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The Rotary Club of Kingston increased the number of community outreach projects it executed during the past administrative year, amid COVID-19.
Among the major projects completed between July 2020 and April 2021 were the donation of life-saving equipment valued at $21 million to the Bustamante Hospital for Children; provision of homes and food for the homeless; water tanks to an early childhood institution, gallons of sanitising and hygiene products to a golden age home.
In March this year, the club handed over the keys to a two-bedroom, one-bathroom house, with kitchen, small porch, water and septic tanks, solar lights in Salisbury Park to Margaret Ritchie, daughter and grandchildren who were homeless. The donation was made in partnership with the Rotary Club of White Bear Lake Minnesota, US and Food for the Poor.
Alva Wood, President of the Rotary Club of Kingston presents a mask to a resident of the Cheshire Village at an event to present gift baskets to residents on International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2020.
One of the most ambitious projects carried out by the Rotary Club of Kingston during the 2020 administrative year was the donation of equipment valued at $21 million to the Bustamante Hospital for Children.
The equipment donated consisted of 15 new incubators; 16 monitors and 16 infusion pumps was handed over recently.
The funds to acquire the items were raised through joint efforts of the Rotary Club of Kingston and the Rotary Club of Camrose, Canada, together with donations from the Rotary International Foundation, Rotary District 5370, the Provincial Government of Alberta and the Federal Government of Canada. The Rotary Club of Kingston’s annual golf tournament raised US$20,000 towards the project.