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Reach Within to Embrace Humanity
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ROTARY KENTON AND THE PERIWINKLE TRUST. The organisers of the Periwinkle Golf Day contribute greatly to extremely needy and worthy causes in our local community by raising funds through their fine efforts in staging an annual golf day in December each year. Sue Dovey one of the Organisers and Past President Bruce Steele-Gray put their heads together and came up with a plan whereby The Rotary Club of Kenton and the Organisers of the Periwinkle Golf Day would set up a joint Trust named the Rotary Periwinkle Trust. The Trust is up and running and will be financed on an annual basis by Periwinkle and administered by Rotary Kenton. The Periwinkle Organisers have donated R12,000 to Rotary to start the project off and twenty needy children are now being fed from the soup kitchen. The control of the soup kitchen will be administered by Child Welfare while Rotary Kenton will be responsible for the maintenance of the premises from which the soup kitchen will be run and will co-ordinate future efforts. Rotary has found suitable premises in the Ekhuphumleni Township
and has signed a lease agreement and we have now proceeded with the refurbishment of the
house. In excess of R10,000 has been spent on this project from Rotary funds with many
Rotarians pitching in and in no time the house looks as good as new with paint and
alterations, garden landscaping and fencing plus a new fridge and a gas burner. Tim
Dold of P G Glass, Grahamstown, deserves a special thanks for his
"donation" to our Soup Kitchen project. Rotary "handed over" the keys to the refurbished house to Gladys who is in charge of the soup kitchen on Tuesday 9th November. !!
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TARY CLUB OF KENTON
2012 Rotary Convention.
