A bit More than a year has passed since our return from this trip. We have hosted the 5 men from India coming in an exchange with our team and have enjoyed communication in return from several upon their return home. Three of them have become Rotarians but only one of my team has done so.

My Rotary Club has sponsored and underwritten several humanitarian projects in India as a direct result of this exchange. There are now infant warmers in a public hospital in Adoni that delivers 300 at risk babies monthly and never had a warmer before.

There are a dozen push carts for women vendors where 90% of the take on goods sold now goes to the family to support the household and education of the children whereas before it went to the cart owner and children begged for a living to help support the family.

6 new bore wells have been dug supporting as many as 1000 persons each with monies from my Rotary Club.

This year we will send monies through Rotary International for more bore wells and more push carts as well as sending several girl children to school. This program gets young girls off the street and into school for the first time and off the street begging or apprenticing to washer women or cooks and becoming literate.

We also will be supporting a Women's Literacy program in Cambodia resulting rrom a trip twice in the past year by Rotarian Chris VanHemelrijck.

Additionally we are funding Birthing Kits for mothers in Ethiopia through a matching grant proposal in Upstate NY and water filters in homes in Lima Peru.

I encourage any and all of you following this to get involved in your community locally and Internationally. We have made a real difference in many lives over this past year and you can too.

Blessings to all...

Cherie C. Binns RN BS MSCN

Group Study Exchange leader 7950 to 3160

Wakefield Rotary Foundation Chair.