Rotary Club - Residents raise over £12,500 for Tsunami Appeal

Funds raised by Rotary Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland for the Asian Disaster survivors have reached £5 million. Rotary Clubs responded quickly and continue to work tirelessly to assist communities affected by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated south Asia’s coastal regions on December 26.

The two Rotary Clubs in Windsor jointly raised over £12,500 thanks to the generosity of the Windsor public. The Rotary Club of Windsor & Eton have generously matched this figure with further funds.

Funds raised have been used immediately for Shelterboxes, Aquaboxes and Emergency boxes, in direct response to requests from Rotary Clubs in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India. More than three thousand Aquaboxes and over eleven hundred Shelterboxes have been shipped to India and Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives in the last two weeks to provide temporary homes and clean water for 20,000 victims of the Asian tsunami.

Rotary is able to get aid quickly where it is most needed as it works through its volunteer service club network at the grassroots level to provide immediate aid and assistance to those impacted by disaster. Rotary has hundreds of clubs and thousands of members in the affected countries, including 57 clubs and 1,600 members in Sri Lanka, 90 clubs and 1,750 members in Indonesia, 362 clubs and 8,900 members in Thailand, and 2,511 clubs and 89,000 members in India. Rotary Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland are working with their colleagues in the affected areas as well s with relief agencies such as UNICEF and the Red Cross, airlines and the military.