Fall Fundraiser Kicks Off
Posted by James (Dick) Pratt
Potsdam Rotarians will hold a wine tasting on November 9 from 6 to 8 pm at Clarkson's Cheel Campus Center. The event is sponsored by ARAMARK, whose chefs will provide an array of food and wine in association with local distributors. The fall fundraising event is to support the international Shelter Box program. Nancy and John Faddegon will kick off the Shelter Box fundraising program with a presentation to Potsdam Rotary on October 3. The cost of the wine tasting event is $25 per person.
Shelter Box is an international program designed to provide disaster relief. A Shelter Box is a family support system that includes a ten-person tent, sleeping pads, water purification and storage equipment, and cooking and eating utensils. Rotary clubs around the world are raising funds to fund at least one Shelter Box per club per year.
The Shelter Box project was conceived and developed by Tom Henderson, a member of the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard, Cornwall District, in Great Britain as their Millennium Service Project. Struck with the urgent world-wide need for a self-contained emergency shelter unit when disaster occurs, Tom designed a tent, researched suppliers and, through trial and error, developed the Shelter Box.. The international relief agency Feed the Children, has called Tom's Shelter Box 'the best disaster relief tool they have seen in their 20 years of experience'.
Shelter Box is an international program designed to provide disaster relief. A Shelter Box is a family support system that includes a ten-person tent, sleeping pads, water purification and storage equipment, and cooking and eating utensils. Rotary clubs around the world are raising funds to fund at least one Shelter Box per club per year.
The Shelter Box project was conceived and developed by Tom Henderson, a member of the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard, Cornwall District, in Great Britain as their Millennium Service Project. Struck with the urgent world-wide need for a self-contained emergency shelter unit when disaster occurs, Tom designed a tent, researched suppliers and, through trial and error, developed the Shelter Box.. The international relief agency Feed the Children, has called Tom's Shelter Box 'the best disaster relief tool they have seen in their 20 years of experience'.