SERVICE
This year’s Rotary theme, Rotary: Making a Difference, is ideal for guiding and inspiring our upcoming year together in Rotary.We will work together to discover new opportunities for service projects in each of our clubs’ communities.
Service leads to engagement and engagement leads to membership growth and satisfaction, all of which helps us tell our Rotary story and showcase the enormous impact our clubs have in their communities. We DO make a difference to so many!
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Got a Great Service
Project for District 7910?
In the spirit of service, which is both our mission and the focus of RI President Ian Riseley this year, we are soliciting ideas for district-wide service projects that can involve more than one hundred Rotarians. In particular, we are looking for projects that support Ian’s desire to protect the environment and curb climate change, which he views as essential to Rotary’s goal of sustainable service. Know where we can plant trees, remove invasive species, clean rivers, participate in town clean-up days, or run recycling programs to reduce waste? Have other ideas that can help protect our environment?
We are also open to other service project ideas that can involve many volunteers. Perhaps building a house with Habitat for Humanity, running a clothing or household goods drive, working at a food bank or pantry, or donating blankets to a shelter. We encourage partnering with other nonprofit organizations. The possibilities are endless!
Send your service ideas to Lynn Faust, District 7910 Service Chair, at lynn.faust@verizon.net. We would like to collect all ideas by September 15, 2017.
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Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley
What do you do with a broken toaster or lamp? Or with a shirt or blouse with a seam that is ripped out? Toss it? No way! Bring them to the Bolton Repair Café. The Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley, with help from Bolton Local, is hosting the next Bolton Repair Café on Saturday, Sep 23, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will be held in the cafeteria of the Florence Sawyer School, 100 Mechanic Street in Bolton. The school is located behind the Emerson School, which is on the same driveway/street.
Bring your items that need repair, and knowledgeable volunteers will help you try to fix them for free. The volunteers can work on items such as clean mendable clothing, lamps, small appliances, computers and other electronics, bikes, toys, and outdoor power equipment. They can also sharpen knives, scissors, and garden tools. You only pay for needed parts. If you know what parts are needed, please get them ahead of time and bring them to the Repair Café to save time.
For more information, contact Ray Pfau at
978-779-5545 or
ray.pfau@alum.mit.edu, or visit
www.nashobarotary.org.
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Rotary Club of Framingham
Rotary Club of Framingham serves meals to community members at the Pearl Street Cafe.
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Rotary Club of Watertown
The Rotary Club of Watertown coordinated with Operation American Soldier to pack over 100 care packages that will be sent to soldiers around the world. Joining in the packing were Rotarians, the Watertown high school robotics team, Watertown Junior Girl Scout Troop 68147 and American Soldier volunteers.
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Rotary Club of Wellesley
Pictured is Interact President Ana Natalia Epstein introducing the program to peer mentors in Dorchester.
Wellesley Rotary Club Partners with its Interact Club to lead a program on Peer Leadership & Depression Prevention
A wellness resource for communities everywhere, the Peer Leadership & Depression Prevention project is delivered through Rotary and its Interact teen group. They normalize the conversation with art and video clips or by co-facilitating curricula either with content suitable for grade 7 and below or grade 8 and above. Interact teens prepare by completing the train-the-trainer program Communities beyond the United States have implemented the curriculum in Puerto Rico, India and Nigeria.
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Rotary Club of Clinton
Rotary Club of Clinton serves meals at a Clinton soup kitchen twice a month. 4 Rotarians prepare and serve the meals for 40-50 people in need that come to the Wheat Place in Clinton to eat dinner. The Rotary Club purchases, prepares, serves and cleans and has been doing this twice a month in Clinton for more than 10 years.
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Rotary Club of Milford
Busy Day at the Milford Area Humanitarian Counsel Summer meals program as Representive Joseph Kennedy III stopped by to see the program in action at the Memorial School. Immediate Milford Club Past President and Meals Program Coordinator Mike Kaplan served as his host.
