The Rotary Club of Quesnel

Quesnel Seniors Enjoy Barkerville Trip

More than 100 local senior citizens gathered Sept. 8 for the annual senior citizen trip to Barkerville.
Seniors along with Quesnel Rotary Club members travelled to Wells where they were treated to lunch. After lunch they proceeded to Barkerville where they attended the show at Theatre Royal. Following the lively show seniors and rotarians had tea at various resturants in Barkerville before returning to Quesnel. The Rotary Club of Quesnel has sponsored these trips since 1964.

Shelterbox in Myanmar

800 ShelterBoxes begin to arrive in remote areas un-reached by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in China...

Tuesday 27th May - CHINA: The immediate response by ShelterBox of 800 boxes to China is finally reaching some of the Sichuan Provinces worst hit villages. The distribution of the first 200 boxes began today by the 4-man ShelterBox Response Team on the ground. The first consignment of boxes where split into two lots of 100.

Tuesday 10th June - MYANMAR: ShelterBox continues to be active in supporting the victims of Cyclone Nargis... plans to return are underway.

Tuesday 10th June - CHINA: ShelterBox is currently operating in the Qingchuan area 8hrs North East of Chengdu. Some of the remote mountain villages surrounding Qingchuan have received ShelterBoxes. A third ShelterBox Response Team is ready to deploy and should arrive for an in-country handover with team leader Greg Rogers in the next 48hrs. Team three includes one Australian member Paul Robinson and two UK members Graham Henderson & Mike Grenslade. Operations Manager Lasse Petersen commented on the great assistance the China Charity Federation and Rotary have been to ShelterBox throughout this series of deployments.

The village of Kyien Kyaung Gyi, Myanmar where approx. 30 tents had been erected. The leader of this village lost his wife and all six children to the storm - water levels exceeded 15ft.