"Projects with a large number of beneficiaries, projects that change lives, projects that have long-term effects, and projects that make us proud."

 

From the Bar Harbor Kids Book Festival to the Backpack Project to World Polio Day, club members have a lot of opportunities for service in the next couple of months. It’s projects like these that keeps Rotary from being a ‘meet and greet’ social club and turns us into something better. Thank you all for putting the time and hours into these projects.

 

At an upcoming night meeting, we hope to focus club members and interested community members in the Park Street Playground Revitalization Project. This playground has desperately needed to be revitalized for years and the club is committed to seeing it happen. This project will have a massive amount of beneficiaries. Safe outdoor play not only helps kids develop healthy bodies and minds, but playgrounds also become community gathering places. Parents and kids ‘meet and greet’ each other and become friends. A community playground is almost like a mini Rotary, without the service aspect. We’ll tell you soon when this evening meeting will be, but I’d like you to think of inviting a friend to it (as well as coming yourself). It’s a great opportunity to show people in the community what we’re like in action and what it is we do when leaders take action to make positive change in their community. Thank you for being those leaders.

 

As Usama A. Barghouthi wrote in the Rotary regional coordinator blog post, “We look for projects with a large number of beneficiaries, projects that change lives, projects that have long-term effects, and projects that make us proud. It is with these projects that The Rotary Foundation enters. It is like the magic wand that gives the club the power to do the unthinkable- the power to be a change-maker, a life-changer, and have an effect on lives.”

 

Barghouthi suggests keeping track of visiting Rotarians and asking for their help with our projects, join a Rotarian Action Group and enlist their help for projects, and to utilize our District and Zone leaders to help make our club the most powerful agent for change that we can do.

 

For more information on action groups, you can go here: https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/take-action/empower-leaders/join-rotarian-action-group

 

I look forward to seeing the exciting things that this club can do.

 

Shaun