Toast to the King - Canada and Rotary: Danny Cassidy
Attendance: Present 13 including guest ADG Susan Roper, plus guest speaker on Zoom - Luke Vosterman
Program – “Hippo Roller Project" (Zoom Meeting)
Barry Smith - introduced Luke Vosterman, a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Gibson BC, District 5040.
Luke launched “The Roll a Hippo Foundation” whose mission is to put the simple innovation on the world stage. Luke is an avid advocate of the Hippo Water Roller project launching the Clubs 1000 Hippo projects across District 5040, the project appeals spread across Canada, the U.S., Australia, and South Africa in collaboration with over 125 Rotary Clubs.
As an international project, our Club has been looking at this project and figured we need to know more about it to consider possible support from our Club. Today, Luke joined our Rotary meeting from BC Via Zoom, to talk to us about the Project, which was followed by questions and answers.
In the video presentation, Luke demonstrated that a simple ‘flip in thinking’ to transport water in rugged terrains with less effort than traditional carrying buckets of water from rivers and wells into their family homes.
Many girls and women around the world, particularly in poor countries, focus much of their lives on carrying water for their families, from rivers and wells to their family homes. It is physically demanding, thankless work. The hippo water roller addresses this problem. It moves 90 to 200 liters of water by rolling it on the ground. The hippo water roller can transport more water, more easily and in less time than carrying 20-liter buckets on the head.
Arthur Retnakaran thanked Luke for the presentation.
Please follow the link to view Luke’s video presentation.
Program – “Hippo Roller Project" (Zoom Meeting) 
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