If you are not familiar with Rotary, you will be amazed at what a few people who
gather together in communities like Lakeport can accomplish on a local, national, and
INTERNATIONAL level. Projects like Polio Plus, which is on schedule to rid the world
of Polio within the next few years! Other international projects
like those listed below help sick,
crippled, and malnourished children and seniors in our own international backyard, the lower
Americas.
Rotary;
a partner in solving local problems since 1925.
Locally, Rotary has been a
major community development partner in Lakeport for over 83 years. Years
ago, the Lakeport Rotary Club was an early provider of welfare to the
poor people of Lake County before government welfare was in place.
We aslo provided the Inez Anton Scholarship at the local high schools
in the 1940's and 1950's, before scholarships were common.
Some projects, like the 82
years we have put on the annual Easter Egg Hunt, and the annual
Christmas Food Basket Drive, are very visible. But many other past
Lakeport Rotary projects are less well known and may be taken for
granted. Take a look at the placque on the downtown gazebo, or
check out the new Rotary Soccer Fields at the new Westside Park!
The Lakeport Rotary Club has been there and will continue to provide
service to Lakeport and the world for years to come.
International Projects
conducted from right here in Lakeport.
For
the last several years, the Lakeport Rotary Club has conducted
International Medical Assistance Projects in Belize and El Salvador.
In the impoverished Cayo District of Belize, we have provided and
personally delivered medical equipment to Doctors providing prenatal and well baby
clinics in the impoverished communities in the Mayan belt in that
country.
At the same time, we
initiated an International Medical Assistance Project in Cuidad Merliot,
San Salvador, El Salvador. Together with local charitable agencies
and the Rotary Club of Ciudad Merliot, we equipped a residential gateway
home for cancer patients while they are receiving Chemo and Radiation
Cancer Therapy treatments at the hospital in San Salvador.
CLICK HERE for learn more about these projects.
It is incredible to learn
how easily a handful of members in a small town in Northern California
can make such an impact on the lives, health, and welfare of less
fortunate citizens in developing countries a world apart.
Why should YOU become a
member of Rotary?
I am
often asked what is the difference between Rotary and other Service
Clubs you could join. As I see it, there are three primary
differences that set us apart:
1)
The opportunity to be part of the organization MOST responsible for
wiping out the devasting disease of Polio throughout the world.
2)
The opportunity to work hand in hand with local friends and foreign
Rotarians on hands-on International Assistance Projects throughout the
world. No other organization allows local clubs the opportunity to
select and conduct personalized programs independently throughout the
world.
3)
The Four Way Test (See the icon at bottom of this page). Rotarians
subscribe to the Four Way Test of all that we think, say, and do.
When you are dealing with Rotarians from throughout the world, you are
dealing with a person of the highest integrity and a deep commitment to
Service above Self.
Take a look around these
pages, then approach a Rotarian and ask how YOU can get involved in this
great humanitarian cause.
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