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Mondays at 12:00pm
Fargo Holiday Inn
(I-29 & 13th Avenue South)
3803 13th Avenue South, Fargo, ND 58103

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The Fargo West Rotary Club conducts 2 major fundraisers each year to support the many local and international projects we fund annually.
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Fargo West Rotary is an active group.  We hold various socials, fundraisers, and committee meetings throughout the year.  Join today and get involved.
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The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
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Talk about stepping up to the plate, Fargo West Rotary! You purchased5-five!-Shelterboxes for the Haiti earthquake victims. Each one cost $1,000. You raised $2,242 which was matched by the Donations Committee and Paula Grimestad used $516 of her President's Fund to round it up. Thank you to everyone!!

As you know, Haiti suffered a 7.0 earthquake destroying its largest city, Port au Prince. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their lives and close to $1.5 million people have been made homeless. To date, close to 10,000 ShelterBoxes have been sent to Haiti.

ShelterBoxes rely on individual donations. So far, 65,700 have been donated since January, 2001. The program is
the brain child of a Rotarian in England. You can read about the history of the program here.

 

Each box contains a tent capable of housing 10 people and is designed to withstand extreme temperatures, high winds, and heavy rainfall. Internally, each tent has privacy partitions that allow recipients to divide the space as they see fit. In addition to the contain a rand of other survival equipment including:

  • Thermal blankets, insulated ground sheets

  • Insecticide treated mosquito nets

  • A wood burning stove, or a multi-fuel stove

  • Cooking pans, utensils, bowls, and mugs

  • Collapsiblie water containers and water purification tablets

  • Basic tool kit--hammer, axe, saw, pliers, hoe head, etc

  • A small children's pack containing drawing books,
    crayons, and pens