This project was funded by the Rotary Club of Ottawa (www.rotaryottawa.com) and focused upon building a sanitary bathroon for the Sillamäe Youth Fishing Club. This youth club is an after-school activity center and dedicated overnight safe house for children and teens that focuses upon educational as well as outdoor activities that positively contribute to the […]
For the third year in a row, the Club decided to assist large families in need – this time in Tallinn. Again, the Ottawa Rotary Club made a contribution, as did the Tallinn firm Gildhall, and other private contributors. Estonia adopted the Euro on January 1, 2011 and this time the budget voted by the […]
In 2010, the Ottawa Rotary Club again contributed 20,000.00 EEK toward our Club’s Assistance Large Families project, as did Honorary Rotarians Sven Ottesen and Ellen Lande. Two of our own club members made designated contributions and the rest of the budget consisted of the funds raised at the 2009 and 2010 spring balls. The club […]
The project to assist financially strapped large families was initially set up with funds contributed by the Ottawa Rotary Club and our club. Honorary Rotarians, the Ottesens, added funds to the project as did the American Chamber of Commerce Estonia. A Committee was formed in July, 2009 and its members made a two-day fact-finding trip […]