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SERVICE CLUBS AND CHARITIES
Rotary is a worldwide organisation of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, and community leaders who come together to create positive, lasting change in our communities and around the world. Their differing occupations, cultures, and countries give them a unique perspective. Their shared passion for service helps them accomplish the remarkable. Please contact them at:
Optimist International is a volunteer service organization dedicated to "Bringing Out the Best in Kids”. Worldwide they conduct 65,000 service projects reaching 6 million children yearly. To volunteer please contact them at:
Rotary Club of Barbados
optimistcentral@gmail.com
Optimist Club of Barbados North
Kiwanis Club of Barbados Central
President: Ronald Davis rotaryclubofbarbados@gmail.com
dsarge@hotmail.com
Rotary Club West
Optimist Club of Barbados South
Kiwanis Club of Barbados North
President: Joseph Steinbok joseph.steinbok@rotherley.com
optimistsouth@yahoo.com
Rotary Club South
board@prideoptimist.org
Progressive Optimist Club
info@kiwanispride.org
President: Peter Thompson rotarybarbadossouth@gmail.com www.rotaryclubofbarbadossouth.org
UNITED CARIBBEAN TRUST
BECAUSE OF JENNA TRUST VARIETY CLUB OF BARBADOS
United Caribbean Trust, a registered Barbados Charity #842, has provided aid relief to several Caribbean Islands following devastation from hurricanes as well as to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. UCT has also established child sponsorship programmes in Haiti and Suriname, set up women’s empowerment programmes in Haiti and Africa and children’s feeding programmes in various parts of Africa. In January 2012 UCT started The WISH Centre (Women & Infants Special Help) which will assist Barbadian children in crisis through the PEARL Programme (Project to Enrich and Restore Young Lives) as well as the Life Centre programme which will assist babies and pregnant women. For more information: Telephone:(246) 423-4703/www.unitedcaribbean.com Telephone: (246) 423 7554/www.thewishcentre.org
The Because of Jenna Trust was created by Anna Clarke in memory of her daughter, Jenna Leigh, who was born severely brain-injured and died at the age of 11 1/2 years old. A registered charity since January 2004, the Trust is dedicated to easing the suffering of severely brain-injured children in Barbados and improving their quality of life. The Trust raises funds through charitable events and personal and corporate donations and uses these funds to help pay for the special treatments, equipment and supplies needed by severely brain-injured children. The Trust also works to create public awareness of the plight of these children and their families. To find out more about this trust please visit:
Kiwanis is a volunteer organization dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time. Kiwanians in more than 96 countries and 8,400 clubs are making their mark by responding to the needs of their communities. In Barbados they will celebrate 40 years of service in 2014. Please contact them at:
Kiwanis Club of Bridgetown roseanne.maxwell@gmail.com
emmerson.beckles@fao.org
Kiwanis Club of Barbados South kiwanisclubbdossouth@gmail.com
Kiwanis Club Pride of Barbados
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Ins & Outs of Barbados
Optimist Club Barbados-Bridgetown oibridgetown@yahoo.com
Optimist Club of Barbados Central info@optimistnorth.org
Pride of Barbados Optimist Club info@progressiveoptimist.org
Sunshine Optimist Club of Barbados secretary@sunshineoptimist.org
www.becauseofjenna.org
Variety the Children’s Charity, Tent #73 is one of more than 50 ‘tents’ throughout the world including Australia, France, Israel, USA, United Kingdom, New Zealand and South Africa. The Charity is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2014 and its goal is to raise funds for children in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean who are sick, disadvantaged or mentally or physically challenged. Their annual Gold Heart Campaign as well as the annual Row For Charity helps to raise funds to assist the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Special Needs Units in primary schools and other private organisations and charities assisting children. Telephone: (246) 428-9258/266-9258 www.varietybarbados.org