What does your Watertown Rotary Support? Where do your donations and time go?

Here are some of the many projects and events that Watertown Rotary supports:

Scholarships:

Seven Scholarships each year to JCC Students, Diary Princess Scholarship and scholarships for high school seniors, top science and math GPA students. Watertown Rotary also supports TI Girl Scouts and Dodge Pond handicapped camp by providing camperships so that campers can attend a camp or summer event that may not have the resources themselves.

Purple Heart Scholarship fund

Charity or Service Organization support:

Watertown Rotary also supports other community programs/organizations such as the CREDO/Children's Home Regatta. We also supported by providing the funds to purchase a Shelter Box to be used in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. For more information on Shelter Box please go their website: www.shelterbox.org

Every year over 4,000,000 children die needlessly from childhood diseases which can be controlled by immunization. Polio Plus is a Rotary International program developed to immunize against polio and five other communicable diseases for all children by the year 2000. To his end, our club, with other clubs in Rotary have raised over $240,000,000. Now, after a few years in the program, the Americas and Europe are virtually polio-free, and many Asian countries have made significant strides to this and, and improvement is also evident in Africa.

Youth Support:

Support of a Foreign Exchange student each year.

Interact Mission in Central America: Sponsorship of a student for the Interact mission in Central America.

Group Study Exchange: We support the group study exchange of young professional and business people. They visit a foreign country to study the conditions and methods related to their own professions in that country. In return, we host "Group Study Exchange" team members in other countries.

Rotary Youth Leadership: Each year, we sponsor local students to attend the RYLA conference. The students attending the conference receive in-depth leadership and communication training to assist them in their future careers.

Dozens of high school student guests at meetings each year exposing them to community leaders.

Student Achievement Awards: Our club has contributed to an academic and leadership awards program in conjunction with area high schools. The achievement awards, together with a monetary contribution, assist quality young people with their continuing education.

International:

Training projects for technicians in Turks and Caicos.

Well for Ghana, West Africa.

Bed nets to help prevent malaria in Malawi.

International Educational & Cultural Exchange: Activities are achieved by a number of means. We participated in the Noon Rotary Club in sponsorship of a Fish & Rice Project in Panama. We hold and International Dinner, attend international meetings in Canada, and canvas for the Ambassadorial Scholarship Program.

Community Improvement:

Tree Planting every April in Watertown (in conjunction with the Northern NY Community foundation and the City of Watertown).

Entrance Signs into the City of Watertown at all major intersections.

Gazebo at Thompson Park (projected Spring 2006)

Fitness trail at Thompson Park

Handicapped fishing deck on the Black River

Banners for Downtown Watertown

Adopt-a-Highway

Entry and Welcome signs at major highways entering the City of Watertown