Plymouth AM Rotary

International

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• Days for Girls increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating Social Entrepreneurs, mobilizing volunteers, and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigma and limitations for women and girls. Learn More >
   

• The Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) is one of the largest grassroots, multi-club, multi-district projects in Rotary. More than 800 clubs and 90 districts have been working together since 1997 to improve education for underserved students in Guatemala. In that time, more than 295,000 students have been served through four sustainable programs that are tested and proven to work. In 2017, then-RI President Ian Riseley called the GLP “the gold standard of Rotary projects” for its sustainability and impact.
   

• Shelter Box - The global support from the Rotary International network is the cornerstone upon which ShelterBox is built.​
  
  In April 2000, the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard in Cornwall, England adopted ShelterBox as its millennium project. Little did they know that it would become the largest Club project in the world, responding to disasters and conflict across the globe and providing emergency shelter to over one million people.
  
  Rotary has been instrumental in our growth and is the cement that binds us together. Since ShelterBox was founded, we have grown from one club’s adopted project to Rotary International’s only Project Partner in disaster relief. Their global network has been key in our international growth.
  
  At present, all ShelterBox affiliates have been set up by Rotarians or Rotaractors and the growth has been phenomenal.

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• Youth Orchestra Targets Poverty in Liberia. Extreme poverty is a persistent challenge in the West African Nation of Liberia, where people continue to feel the after-effects of a 14-year civil war and the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The World Bank estimates that 54% of Liberians live on less than $2 per day and 59% of eligible children attend school. Despite these realities, the future has promise: the growing Liberian Youth Orchestra (LYO) is working tirelessly to empower children and target poverty in this country.
   

• ​The eradication of polio is one of our longest standing and most significant efforts. Along with our partners, we have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. We have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide and we won't stop until we end the disease for good. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

Dr. Qaisar Nezam, a surveillance medical officer for the World Health Organization, examines Manasvi Shayma during a
case investigation at a home in New Delhi, India. 14 June 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​