Rotary Club Winschoten (Netherlands) was selling two specially designed ‘Rotary in action’ puzzles for EndPlasticSoup in the popular Jan van Haasteren style. The first puzzle ‘Santa Clauses’ was responding to the puzzle craze during the Corona crisis. The second puzzle ‘Rotary Summer Camps’ was created together with Rotary Club Leer (Germany) The puzzles were sold in the Netherlands, Germany and also internationally.
Christmas puzzle with fifty running Santa Clauses
The first jigsaw puzzle from Rotary Club Winschoten raised 60,000 euros for the Rotary initiative #EndPlasticSoup. More than 5,000 puzzles have been sold. The proceeds were intended for the development and installation of a Bubble Barrier from The Great Bubble Barrier; a bubble screen that uses air bubbles to stop and capture plastic in the rivers before it flows into the North Sea.
Rotary Summer Camp puzzle
After the success of the first puzzle a new puzzle was created. This time a puzzle related to the International Rotary Summer Camps. Cheerful young people from all over the world have a great time on and around the water.
RC Winschoten and RC Leer invested the raised funds in 6 so called DPOL (DePOLlution) systems. Read more
Rotary Club Winschoten: ‘That’s what we do it for. Everyone is puzzling for a clean sea!’
Super action
Gert-Jan van Dommelen, co-founder of EndPlasticSoup, is impressed by the outcome of the puzzle campaigns. “Really a super action that Rotary Winschoten has set up; making and selling fantastic puzzles. What an incredibly beautiful yield for EndPlasticSoup. This brings us another step closer to our ambition: a world without plastic waste by 2050. We are very happy with it, thanks to everyone! “
