Carmel Rotarian tapes United Nations stories of People of Action

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Mike Buffo, Carmel Sunset Rotary Club, accompanied Ilge Karancak-Splane of Salinas, a member of the Monterey Cannery Row Rotary Club, to NYC to be named one of six Rotary People of Action: Connectors Beyond Borders for her efforts to address the need for education and integration of Syrian refugee children in Turkey.

After visiting several refugee tent camps in Turkey, Karancak-Splane organized Rotary clubs to provide 1,000 pairs of children’s shoes and socks for families in the camps in 2017. Recognizing that the children also lacked access to schools, Karancak-Splane and her Rotary club launched a global grant project to help educate refugee children.

Today, the number of refugees worldwide is the highest it has been since World War II. The six honorees — five Rotary members and a Rotary Peace Fellow — are all people of action who have found community-based solutions to the refugee crisis.

In January, Mike, along with fellow Carmel Sunset Rotarian, Ashley Stoddard, hope to accompany Ilge to Turkey in January 2020 to capture the process of implementing her program.

To address this critical need, Karancak-Splane and her Rotary Club launched the Rotary Global Grant Project aimed at helping educate and integrate refugee children. In March 2019, Karancak-Splane visited 8 informal tent camps with the Globally Connected organization from California and SMDD from Izmir. She met with the local Governor and the District National Education Directorate to review the project details which consisted of three phases. 1)Turkish language classes (including computers and materials) 2) Integration workshops (to learn art, music, film, etc.), teacher training 3) Proficiency tests for middle and high school.

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