The Waterloo Rotary Club will be hosting a "Cedar Valley Healthcare COVID-19 Update." We look forward to hearing from a panel of experts about the short term and long term needs of their organizations, as well as answers to questions from our members.
The Covid-19 Pandemic has certainly impacted our local community as well as the world, however, it has not impacted our ability as humans to stand up and support each other.
As we are working hard every day to continue our services to the school aged youth of the Cedar Valley and their families, our community has stepped up to support us.
Pictured here, Mark Durbhan presenting our staff with $1,000 from the Waterloo Rotary Club to support us during this time. Thank you also to R.J. McElroy Trust for their $7,500 emergency check to support our services last week.
Every week we stay open all day is an additional $5,000 we did not plan for.
We won't be together any time soon to celebrate our Rotarians with birthdays in April, so we'll honor them in person when we are able to be together again at a "real" meeting! They would still appreciate a note on social media or a phone call on their special day...so keep this list handy all month and practice PHYSICAL distancing instead of social distancing!
A group of Rotaractors are healing wounds and bringing culture together in Ugandan refugee settlement!
It’s Monday morning in one of Uganda’s largest refugee settlements, Nakivale, and the line at Paul Mushaho’s shop is out the door.
Mushaho has lived in Nakivale since 2016, when he fled violence in his native Democratic Republic of Congo. After receiving death threats, he crossed into Uganda and joined a friend in the 184-square-kilometer settlement that serves as home to 89,000 people.
The soft-spoken 26-year-old, who has a university degree in information technology, runs a money transfer service out of a wooden storefront that doubles as his home.
