District Governor Mark Wyse places pin on David Lamourex, our club's newest member.  Looking on are his sponsor Laurie Liberatore and club president Joe Kozcan.  

Club Sponsors Water Treatment Facility in India, Giving 3,500 Schoolchildren Clean Water

The Elmira Rotary Club, in cooperation with the Petlad Rotary Club of India, funded the construction of two reverse osmosis water purification plants at two working class high schools in Petlad, India. 

The project cost $11,000, of which $1,134 came from members of the Elmira Rotary Club and $1,000 from the Elmira Rotary Club itself.    Additional funds were contributed by Rotary Clubs in India.  The project received a $5,000 grant from the Rotary Foundation.  

Children in the Petlad community have had a high incidence of water born diseases such as hepatitis and typhoid.  This project will reduce the prevalence of such diseases.

Dispatch #5 from India

I took a sari to the tailor today. The blouse will be made by Monday. The fall, the extra material for the hem that helps to weight it and make it "fall' right, will also be put on.  The tailor took many measurements and gave me a card of pictures so I could choose a neckline.

Today was another good day. A patient who did well with his very severe back pain gifted me yak milk chews. What is a yak milk chew? I do not know the real name. They look like 5 cm by 2 cm rectangles. They are hard like doggie chews. You put them in your mouth and in about half an hour they soften enough for you to bite them; they taste like condensed milk, which is what they are. The rest of the staff was not too fond of them, most seemed to have tried them before and did not try them again. The gentleman came to CMC all of the way from Bhutan.  He invited me to his country. Sweet.

The lectures are going well. The last few were brief explanations and practice an exercise or an evaluation technique. The questions are getting harder to answer. Some people have been studying the material, Others are checking out the postural restoration web site.

Babu, a therapist, drove me home. He lives on the college campus with his wife, and mother. His uncle, an MD, also lives in a house on campus. It was an interesting ride, had me white knuckled several times. Once was when an ambulance was coming up on our side of the road and later when the hood of our car stopped under the rear end  overhang of a truck.

Got the laundry back. It is nicely pressed. About 10 items of mine and my roommates for 75 rupees or $1.60.
Going to study now.