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The Club's Last Major Project 11 July 2008

PP Robert V Key and PP John Walker (representing the former Rotary Club of Pudsey and the Rotary Club of Calverley) returned from Ghana last Friday the 11th, where they commissioned two fresh-water boreholes in Kadjebi and Aorobo in the north of Volta Region, Ghana. 

They also helped PP Joseph Achana, of the Rotary Club of Ho, Ghana, to distribute clothes, shoes, pencils and exercise books to various villages and schools on behalf of the Christian African Relief Trust (CART).
 




The boreholes had been funded by RCs of Pudsey and Calverley, 1040 District and Evanston under the Rotary Foundation Matching Grant Scheme. 

  

 

PPs John and Robert pumping water from the borehole at Aorobo

PP John said "it was a truly fulfilling experience to have been on the funding and collection end of projects and now to have seen and participated in the commissioning and distribution".  The villages had nothing but gave us everything in terms of hospitality and goodwill.
 
 

 

 

 

The Water Story. 

Photographs showing young women/girls, from a village where the borehole was still under construction, collecting water from a dirty, pest infested swamp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...and then PP John enjoying a sampling the water from the borehole
 
 
On behalf of CART. 
Photos showing distribution of pencils, exercise books, shoes and clothes in several other villages and schools.  Note the attire of the children.  We saw only 3 toys, a catapult, a football made from an old sock stuffed with rags and emulsion pot lid nailed to a stick!
 


Rotary
PPs John, Joseph Achana
and Robert.
PP John presenting the
RC Calverley banner to 
P Dominic of RC Ho.
PP John addressing the students and staff of the
Kadjebi Secondary School as part of the borehole commissioning.

PP Robert with the children. A new version of "Kidz Out"?

Other Memories...
 

 

 

 

A village chief and his wife.

  

 

 

 

A classroom.

 

 

 

  
   The likely lads. 



 
Bajiro waving goodbye.