At this week's business meeting, we made donations of $500 each to two projects in Africa.
One of the donations was to Qholaqhoe Mountain Connections in Lesotho, which we have been helping support since 2014, and to which we last donated in November 2018. The contribution will help fund scholarships and a feeding program in a drought-stricken rural area.
The other contribution is to help fund projects in Uganda undertaken by a group associated with the Presbyterian-New England Congregational Church of Saratoga Springs (PNECC), which will embark on a mission trip in February. The group, which includes our members Paul Phillips and Barbara Conner, will work on medical clinics and educational projects, including building a new classroom and installing a solar water pump with underground tanks. PNECC partners with the nonprofit AOET, which facilitates sponsorships and provides services in Uganda mostly to children, not excluding anyone on the basis of religion. Participants in the PNECC trip pay for their own travel and other expenses. AOET-Uganda's child social welfare officer, Teo Nakubulwa, spoke to our club last June.
In other business, we discussed possibly holding a pancake breakfast on March 29 at the Malta Ridge Fire House, and a roadside cleanup on Dunning Street on April 4.
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