
Support education is one of seven areas of focus for Rotary. Our club is proud to support numerous schools in multiple communities. We contribute annually to the breakfast program at Sprucewood Academy and also have a $5000.00 contribution toward their Maker Space resource center. This support helped to provide robotics, lego, small engine repair, green screen/video equipment and much more to students from grades 4-6.
In partnership with a District 7820 matching grant, we contributed $7500.00 to Woodland Primary to support the development of a outdoor classroom.
We host an annual Read-A-Long program in both Woodland Primary and Forest Park Primary. Rotarians and other community readers read a selection of themed books to all the children from grades K-3, during Family Literacy Day. The newly purchased themed books are then donated to each school.
Our club were excited to part of the B.U.R.P.S. program (Boys Undercover Reading Program), where members read a huge selection of newly purchased books to a rural school. This project saw the full book selection along with shelving and mobile carts provided to the school to help support their resource center.
On an international scale, our club contributed to The Guatemala Literacy Project for a number of years. Provided much needed education to children in Guatemala.

Another of Rotary's seven areas of focus. Our club supported multiple large scale projects internationally.
We contributed $10,000 toward the Rift Valley water and sanitation project in Kenya. Established in 2002 by the late John Mbugua of the Rotary Club of Nakuru and the Rotary Club of Summerland, B.C.
1.2 million people in the Rift Valley region around Nakuru lack access to safe water during the dry season. Women and children trek up to 6km several times a day carrying polluted water for their families.
This project provided sustainable water storage tanks installed to collect clean drinking water, latrines constructed at a school in the local village along with areas for individuals to clean their clothing.
We also contributed $7,000 toward another multi-club project in Uganda. This project provided clean sustainable drinking water, taught women in the village needed economic skills allowing them the ability to create and sell hand crafted items.

We believe good health care is everyone’s right. Yet 400 million people in the world can’t afford or don’t have access to basic health care.
Our club is proud to support the End Polio Now campaign. We host an annual Pints for Polio event each October and also use a portion of funds raised from Happy Bucks during our weekly meeting raising funds to support the eradication of Polio.
We have also contributed over $150,000.00 in equipment for the Central Regional Healthcare Center and continue to support health initiatives throughout our province and beyond.