• Rotary Club of Brockville has partnered with local organization Canadian Aid for Chernobyl since 1996.
• Since 1999, CAC and Brockville Rotary have collected, shipped and distributed 79 – 40’ containers of urgently needed medicines, medical supplies, food, laundry soap, clothing, school supplies, a fully equipped ambulance and most recently a fully equipped fire truck. Exceeding $24 million in value.
• This humanitarian effort has grown from one orphanage in 1998, to now providing aid to 29 orphanages, 11 hospitals, 3 homes for the aged 11 daycares/kindergartens, 14 schools, invalid children and juvenile diabetics: benefiting 5800 children and several thousand families in five provinces.
• Rotary Clubs of Brockville and Palgrave have helped to provide, laundry equipment to several hospitals and orphanages and washrooms, hot water and showers in the Chausy Orphanage.
• All funding has been done through the private sector including: individuals, organizations, service clubs. No government support.
• Several Clubs within our district have generously supported this effort: Chesterville, Smiths falls, Arnprior, Eganville, Huntington, Gouverneur, Watertown, Perth, Tremblant, Hawkesbury, Clayton, West Ottawa, Cornwall, Prescott, Kingston, Kingston Cataraqui, Massena, Ogdensburg, Old Montreal, Napanee, Gananoque, Plattsburg and Palgrave (Toronto)
• Rotarians Dave Shaw and Brian U’Ren have just recently returned from the Republic of Belarus, personally overseeing the customs clearance and the distribution of all aid from the March/April mission. 16 containers, valued at 2.4 million dollars and a fire truck were all successfully distributed. Included was food for 700 families, most were families on social assistance (single moms with multiple children, and families with invalid children). This effort is sponsored by many of our own club members!
• The Rotary Club of Brockville has established a relationship with an Organization of Families with Invalid Children in the District of Chausy. 94 invalid children are registered and are in desperate need of many basic items. Our club sponsored 1.5 containers. Providing wheelchairs, crutches, hygiene products, laundry soap and 94 – 65lb food boxes. Also, the Rotary Club of Brockville provided a fund for medical assessments and corrective surgeries, eyeglasses etc. This is a first for such a program
• This was all made available because of the generous support from our district!
• In a single six-month period, our club raised $13,000 to guarantee the safe distribution of three forty-foot containers filled with donations to an orphanage and a hospital in the Chausy region. The total value of the aid delivered exceeded an amazing $750,000. Co-ordinated by club member Dave Shaw, he co-ordinated the largest shipment ever of humanitarian aid from Canada to Belarus — government donations included. The final inventory included several hundred bottles of cough syrup, 30,000 dental drill bits, 600 boxes of laundry detergent and 3,000 baby bottles donated by such companies as Procter & Gamble, Playtex and Shorewood Packaging.

 

Letter From The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mikhail Khvostov

Letter from Dr. Galina Dovbysh, Deputy Chief of the Chaussy Regional Hospital