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| Charitable Activities of Our Club |
Editor: Chase, Vern
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Below is a list of activities which our club supports from funds raised at the annual Waterfront Festival and the Auction.
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Local Projects
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Trinity Place - a 24 unit YWCA apartment complex for homeless women and children - this is a community collaboration with the Steves family, the YWCA and the Rotary Club of Edmonds to which we have a fifteen year commitment for ongoing participation
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Snohomish County Guardian ad Litem award winning program to protect children - provide financial support and holiday giving tree for children in foster care
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Rotary First Harvest - Puget Sound region food reclamation, packaging and distribution program -- food distributed to regional food banks in the greater Seattle area
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Provide produce, non-perishable food items and baby formula directly to the Edmonds' food banks
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Provide 15 scholarships for advanced education to local graduating high school seniors from Edmonds-Woodway, Meadowdale and Scriber Lake High Schools
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Honor teacher of the quarter
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Honor student of the month
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YWCA Pathways for women in transition - food, household and clothing i
tems
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YMCA Funds for after school, teen & family programs
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Port of Edmonds interactive educational weather center
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Participate with Meadowdale High School senior portfolio presentations
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Participate with the Scriber Lake High School annual Career Fair
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Sponsorship for two local high school students to attend RYLA event - R
otary Youth Leadership Academy
Sponsors Mt. Baker Council Boy Scout troop
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Honor the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year with the Chief David Sterns award
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Community Literacy Program - about to launch a program to provide book gift certificates for the Edmonds Book Store to Edmonds citizens of all ages
International Projects
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Thailand Tsunami relief, Bangkok orphanage support
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Kenya: Rabuor Village Project and the Village to Village project
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Clean water project
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Women's micro credit
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Children's scholarships
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Uruguay Computers for the World project
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Library books to schools in Uganda
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Ethiopia: Heinok-Belete Memorial Foundation support to build a school and health clinic
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Worldwide Polio Plus immunizations in Nigeria, Pakistan, Afganistan and India
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Sponsorship of Rotary International Ambassadorial, Teacher and Peace scholars
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