Causes We Support

Over the years the Rotary Club of Newmarket has used funds raised through events like this wine tasting to support projects and community organizations both locally and around the world.  Over the years, the Rotary Club of Newmarket has helped support programs such as;

  • YRP Community Safety Village

  • Art Walk at Southlake Hospital

  • Women’s Centre of York Region

  • Newmarket Food Pantry 

  • Camp Enterprise

  • CHATS

  • And many more…

During 2020 and now in 2021, members of the Rotary Club of Newmarket have been actively supporting the Newmarket Food Pantry not just financially but also by volunteering to deliver food hampers to their clients.  At present, as a result of the current restrictions, clients of the Food Pantry cannot go to pick up their Food and it must be dropped off at their homes.

Rotary as an international organization has been at the forefront of the program to eradicate Polio worldwide. In addition, the Rotary Club of Newmarket members have been involved in a number of projects beyond our community;

  • Support and construction of a Health Centre in Ongutoi Northern Uganda

  • Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation Literacy Program at Pickle Lake

  • Support the re-equipping of a pediatric Operating Theatre in Beirut Lebanon after the explosion that occurred on August 14, 2020

The Rotary Club of Newmarket is dependent on the support of our community through fundraising events like this wine tasting to continue the work that we can accomplish in our community and worldwide.

While the Rotary Club of Newmarket is not a registered charity and cannot issue tax receipts, 100 percent of all funds raised through fundraisers go directly to the support of our community and projects such as those described.

RI Ongutoi Water and Sanitation

Since 2007  in excess of 108,000 Patients have been seen and treated at no cost on an out patient basis. Since February 2011 over 800 live births have been recorded with only 1 death due to pre-existing Malaria in a region where 10 percent mortality is normal.

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PolioPlus

 

We are partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide medicare and aid to those in need.

Worldwide we have donated over 1 Billion dollars to providing education, immunizations, and healthcare to wipe out this deadly disease. 

PolioPlus is a far reaching organization, dedicated to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Rotary is a leader in the private sector, seeking to rid the world of Polio. This crippling disease has plagued humanity for over 30 years. PolioPlus is setting a standard worldwide as the strongest model of public-private cooperation as we pursue a humanitarian goal.