The Lockport club’s membership and board of directors, in August, voted to help the managers of the grant with donations of products. The club’s financial commitment
and individual member donations allowed the purchase and donation of 359 tubes of triple antibiotic ointment and a number of black felt-tip markers to be added to some 500 trauma kits.
Pictured right Denise Taylor, wife of Rotarian Dr. Kenneth Taylor from the St. Catharines area transported 359 tubes of triple antibiotic ointment for inclusion in Ukraine medical trauma kits from Paul Lehman's home to Canada.
The Lockport Rotary collections were recently delivered to St. Catharines, Ontario by Denise Taylor. She and her husband Rotarian Dr. Ken Taylor, operate Not Just Tourists, a medical humanitarian aid non-profit organization which has been operating for 30 years sending medicine and medical supplies to medical professionals in 70 countries. District Grants Chair, Lezlie Murch and District Foundation Chair, Sandi Chard along with the St. Catharines Rotary Club have been heading up the Rotary Disaster Response grant administration.
The tragedy of war in the Ukraine has probably not escaped anyone’s notice even as our daily lives seem far removed from the needs of civilians and soldiers in that country. Rotary District 7090, which includes western New York and southern Ontario, has received a Disaster Response Grant of $25,000 from the Rotary Foundation to provide medical humanitarian aid to Ukraine. A number of Rotary clubs in the district, including Lockport, are making contributions to make the grant go farther.