West Bay Rotary - November 5, 2015
Posted by Jen Harris
on Nov 10, 2015
Members of the Interact Club provide West Bay members with an update of their activities for the year
Members of West Bay who have completed their Every Rotarian Every Year contribution are recognized.
Terry Presents Annual Hammacher Schlemer presentation
West Bay Rotary
November 5, 2015
Interact Update
Harper Gordon – Interact Member
51 total members
2:1 girl to boy ratio
With so many new members they can complete many more projects.
Windjammer Fest weekend – raised $177 for Shelter Box
Largest event - Week of Kindness – Asked businesses to donate to us and community agreed to acts of Kindness. During that week they raised $1,300 for service trip to Safe Harbor in Guatemala.
Members of the club like to participate in hands on projects in the community
For example, they recently moved stones on Beech Hill and participated in the Walk for Polio
Annual Projects
Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital & Ronald McDonald House
Raise money in December to buy books, toys & games for kids in these facilities.
Would like to continue to do these projects moving forward
Safe Passage
8 students traveling to Guatemala
3 chaperones’
2,500 donation to Safe Passage
$15,000 for the total trip / $1,880 per person
Those that live around the dump work there – they scavenge for things they can sell or keep for themselves.
Hanley Denning – created Safe Passage
Started with 46 members of families that lived in the dump
They have in-school and after school programs – learn basic skills
Also has adult literacy programs
Programs for women to be independent
Co-op programs where they can sell jewelry or clothes so that they can become independent from their husbands.
Q&A
If we want to donate to your trip?
Please write check to West Bay Rotary Charitable Foundation – Interact in the memo
What is the interact symbol?
Standard rotary international interact symbol
Upcoming Event?
Rotary Youth Conference
November 21
Local clubs with activities, team building
Are you studying Spanish in preparation for the trip?
Some are studying Spanish
Buckets on the tables
Food Pantry
$70 – provides dental & medical services to about 20 families around Mexico City
$100 – Carpentry tools to train 10 carpentry students in Gambia
$120 – Mosquito netting for 50 family homes in Bangladesh to protect from Malaria
$150 – 3 $50 micro loans to women in Guatemala to open their own craft businesses to support their families.
$190 – Enough food for children in a Nigerian orphanage for a month
$230 – educational packets to 40 children in Costa Rican schools
$300 – Hearing care for 70 individuals in the Philippine Islands
$700 – 10 adult wheelchair tricycles for people in Sri-Lanka
$1000 – 2 dairy cows to farmers in Cambodia
Ron Hall
EREY
Foundation Meeting
Saturday November 21
District Meeting from 10a-1p
Tree Sales
Sign up to volunteer – 2-3 shifts per member
New chair for Tree Sales 2016 – Bob Ruben
Fellowship – Susan Dorr
December 10 – holiday gathering
Rockland Yacht Club
Trying to keep costs low $20/member
Catered dinner Christmas party
More details forthcoming
Looking for someone to step into the chairpersonship of Maine Boats & Harbors
Next Week’s Speaker – Adrienne Randall, Teen program
November 15 – deadline for fund requests