# Rotary partners with Impact Foundation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/08/20/rotary-partners-impact-foundation/
- Published: 2006-08-20T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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“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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