Here is how we have giving back our community, our state, our country and our world over the years
Our Community
Document the Big Three.
Literacy Projects
Cary Elementary - Language for Learning
Swift Creek - Lindy's Program - get follow up
Northwoods (this year???) - Books for Presenters
Needy Families
Jim Trull?
Get information from Eric
What all did our club do?
Get information from Buck
Lazy Daze
who has been in charge the last few years?
Salvation Army Bell Ringing
Get history from Harvey? Do we have any numbers regarding the money we collect each year?
Youth Activities - Joe Gelm
RYLA
Interact
What have we donated?
Meals on Wheels
Overview of what we do. Don/Suzette.
Seniors' Car Show
Get info and Pictures from Don. Enter Photos on Flickr?
Rotary Clock and Picnic Shelter
Need history on this event. Billy?
Our State
Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina
Our club has supported this Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina for over nn years. It all started back in 198x ..
What else have we done in our state ...
Our Country
Mention our club's military veterans and our children our currently serving or have served?
The National Veterans Freedom Park
What Else
Our World
Hari Nath's Hospital Project
Rotary International Projects: Polio Plus/others?
Stop Hunger Now's Million Meals Program
Micro Lending
Group Study Exchange Team Exchanges and Rotary Scholars
Cary
Central has been actively involved in with the GSE Team visits since
1981. Club members have served as host families and district committee
members for every incoming team since 1984. Members have been involved
in arranging tours, entertainment activities and banquets and have
served as home hosts for 22 GSE Teams. Cary Central has also sponsored
and hosted numerous Rotary Foundation Scholars attending N.C. State
University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke
University.
World Community Service Projects
As a result of the
personal interaction with representatives from team and scholar visits,
World Community Service projects evolved and subsequently materialized
as follows:
- Construction of a micro-hydro electric power
generator to provide clean drinking water for citizens of a remote
village in Nepal.
- Establishment, through Rotary International
in the British Isles, of a Rotary Eye Camp for 200-plus impoverished
residents of remote villages in India to receive sight-saving cataract
surgery.
- Reconstruction of an educational facility, using a
matching grant, to provide for children with Downs Syndrome in
Ocatalon, Mexico.
- In-kind contribution, through the Mary Duke
Biddle Foundation and Duke University Medical Center, for
first-generation ultrasound equipment to be provided in teaching
gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Porte Allegro, Brazil.
South African Project
In November 1987, Cary Central
Rotary Club began a 17-year relationship with the Grahamstown Rotary
Club of South Africa via an introduction to Group Study Exchange Team
Leaders, Trevor and Denise Long. In May 1998, following the dissolution
of state-sponsored apartheid, a consortium of Cary area clubs
contributed $2,200 to renovate the McKaiser Old Age Home that provides
long-term care to 22 underprivileged residents. Ultimately, $13,200 was
raised for the home as the Cary Area Consortium's and Grahamstown
Club's funds were matched by grants from districts and the Rotary
Foundation.