Spend it or donate it to the Rotary Foundation?

Posted by Joe Losquadro

Of course we all have a responsibility to meet the needs of ourselves and our families for food, shelter, clothing, safety and security; but most of us as Rotarians have a degree of disposable income, which we can spend on ourselves or on others.

The Rotary Foundation's monies are used to help develop community service projects addressing children at risk, poverty, hunger, the environment, illiteracy and violence - at home and abroad. The Rotary Foundation also supports programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers and other professionals, and vocational and career development. PolioPlus is Rotary International's official project and seeks to eradicate polio from the face of our planet.

Please click on "more" for some interesting alternatives.

Spend it	Donate to TRF
$100
An Amazon Kindle book reader	Textbooks for one elementary school in Zambia
A 4 ½ ft artificial Christmas tree without lights from www.treeclassics.com	1,000 trees to reforest desolate regions in Guatemala
Dinner for two at a nice restaurant – wine extra	De-worming tablets for 112 children in the Philippines
An inexpensive pair of Ray Ban polarized sunglasses	Cataract operations for 3 blind individuals in India
½ of an electric blanket from Lands’ End	230 blankets for the elderly in the winter months in Korea
$1000
A hot tub	All materials necessary for the construction of a deep bore well in India which supplies clean drinking water to more than 300 people
A round trip ticket to California and four nights in the airport hotel	Materials to treat and prevent parasites and anemia in needy children in Brazil
10 - 4 ½ ft Christmas trees with lights	A tree nursery in Jamaica that will annually produce 5,000 tree seedlings and increase family income for 700 farmers
A nice set of golf clubs	Artificial limbs to 25 disabled persons in Calcutta, India
A Kitchen Aid 5-burner gas cook top and oven	Kitchen equipment for an orphanage in Peru
A pure bred Siberian Husky	A cow and animal husbandry training to a widow in Uganda where civil war shattered the economy and children die because of a lack of protein and calcium in their diets
You can donate to the Rotary Foundation by credit card. Simply go to our club website at www.mdirotary.org, login and from the homepage, click on Members Only and Donate to the Rotary Foundation for easy to follow directions.