Plattsburgh Rotary donates to Haiti relief

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January 18, 2011

Anonymous Press-Republican The Press Republican Tue Jan 18, 2011, 02:28 AM EST

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh Sunrise Rotary Club has made a $3,000 donation to earthquake relief in Haiti through the Rotary Foundation Earthquake Relief Fund.

This fund is carrying out relief and rebuilding projects in the areas still dramatically impacted by the January 2010 earthquakes.

The money will be used toward the fund's rebuilding of medical clinics and schools and for children's vaccinations and medical care and prosthetics to women, children and victims of the earthquake.

The Sunrise Rotary Club and its members donated more than $2,200 in 2010 to the Rotary-affiliated Shelterbox program deployed in Haiti, which provided life-sustaining equipment to earthquake victims.

In 2009, the club donated $2,500 through Ryan's Well Foundation to build wells for safe drinking water in Haiti.

"Our club believes in the mission of serving our community and other countries in need," Sunrise Rotary Club President Ron Marino said in a news release. "Through the auspices of Rotary, we are able to reach and help many people."

Haitian project leader Victoria Zinser Duley added: "Our club has been so terribly saddened by the continued hardships faced in Haiti: the terrible poverty and limited food and safe-water sources, the catastrophic earthquake and the following cholera epidemic and other health issues.

"We are grateful to have connections through Rotary International to try to serve some of these needs — and for the generosity of our club, its members and supporters."

The club will continue fundraising to assist Haiti and other international projects and to meet local and community needs.

For more information about earthquake relief, visit www.rotary.org or www.shelterboxusa.org.