Welcome to the Rotary club of Freedom
We are a group
of local community leaders, business owners, and professionals who meet weekly
for fellowship and community service. We are a part of Rotary
International, a world wide service organization whose mission is to provide
humanitarian service and build goodwill and peace.
If you are interested in learning more contact us at membership@freedomrotaryclub.org
or join us for a lunch meeting. We meet each week on Tuesdays at 12:15 pm at the
Valley Heights, 925 Freedom Blvd, Watsonville CA 95076 (831) 722-4884 for directions. To learn more about why Rotary click here or how we Rotarians place Service Above Self to change the world.
Guatemalan Hospital support
Area 7 & 8
launched two international Hospital support projects in Guatemala from the
following Rotary Clubs: Ashland, Capitola-Aptos, Cupertino, Freedom, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Sunrise, Scotts
Valley, Sunnyvale, Watsonville, Oklahoma City, the Total Grant was for $107,405 with the
local Rotary Club partner Guatemala Norte.
The goal is to provide medical services to the over
40% of Guatemalan indigenous population.
Many of these people are refused medical services because of their
inability to pay or their ethnic Mayan background. The poor of Guatemala are
the very people that Westmont Bethel Hospital & Atitlan Hospital seeks to serve. The goal is to focus
on improving maternity and infant mortality rates.
From February
12 – 20, 2011 a team from the above Rotary Clubs went to Guatemala to support these
hospitals and delivered equipment and training to their staffs. This in an
ongoing International project and a future trip are planned. A PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of this mission.