Funding for Salcedo School Computer Library

This morning during the District 5110 quarterly WCS Committee meeting, the Chairman, PDG Walt Schloer, announced that he had been advised by The Rotary Foundation World Headquarters that our project will be funded January 31, 2007! That is great cause for celebration! We have something of a near record for total elapsed time from the beginning.

We raised Club funds in 2 weeks, RI received our MG App. 10 days after D5110 DDF approval & assigned us a Matching Grant number (MG #614004). RI approved the project 3 weeks later. And 1 month later we have notice that RI will release the funds to us January 31, 2007. That is 10 days over 3 months or one month earlier than we anticipated.

The 50 members present at the meeting gave a round of applause for some of the members were relating sad tales of woe waiting for up to a year for release of their funds.

I might add that before you consider whom to praise or to give credit, you should go look in a mirror & give that person looking back at you a big pat on the back. For it is clear to me that the success of such a project can not be credited to just 1 or 2 individuals. For many help lend a hand through many largely unnoticed deeds. Among them are 3 committee members who met with the school administration to seek & gain consent, and one in particular who quietly & dilingently researched, downloaded & completed the MG application. Other wise leaders gave valuable critique & input. One Fed Ex'd the package. One or 2 stood up to be counted by heralding the worthiness of the project encouraging others to get on board. And these others then did so giving freely & generously of their hearts. One pressed 2 One Hundred Dollar bills into my hand after my talk to her Club. One gave me some very important tips in personally tracking the MG App. so it wouldn't get overlooked in the paper piles. And without naming names, you know who you are. Your parts, no matter how big or small, were all vital links in the chain of events leading to success. And you know what happens to its effectiveness if you remove any one link from a chain.

So, onward to Salcedo, Dominican Republic! And Escuela Primaria Maria Josefa Gomez 1,000 school kids, get ready! Here we come with sleeves rolled up ready to go to work. I think that we are as excited as we hear they are.

Thanks in so many ways,

Norm Malmberg, WCS
Rotary Club of Scott Valley
International Co-Sponsor