Waunakee Rotary | President's Message

I am recommending and urging all of our Waunakee Rotary Club Members to become A Sustaining Member of the Rotary Foundation by donating at least the minimum donation of $100.00 dollars per year.

sample photo Rotary Foundation grants help save lives and relieve human suffering.

Just ask Dr. Prema Dhanraj, head of plastic surgery at Christian Medical College Hospital in Vellore, India. A USA $40,000 Rotary Foundation Matching Grant helped renovate and equip the hospital's burn unit in a project sponsoredby the Rotary Clubs of Lake Ozark, Missouri and Vellore. Thanks to this project the hospital can now provide specialized treatment to children who suffer debilitating burns.

"We've saved many children and the infection rates are less" said Dr. Dhanraj, who was a burn victim as a child. It gives me great pleasure to do fir others what could not be done for me. The money given by Rotarians has helped the burn unit immensely.

By contributing to the "Every Rotarian, every year effort, Rotary Clubs help fuel Foundation programs that improve countles people's lives by overcoming hunger, poverty, and illiteracy- the basic afflictions of the human condition that are the main obstacles to world understanding and peace.

For Example, a club member's contribution of:

$100 dollars will provide textbooks for one elementary school in Zambia
$500 dollars will help launch five small sewing businesses in Mexico, giving improvished mothers a better ability to lead self-sufficient lives for themselves and their children
$1,000 will suppy clean drinking water to more than 300 people in India, by providing all materials necessary for the construction of a deep bore well

Walk-a-thons, golf tournaments, fun fairs, auctions, raffles, dinner dances, celebrity music concerts, art exhibitions, and many more community events and activities can be used as creative fundraisers in support of the "Every Rotarian, Every Year" effort. For more examples and ideas of how Rotary Clubs can help support this vital initiative, log on to the Rotary International Web Site at: www.rotary.org

Also available on the Web Site is a Power Point presentation that clubs can use to introduce their members to the "Every Rotatian, Every Year" effort- along with a "Success Strategies" document that features ways of giving.

Sincerely,