{"id":2848,"date":"2020-10-07T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2020-10-07T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T01:37:09","slug":"rotary-supports-clean-water-healthcare-and-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/rotary-supports-clean-water-healthcare-and-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotary Supports Clean Water, Healthcare and Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2854\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-5.jpg 664w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-5-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Derby-Shelton Rotary club was a significant participant in this global grant, which was a labor of love.\u00a0 This grant provides clean water, access to healthcare and food security to the people of Ntalabany,\u00a0 Kenya and surrounding communities.\u00a0 Ntalabany is an extremely remote village in the central highlands of Kenya.\u00a0 The nearest clinic is a six-hour walk.\u00a0 The cooperating organization, Kenyan Health Care Initiatives, constructed a new clinic in the village but needed assistance with making it operational.\u00a0 This grant provides capital equipment, solar electricity and refrigeration, nurses\u2019 quarters, water tank and pipeline with fiber filters and a predator-proof fence so the clinic can be operational.\u00a0 Because of the lack of fertile soil, the grant also provides a Greenhouse to enrich the diet of the villagers.\u00a0 The intent is a reduction in neonatal and maternal mortality, improved vaccination of children in the community of Ntalabany, improved overall health and disease control and access to clean water and nutritious food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2853\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-4.jpg 491w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ntalabany-4-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This project is a collaboration between District 7980, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Rotary Club of North Branford (lead partner), Nkubu Rotary Club, Kenyan Health Care Initiatives and the Laikipia County Health Dept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Derby-Shelton Rotary club was a significant participant in this global grant, which was a labor of love.\u00a0 This grant provides clean water, access to healthcare and food security to the people of Ntalabany,\u00a0 Kenya and surrounding communities.\u00a0 Ntalabany is an extremely remote village in the central highlands of Kenya.\u00a0 The nearest clinic is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}