How it works

Find a partner club across the world

Five steps from your club's idea to a partnership that spans two hemispheres.

How it works

From one club's idea to a partnership across the world

Enter your project on 47817.org
Use the free entry form on the 4-7-8-17 platform and tick East Meets West. It takes about ten minutes, and you can enter any day of the year.
Get your 4-7-8-17 Report Card
Our team rates the project against the Four-Way Test, the 7 Areas of Focus, the 8 Pillars of Positive Peace and the 17 UN Global Goals, and suggests easy upgrades.
Meet your partner club
The chairs introduce you to a Rotary club in the other hemisphere that shares your cause. Western clubs meet Eastern clubs, and Eastern clubs meet Western clubs.
Get promoted everywhere
Your project is shared on this site, on 47817.org, across our network websites and on social media, so partners and donors can find it.
Grow it into a Global Grant
A Rotary Foundation Global Grant needs a host club where the project happens and an international partner club somewhere else. East Meets West gives you both.

Project categories

Projects are collected and promoted under Rotary's 7 Areas of Focus. Water comes first, because that is where One Million Drops began.

1
Promoting peace

Dialogue, conflict prevention and communities that trust each other.

Peace forums, refugee support, youth exchanges
2
Fighting disease

Prevention, treatment and stronger local care.

Dental clinics, eye camps, health education
3
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene

The heart of One Million Drops. Safe water people can maintain.

Wells, solar water plants, school filtration
4
Saving mothers and children

Healthier births and early childhoods.

Birthing kits, clinics, nutrition
5
Supporting education

Literacy, teachers and schools that work.

School water, libraries, teacher training
6
Growing local economies

Decent work and local entrepreneurs.

Microloans, farm co-ops, water kiosks
7
Supporting the environment

Protecting the land and sea communities depend on. Ridge to reef.

Reforestation, reefs, watershed protection
Your project here

Working on any of these causes with a club overseas, or looking for one?
Enter it on 47817.org

Looking for a partner

These projects are on 47817.org with a Report Card. If your club is in the other hemisphere, you could be their partner.

Enter a project, offer to partner, or share an idea. We promote every project across the network, 365 days a year.