Global Grant Projects

Bill Davis

5 women produce over $1 million in projects

These women have been directly or indirectly responsible for twenty Rotary projects worth over

$1,000,000

Water Summit, HoustonSara Beck - NASA

Ambassadorial Scholarship Isis Mejias to Brazil

Nicole HeydariKabul Afghanistan

Ali MondragonClinical Consultant

 Anja NikolovaGlobal Scholar Macedonia to

Yale

Dr. Sara Beck – worked for NASA programming the robotic arms on the space shuttles and space station and was the co-founder of the Central Houston Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA). Aerospace engineering degree, University of Colorado, Master’s Georgia Tech and most recently a PhD from Colorado. She is currently conducting water reuse research at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok on a Fulbright Fellowship. As a volunteer with EWB Sara brought the first Grant project to Bill Davis, a water project in San Salvador that Humble Rotary Club headed up. This relationship with Sara ultimately played a role in the development of over $1 million in projects that ultimately happened.

Sara was one of 6,000 applicants in the last round of astronaut applications and made it to the final 160. NASA has announced a new call for astronauts and Sara has reapplied and is one of 18,300 applicants for 8-16 astronaut positions.

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Dr. Isis Mejias Carpio –She has a Chemical Engineering Degree from University of Houston and joint PhD from Universities of Sao Paulo and Houston. She is currently working with Jacobs Engineering in Houston. Dr. Mejias, a Rotary Global Scholar to Brazil sponsored by the Humble Rotary Club was invited by Rotary to lead a team of six to Uganda to identify a large water project. Isis was recently one of two panelists on a Rotary Webinar talking about her experiences as a scholar in Sao Paulo and developing Global Grants in Brazil, Kenya and Uganda and on her trips to Uganda to help prepare a $300,000 water, sanitation and health Global Grant for that country. She has spoken at District Conferences of D 5630 in Calgary as well as that of D 5890 in Houston.

Nicole Heydari – Came to Rotary Club of Humble for assistance in funding a course of study at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, the world’s oldest school offering a Master’s Degree in International Studies. She has an undergrad degree in International Politics from Georgetown University – and is currently with the Department of Commerce in Washington with assignment trips to Afghanistan, Istanbul and India. She recently passed her physical exam with the FBI and is awaiting security clearance to join the FBI.

Ali Mondragon -. BSc in Nursing from Oregon Health and Science University and a Master’s in International Management from Portland State University - currently working as a Clinical Consultant for Philips HealthCare in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Anja Nikolova – has a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences, from the University of Pavia, Italy (cum laude). She is currently studying on scholarships from Rotary and Yale towards a Master’s Degree of Environmental Management at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Anja was selected as a member of the delegation of her homeland, the Republic of Macedonia, to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France (November 30-Dec 11, 2015).  The Rotary Club of New Haven, Connecticut (D7980) is privileged to be her host club, and District 5890 sponsored her candidacy for a Global Grant Scholarship and provided the District funds necessary for the TRF match.   

Sara Beck - NASAWater summit – Houston

Matching Grant – WaterSan Salvador - $36,200

Matching grant - Uganda water - $16,000

Matching grant water - Bolivia $26,000

Ambassadorial ScholarshipBrian Davis, Nepal - $30,000

Brian Davis Orphanage ProjectKathmandu, Nepal - $10,000

Ambassadorial ScholarshipIsis Mejias Carpio, Brazil - $30,000

Global Grant – WaterKenyan Hospital - $61,000

Global Grant – Mammography UnitSão Paulo, Brazil - $68,000

Project Identification -Isis to Uganda with WASRAG

Global Grant PPP – Water, sanitation, and education in Uganda - $301,000

21 Clubs and 17 Rotary Districts from 8 countries contributed to this project

Global Grant ScholarshipSean Smith, Chile - $30,000

Global Grant Peru - $35,000

Nicole Heydari – KABUL AFGHANISTAN

District Grant – Master’s Degree from Diplomatic Academy, Austria - $10,000

Clothing for Children in Women’s Prison – Kabul, Afghanistan - $500

District Grant, 9 Rotary Clubs – Improving conditions for Kabul students - $11,000

Winter clothing for Children in Kabul - $400

Ali Mondragon

VTT Uganda, Uganda Heart Institute – sending doctors and nurses to Texas Children Hospital - $30,000

Dr. Denton Cooley - first implantation of a total artificial heart

Global Grant – HIV/AIDSBotswana - $108,000

Anja Nikolova Global Scholarships – Macedonia to Yale - $60,000

Masters in Environment Management at Yale

Rotary Day at the United Nations

Global Grant – Ghana - $147,000

GRAND TOTAL $1,009,000

Matching grant – water – San Salvador - $36,000

Matching grant – water – Bolivia - $26,000

Ambassadorial Scholarship - Brian Davis to

Nepal- $30,000

Matching Grant – water – Uganda - $16,000

Matching grant – Orphanage, Kathmandu, Nepal –

$10,000

Global Grant – Kenya water for hospital - $61,000

District Grant - Master’s Degree Diplomatic Academy Vienna Austria

-$10,000

Clothing for children in women’s prison in Kabul - $400

District Grant - 9 Rotary Clubs -improving

study conditions in Middle School in Kabul –$11,000

Ambassadorial Scholarship to Brazil - $30,000

Global Grant- Mammography machine for

hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil - $68,000

Isis to Uganda by TRF

Global grant PPP- water, sanitation and

education – Uganda -$301,000

Sean Smith – Global Scholarship to Chile

- $30,000

Global Grant –Water Peru - $35,000

VTT Uganda – Uganda Heart institute to Texas Children’s Hospital -$30,000

GG HIV/AIDS Botswana -$108,000

Global Scholarship Macedonia to Yale -$60,000

Ghana Project -$147,000

Summary