He and his wife, Marissa, live half of the year in Jamestown and half the year in Thailand. Participating in international projects for the Rotary Club of Jamestown have been a perfect fit for them. They have always enjoyed traveling to new and unique destinations in the world. The opportunity to serve needy communities around the globe is the best of both worlds for them.

Recently, Trozell gave an overview of the international projects that have been undertaken financially by the local club with oversight by the Troxells.

In 2013 a women’s weaving cooperative was created in Nepal. In 2014 the first of four Cambodia Academy projects began. In 2014 playground grass was installed and white boards were purchased for classrooms in the school. In 2015 a school-wide, eye screening program was initiated, along with having a book drive and shipping them to the students.

The third project was to install a clean water filtration system for the Cambodia Academy. And lastly in 2018 hand washing sinks were installed.

Children perform on a stage that will be enhanced by new construction at the Macatabo School.

In 2016 the Troxells assisted in polio immunization of children in India. In 2017 new toilets, sinks and a clean water cistern were completed in Pagan, North Myanmar with the Yangon Rotary Club. In 2019, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the clubs constructed a school lunch cafeteria.

In 2019/2020 toilets were retrofitted, and handwashing stations were installed in Moshi, Tanzania, with a partnership with the Camberwell Australia Rotary and in 2022, The Troxells assisted in a Polio Project in Pakistan, where they were guarded by armed soldiers.

In 2024, along with the Rotary Club of Singapore Sentosa, 1,171 bicycles were distributed to provide children with transportation to school.

The newest project is in the Philippines. It is to refurbish the Macatabo Child Development Center. This Center serves both as a daycare for children aged 3-5 and serves as a pathway to public school. The Rotary Club of Wellington, Ontario and the Jamestown Club are partnering to fix the roof, improve the kitchen, retrofit the toilets, and improve the outdoor stage and add new playground equipment. It’s a $10,000 project with each club providing $5,000.

The Troxells have traveled thousands of miles on behalf of Rotary. Troxell said he and his wife have seen smiles as eyesight was restored, as clean water was provided, as books and play-yards were built and used, and as bicycles were provided in order that children could go to school and bring all their experiences home to the Jamestown Rotary Club members.

The future bathroom ands handwashing area of the Macatabo School in the Phillippines.

“The Troxells bring prospective projects to the club to fund and then allow the members to see the lives of those that are the benefactors of Rotary’s outreach,” Rotary Club members said in a news release. “The club is eternally grateful for their generosity and love of people who have so little. The Troxell’s have benefited the local club in ways that would have been impossible without them.”