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Avenues of Service
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Community Service:
Happy Feet
Every month during the school year the Las Vegas Southwest Rotary Club gives children that appear to need shoes, a new pair of shoes and 3 pairs of socks, once a month during the school year. The recipient school selects these students for us. The shoes and socks are purchased from Payless Shoe Source and delivered to the school by Rotarians who help each student try on the new shoes for size. Payless Shoe Source selects the style of shoe based on the sex of the student.
For the past few years Ruby Thomas Elementary has been our selected school. We distribute and fit about 1,000 pairs of shoes during a school year. It is a fun and gratifying program. Sometimes we notice that we are replacing shoes that we distibuted the previous year. The kids are happy, grateful and excited - and so are we.
Feed the Homeless
Our "Feed the Homeless" hands-on project is a partnership with the Amazing Grace program at Christ Episcopal Church (corner Maryland Pkwy and St. Louis) which includes a clothing and cosmetics/sundries drive. Each month when we arrive we set up tables and chairs, sort clothing for distribution and get the kitchen ready to serve. We distribute clothing at 5:30 and start serving dinner for folks at 6:00, clean up and we finish by 7:00. We provide the food and serve more than a hundred people every time. Some of our members make it a community service event for their own companies, the extra help really does make a difference.
Christmas in April
This is a program that many community service organizations partipate in, we spend a day repairing and restoring a home for a person in need. The home usually belongs to an elderly or disabled person. We pool our resources and provide painting, landscaping, construction and repair to the home. Las Vegas Southwest Rotary members spend the day hands-on assisting the professionals to give the homeowner a much needed home makeover. |
Vocational:
Dan Stover Music Competition
Musically talented high school students each year participate in a Rotary District 5300 program entitled the Dan Stover Memorial Music Scholarship, and winners qualify for educational awards that enable them to further their studies at an accredited college, university, or music conservatory upon high school graduation. More info and application.
Teen Leadership Camp (TLC)
Rotary TLC is a leadership training program for 8th Grade. It is sponsored by the Las Vegas Southwest Rotary Club and many other clubs in Rotary District 5300. Students interact and participate with 144 other outstanding 8th Graders coming from throughout the San Gabriel Valley, the West End of the Inland Empire, the High Desert and Southern Nevada. More info and application.
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
Each year, thousands of young people take part in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program worldwide. High school juniors are chosen for their leadership potential attend an all-expenses-paid camp to discuss leadership skills and to learn those skills through practice. Las Vegas Southwest Rotary sponsors four students each year. More info and application.
4 Way Speech Contest
Rotary adopted the "4-Way Test" in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:
Of the things we think, say or do:
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
This test is the basis for a speech competion hosted by our club and many others. More info and application.
Las Vegas Southwest Rotary Scholarship
The Las Vegas Southwest Rotary Club will award one $9,600 Academic Scholarship to a
graduating senior for the academic year 2006-07 that intends to attend UNLV, UNR,
CCSN or other Community College in Nevada. The $1,200 scholarship will be awarded
on a semester basis and is renewable for up to 8 semesters of college as long as the
applicant maintains a 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 GPA maximum) and completes a minimum of 12
semester hours per semester. More info and application.
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
More info and application.
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