{"id":2333,"date":"2022-01-11T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:58:20","slug":"2020-what-we-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/2020-what-we-achieved\/","title":{"rendered":"During and post Covid-19: What we Achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>During the pandemic was a difficult time for all service organisations and as a Club we are still not able to raise funds as before.      We are therefore pleased that we have been able to give a total of \u00a35,325&nbsp; to nine&nbsp; worthy causes<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paul Sartori <\/strong>&#8211; Paul Sartori Hospice at Home is a local Pembrokeshire Charity offering free specialised support and advice for those in the later stages of any life limiting illness.  <a href=\"https:\/\/paulsartori.org\/about\/\">About us &#8211; Paul Sartori Hospice at Home<\/a>  The Club felt that during lockdown this was one of two priority donations and gave \u00a32000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bethel Food Bank<\/strong> &#8211; providing free supermarket food to members of the public struggling with food poverty.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betheltrustpt.co.uk\/food-share\">Food Bank | Bethel Trust (betheltrustpt.co.uk)<\/a>   This was our second lockdown priority donation and the Club gave \u00a31000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tearfund<\/strong> &#8211; a Christian charity partnering with churches in more than 50 of the world\u2019s poorest countries tackling poverty and injustice through sustainable development by responding to disasters and challenging injustice.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tearfund.org\/\">Tearfund<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shelterbox<\/strong> \u2013 teams work with disaster hit families around the world offering&nbsp; emergency shelter and other essential items to support them in rebuilding their lives.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shelterbox.org\/\">ShelterBox<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Asthma UK<\/strong> \u2013 working to stop asthma attacks and ultimately find a cure for it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asthma.org.uk\/\">Asthma UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PATCH<\/strong> \u2013 a local charity aiming to relieve the effects of poverty for individuals and families within Pembrokeshire.  <a href=\"https:\/\/patchcharity.org.uk\/\">PATCH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dementia UK<\/strong> \u2013 providing specialist dementia support for families giving compassionate one-to-one support, guidance and practical solutions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dementiauk.org\/understanding-dementia\/\">Dementia UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kids Cancer Charity<\/strong> \u2013 dedicated to the fight against childrens\u2019 cancer.  <a href=\"http:\/\/kidscancercharity.org.uk\/\">Kids Cancer Charity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rotary Doctor Bank<\/strong> \u2013 provides funding for volunteer healthcare workers to travel to developing countries to treat patients and provide teaching to doctors, nurses and midwives.  <a href=\"https:\/\/rotarydoctorbank.co.uk\/\">THE ROTARY DOCTOR BANK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rotary District 9570 in Northern Australia<\/strong> where serious drought (in some areas in its 10<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive year) has eroded income for farms and small businesses, increased rural poverty and impacted mental health, welfare and service provision.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A contribution to the restoration of The Daniel Anderson<\/strong> \u2013 a steamship with an unique story.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedanny.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.thedanny.co.uk\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-dark-gray-color\">As well as making these donations the Club has run its own Youth Competitions for Young Artist, Young Writer and Young Photographer, given prizes to the winners of these Youth Competitions and supported Ysgol Harri Tudur with a donation towards its Prize Giving ceremony.  In addition we have been able to donate 34 refurbished laptops\/all in one computers  to local schools to help with home learning during periods of lockdown and beyond.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the pandemic was a difficult time for all service organisations and as a Club we are still not able to raise funds as before. We are therefore pleased that we have been able to give a total of \u00a35,325&nbsp; to nine&nbsp; worthy causes. Paul Sartori &#8211; Paul Sartori Hospice at Home is a local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/2020-what-we-achieved\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;During and post Covid-19: What we Achieved&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}