Amwell Rotary Club

Amwell Rotary Club is a part of the worldwide fellowship of Rotary Clubs that forms Rotary International.

This committee is responsible for maintaining the links that we have with other Rotary Clubs around the globe. Although we do not have any formal twinning arrangements in place, we do have close links with the three Rotary Clubs now established in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and we have also undertaken a joint initiative with Hertford Shires Rotary Club to work with the Rotary Club of Sandton, South Africa on various projects. See the link above for more details on these.

We also undertake various International and World Community Service Projects as Club Initiatives. This page gives just a few examples of projects - big and small - that we have undertaken in recent years.

Recent International Projects

• Funding for Shelter Boxes, these are emergency tent units that can be sent from a central depot to disaster areas worldwide.
• As part of a Rotary District 1260 project, we have helped to fund a matching grant application to provide a minibus for a rural area in South Africa. This will allow many villagers access to much needed medical facilities previously almost impossible to get to from their remote locations.
• Each year, we arrange for Rotary Shoeboxes to be filled, both by Club Members and by local schools. These are then distributed to orphanage across Eastern Europe.
• For several years now we have been collecting unwanted spectacles on behalf of Vision Aid.
• Along with other local Rotary Clubs, we have collected unwanted hand tools on behalf of Tools For Self Reliance to be refurbished and then sent out to various self help projects around the world

Convoy 2000 and Romania

Amwell Rotary Club was a full partner in the UK Charity Convoy 2000

From the first Convoy in 2000 through to the final visits in 2004, Amwell Rotarians & friends traveled to Romania as volunteers to help improve the quality of life and general living conditions of children living in care.

We continue to support the work of The Clinical Science & Educational Foundation, a charity based at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in the work they are doing to improve facilities at Special School for the Deaf No 2 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 2008 we made a donation towards a much needed refurbishment of the nursery class dormitories.