Today 8th February 2015 we celebrate Click 4 Action eRotary’s 3rd Charter Anniversary and we do so by promoting our Virtual Balloon Race for Water
Click 4 Action eRotary is organising an environmentally friendly balloon race for water. Isn’t it unbelievable in the 21st Century we still live in a world where clean water isn’t readily available. We believe if we can help this to be just a memory and clean water is in abundance, our world would be much happier and healthier. So please help to spread the message that we all need to do more to provide one of the basic needs of our human existence – water, plentiful and available wherever in the world you live. Help us to enable this to happen, by joining a Balloon Race for Water, promoting it to others and have some fun us as we race on the internet.
How does it work?
The virtual balloons are sold for £2 each or 3.05$ or 3.82 Canadian$ or 2.69 Euros or 189.04 India Rupee, etc. You can buy your balloon from now till the end of the race. You can buy as many balloons as you like. The more balloons you release, the more chance to win a prize. The balloons will be released on the 23rd of February 2015, another important anniversary being Rotary’s birthday 110 years old. The balloon race will end on the 9th May 2015. The balloon(s) that travel(s) the biggest distance will win a prize.
What your Balloon will help us achieve – the collected funds will be shared over the following projects:
Roll Out The Barrel
This project intends that the elderly, women and children who collect water, even from the closest of water sources or supply, will no longer need to carry it, by hand, on their backs, on their heads, or over their shoulders, by providing them with a simple push/pull 30 litre Rotary Water Barrel with a handle and rubber tyres for £30 each.
More information can be found at Roll Out The Barrel
Water Filters in India
Our Click 4 Action eRotary has 3 members from India who support a project for installing water filters for families. One water filter costs £40. It will support one family of 8 members for at least 10 years minimum. Hopefully this balloon race will make sure that several families will have access to clean water.
Jompy for Malawi
The Jompy water boiler is a simple, easy to use device that allows the user to cook and boil water simultaneously, so saving on fuel and time spent over an open fire. The Jompy will pasturise contaminated water reducing the chance of water borne diseases such as diarrhoea and cholera. Our purpose is to introduce the Jompy in Malawi to people who can’t afford clean water. Our member David explains more
Pa Modou supporting his village in Gambia writes “Clean safe water is essential for all, it is a basic human necessity and a right. Not having this keeps people’s life at risk, even to the extent where some get so sick and even die. This has been a problem in many African countries and the Gambia is not an exception to that, particularly proposed project for a borehole in SAMI VILLAGE” (read more at of Rotarian Pa’s hopes for his village)
How can you ensure you get on the Leader Board?
Make sure you visit the Click 4 Action eRotary Balloon Race for Water Website
Help us promote the Race to your friends, family, work colleagues by giving them the Leaflets below and displaying the poster.
Leaflets to promote eRotary Balloon Race A5 2015
Take a selfie of yourself with a balloon somewhere unusual and we will publicise, with a prize for the best post and place visited send to info@1100rotaryeclub.org
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