Moraga Native Venetia Baker Receives Rotary Global Grant

The Rotary International Foundation recently awarded a Global Grant to Venetia Baker, a Campolindo High School graduate who attended UC Santa Cruz and has been working for an NGO in rural South Africa in the area of maternal and infant health and AIDS research.

The grant provides educational funding at the master's degree level to attend the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, U.K. for a degree in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research.

Baker's goals are reducing the mortality and morbidity rate for children under the age of five, reducing the maternal mortality and morbidity rate, improving access to essential medical services, trained community health leaders and health care providers for mothers and their children in poor countries.

The Rotary Foundation Global Grant is a minimum of $30,000 up to a maximum of $200,000. The grant matches a local District Designated Fund scholarship by 100 percent, plus other cash donations by 50 percent. Rotary District 5160 is awarding her a $15,000 scholarship being matched 100 percent, and Moraga Rotary is providing a $500 scholarship being matched 50 percent, for a total scholarship to Baker of $30,750.

She left for London on Sept. 14.



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