Clean Water

Water Committee Coordinator 2006-2009: 

Bruce Whear - Salem

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North Shore Rotarians

Partner with Clean Water for the World

Twenty area Rotarians head to Honduras

on a clean water mission

A group of District Rotarians and their families will journey to Honduras April 18 – 27 to install water filters in rural areas of this impoverished Central American country.

Leading the effort to bring that medicine to Hondurans are District Rotarians Heidi and Bruce Whear.

Heidi is president of the Swampscott club

and Bruce belongs to the Salem, Mass. Rotary club. 

“Three years ago, while in the rain forest of Honduras, Bruce and I began to dream about helping bring safe drinking water to remote villages” said Whear. “This trip will make a huge difference in the lives of Hondurans who will now have clean water to drink.”   She said another goal of the trip was to energize another 18 dedicated

Rotarians and family members who will return home,

ready to spread the word and deed.

“These Rotarians and volunteers are using their vacation time and taking the time off, paying for their transportation and lodging in the country” noted Whear. 

“All funds raised go directly to the filters and project.”

The 20 person group also includes Marblehead Rotarian Pete Reardon and his daughter Chelsey; Marblehead Rotarian Bob Clark and his son Jack; Rotarian Maria Bertolone of Salem NH; Chelsea president Charlene Bauer, husband Bill and son Chris; Melrose Rotarians Steve Buker and Neil Collins and Neil’s wife Nancy; Malden Rotarian Joanne Cohn and husband Dan, Rockport Rotarian Bob Gillis and his wife Pixie Harrington and Wakefield Rotarian Amy Luckiewicz who made all the travel arrangements. The Whears are bringing along their friend April Ferraro of Rockport and their son Devin Whear.

This Clean Water project is supported by $120,000 in funds raised from local clubs, District 7930 and

Rotary International.

     Once completed, the project will underwrite the building and installation of 1400 filters in homes around La Ceiba, on the north coast of Honduras. With an average household of 6 to 7 people, clean drinking water will be available to over 9,000 people. 

Rotarian Carolyn Crowley Meub, executive director for Pure Water for the World, and past governor of District 7870 (Vermont and New Hampshire), underscores the importance of the work. “Throughout the world, the basis of good health is access to clean, safe drinking water” she noted. “Experts say that unsanitary water is responsible for about 80 percent of all diseases in developing countries. For most of the world, clean water is medicine.”

For more information

Contact Neil Collins, Melrose Rotary

neil@collinsfinancialadvisors.com