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The Rotary Club of Bigfork was chartered on June 13, 2001. The Club currently has over 40 members. We meet every Wednesday at noon for lunch and a program at the Community Methodist Church in Bigfork.
The Rotary Club of Bigfork works to improve the local community and communities in other countries. In Bigfork, our priority is to encourage our youth in their social, ethical, physical and educational growth. We do this through scholarships, leadership training, mentoring through our sponsorship of the high school Interact Club, free dictionaries for third graders, occasional grants to the Bigfork Children's Theatre, and to camps and sports programs. We also donate funds to the Bigfork schools for medical care of indigent students. In 2007 we began our most ambitious, local project: the construction of a bike and foot path that school children and their families will use.
Internationally, our Club focus for the 2007-08 fiscal year is on malaria-ridden Zambia and on a Siberian orphanage that the Club has "adopted." In past years our Club has donated money to drill wells in Zambia, buy a van for a health clinic in India, provide wheelchairs to children in Peru, provide medicine to an orphanage in Siberia, and for other projects that we hope will improve people's lives and foster world peace.
We try to do more than simply give money to worthy causes. Some of our members have traveled to Peru to personally deliver the wheelchairs. Another has visited the Siberian orphanages that we help and created OrphanAct, which is now an international charity matching Rotary Clubs worldwide with orphanages in Siberia; and, soon other countries as well. With funding from The Rotary Foundation, another has taught English to children of the stateless Akha people in Thailand.
For more information, contact Ed Nolde at 406-837-4383 or through this e-mail link: ednolde@rsnyderlaw.us.
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