Early in each New Year Members of the Rotary Club of Skegness enjoy a “Starvation Dinner”- to redress the gastronomic excesses of the Christmas festival, and to remind that many people in Africa and India do not share such abundance.
The event, with generous support from the Royal Hotel, involves Members preparing a simple soup, which they serve with home-made bread. Members pay their usual weekly price for this meagre meal, which raises £250 to £300.
£150 is sufficient, when donated to Lincs with India, to fund the schooling of a child in Southern India for the entire year. It pays for simple hostel accommodation, clothing, school fees, food, medical care and transport to school. It also allows that child to return to their very remote village community at the end of each school term.
Many Rotarians in our District have visited the mountain region of the Western Ghats,
where this project is based. They have seen for themselves the life-style of the hunter-gatherer communities from which many of the benefiting children come.
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