| Uncommon Good | Rotary International's PolioPlus | Uganda Water Project |

This Year’s Beneficiaries:

ShelterBox respond instantly to earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane, cyclone, tsunami or conflict by delivering boxes of aid.

Each box supplies an extended family of up to 10 people with a tent and lifesaving equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless. The contents are tailored depending on the nature and location of the disaster, with great care taken sourcing every item to ensure it is robust enough to be of lasting value.

Highly trained ShelterBox Response Teams distribute boxes on the ground, working closely with local organisations, international aid agencies and Rotary clubs worldwide.

Since its inception in 2000, ShelterBox has firmly established itself at the forefront of international disaster relief, providing emergency shelter for the people who need it most on every continent. Read more at www.shelterbox.org
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Rotary continues to support numerous local causes aimed at children, our schools, and our community.  In the current economic times, funding for these causes is under tremendous pressure, but we believe we should do everything we can to preserve the magic of childhood for our community’s children.

Help is needed by your neighbors…

Inland Valley Hope Partners - Proceeds of 
A Taste of Claremont will go to Inland Valley Hope Partners which was established in 1968 as the Pomona Council of Churches. Hope Partners serves over 75,000 people a year and provides emergency food supplies for over 900,000 meals and some 16,000 nights of shelter and housing assistance annually.

- Emergency Food Assistance; locations in   Pomona (Beta Center), Ontario 
(Sova Center), Claremont and San Dimas
- Emergency Housing Program
- Farmers Market
- Emergency rental/utility assistance
- Emergency Motel Vouchers
- Life Skills assistance
- Employment & housing search assistance

For more information visit:
www.hope-partners.com 
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PolioPlus - Over the last twenty years, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, supported by donations from the Rotary Foundation and the work of thousands of Rotary volunteers, has reduced the number of cases from 350,000 per year to fewer than 2,000—a better-than 99% reduction.  Polio is now endemic in only four countries: Afghanistan , India , Nigeria , and Pakistan .  Some may ask shouldn’t we spend money on other diseases, isn’t this enough?  No, we believe it is not.   We live in a globally-connected world with viruses that are no respecters of international borders.  In 2005, four non-vaccinated children in the U.S. contracted polio but recovered - the source of the disease, a country where the disease was still endemic.  We need to go the “last inch” and end polio forever.  Rotary has accepted a challenge grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which spans two more years and  which will result in a joint contribution of over half a billion dollars to eradicate polio, reducing the number of cases to that magic number, zero! 

Thank you for helping us give this priceless gift to the children of the world and their parents by supporting Polio Plus. Read more at www.rotary.org
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ViNA - In Africa , women and children are walking miles to collect water from heavily-polluted muddy, brown puddles, full of bacteria and parasites.  We are already at work building 15 water wells in Uganda to bring fresh water to thousands of people.  This year we want to expand this program and give others not only fresh water but hope and the opportunity it will bring to improve the economy of the region. Your support will bring the precious gift of fresh water to these children and hope to this impoverished community.

So, thank you for your support.   We promise that our Tenth Taste of Claremont will be a great party, a lot of fun, and a way to make the world just a little bit better. Read more at www.vnafrica.org