SUMMERVILLE OAKBROOK BREAKFAST ROTARY CLUB
ABOUT US
A Distinct Identity
Here at Summerville Oakbrook Breakfast Rotary Club, we are driven to do our part in making the world a better place. Since 1991, we have taken part in a wide range of activities that empower individuals and communities in the Summerville area and throughout the world. We strive to build productive relationships and make a positive impact with all of our pursuits. Are you ready to join us and create real transformation in the lives of so many?
WHAT WE DO
Meaningful Work
The goal of this program is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come. Educators see third grade as the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn, so we encourage our sponsors to give dictionaries each year to children in the third grade.
HAPPY FEET
Each year the Summerville Oakbrook Rotary Club provide free shoes to deserving grade school students in the Summerville area. Working together, the guidance counselors and principals at 3 schools provided the list of students. Each student received a letter of invitation to the event. The Summerville Shoe Carnival provided the venue for our project. The children were then given the opportunity to select and receive a new pair of socks and shoes.
Our Club actively contributed the the CART (Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust) Fund to help fund cutting edge, high impact research grants to help find a treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. Each meeting our members are encouraged to contribute this with worthy cause.
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
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