Community Service
Through the Avenue of Community Service - Rotarians give back to the communities they live in.
Each year our Club arranges a Tree-of-Joy in the Cherrybrook Shopping Centre. This involves canvassing a number of organisations to secure anonymous cards generally describing specific under-privileged people and the type of Christmas gift that might brighten their lives a little. The cards are placed on a Christmas tree located in the shopping centre. Generous shoppers remove cards and purchase a gift for that person prior to returning the gift to the tree. Our members collect, sort and distribute the gifts with up to 1000, conservatively valued at $30,000, being distributed each year.
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Ronald McDonald House, Westmead provides a warm, welcoming home away from home for seriously ill children and their families travelling to Westmead Children's Hospital for treatment.
Our Club was the first service club to provide cooked meals for these families. We were familiar with the older house that held 18 rooms and 5 units. RMH has now a new facility that provides 60 rooms for families both large and small. This year we attended two nights to participate in Meals from the Heart. |
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A big thank you to the Rotary, Mirvac & ARV teams plus Denis and James who combined together put on a wonderful BBQ and entertain the ARV residents with Christmas carols yesterday. (6th December 18)
Thank you: The Rotary team: Anne, Stan, John, Jill, Teressa, Ross and Helen, Cawas, Bernard, Jaswant, The Mirvac team - Jessica pleas pass this on to your team. The ARV Team. - Chaba please pass this on to your team Denis and James – Denis please pass this on to James President Colin |
The Rotary Walk at Warrah comprised a 175 metre long concrete path and driveway constructed and donated by Abergeldie, 150m of fencing and a gateway constructed by our Club members and, two park benches and supporting slabs, also constructed by our members. This was finished off by the fitting of two shade umbrellas donated by Tom Westcott. All up, this project is valued at $30,000 and showed what can be achieved by our Club through active interaction with the recipient organisation, good advanced planning and active support from the corporate world.
The Club is currently project planning a further project at Warrah involving the upgrade of a 50m strip of an entry road. Initial cost estimate is $20,000 . |