With just two weeks remaining in the
annual TRF Support Campaign, Pres. Liz has announced that your Club has
received cash and pledges of $49,355.Funds donated to The Rotary Foundation are used to provide grants for a
myriad of purposes related to polio eradication, clean water, micro-banking,
earthquake relief and school refurbishment.
Cupertino Rotary has led our District in
campaign contributions for the past three years, and with your continued
generosity, quite probably will do so again in 2009-2010.While Rotary International has named
November as Rotary Foundation Month, RC Cupertino actually starts its annual
campaign two weeks earlier, in mid-October.The campaign effort lasts just four weeks, so the Club may
concentrate on other activities going into the Thanksgiving Season.
In the past 15 years, 40 Cupertino
Rotarians have traveled to Mexico, Ghana, Estonia, Turkey, Chile, Guatemala,
China, India and Colombia to provide medical relief, text books, wheel chairs
and other services to these far-off places.Your donations help fund the grants that the Club undertakes
to bring a beret life to hundreds, sometimes thousands, of desperately poor
people.Over the years, the Rotary
Club of Cupertino has contributed $1,216,490 to assist TRF's humanitarian
efforts.
We are very close to realizing this year's
goal of $55,000 - if you have not had an opportunity to join this effort, now
is the time.Please respond
generously when asked by one of your Team Captains.
