Are you interested in helping the Rotary family meet local community needs through international partnerships? Is your club or district seeking an international project to support? This speed project fair will feature Rotary projects of different sizes in need of support. Hear about each project, connect with project coordinators, and explore partnership opportunities.
2. Agenda
• Project Fair overview
• Project Fairs: an inside look
– West Africa (Districts 9101, 9102,9110, 9125,
9140)
– Ecuador (District 4400)
– Festival of Brotherhood (District 5130, USA,
and District 4150, Mexico)
• Promotional support from Rotary
• Questions
4. • Rotarians coming together to take action
– Foster intercultural exchange
– Make friends/partnerships/relationships
– Learn about the local region
– Support humanitarian projects
• Workshops, round table discussions,
excursions, service projects, cultural
events, and more
Project Fairs - Overview
5. West Africa Project Fair
PDG Matthias Oladeinde Shoga
District 9110, Nigeria
JOIN LEADERS, EXCHANGE IDEAS, TAKE ACTION
6. West Africa Project Fair Overview
• How it started
• Fair objectives
• Annual event
7. West Africa Project Fair
• Program content and activities
• Who benefits?
• Achievements
8. 10th West Africa Project Fair, 2014-15
28 October – 6 November
Monrovia, Liberia
10. Why Project Fairs?
The greatest limitation for clubs for doing
projects is the lack of financial resources, thus:
A Project Fair has the objective of
providing financial support to
humanitarian projects through Rotarian
partnerships
11. Project Support
• Clubs, both local and international, provide
funds (in the long run, a small part of the
total project)
• DDF’s from districts
• Funds from TRF through GG (formerly
MG)
• Funds and work from other organizations
12. Project Fairs in Ecuador
District 4400’s first fair was held in 2004
In the first 3 years, our District 4400:
• Doubled the number of projects with MG’s
• Doubled the number of clubs doing MG’s
• Tripled the amount of funds provided by
TRF for MG’s
By 2010, we had established support from 20
districts
Currently, about half of our projects are
related to our Project Fairs
13. Why attend a fair?
Choose a project from a wide range of offers
Start (or expand) an international project
With an international project, the club fulfills
one of the requirements for the Presidential
Citation
Meet and get acquainted with local project
promoters
Foreign clubs can also offer their projects to
local clubs
Make friends
Tourism
14. District 4400 Ecuador Project Fair
Future Vision Pilot District in 2010 - familiar with new
grant model and Global Grants. We can start projects
very quickly!!
Experience: Countless MG projects. Since 2010,
received 27 GGs!!
Ecuador is well known for its hospitality and
friendliness
Exciting tours and excursions at affordable prices!!
Galapagos Islands (The Enchanted Islands)
Amazonian Rainforest and jungle
Quito (first in the world to be declared UNESCO
World Heritage city 36 years ago)
15. 10th District 4400 Ecuador Project Fair, 2014-15
www.rotaryecuador.org
THANK YOU
18. 17 Years, 18 Festivals | Friendships & Projects
• 45 clubs in 5130, 66 in 4150
• We visit cities in 4 states: Jalisco, Nayarit,
Sinaloa, Colima
• Over 200 Matching Grants totaling $4.5+
million
• Club to club smaller projects
• We visit and sponsor a host club project &
return following year for dedication
• Many brother/sister (twin) club relationships
20. Project Examples
Disabled young
man at silk screen
workshop
Rotary school & donating pencils
Casa Universitaria
– education in
remote areas from
Univerisad de
Guadalajara
21. Why participate?
• Lifelong friends
• Learn about another culture
• Results
• Partnerships at home and in Mexico
23. Promotional support from Rotary
• Social media (Facebook, Twitter)
• Rotary Service Update newsletter
• Blogs (Rotary Voices, Rotary Service
Update)
• Targeted mailings
– District Governors
– District International Service Chairs
24. 2014-15 Fairs
District 4400 Ecuador Project Fair
14, 15, 16 November | Quito, Ecuador
West Africa Project Fair
28 October – 4 November | Monrovia, Liberia
Uniendo America Project Fair
29, 30 and 31 January 2015 |Managua, Nicaragua
Festival of Brotherhood
early 2015 | Jalisco, Mexico
Welcome to the session on Project Fairs
The purpose of today’s session:
To define project fairs
To help you to understand why these are beneficial efforts for both the hosts of the fair and the international partners of the fair.
To help you to understand the essential elements of organizing a project fair.
Answer your questions
My name is Brad Howard
Long time attendee of the Uniendo America Project Fair
One of two people that created the West Africa Project Fair
Serve on the WAPF board
Bring the international partners to the fair
Introduce panelist
PDG Matthias Shoga (Nigeria)
DGN Manuel Nieto (Ecuador)
Past President Dale Ann Knight (USA)
Provide an overview to project fairs
Each panelist will describe their program
Provide you with understanding of the promotional support by RI
Questions (and hopefully answers)
Brad
These are regional events that bring Rotarians from throughout the world to support local humanitarian projects
Intercultural exchange – better understanding of the world
Make friends
Learn about regions
Support humanitarian project
Can be multiple districts, countries – or as simple as two paired districts – so club to club
PDG Matthias Shoga,
Member of the Rotary Club of Gbagada, Lagos, Nigeria
Governor of District 9110 in 2010/11, and is an orthopedic surgeon
Former Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator of Zone 20A
Served as HOC Chair of the 8th WAPF in 2012 (Lagos)
Will be the General Chair of the WAPF January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017.
He will talk about the West Africa Project Fair.
Deinde
Deinde
Deinde
Member of the Rotary Club of Quito (Equador), and is a chemical engineer, and is the primary owner of plastics manufacturer and industrial chemical distributor group.
Will be governor of Rotary District 4400 in 2015/16.
Past President of both Rotary clubs of Quito Sur and Quito, including receiving the Presidential citation with Distrinction as president of the RC of Quito in 2010/11.
He has serviced as both a member of the city council and vice mayor of Quito.
Has been chair of 8 of the 9 project fairs held in Ecuador since 2004
He will talk about the Ecuador Project Fair
Manuel
Manuel
Manuel
Manuel
Member of the Rotary club of Rohnert Park-Cotati (Northern California)
She is in the health insurance profession.
Served as District Rotary Foundation Committee chair, District Grants Chair.
Has participated on six Rotaplast missions (team that performs cleft lip and palate surgical repair), and now travels frequently to Uganda on educational projects.
For her work, she has received Rotary’s Service Above Self award.
She has also chaired the Festival of Brotherhood program for six years, and she will talk about this program.
Dale
Dale
Dale
Dale
Dale
Brad
RI offers support of these program in a variety of ways
Social media
Blogs
Targeted mailings
Review
Provide a summary:
Key Points
Benefits to host districts – support of projects, establishment of friendships