Six of our members attended Tuesday's District meeting on inclusion.  Inclusion of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, etc.  A major take-away is for clubs to look at their policies, practices and culture to determine where they can do better which should help attract and retain members.  Along these lines, you may be interested in knowing that the Club and Foundation Board approved participating in a Global Grant which will provide water to the Navajo Nation.  The Global Grant committee is also in conversation with the Shawnee Indian Tribe researching collaborative opportunities.

 

Who is that man in the ice cream suit . . . and where is his truck?  I think there is a fine for this publicity!

 

District 5495 (northern central AZ) is working on a Rotary Foundation Global Water Grant to provide homes on the Navajo Nation with inside running tap water.  There are over 200,000 Native Americans living on 25,000 square miles of land with 40 percent without inside tap water and/or a toilet along with 44 percent of the children in poverty.  It is estimated that the average American home consumes 100 gallons of water per day while the average Navajo home consumes seven (7) gallons per day.  Or putting it another way, today's toilet uses 3.5 to 5 gallons per flush. So, two (2) flushes per day can exceed a day use of water. And what about: Laundry? Bathing? Cooking? Having a glass of water?
 
Many of these people, our Arizona neighbors, presently have their water delivered into 50 gallon holding barrels in their yards by a water truck and then into the home by small container. Our goal is to install underground cisterns which pump running tap water into or selected homes (need-based) at a cost of $4,500 per home.  The homes are located within a 70-mile radius of Thoreau, New Mexico which is close to Gallup, New Mexico.

 

The District Global Grant is working with with DigDeep which supplies and installs the total water system at each home. The water system consists of a 1,200 gallon in ground cistern, electric pump, sink, solar panel, battery, filter, heater and gray water leach field.
 
Please view Navajo Water video:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-off-the-grid-navajo-residents-are-getting-running-water

 

More information on DigDeep:
https://www.navajowaterproject.org/project-specifics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When a member misses a meeting, there are several ways to make up for the absence:

Rotarians can make up for an absence at their club meeting within the same Rotary year.  If a member attempts to make up at another club and that club either did not meet that week, or changed venues, the club member can let their club's secretary know the date and time of the attempted make-up and it will count as a makeup toward a missed meetings.  Make ups also qualify if you attend an eClub meeting.   Send all make-ups to our club secretary, Bill McCollum via email.

 

Here is a list of area Rotary clubs: