Downtown Rotary Club of Houston
Committees
International Service Committee
International Service Projects.
Responsible for identifying international service projects of interest to the Rotary Club of Houston membership, and develops a plan for the implementation of international service projects in conjunction with other Rotary Clubs around the world.
Notable International Projects:
• Haiti - clean water systems and hospital supplies
• Pakistan - immunizations and health supplies
• Afghanistan – Polio vaccine and immunizations
• Ivory Coast – Aids/HIV, Tsunami relief
• Russia – Telemedicine project with Houston medical center
• Nicaragua - Orphanage “Children of the Dump”
• Africa – Textbooks for community libraries, medical supplies
• Student Exchange Program for study abroad
• Established bio-medical program providing equipment, training and support to hospitals in Haiti
• Provided 6500 bed nets to Africa for protection against malaria
Virtual Tour of RI Headquarters
Virtual tour of Rotary International Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Fall 2020.
Go Organics for Peace
Spencer Leung, 2013 peace fellow and founder of Go Organics, Ltd., talks about the organization’s mission to build peace by addressing income inequities through economic development.
Women Uplifting Women
Seven Women Centre is a nonprofit that offers fair-trade products and services. Stephanie Woollard, a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and a former Rotary Peace Fellow, started the organization in 2006 to empower marginalized women in Nepal.