Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Service Projects

  • Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden:
The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North, supports, cleans, and maintains the Butterfly Garden that is located in Gallup Park. The Butterfly Garden aim to create an environment through the planting of specific plants and flower to attract butterflies. This beautiful garden is on the side of the Huron River. Its a small garden in the shape of a knot with flowers targeted to attract Butterflies and Hummingbirds.​
 
Butterfly Garden
 
Visit our Clubs Butterfly Garden at Gallup Park 3000 Fuller Road Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
 
  • Green Baxter Court
The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North does various service projects with The Green Baxter Court Children. Green Baxter Court is a public housing site with 23 single-family town homes for low-income families. It is located on Green Road adjacent to Baxter Park.The Ann Arbor Housing Commission owns and maintains the property. 
  • Bike Distribution to the Green Baxter Court Children                      
  • Jenny's Market Outing
  • Wiards Haunted House Tour
  • Adopt a Family for Christmas
  • Backpack Donation for First Day of School.​
GBC
 
 
  • Food Gatherers:
Food Gatherers is the food rescue and food bank program serving Washtenaw County. They believe that in a nation of plenty, no one should go hungry. They partner with 170 agencies and programs, providing direct food assistance in the form of hot meals, nutritious snacks or emergency groceries to low-income adults, seniors and children in Washtenaw County.  
  • Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North member's has service projects that help the hungry by sorting out good and bad produce, putting good produce in boxes to go out to the needy and throwing away bad produce.
 
 
  • Ronald McDonald House:
The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Ann Arbor has two Houses that provide a supportive home away from home for families of children 21 years of age and younger receiving treatment at a local area health facility. Located within walking distance of the University of Michigan Medical Centers, the Main House opened its doors in 1985 and serves over 1,200 families a year. The Mott House opened in December 2011 and provides a short-term respite for families of the most medically fragile patients.
 
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North provides
  • Wish list items
  • Cooks dinner for the residents
 
  • Veteran's Projects: 
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North helps our Veteran's. 
  • Ann Arbor North had a Bowling Fundraiser for Fisher House of Ann Arbor at Revel & Roll in 2017.
  • Donated funds to the House during COVID-19 to prepare meals for medial staff at VA Hospital Ann Arbor
Fisher House
 
​​Fisher House Michigan will address an unmet need in Michigan, by supporting the 650,000 military families whose loved ones have served our country. It will provide a free place for them to stay at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, while the family member is undergoing treatment for a physical or psychological medical crisis.
 
The first Fisher House Michigan will be built starting in 2019 on the campus of our VA, and will be like a Ronald McDonald House for military families. Currently the need for lodging is staggering, 200-300 families PER MONTH are requesting a place to stay while their family member is receiving care.
 
There are 76 Fisher House across the US- none in our state. Even Ohio has four Fisher House and currently building two more! These homes are 13.400 square feet and have sixteen family suites. They have shared living room, dining room, kitchen and laundry facilities
 
The Ann Arbor House opened in 2020, and the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North plans to continue giving them support. 
 
  • Empowered Man Ministries
Member's purchase undergarment for the Empowered Man Ministries.
  • Women's bras - all sizes from the smallest to the very largest
  • Women’s panties
  • Men under pants (briefs)
  • Long sleeve undershirts - both men's and women
Empowered Man Ministries works with men and women, that are impassioned in the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan Michigan, to educate them and prepare them for life outside the prison.
 
  • "ICU Upgradation" (2021-2022)
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North, Rotary Club of Detroit and Rotary Club of Pune Metro‘s, partnered in a Global Grant project titled “ICU Upgradation”, which was inaugurated Dec 18, 2021 by D3131 Governor Rashmi Kulkarni at Sane Guruji Hospital in Hadapsar, Pune (India). 
 
The project has helped this community hospital serving many rural poor of Maharashtra with significantly enhanced new medical treatment facilities.
The ever-energetic Past President Rotarian Makarand Phadke was instrumental in organizing this needed project, which got completed in record time, in anticipation of COVID’s Third Wave.
 
 
  • "Pandemic Relief for Detroit Michigan Reverse Global Grant 2014854" (2020-2021)
 
During the COVID-19 Pandemic the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North was the leading a group of 13 Rotary Clubs from India, Uganda and SE Michigan on a Rotary International Foundation-matched Global Grant (GG #2014854) award titled “Pandemic Relief for Detroit Project.” 
 
The project provided PPE donations to Metro Detroit hospitals, medical clinics, and nursing homes working with the aged and underserved populations, and cash assistance to nine food banks serving the hardest-hit areas in Detroit and neighboring communities in Ypsilanti, Pontiac, Novi and Ann Arbor.
 
Area Rotarians and volunteers from Palav delivered purchased critical PPE to Veterans Administration Hospital in Detroit, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit Mercy Dental Clinic, Brilliant Detroit Community Outreach Services, Say Detroit Community Outreach Services, UMRC.
 
The rest of the organization received a donation of a predetermined amount, to help them through COVID-19.
 
 
 
  • Micro-Finace Loan Project (2008-Present)
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North has been a partner with RC Gbagada since 2008, in co-funding a Micro-finance Loan Project in Nigeria which was initiated by Rotn Ayotunde Onafuwa.
 
The micro-loan project is in its 11th year and funds about 200 beneficiaries, amounting to $13.5 million in low-interest loans to small business entrepreneurs in the Gbagada community (such as bakers, seamstresses, handymen, tailors, convenience storekeepers, etc).
 
The borrowers are mentored by Gbagada Rotarians to manage their cash flows, inventories and profits, and loan-repayment is nearly 100%.”
 
  • Nepal  Sanitation and Irrigation Re-vitalization Project (2018-2019) 
Objectives of the Nepal Sanitation and Irrigation Re-vitalization is:
  • To make available sanitary toilets in 4 Public Schools, in and around Bungamati.
  • Prevent the spread of water borne diseases avoiding community people using pond for bathing and washing purposes, on top of this community will benefit by raising fish in it.
  • Support Farmers by allowing them to use the excess water from the pond in their agricultural  farm.
 
  • Project Dignity of India:  
Statistics of individuals in India: ​​​​​​ 
  • 4 in 10 humans have no toilet facilities.
  • 90 percent of diarrhea is caused by bad water
  • There has been a 40 percent decrease in cases of diarrhea in areas that now have toilets.
            
Project Dignity places Rotary-funded toilets with selected families who will set a good example for their neighbors, to encourage sanitary habits.
 
Clean water means that children are healthier and able to go to school regularly. This means that mothers are able to work to improve their families’ lives. Private toilets mean that girls and women can have dignity and freedom.
 
Project Dignity’s Rotary partners are: our own club and Rotary clubs in Ann Arbor Downtown, Ferndale, Milan and Saline. We are also working with the Rotary Club of Calcutta Midtown and the Sri Ramakrishna Ashram to select which families will receive toilets. (The ashram, an interfaith agency, also loans bicycles to girls so that they can get to school safely.)  
 
Toilet totals build through Project Dignity as of January 2018: 1020 Toilets!