Community Service

The Rotary Club of Welland raises money annually to be used the following year for various needs. One of those is Community Service – the provision of providing much needed funding and hands-on work within the local and regional community. The Club’s Strategic Focus is underprivileged youth with a secondary target of underprivileged women and children.

 

For several years, Welland Rotary has been supporting educational technology upgrades in various elementary schools located in disadvantaged neighbourhoods which are lacking in resources. Plymouth, St. Mary, Princess Elizabeth and St. Andrew have been provided with technologically advanced whiteboard systems in the primary grades. The Welland Neighbourhood Project “Read To Feed” provides incentives for schoolchildren to read books. They receive ‘credits’ for books read and money is donated to Heifer International where animals are purchase for third world countries in the children’s names. This gives these young students an opportunity to help other less fortunate.

 

Welland Rotary has also supported various nutrition programs at both elementary and secondary schools, the provision of gym equipment and a regional Dental Education Program. As a Charter member of the Niagara Children’s Centre in 1964, the Rotary Club continues to support this regional provider of rehabilitation and support services to children and youth with physical, developmental and communicative delays and disabilities.

 

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