Rotary partners with Impact Foundation

Howard Lake | 20 August 2006 | News

Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) has chosen the Impact Foundation, the international programme to prevent and alleviate needless disability, as its preferred international project for support in the next twelve months.

The partnership was marked today by a reception at RIBI’s headquarters in Alcester which was attended by Lady Wilson, President and Trustee of the Impact Foundation. She was accompanied by her daughter Claire Hicks who now runs Impact.

IMPACT was founded by the late Rotarian Sir John Wilson in the 1980s as a means of empowering local communities with simple low-cost ways of taking action today to prevent disability tomorrow. Impact is working in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Peter L Offer, before taking up his position as President of RIBI, went on a fact finding trip to Bangladesh to see the work of IMPACT at first hand. He said: “My history with Sir John and Lady Wilson goes back many years when I was involved with Eye Camps in India. Today Impact has grown, and is not only restoring sight, movement or hearing to many, but giving medical help to those who are unable to get to a medical centre.

“We hope that with the help that Rotarians can give in the next year IMPACT will be able to help even more people in desperate need.”

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