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2-25-2012 at Battle On Bago
Shelterbox
Display at EAA
Brat Fry
held 6/30 & 7/1, 2011
Webster Stanley MS PALS
Christine Ann
Outreach
Water for
Sudan
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International Service
 
ShelterBox
This year’s EAA AirVenture event provided a great opportunity for the Oshkosh
Morning Rotary Club to team up with ShelterBox USA and promote worldwide
disaster relief to pilots and attendees at the convention in Oshkosh. ShelterBox
USA provides disaster relief for displaced and vulnerable people including
tents, thermal blankets, water purification kits, cooking supplies, and more,
all contained in one easy transportable box.
A ShelterBox
tent and all the equipment contained in the box were set up for display on the
EAA grounds.
As a community service, the Morning Rotary volunteers
 helped
staff the booth and spread the word about this vital humanitarian effort. To
learn more about how you can support ShelterBox visit
www.shelterbox.org
Water for Sudan Oshkosh Morning Rotary, with a
contribution of $5,000, has partnered with Rochester Rotary District 7120 in
western New York, and through them, with the International Rotary Foundation to
help drill wells in Sudan, Africa.
Each day hundreds of thousands of
people in Sudan and in greater East Africa, walk for hours through the
dangers of the desert to collect water to drink. This water is often
contaminated with parasites such as Guinea Worm, Schistosomes; and the
dangerous Cholera bacteria. The United Nations reported in April, 2001,
that 36% of all reported hospitalization cases in Sudan pertain to
parasitic intrusions. Many more cases of such illnesses go unreported,
especially in the more devastated South, due to a staggering lack of
health care infrastructure. The result: there is rampant disease
throughout the region, caused in many cases by an unsafe water supply.
Water-borne disease often results in a diminished immune system which
then allows the intrusion of other opportunistic diseases. This exposure
results in pain, sickness, and often death, especially among infants and
children.
Another consequence of the lack of
having safe water available locally is the instability of villages.
Every dry season, entire villages migrate with their livestock to find
water. Such migration prevents the establishment of schools, health
clinics, markets, and a general social infrastructure.
Water for Sudan, Inc.
is a Rochester, NY, USA-based charitable organization
currently operating in Sudan, Africa. Their mission is to drill fresh-water
wells for the people in the southern areas of Sudan, providing the foundation
for stable, healthy communities. Salva Dut is the inspiration and the
vision behind
Water for Sudan, Inc. Salva is
now 30 years old, and was one of the 17,000 Walking Boys of Sudan who fled the
war-torn southern regions of the country. He came to the US at the age of 11. In
2002 he returned to Sudan to visit his father who was ill as a result of
drinking contaminated water. Salva became determined to eliminate this health
threat and founded
Water for Sudan, Inc. Visit
www.waterforsudan.org
for the full story.
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