Rotary Centennial Community Project (2003-2005)

Rotary Club of City Northwest Hong Kong was the Project Manager of Rotary District 3450 Area 5 Rotary International Centennial Community Project which commenced in 2003 and was completed by February 2005. (Year 2005 is the Rotary Centennial Year.)

This Centennial Project was a community service project with an environmental and educational objective. All the Rotary Clubs from District 3450 Area 5 had decided to go forward with this project in April 2003. The project goals were to renovate the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Peter Scott Field Studies Centre at the WWF Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long, Hong Kong, and to facilitate the education of the community and international visitors on wetland habitat and conservation, as well as the training of professionals on wetland management and sustainable development.

This project involved the active participation of as many Rotarians, Rotaractors and Interactors as possible from all the District 3450 Area 5 Rotary Clubs. Our project goals and plans were designed to fulfill the Centennial Community Project criteria announced by Rotary International. A permanent commemorative plaque was erected at Mai Po identifying the joint efforts of all the Area 5 Rotary Clubs and the Rotary Centennial. The Rotary Centennial Institute for Wetland Conservation was established to manage an active program of wetland education and public awareness upon project completion.

District 3450 Area 5 Centennial Project web site
More project background info, project progress, links and downloads
Project Summary Report - 23 February 2005.

The Black-faced Spoonbill, our Rotary Centennial Project symbol.

Sculpture outside RI's headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, signifying RI's worldwide PolioPlus Program to eradicate polio.

PolioPlus Program (2002-2003)

In 2002-2003, Rtn Anthony Chan was the District 3450 Chair of the PolioPlus Subcommittee and helped raised over US$1 million for the Polio Eradication Fundraising Campaign (PEFC) for the year. The goal has been to contribute as much as possible towards the worldwide Rotary campaign to raise the necessary funds for polio vaccination in order to eradicate polio globally by 2005, Rotary's centennial year.

Since 1985, when the PolioPlus Program was launched, Rotary has been joined by partner organizations including the World Health Organization, the UN Children's Fund, the US Center for Disease Control, government agencies worldwide, and most recently the World Bank, the UN Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in achieving a 99% reduction of the number of polio cases worldwide. We look forward to finishing the final stretch by overcoming the funding shortfall and delivering a polio-free world by 2005.

More info on PolioPlus
Fundraising results for 2002-2003
Sharing the experience of a "virtual sister club"

The PolioPlus Program's goal is to eradicate polio globally by 2005.

The school building construction was completed with a donation from Rotary Club of City Northwest Hong Kong.

Hunan Guandu Primary School Project (1997-2003)

Since 1997, Rotary Club of City Northwest Hong Kong has been contributing to the construction of a new school building for the Hunan Shimen Guandu Primary School located in rural Hunan, China. The first phase of this project has been completed by 2003. We look forward to a continuation of this project into a new phase in 2003, the 15th anniversary year of our Rotary Club.

More on the project's history
Update on the school site and school life (March 2003)