ROTARY CLUB OF LIMASSOL AMATHUSIA

PAST PROJECTS LIST

• Campaigns for the prevention of forest fires
• Creation of park/garden in memory of P.P. Nicos Mavroudis
• Creation of camping place for young people
• Regular support to the Ayios Stephanos Centre for children with special needs
• Annual participation in the fund raising Theotokos Charity Fair in aid of children with special needs
• Creation of a strong Scholarship Fund (over Euros 100.000) for the annual support and scholarships to high performing students in need.
• Forestation of area near the Sewage plant of Limassol (3000 trees)
• Medical equipment for kidney department of Limassol Hospital
• Unit for daily care of cancer patients
• Advisory Station for drug prevention
• Honouring old citizens (annual)
• Honouring high achieving students (annual)
• Construction of Sundial Clock donated to Limassol
• Participation with other nine Rotary Clubs of Cyprus in the establishment in the Centre of umbilical cord blood grafts at Karaiskakion Foundation
• Provision of house equipment for the shelter for victims of sexual harassment
• Publication of two “Monographs” for paintings of the famous Russian Artist Boris Saborov. Estimated cost Euros 220.000 (Funds raised from an art lover donor).
• Improving facilities and acquiring medical equipment for three clinics run by the Orthodox Church of Kenya valued at US$30,000.
• Provision of equipment for two schools run by the Orthodox church of Kenya valued at US$25,000.
• Donation of 60 Pcs (computers) to elementary schools in the rural areas of Limassol District.
• Donation to the Limassol Hospital of special blankets to be used by patients immediately after serious surgery.
• Donation of shoes (500 up to now) to primary school children (Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriot and others) in need (annual).
• Enaerios project (old cable car system carrying mining ore from Amiantos to Limassol.
• Refurbishment of the deaf children school.
• Donation of medical equipment worth Euros 8,900 to the Limassol Hospital (Project of the Year 2007/2008).
• Donation of two computers and two volumes of children’s encyclopaedias to the Limassol “School for the Deaf”.
• Donation of 55 volumes of encyclopaedias to 55 schools in the Limassol District.
• Donation of Euros 200 to a Primary Girl’s School at Bangalore in India for the construction of sanitary facilities.
• “Adoption” of two children (one in Africa and one in Brazil) at a cost of Euros 528 through the Action Aid Organisation.
• Scholarships to four Limassol Students “in need” studying to universities or colleges.
• Donation of US$500 – through the District Governor – to the fire stricken community of Peloponnese in Greece.
• Purchase and installation of special temporised taps for saving water at the Lanition School of Limassol.
• Sponsoring water saving campaign on Cyprus television in 2008.
• Donation of Euros 3,500 to the Archbishop of Kenya for the building of a school. Funds came from a special fund established in the memory of late p.p. Nassos Covotsos, the first president of our Club.
• Improving facilities and acquiring equipment for a hospital in Kampala Uganda through a Matching Grant in co-operation with Rotary Club of RUGARA (Club No. 0024275, District 9200).
• Donation in 2011 of a car to the Anti-Thalassemia Foundation.
• Publication of a book on Rotarian cartoons created by a member of our Club.
• Donations to the Charity Food Shop runned by the Limassol Municipality.

  • Outdoor gym donated by 3 Rotarian Clubs of Limassol to Municipality at the seafront, participation of the project by Limassol RC, Limassol Amathousia RC, Limassol Kourio RC as a join project. June 2015.
  • Donations of Olive Oil to three Community Shops (Red Gross Shop, Metropolitan Church, Municipality) in 2018. Planning to do so later this year .

• Donations approximately 80 pairs shoes to the Ayios Antonios Primary School just before Christmas 2018.

• Our Club participated very actively with 40 Rotarians and with its own BBQ booth, selling kebab to the public in October 2018. We have donated all the receipts, total Euros 1.605,00 to the THEOTOKOS Foundation.

January 2019