We Share Foundation Announces 2004 World Service Projects

The award-winning Club-to-Club World Service program, initiated in 1983, allows caring people to support viable service projects in developing countries through the We Share Foundation. Projects are reviewed and selected for inclusion annually.

Eight impressive service efforts have been chosen for the Club-to-Club World Service program in 2004-and each of them offers a way that you can make the world a better place. These projects are run by local Quota clubs who understand the specific needs of their own communities. The We Share Foundation's reporting requirements insure that your generous donations provide practical and effective support for real people in desperate need.

Quota International of Ba, Fiji
Audiogram Project for Senior Citizens and Support of Students in Ba HART Village

Club-to-Club donations have long supported hearing-impaired students from Ba's low-income HART Village. The club has expanded its services to graduates whose hearing health is not followed once they leave school, offering assessment and hearing aids as needed, while continuing a similar service for senior citizens in the area. In addition, the club offers job training for women through a sewing instruction program to enhance employment prospects for disadvantaged women.

Quota International of Cebu, Philippines
Sawang Calero and Guba Day Care Centers

Malnutrition in both the fishing and scavenging area of Sawang Calero and the mountain barangay of Guba led the Cebu club to establish day care centers in both locations to feed and educate preschool-aged children. The long-term project provides food, clothing, and medical care for nearly 200 children each year. The club is in need of additional funding for expansion in order to serve the growing number of preschoolers that are enrolled at the centers.

Quota International of Las Piñas, Philippines
Bahay San Rafael—Home for Special Children

The Las Piñas Quota Club seeks to provide perpetual care for children at the home who are afflicted with cerebral palsy. Currently, there are 10 boys with cerebral palsy who are abandoned, neglected and in need of therapeutic medicines and rehabilitation. Donations to the project will help procure medicines, provide for basic food needs of the children, and help fund a tantrum room.

Quota International of Manila, Philippines
Project for Battered and Abused Women

In recent years, it has come to the attention of Quota of Manila members that many poor women and girls are being battered and abused and have no one to turn to. The members wish to help their "sisters" to heal in mind and body by providing food, shelter, and medical care (including psychiatric help) as well as job training for when these women feel ready to go back out into the world.

Quota International of Manila South, Philippines
Deafness Resource Library

This year, Quota of Manila South has initiated a new project, the creation of a deafness resource library. The library is designed to provide much-needed textbooks and information on hearing impairments for teachers, therapists, medical professionals, parents, students and the general public. Due to the large number of individuals in the Philippines who are afflicted with hearing-related disorders, club members feel it is critical to make available a wealth of information to those who work towards the habilitation, rehabilitation, and development of the hearing impaired. Donations to the project will go towards the procurement of books and furnishings for the library.

Quota International of DLF City, India
Charitable Dispensary and Vocational Training Center

Destitute individuals receive good health care through the dispensary started in February 2001 by the DLF club. Families of migrant construction workers and farmers as well as other local impoverished women and children receive free medical treatment at the facility. In addition, the project provides immunization programs and dental and eye camps plus specialized care for life-threatening cases. Club members' contact with dispensary patients also made clear a need for vocational training for destitute women in the area, and so Quota volunteers divide their time between the two facets of the project.

Quota International of New Delhi, India
Quota Home for Abandoned and Destitute Women

Over the years, hundreds of women and children have been impacted by the positive change created through training and education at the Home. This year, while continuing services to destitute women and their children, the club plans to focus on helping poor, aged women who are being housed in the new expansion building of the Quota Home.

Quota International of Sainik Farms, India
Home for the Aged and Mobile Crèche

In the past few years, Club-to-Club donations have allowed the Sainik Farms club to complete many renovations and improvements to the Home for the Aged. This year, while continuing services to the elderly, the club is expanding the scope of its services to children in the mobile crèche, which provides day care for area children while their mothers work at nearby factories and construction sites. In addition to providing meals and medical care, children will be given basic educational training that will prepare them for entry into government-funded schools.

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