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Port Chester-Rye Brook Rotary Club
Text Box:  Port Chester-Rye Brook Rotary Club Weekly Meeting, January 19, 2010 DISCUSSION ON HELP FOR HAITI ShelterBox: Video, Pictures $500.00 District Grant already approved Rockland County Haiti Relief Campaign: Speaker, Renold Julien List of needed supplies Fundraising ideas: Fundraising party: $50.00 per head. Food supplied by Tandoori – Taste of India Raised $6,200.00 for earthquake relief in India in 2001 Engineers Without Borders (EWB): The New your Chapter of EWB has established a Haitian Reconstruction Task Force Met with Haitian American Engineering Association (HAEA) last night Will establish training for team members to include EWB and HAEA members Will also partner with Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) Partner with Architecture for Humanity (Rebuilding 101 Manual) Next meeting on Monday, January 25th Joan Thomas (speaker): Born in Haiti and lives in Port Chester Basic history and current conditions Joan will also be our guest speaker (Port Chester Community Cares Coalition) on February 9th