Update on joint SOLAR project

Robin Singer is the secretary of the Rotary Club of Falmouth, Cape Cod and on the Board of Directors.   She joined Rotary after retiring from teaching math at Sturgis Public Charter School in 2019.  She had previously spent 20 years at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she was a research engineer.   

In 2006, while working, Robin also began volunteering for an NGO called Her Future Coalition, which has helped more than 5000 girls and young women who have been rescued from slavery in brothels or are at high risk of being trafficked.   HFC provides shelter, vocational training, mental health services, and education, so that each girl or woman can become self-sustaining and realize her dreams.   

Robin has led the anti-trafficking subcommittee of the Falmouth Rotary Club as they have provided funding for Learning Centers in Nepal and India and Kenya. Concentrating on the needs in Nepal, they have provided a library, computer lab, solar power, solar hot water, funding for a dance troupe, lessons in accounting (Tally), furnishings, school supplies and fees, and more at a hostel in the Himalayan mountains, to educate at-risk girls.  Her committee teaches over zoom 6 times per week, to help girls, who were denied earlier education, catch up.  A year ago, she spent 7 weeks in Nepal teaching in person.

She is a member of the Environment and Sustainability Rotary Action Group, ESRAG, and the Rotary Action Group Against Slavery.