Service Update
Family Health La Clinica
Great news! We've kicked off our first official service project, a fundraising appeal to benefit patients of Family Health La Clinica by providing critical blood glucose monitors and boxes of testing strips. You should have already received your invitation to join in making this first project a successful one. Our hope is that every member of Changemakers Rotary will support this effort with a gift. Every member participation will be critical in encouraging others to contribute as well. Indeed, we've already begun to receive Changemakers' gifts through Venmo and mail. In a week, we'll send the appeal materials to the Rotary clubs in the FHLC 10 county service area. And after that we'll provide appeal letters for you to use in your network of Rotary clubs, Rotarians and others you feel might have a heart for this service.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 to provide enough monitors and test strips for 35 patients for a year. This is lifesaving stuff, fellow Changemakers! Let's do it! Make a difference in our world!
International Project
We've had several conversations with a group of Roteractors from Morocco, and in response to their request, we've provided them with a template for grant applications for funding for their dream of Cleaning up the Wadi.. As a group of young adults with little experience in obtaining the grants to do big projects, they are grappling with understanding the requirements that funding agencies might ask of them. John Locke is the contact person for the group, as we stand ready to walk with them to achieve their dreams.
If you have ideas about a service project that we could participate in, or collaborate with another club(s) in accomplishing, please feel free to forward those ideas to Cheryl, LeRoy, Peter or John. We want to show the world what a virtual Rotary Club can do, working together.
Thanks to you all! Enjoy the holidays!
Cheryl Mader
"..., if only we're brave enough to be it"