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September Rotary Moment: Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

·         Our Rotary moment for this month is captured in the photo below.  Millcreek Rotarian Mustafa Celebii is pictured with the three students sponsored by our club for Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) – Emmery Jansen from City Academy, Bishal Rai and Delphine Uwimbabazi from Cottonwood High School. Be proud of what we do as a Club.  These young adults attended a RYLA weekend, and will report to our club soon.

Our club's accomplishments 2015-2016

Interested in joining the Rotary Club of MIllcreek? Here's what you have to look forward to as a member:

 If  you would like to learn more, come to a club business meeting the first or second Thursday of each month at the Cottonwood Club, 5:30pm, or join us at a social or service project. See Upcoming Events (right column of this blog) for more information. 

Local service

·         Mentoring of two refugee families (one from Tanzania, one from Myanmar) through South Salt Lake Promise Office:

o    continuous contact, development of friendship with the families, assistance and guidance with school work, school and work applications, dental work as well as everyday issues.

o     holiday project where each family member in our refugee families received gifts, gift cards.

·         Obtained Rotary District Grant to purchase 11 Kindle Fires for afterschool refugee programming at the Historic Scott School

·         Book drive for Utah International Charter School, serving refugees and low income kids.

·         Furniture drive for refugee families through South Salt Lake Promise Office.

·         Participation in 2016 Mother's Day Project for low income women organized by Millcreek Rotarian Cesar Diaz

·         Participation in clothes drive and sorting of winter clothing through IRC.

·         Utah Food Bank food donations and sorting

·         Donated hygiene supplies and diapers to The Road Home.

International service

·         Used funds from our annual fundraiser, Wine into Water, to contribute to a Rotary Global Grant for clean water and sanitation projects in El Sauce, a small village in Guatemalan Highlands. Partners in this Grant were Centerville/Farmington, Vernal, and Roosevelt Rotary Clubs.

Club service

·         Had socials every month at different members’ homes: BBQ, panini party, potlucks.

·         Participated in ski, snowshoe, hiking socials, and a wine and cheese tasting at a local restaurant.  

·         Held our Wine into Water fundraiser, with over 100 in attendance. All club members participated again in some way to make the event a huge success, raising $7,500 for water projects and local service projects.

Vocational service

·         Organized a speed mentoring event with Rotaracters from Westminster and the University of Utah.

Youth service

·         Supported an Interact Club at City Academy, a Salt Lake Charter secondary school.  

·         Sent out a Youth Exchange student to Colmar, France and hosted a student from Chile.

·         Sponsored 2 Youthlinc Service Year students in local service & international service to Peru.

Rotary service

·         Members attended District Conference and Northern Assembly to learn more about Rotary International and their club officer responsibilities.

·         Received the Silver Award for club accomplishment from District Governor Glade Hamilton. 

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The Rotary Foundation: 100 years of doing good in the world

In celebration of The Rotary Foundation's 100th birthday, here's some basic information about the good the Foundation has done:

Mission: to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

Founded: In 1917 through the suggestion of Arch Klumph, President of the Rotary Club of Cleveland. Rotary was 12 years old. Contributions are voluntary.

First contributions: In 1930, The Foundation contributed $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children, now known as Easter Seals. Also in the 1930s, sponsored essay contests for secondary students on peace related topics, and founded Institute for international Understanding to host speakers to discuss critical world issues.

Historically:

·         From the 1960s, Health, Hunger, and Humanity grants provided millions of dollars annually to multi-year health related projects from eye camps to prosthetic limbs to mobile clinics in remote areas. Literacy projects were also funded.

·         Matching grants provided tens of millions of dollars to fund clean water, sanitation, vocational training, and other quality of life projects worldwide since the 1960s.

·         Polio Plus, founded in 1979, seeks to eradicate polio from the face of the earth. In the mid-1980s, The Foundation $247 million dollars toward the effort. At that time, 350,000 children were afflicted by polio every year. Today, that number has been reduced by 99.9 percent, and polio is endemic in only two countries — Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Today:

·         The Foundation’s assets are more than $1 billion dollars.

·         Rotary Peace Fellows study at six Rotary Peace Centers worldwide.

·         The Foundation supports vocational training teams, groups of professionals who travel abroad either to teach local professionals about a particular field or to learn more about their own.

·         District Grants fund $25 million annually in small scale short-term humanitarian projects that address needs in local communities and communities abroad.

·         Global Grants support $70 million annually in large-scale international activities with sustainable, measurable outcomes in one or more of Rotary’s six areas of focus. Grant sponsors form international partnerships and work together to develop projects that provide sustainable quality of life improvements.

Contributions:

·         Anyone can contribute to The Rotary Foundation. Most Rotarians in the U.S. contribute $100 annually. The Rotary Club of Millcreek builds this contribution into its quarterly dues.

·         Individuals who contribute $1,000 become Paul Harris Fellows, named for the founder of Rotary.

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       For more information, visit www.rotary.org

Welcome new Rotarian - Colby Rider!

Colby Rider has worked in various positions at Rider Plastics, Inc., a custom injection molding business located in Salt Lake City, for the past twenty-five years. In his current position as Operations Manager, he oversees production, inventory, shipping/receiving and customer relations.

In his non-working hours, Colby works out at a local gym, spends time with his family and attends lessons and services at both the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple of Utah and the Krishna Temple Salt Lake City. His current studies there include an in-depth reading of The Bhagavad Gita, one of three books generally considered to compose the Hindu scriptures. Colby is in the early stages of planning his first trip to India with a friend, who is studying to become a Hindu monk under various swamis in India and Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.

For the past thirteen years, Colby has participated in volunteer activities at Family Promise, which, in cooperation with Our Saviors Lutheran Church, provides a unique shelter model mobilizing existing resources within the faith community to take a hands-on approach to homelessness.