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AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING HUMANITARIAN WORK FOR ONE OF OUR MEMBERS

by James Martin - Club PR Officer - 22:32 on 02 January 2009

Loch Ness Rotarian, Denis Addly from Milton of Culloden, was recently presented with a national award for the huge amount of work he has done over the years for water related humanitarian support in 17 countries in Africa and Asia.
 
The award was presented by WaterAid a UK Charity that works to use practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people and also to influence water related policy at national and international levels.
 
Commenting on receiving his reward, Denis Addly said, “It was a great surprise to me when I heard that I was to receive the award at the annual supporters meeting in London.
 
“And the fact that the award is only presented once every year was even more of an honour for me.”
 
The former Scottish Water Director of Water and Sewerage (then Highland Regional Council) has supported the charity since it was started in 1980. During this time he chaired the WaterAid Committee which had fund raising groups in all the regional council’s water offices.
 
Now retired, Denis remains a highly valued and equally high profile ambassador for the WaterAid Charity and continues to help raise and coordinate fundraising throughout the North of Scotland. He regularly travels the length and breath of the Country giving presentations on work of WaterAid to community groups, schools and other similar organisations.
 
As a founding member, past president and still an active participant of the Loch Ness Rotary Club Denis has helped his club raise many thousands of pounds for water and sanitation projects in Nepal. And with Denis’s contacts in Rotary and Inner Wheel, he has been able to strengthen the relationships between WaterAid and these organisations in Scotland.
 
President of the Loch Ness Club Jim Cockburn added his congratulations on Denis’s achievements, “As a club we are not only proud, but extremely lucky to have an individual like Denis as one of our members.
 
“Denis is still a very active member in the club continuing to support and assist our club fundraising at a local level. It is therefore credit to him as an individual that he is able to do this whilst still taking on a massive ambassadorial role in Scotland for WaterAid.
 
In a society where water is very much taken for granted, to some it is unthinkable that there is 2.6 billion people in the world lack access to a safe and clean place to go to the toilet. Over 1 billion do not have access to clean water. But most astonishing is the fact that worldwide, 5,000 children die every day from diarrheal diseases.
 
Sarina Jesudason, Community Fundraising Manager for WaterAid in the UK paid tribute by commenting, “Denis has played such a major part in WaterAid in Scotland over the years that he truly deserves recognition for his endeavours.
 
“He is keen to work with all members of his community and spread the word of WaterAid wherever he can.
 
“It is supporters like Denis who are the backbone of WaterAid’s work all over the world.

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