Kamchatka Coat of Arms                                            Where we are Located!                                            View of the Volcanoes from the City

     Valeriy auctions off a vegetable                            A few members                                Members watch a presentation

        Members Olga and Elena                            Spring cleanup project                            Rotary Park near the library

     

Avchinsky RC organized a charity concert       Our member – Valeriy Likhota – the author and singer of his own songs

Avachinsky RC has sister RC in Hawaii. Thename is Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor. This club invited the student from Kamchatka for 3 weeks. They were so generosity that they paid for Alex trip. Right now she is in Hawaii.

Donna McLaughlin, Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor, sent the two photos to Zin Ponomareva.  Bob Deibler, of the Pearl Harbor Club had visited Avachinsky in the past.  To see more go to: Pearl Harbor Rotary Club

DG Maynard Gross and his wife visit The Avachinsky Rotary Club and a Cancer Center where they view a Rotary project on August 28th.   

The Club helps children from Orphanage #6 with their computer skills

Children learn to use computers under Rotarian supervision.

This is some of the computer work the children we able to do.

A computer and color printer were funded by OrphanAct.

Club Meetings

            

The Rotary Club of Avachinsky is located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the northeastern part of Russia.  The Club has been a part of Rotary International for ten years. During the past three  years the club has been very busy working on major activities.  The following is a list of the Club's major activities and projects:

• Organization of great wide-ranging "Health Fair" October, 2001.
• Project  HOPE  pharmaceutical  and  medical relief.   Value $8.6  million  (largest Humanitarian grant toRussia and the NISsince Perestroika)
• "Warmth to Kamchatka" (There was brought a diesel engine for the library, when Kamchatka region had no electricity)
• Container shipment of medical  equipment from Oregon, June, 2000.  Cardiac units, neonatal incubators,hospital beds and supplies hospital equipment, wheelchairs.
• Grant for pediatric endoscope for the municipal children's clinic. October, 1999.  Total cost - $6,000
• Humanitarian action - heart surgery of Yuri Levkovich, a 2 year old Kamchatka child, send to Phoenix Arizona, USA August, 1999.
  Through Gift of Life network.
• Professional exchange program for businessmen: lawyers - in February, 1999  (USA), entrepreneurs - May, 2000 (Canada).
• Annually garden auctions are organized for fundraising and for sponsoring different programs.
• We constantly take care of the old disable people; we organize concerts, meetings and other activities for them.
• Humanitarian aid from USA for the program "Diabetes" (diagnostic equipment: insulin, test stripes, syringes). October, 1997-April, 1998.
  April 2000. Total cost - $ 20,500. Harpsichord for musical charity concerts. July-November, 1997. Concerts are ongoing.
• Humanitarian aid from USA Glennfalls NY containing medical equipment and hospital supplies including x-ray machines, heart
  monitors and oxygen generators. January-July, 1998. Total cost $10,000.
•  Medical laser equipment for the regional ophthalmology center . November - January, 1998.
• First medical laser   for ophthalmology for a population of 400,000 people.  Total cost - $45,000.
• Sent $200 to USA for American Indian Vision Program for restoring sight to elderly women for beading.
• School Exchange program. Students have studied in the US, Germany, Brazil and Avachinsky hosted an American and Brazilian
  students.
• Avachinsky RC hosted a Brazilian volunteer, and two volunteers from our club went to Brazil.
• The club bought a bus for the Orphanage; it helps the kids with their activities.
• Charity concerts for fundraising for various city and regional purposes.
• Rotaract made trough OrphanAct: a   TV set and the carpet for children.

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a part of the Russian Kamchatka Oblast (along with a part of the continent, the Komandorskiye Islands and Karaginsky Island). The majority of the 402,500 inhabitants are Russians, and the largest minority are the Koryaks. The northern part of the peninsula is occupied by Koryak Autonomous Okrug, where around 13,000 Koryaks live.

Kamchatka History.   The Kamchatka Peninsula in Far East Russia is one of the most volcanically active locations in the entire world. Part of the Ring of Fire, Kamchatka has the highest density of volcanoes and associated volcanic activity in the world. This place, deemed “ Russia 's Yellowstone ”, is home to over 130 volcanoes, 29 of which are still active today. The land's beautiful scenery and wildlife along with the numerous outdoor activities available draw thousands of visitors each year. It is known for its amazing diversity and abundance of wildlife and nearly pristine frontier land.  First "discovered" in the 17th century by Russian explorer Ivan Kamchatiy, Simon Dezhnev and the Cossack Ivan Rubetz, Kamchatka is currently inhabited by over 400,000 Russians. The founding of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in 1740 by the Danish explorer Vitus Bering began the "opening" of Kamchatka in earnest, helped by the fact that the government began to use the area as a place of exile. The Russian government encouraged settlement by granting land to newcomers on the peninsula