Every Rotarian, Every Year
The Every Rotarian, Every Year effort encourages Rotarians worldwide to participate fully in their Rotary Foundation. Endorsed by the Foundation's Trustees and the Rotary International Board of Directors, the purpose of the Every Rotarian, Every Year initiative is twofold:
- Encourage every Rotarian to participate in a Foundation humanitarian or educational project that truly makes a difference in the world, every year.
- Encourage every Rotarian to contribute to the Foundation's Annual Programs Fund, every year.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, throughout its history, has prided itself on being responsive to the challenges that confront humanity. Rotarians, through their spirit of volunteerism and generous philanthropy, remain at the heart of the Foundation's mission to eradicate polio and further its humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs worldwide. As global leaders for doing good in the world, Rotarians work together to change lives in meaningful ways; they bridge the divide among people to foster world understanding and peace.
Your US$100 gift to the Annual Programs Fund helps provide:
- a hearing aid for a child in Pakistan
- text books for one elementary school in Zambia
- cataract operations for three blind individuals in India
- mosquito netting for 35 homes to help prevent the spread of malaria in Bangladesh
Your US$500 gift to the Annual Programs Fund helps provide:
- 12 to 13 prosthetic limbs to an "Operation Walk" Limb Camp in Thailand and Cambodia
- a watch repair mini-business for six disabled workers in the Philippines
- carpentry tools for a vocational workshop that trains 150 deaf children per year in Gambia
- five small sewing businesses to give poor mothers in Mexico the ability to lead more self-sufficient lives
Your US$1,000 gift to the Annual Programs Fund helps provide:
- kitchen equipment for the Chavez de la Rosa orphanage in Arequipa, Peru
- materials to construct a deep borewell in India, supplying clean water to more than 300 people
- establishment of a tree nursery in Jamaica that will produce 5,000 tree seedlings annually and increase family income for 700 farmers
- parasite and anemia prevention materials for needy children in Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil
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100% Paul Harris Club
The Rotary Club of Sharpstown finished the 2005-2006 Rotary Year with every member having been named a Paul Harris Fellow. That means that each member donated, or had donated in their name, $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation.
Thus far this year the club is well on its way to having achieved the Every Rotarian Every Year goal of having each member donate a minimum of $100 to the Foundation This week Karen Blakeman recognized Feroze Abdulah, who completed his contributions to meet the EREY challenge.
Now...let's keep the title as a 100% Paul Harris Club |
