• Keystone Rotarian from Ghana, Dr. Simon Aseno, travels to Pittsburgh to meet dozens of fellow Rotarians from District 7280.  During that time he is invited to speak at the Tri-PETS conference and several local schools to share his story of becoming a Rotary Peace Fellow.
• A fellow Rotarian from North Carolina donates the money needed to complete the construction phase of the Ghana Clinic Project!  Days after the funds arrived, the community gathered together to add additional rows of block to the walls, add a roof to the building, add doors/windows, and gather rocks and dirt to pack the floors.  Men, women and children are working tirelessly to complete this project so that they no longer have to meet a healthcare worker under a tree along the side of the road!  Can you imagine how a clinic with regular staff and hours will change  this community!
• Currently, students have to sit outside under the streetlights to complete their school assignments because many do not have electricity.  With the completion of the Ghana Library Project, the empty building would provide an appropriate place for adults and students to study, learn to read and potentially change the outlook of their lives.

• The Rotary EClub of District 7710 in North Carolina has partnered with the Keystone Club to adopt the Library Project!  We are working with Books For Africa to ship 22,000 books, computers and other educational material to the Bawku West District Library in Ghana.  The empty structure will soon come to life and serve more than 120 communities and will be renamed after the major donors involved.
• In addition to a club member that donated $260 to the Build-A-Chair project, our Keystone Club donated $3,000 from our Duck Derby Funds to complete our District Grant that was approved last fall.  ($1,500 will be returned to the club to use for other projects once the grant paperwork is completed)
• Keystone Rotary donates another $417 (for a grand total of $1,000 for this year) to ShelterBox to assist with the Ukraine Crisis.
• Crutches4Africa.org is an organization near and dear to many of the Keystone Members!  Several of our members regularly gather crutches, canes, baby strollers, wheelchairs and walkers to ship to people facing mobility challenges in Africa.  The Keystone Club donated an additional $200 to help fund the next shipping container.  Check out the website to learn more!
• We still have cookbooks available, please consider purchasing one as a gift while knowing that 100% of the money paid will be applied to one of our humanitarian projects!
• We are excited to announce that Ermira Kusari will be our incoming President beginning July 1, 2022 and Rosetta Brown will be our Vice President!  We are so thankful for the great work we have accomplished already during this past year under the direction of KRC President Trudy Croxton!
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Crutches for Africa

July 7, 2022 –  Another successful day of loading mobility devices into a container in support of the Crutches 4 Africa project. Thank you to everyone who lended a hand to make this happen. For more information please contact Phil Smith at pskts@comcast.net or Richard Commins at richecomins@gmail.com to find out more.

Rotary Club of Slippery Rock – Peace Pole