Welcome to the Rotary Club of Edmonton Whyte Avenue!
President
Secretary
Immediate Past President
Treasurer
Membership
Community Service Chair
Co Chair Community Service
Co Chair Community Service
Services - International
Youth Services
Interact
New to Rotary? Interested in learning more? Come to our next meeting and see what we're all about.
First two meetings are on us!
Thank you all so much for coming out this past Tuesday to prepare food hampers for the needy. Your efforts are truly appreciated!
Glad to see new member Eric. Also member prospect Arshi and significant other Steve as well as Sami join us. Their applications are being processed. Members of YEG Passport and Edmonton club also participated as well as Friends of the club. Super involvement on a snowy evening!!!!
Next Food Bank event is Sunday May 15. spots still open. Consider signing up or bring a friend. See the club website for event posting.
Our small but mighty club was back at one of our favourite activities this week - supporting community members in our city.
Miguel Angel Rodriguez Martinez, the Project Amigo student that our club sponsors in Colima, Mexico, sent us a letter and drawing thanking us for the support and gifts that were sent with Marilyn Mucha when she travelled there to participate in a volunteer week. It is so exciting that she got to meet our “ahijado” We can't wait to hear more about Marilyn and Sue's experiences later in May. Click the "Read More" to read a translation of Miguel's letter.
At Rotary, we are deeply concerned by the deteriorating situation in Ukraine and the escalating loss of life and humanitarian hardship there. Our club met on Tuesday, March 8th, to discuss how our club, and how individual club members, could support the people of Ukraine during this crisis. Our club will be making a donation to ShelterBox Canada to help address the many Ukrainian people who have become refugees. Click the "read more" button below to see three ways you can help.
Thanks to all the club members and friends that came together to show some love to our neighbours in shelter on the south side.
We put together 80 Valentine’s Day packages with Cinnaholic cinnamon buns and Crave cupcakes picked up by James Cameron and packaged by Marilyn Mucha and her Mom, Alice. Then added beautiful handwritten greeting cards by Simone Desilets, Claudette Rosenthal and Kathy Strobl, as well as Tim Horton's gift cards, stuffed by Kristin Jennings. These were delivered to the Knox and Strathearn Baptist shelter locations by Michelle Okere and Brittany Grunerud.
Additionally, our Neighbour Center friends are getting a handwritten card and Subway gift card when they pick up their March bus passes.
We appreciate everyone’s contributions! This no doubt made a difference in the hearts of the recipients.
On Tuesday, November 16, we had Past District 5370 Governor and Canadian Intermediary for Project Amigo Canada Society, Elly Contreras-Vermeulen, join our meeting as our speaker live from Colima Mexico. Elly provided an update on the work that Project Amigo is doing and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their efforts. Project Amigo Canada Society helps lift youth out of poverty through education and focuses on supporting youth of lower income families in Suchitlan, Colima, Mexico.
For the past three years, the Whyte Avenue Rotary Club has been sponsoring a student through Project Amigo, and at the meeting we got a chance to meet Miguel via Zoom and to ask him questions. Miguel is in Grade 6 and loves Spanish class, reading, playing basketball, and his favourite food is pizza. It was wonderful to make the connection with Miguel. One of our members, Marilyn Mucha, will be participating in a Project Amigo volunteer week this winter, so we will soon get to learn more about Project Amigo and Miguel through her volunteer experience. To learn more about Project Amigo Canada Society, click here.
Last year Whyte Avenue Rotary sponsored a child in Colima, Mexico through the Project Amigo Canada Society. The $135 donation provided Miguel with the tools he needed to be successful, such as shoes, clothing and educational services. The sponsorship also helped him broaden his horizons and to connect with people beyond his own communities with the annual “Day at the Beach” trip and at Project Amigo’s volunteer-driven Christmas Fiesta. We are pleased to renew Miguel's scholarship for another year.
Whyte Avenue Rotary partnered with the Amarok Society and several other District 5370 Rotary Clubs to build the Combined Rotary Women's School in Bangladesh. In the school's latest update, they describe their struggles and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on 25 August announced that transmission of the wild poliovirus has officially been stopped in all 47 countries of its African region. This is a historic and vital step toward global eradication of polio, which is Rotary’s top priority.Posted by Scott Young on Jul 29, 2019
Last year our club co-sponsored a school in Bangladesh through The Amarok Society -- the Combined Rotary Women's School - with The Rotary Clubs of Strathcona, Mayfield, Urban Spirits, Grand Prairie and Hinton.
Here is an update that they have sent us with some photos and a letter updating us on the progress of the school and the program.
Rotary made a promise to rid the world of 
polio and continues to work each day to reach that goal. Watch this new video to learn more about this endemic, Rotary’ efforts to eliminate polio worldwide, and how you can help. You can learn more about Rotary’s efforts towards polio eradication here.
Posted by Scott Young on Nov 28, 2018
.jpg)
Mike Greaney supporting the Emmanuel Foundation's Belize Playground Project by helping load a sea can destined for Belize!
Posted by Scott Young on Aug 24, 2018
Contributing to a loan helped a member to buy plastic for another greenhouse, pepper seeds, and fertilizer to expand her business.
Posted by Stan Bissell on May 28, 2018
.png)
KIVA Microfinance Loans
One of Rotary International’s six area’s of focus is growing local economies by “strengthening local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.” The Rotary Club of Whyte Avenue is working on this area of focus by providing microloans through kiva.org.
Stan Bissell shared the story of Thúy, a female entrepreneur living in a remote rural community in Vietnam, who the club has supported with a microloan.
.png)
@WhyteRotary
You can receive a charitable tax receipt for donations made through the District 5370 Foundation at Canada Helps. **Please select the Rotary Club of Edmonton Whyte Avenue from the drop-down link.
Subscribe to Our Bulletin!
Monies for events will be refunded (less an administration fee as well as any loss incurred by the District for contractual issues incurred by the District) provided the request is made at least 7 days prior to the event.
The refund will be processed after all incurred costs have been received and processed.
Normally, 10% of the fees paid will be withheld to cover these charges.
No refunds will be made within 7 days of the event.
There will be no refund for district dues or donations.
Fun, Fearless and Focused!
Edmonton, AB T6E 6P4
Canada