Pictured are David and Marissa Troxell with the water filtration system donated by our club
 
What a pleasure to hear from the Troxells today as they took everyone on a journey. Over the past year, David and Marissa have traveled to such countries as Nepal and Cuba.
 
In Nepal, they visited with a co-op who began training in decorative basket weaving in 2014. In 2015, the same group began doing bulk purchases of materials and started selling their wares. For 2017, it's being proposed that the co-op set-up an account for bulk purchases of materials, repayable with interest to the co-op. A great success story indeed.
 
Onward to Cambodia, where the Troxells visited the charity school founded in 2008 by Rotary clubs. David reported that enrollment is balanced between boys and girls, and that the school serves the "poorest of the poor".
 
The school provides transport to and from the school, uniforms, books and two hot meals per day. The school teaches English to give the kids a leg up, and it has proven to be doing just that. Many of the students are graduating from the school (which services Grades 1-9), and then going of the high school. Some of the students go on to teach English themselves. 
 
David told the club that we have supported the school since 2014, and have helped build a playground, supported eye screening in 2015, and supported the schools water filtration system in 2016. 
 
The "Table of Love" actually sponsors a small boy at the school in order of the late Gordie Black.
 
For the latest information on the school, the website is here.
 
The Troxells also visited Myanmar and Cuba. In Cuba, there's a strong effort on to bring back Rotary, which was dissolved in 1979. David said the folks looking to bring back Rotary in Cuba need a sponsor, and should hopefully be able to get the club back on its feet.
 
Many, many thanks to the Troxells for the great pictures and videos shown during their presentation as it really gave everyone a great sense of what is going on around the world. As David and Marissa said, for each story there's a 1000 not told, and the pictures help tell that story.