President Nick Rangeley and members of the Rotary Club of South Holland would like to put on record our sincere thanks to the people of Spalding who contributed so generously to our Christmas Sleigh Collection in December.
We are indebted also to other local charitable groups and organisations whose members turned out to help us with our collection as we toured the streets in the evenings.
Spalding continues to increase in size and our routes expand each year so the help we get from other groups is ever more important to us.
Over the next few weeks we will be distributing some of the collected funds to many local charities and other deserving causes in South Holland.
We also support national and international charities and organisations working to make life better for disadvantaged people and those less fortunate than many.
We continue to join Rotary International’s fight against the crippling disease of polio and after 30 years, together with The World Health Organisation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and governments including our own, we are almost at the end of the battle.
In those 30 years, worldwide, in 122 countries, we have immunised 2.5 billion children and instances of this terrible disease have fallen from 350,000 annually to single figures reported in such difficult places as Afghanistan and Pakistan.
We will not stop until the disease is eliminated.
Thank you once again, everyone, for your support.
If you would like to learn more about the work of Rotary or are interested in joining or helping us please see our website: southhollandrotary.org.uk or look us up on Facebook or you can contact our Secretary Ian Smee on 01775 714722.
Steve Colby
Rotary Club of South Holland
