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OVERSEAS the Club has given support in particular to the Marie
Stopes Clinic at Bangalore and the Calcutta Eye project in India, the
Lumasi
Hospital at Gahini, Rwanda, the Heartbeat Rumania appeal, the Hope &
Homes
for Children project, the Grafton Orphanage in Sierra Leone, the charity
Impact
and the Kosovo relief fund.
Almost every year other donations are made for immediate local
relief wherever disasters occur. In addition, members have over the years
filled many emergency boxes, shelter boxes and aqua boxes for use in
devastated
areas abroad, and they have supplied Scout Starter boxes for the benefit of
the
Russian Scout movement.
Link Clubs Overseas
The first international exchange visit with another club took
place in September 1985 when a group of Cuckfield & Lindfield members
and
wives visited the Rotary Club of Laval
Ambroise Paré in Mayenne, France. Since then there has been an
exchange visit one way or the other with the French club every year up to
2004.
There were also exchange visits with the Rotary Club of Drôme Nord in
the
Rhône Valley (1985—87).
Following the twinning of the village of Cuckfield with the
German town of Karlstadt in Franconia (Bavaria), a group of Cuckfield &
Lindfield members and wives visited the Rotary Club of
Karlstadt-Arnstein in
October
1998 and subsequent exchange visits have taken place annually since
then.
Although hardly overseas, another series of club visits has
been exchanged with the Rotary Club of Endon—Stockton Brook in
Staffordshire (1993—96).
Group Study Exchange
Club members have led teams from District 1250 on three
exchange visits overseas. Jon Martin led a team to District 4510 in Sao
Paulo,
Brazil, in April 1994, and Alan Hancock led a team to District 6670 in
Ohio,
USA, in May 1999. In March 2003, John Davey led a team to District 9500 in
South Australia.
see John Davey's
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