NET
310-721-2083
“Together we can change the world”