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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS homes that I have delivered clothing and food to
include Johannesburg, Nairobi, Windhoek, Tunis
Door of Hope - a hole in the wall and Libya.”

The Rotary Club of Otter Valley has been busily
getting involved with a most remarkable baby
orphanage in South Africa.

The Door of Hope baby orphanage is special in the
way that babies are placed in a “baby bin” inside
a hole in the wall of the orphanage. An alarm
from a pressure pad then alerts the staff that a
baby is present in the bin.

Paul Floyd, of the Otter Valley club, has just Paul Floyd and friend
returned from South Africa where he visited the
orphanage, which has been supplied with baby Click on the link to watch a video about Door of
clothes knitted by local people within the Otter Hope:
Valley community, and Paul was able to deliver
the clothes and food on behalf of his club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ghOtj3vfo

He said: “It’s a great feeling when you walk out of More information from Paul Floyd at flighttech-
the orphanage knowing that the delivery was a eng@hotmail.com.
success. We’ve been working with the baby
homes over the past five years. Some of the Fish project goes swimmingly

Babbacombe & St Marychurch Rotarians have
just been through what they describe as the “best
overseas project they have ever done in terms of
seeing it completed and the benefits to the village
needing their help”.

The project, in Uganda, was the initiative of local
woman Betty Aliebo and is a fish farm in Omagara