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Next planned meeting: October 16th we will have a meeting of all those going on or interested in going on the next mission. It will be held at Owens Community College, College Hall, Conference Room 99 from 10 A.M. to 12 Noon. If you cannot attend, but would like to, please contact me.
Mel Honig, Project Coordinator
419 843 4459
Email gailmel75@yahoo.com

UPDATES FROM BELIZE

My trip to Belize (September 15th to the 22nd) was successful in that all the objectives were met:

Confirming we had 4 community sites to convert into Resources Centers when we send

Changes at RCI

We have put in a request to District’s International arm, Medical Equipment and Supplies Abroad (MESA) to ‘adopt’ Resource Centers International (RCI) as a MESA project. This request has been given tentative approval pending a meeting of the MESA Steering Committee. In the meantime the MESA website now has a link to the RCI website. The MESA website is: http://www.rotarymesa.org/.

The advantages to this relationship is that MESA will commit to ‘supporting it through shipping, publicity and warehousing services’, and ‘to characterize the above project as an official MESA project in

Our inaugural newsletter will be designed to keep you up to date on the latest R.C.I. news. Since our last mission in March 2010 we have made significant progress in attracting interest and support to the project from Rotarians, non-Rotarians and NGOs as well as governmental agencies.

Almost all the equipment necessary to outfit 8 centers has been collected these past few months. They have been donated by (and in some cases purchased):

MESA (mainly desks, chairs, tables, file cabinets)…. MESA has also donated $1000.00 to the mission
Purchased at school auctions (desks,