Over 85 Members -"People of Action - Helping Others - Locally and Globally"
Now in our 78th Year
Since 1946, we have provided over $3 Million and 10s of Thousands of Volunteer Hours
To Community Projects, Youth, and Seniors
CLUB WINS DISTRICT LITERACY AWARD
Our Club's literacy programs were recognized with an award at the Rotary District Conference in May. Our Club donates children's books to the Cari's Infant and Toddler Centre, participates in Rotarians Read in the schools, and contributes to the Kid Start program all in keeping with Rotary's and our Club's Focus on Literacy.
MAY STUDENT OF THE MONTH
Our Club is very proud to recognize Malaya from Ocean Grove Elementary School as our Student of the Month for May. These awards represent our Club's continuing Focus on Education and Youth.
CAMPBELL RIVER ROTARY - WHEELCHAIR PROGRAM
The Club received an update on May 24 on the recent Wheelchair distributions in Vietnam which saw almost 350 deserving persons receive a wheelchair. Over the past 17 years, the two local Rotary Clubs have delivered over 3,500 wheelchairs in fifteen different countries. These chairs are life-changing for the recipients and are part of Rotary and our Club's Focus on Disease Prevention and Treatment
CLUB SPONSORSHIP - NEW EVENING ROTARY SATELLITE CLUB
Our Club is sponsoring the formation of a new local Rotary Club - Rotary Satellite Club of Campbell River which will meet in the evenings. If you would like to join Rotary and would find an evening meeting more convenient - CLICK HERE - for more information.
Rotary International is the World's first Service Club starting with four members in one Club in Chicago in 1905 and has now grown to over 1.4 Million Members in over 35,000 Clubs located in over 180 countries.
Rotary is where friends and colleagues share ideas and take action to create lasting change.
WE CONNECT PEOPLE
Uniting More Than 1.4 Million People through Rotary clubs, people from all continents and cultures come together to exchange ideas and form friendships and professional connections while making a difference in their communities and around the world.
WE TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES
Over 47 Million Volunteer Hours Each Year
Each day, our members pour their passion, integrity, and intelligence into completing projects that have a lasting impact. We persevere until we deliver real, lasting solutions.
WE FUND SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS
Over $300 Million Awarded to Global Projects in 2020-21
For almost 120 years, we’ve bridged cultures and connected continents to champion peace, fight illiteracy and poverty, promote clean water and sanitation, and fight disease.
The Rotary Foundation The Foundation transforms donations into service projects
that change lives both close to home
and around the world.
It helps Rotary members to advance world understanding,
goodwill, and peace by improving health,
providing quality education,
improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.
ROTARY'S AREAS OF FOCUS
Rotary members believe we have a shared responsibility to take action on the world’s
most persistent issues. We work together to:
- Promote peace
- Fight disease
- Provide clean water and sanitation
- Save mothers and children
- Support education
- Grow local economies
- Protect the environment
is the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history and has helped reduce annual polio cases by more than 99.9 percent.
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio since 1985, and our goal of ridding the earth of this disease is in sight. We started in 1979 with vaccinations for 6 million children in the Philippines and have now contributed 1,000's of volunteer hours and over $1 Billion to the inoculation of over Two Million children in every nation. Today, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic. Rotary is a founding partner of the
Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Our Club has been a proud contributor to this initiative for over 35 years.
Rotary Beach Park
Elk Falls Suspension Bridge
Splash Park
Scooter Shed
Spit Viewing Platform
Various Trails
End Polio
Honduras School
Honduras Water Project
Nepal Maternal Health
Ivory Coast Sanitation
We meet Wednesdays at noon
Live or on Zoom
Contact us at P.O. Box 25072, Campbell River, BC V9W 0B7 or
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