Building communities and bridging Continents

During the Rotary year of 2010/11 the international Rotary theme was ‘Building communities and bridging continents.’  The then District Governor of District 1220 (East Midlands, UK) Val Leivers had already been involved in numerous projects providing welfare to India and entered into a joint Rotary project with Rotary District 3150 India to build a Rotary village in Andhra Pradesh as a good example of this theme. 

Val encouraged every one of the 60 clubs in the district (including Hucknall) to fund the building of a house.  We are pleased to say that we rose to the challenge as did many Rotary clubs and other groups including the Inner Wheel Club of Hucknall.

Val and her husband Terry have just returned back from Andhra Pradesh where they have overseen the building project.  To date, 75 houses are now complete and another 35+ are waiting to be built.  This is a tremendous project driven by Val who was recently awarded the prestigious “Service above Self” Rotary Award.

The photographs above are the family house that the Rotary Club of Hucknall provided in Thimmapur Village, Bhongir, near Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.