Karen Oakes, District Rotary Foundation Director

Doing good in the world is the message of The Rotary Foundation and Karen Oakes District 7090 Rotary Foundation director carried that message to the club.

The Dundas Valley Sunrise Rotary Club is a great supporter of TRF having every member contribute and giving sufficiently to make the club and its members the third highest givers in a district of 70 clubs. TRF offers Humanitarian, Educational and Polio Plus Programs and is changing how it does business. Future Vision is the new direction with more funds returned to the district to be managed locally rather than by TRF directly. In the past the club has accessed district simplified grants for the ice rink and has indirectly used TRF grants through its contributions to water wells in Haiti and the school in Guatemala. Its annual contributions to Polio Plus have helped bring polio almost to the point of world wide eradication.

Karen thanked our club for sending members to training and reminded us that if we want to access funds for the Rotary year 2013-14 we need to have our application in by February 1, 2013.