Changemakers Rotary Health and Hygiene Appeal Benefitting Family Health La Clinica
“Imagine a world that deserves our best where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference.” Jennifer Jones, President, Rotary International Changemakers Rotary Club is a group of people who share this passion about what it means to serve our neighbors, our community our world. In partnership with Rotarians around the globe, we are creating a more peaceful world through humanitarian service. Ranging from a worldwide campaign to eradicate polio to local projects, Rotarians are improving the health, well-being and overall quality of life by partnering with reputable people and organizations who share this passion.
In central Wisconsin, the lack of basic health care for migrant farm workers spawned the formation of a community health center in the 1960s to ensure that this workforce and their families had access to basic care. Today. Family Health La Clinica (FHLC) serves people throughout 10 central Wisconsin counties regardless of their economic status. The need for FHLC’s services has expanded beyond migrant farm workers to include people from all occupations who do not have access to the healthcare they need. Many families are struggling to make ends meet. The cost and availability of diapers, basic hygiene, healthy food, and medical supplies are a significant burden for many working families. Giving families access to these basic supplies helps them to be healthier and be productive in school or work.
Changemakers Rotary Club is raising funds to help supply personal hygiene and medical supplies for people in need. People who cannot afford basic hygiene or medical supplies have increased risk to develop chronic disease and perform poorly at work and school. Those conditions are an obstacle to being productive self-supporting members of our communities. Helping our neighbors in need is part of strong communities and healthy economies.
Your support for this fundraising drive will make the difference for a child, a family, or a migrant worker to live a healthy happy life. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to provide the medical, dental and therapy professionals at FHLC with supplies for the clients they serve.
Rotary International will be sending out an official notification to each of you welcoming you to Rotary by mid-August. Your membership has been added to Rotary International membership and we are working to transfer records to our club in the coming weeks. If you are transferring, be sure to let the Treasurer of your old club know about this change so you are not invoiced for dues at the old club.
Your club board members are working on revamping our club website to be more focused on our members and the Service projects that we are working on and new opportunities to get involved. If you want to help out with this effort, please let us know - we could use the help/expertise!
At our next meeting, our guest speaker is Karen Walkowski. Karen will be joining us from Edina, MN. Karen has been instrumental in getting her virtual cause based club started and growing. We will learn about how they are doing it and what is working for them! Please attend with your list of questions for her so we can have an open discussion with another virtual club!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the next meeting on August 5, 2022!!
We're excited to kick off our first service project as a newly chartered Rotary Club: Changemakers Rotary Health and Hygiene Appeal Benefitting Family Health La Clinica. The overall goal of the project is to raise $10,000 through various means, (including a D6250 Designated Funds Grant) to supply personal hygiene and medical products for people in need. Complete information about the project can be found here: Service project to benefit La Clinica Family Health . The funds will be raised in steps. Our first step is to get the support of every Changemakers Rotary member through a contribution, small or large, to the project. In the coming weeks we expect to have our online giving systems developed. We'll let you know as they get rolled out. In the meantime, please help get the ball rolling by sending your check to:
Changemakers Rotary Club
Please email Chris Parizo (christopher.parizo@gmail.com) for address information.
Take a few minutes to make your contribution soon. We'll send weekly updates to let you know how we're doing.
Cheers to Changemakers Rotary Club, and to the change we are about to make in the lives of people in Central Wisconsin!
Cheryl Mader
"There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it"
District 6250 will travel to Poland approximately September 22nd to October 3rd, 2022.
District 2231 (Poland) will travel to 6250 in 2023 (most likely).
No visa requirements in either direction, just a passport.
What is Friendship Exchange?
The Rotary Friendship Exchange program gives Rotarians (including spouse, significant other or one family member) the opportunity to host and visit Rotarians around the world. In addition to experiencing other cultures and making lasting friendships, an exchange provides a strong foundation for carrying out other international activities and service projects.
District events are designed to make the Rotary experience more fun and more successful for you and your club leaders and members. Please add these opportunities to your calendar.
Vibrant Club Workshop / One Rotary Summit (Presidents and Chairs, engaged club members) - Fall (exact date/time(s) TBD)
World Polio Day - October 24th. Lots of clubs fundraise for Polio in October.
Grant Management Seminars - Winter/Spring
Save the Date TriCon 2023 (our Multi-District Conference) - April 27-29 - La Crosse, Wisconsin - more info coming soon, feel free to check in for more at www.rotarytricon.com.
Description: We have good news that we are getting more and more books donated every week! So that means we have to get busy packing. The new dates are as follows and they are all on Saturdays from 10-12:30 except August 3 & 4, times above. - daily leader in parentheses:
July 23 (Thom and/or Ellen) Epic Groups to meet us
August 3 Baker Tilly volunteers to meet us
August 4 Baker Tilly volunteers to meet us
Aug 6 (Betsy)
Aug 20 (Gary and/or Ellen)
Sept 10 (Betsy)
Sept 24 (Ellen)
I will also be posting these on the United Way website and I'll add them to our club calendar. Please respond to me if you can attend on any of these dates and enjoy summer!
Description: Can't participate this year? Or looking for another way to get involved in the Badger Challenge mission (formerly known as The Ride)? Consider volunteering!
Our volunteers play a critical role in the success of the event. We rely on volunteers to assist in pre-event support, participant services, course support, and so much more! And if you want to participate in the event we also have volunteer opportunities in the days leading up to the event as well! Learn more about available opportunities here or email us with any questions. We're happy to talk with you and help determine where your support is best suited.
Description: A trip to Guatemala next year to get to know our fellow Rotarians and their families, do service projects, see the sights and have some fun!
As many of you know, we are planning a trip to Guatemala next year to get to know our fellow Rotarians and their families, do service projects, see the sights and have some fun! Gary and Ana and I met with Alvaro and Patrick over zoom last week and together we planned a tentative itinerary for January 12-22 that Patrick has attached here. Patrick has included a breakdown of the cost per person for the amazing trip he has planned for us that you'll find at the end of the attached itinerary. We priced air travel costs at around $500/person, but obviously that can vary. Please look over the itinerary carefully because there are lots of options included to facilitate designing your trip for your comfort level. What we would like to know at this planning stage is how many of you feel interested in going on this trip. No commitment required just yet
“Imagine a world that deserves our best where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference.” Jennifer Jones, President, Rotary International Changemakers Rotary Club is a group of people who share this passion about what it means to serve our neighbors, our community our world. In partnership with Rotarians around the globe, we are creating a more peaceful world through humanitarian service. Ranging from a worldwide campaign to eradicate polio to local projects, Rotarians are improving the health, well-being and overall quality of life by partnering with reputable people and organizations who share this passion.
We're excited to kick off our first service project as a newly chartered Rotary Club: Changemakers Rotary Health and Hygiene Appeal Benefitting Family Health La Clinica. The overall goal of the project is to raise $10,000 through various means, (including a D6250 Designated Funds Grant) to supply personal hygiene and medical products for people in need. Complete information about the project can be found here: 
