To All of Our Support Team,
Well, since my last posting to you, July 7, 2007, exciting events have been occurring quickly.
Our project to equip a physiotherapy center in Salcedo, Dominican Republic, received the District 5110 WCS Committee approval in Roseburg, Oregon, July 14, 2007. Within a week thereafter, we submitted our Matching Grant request to TRF. Within 10 days we were assigned MG #64202. And about a month later we were informed that our MG has been approved. We have submitted local contributing funds & are currently awaiting project funding by TRF.
Meanwhile, Josefina & I have been making arrangements for purchase & delivery of the physiotherapy equipment to the site.
We will be ordering it from an export firm in Florida. This was quite a challenge with shipping, destination charges, customs & fees until we communicated directly with the export firm's President & CEO who we discovered is a Rotarian. Suddently all of the barriers fell away & things begin to happen when you have the attention of the head man. And when he discovered ours was a Rotary project, he got excited, too. Ours became his top priority!
We have also completed an application for a Volunteer Service Grant & will be submitting it to TRF within a week or 2. You can see the 5 team members (Norm, Diane, Dan, Pam & Sandy) elsewhere in this blog site. Our trip to Salcedo, Dominican Republic, is planned for January 10-24, 2008.
As you build relationships within the WCS system, the process moves along with fewer delays enabling more satisfying results. It is rewarding to experience positive things happening. More like exciting!
More news later. Thanks for all your support,
Norm Malmberg, Team Leader
International Sponsor Project Contact
Rotary Club of Scott Valley, District 5110
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