Dolly Parton autographs a child’s book during a ceremony  in Atlanta announcing the partnership with Rotary International and the Dollywood Foundation’s Imagination Library. Photo courtesy of the Dollywood Foundation

Women and children wait outside the unicef supported emergency SAGA feeding center where local Rotary clubs are donating rice coordinated by Laurence Kouassi, a Cote d’Ivoire Rotarian. Credit: © Rotary International

Together with SHARE, Rotarians, and village volunteers work together to build a retaining wall that keep the wells from going dry. so they yeild all year. The Rotary club of Bombay Metro and Rotary Club of Palo Alto, California, USA, used an RI Matching Grant to help facilitate the project. Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

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Description: A little boy sits in a dusty courtyard at the Saga feeding center in Niamey, Niger. Copyright: Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

A lettuce farmer waters his crops as bags of lettuce are carried away to the market in Niamey, Niger. Copyright: Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

May Nzama at Sicelekuhle Preschool where she pays for meals out of her pension. Now new toys, tables, and sleeping mats are provided through Rotarian donations and a Matching Grant. The preschools are affordable solutions to aid families affected by AIDS in South Africa Copyright: Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

A child from a nearby village visits the polio booth in 2007 to get inoculated on a National Immunization Day in Moradabad, India Copyright: Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

Children spend the day at the the Helmut Seidel Children’s Library in Nueva Esperanza, a Rotary built community an hour outside of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras is one of the poorest nations in the world. Rotary Images/Monika Lozinska Lee