Projects

2007-2008

Teen Moms

In late May, Jan Brown and Rhonda Harris led a successful Rotary-sponsored outreach to local teen mothers, organized through the school district and YMCA programs. The young mothers—and a dad!— each received a bin packed with baby-care necessities, along with friendly hand-written messages.

April, Herb and Norma, Pam, Tom Waller, Nick Despota and Laura Kuhn all contributed to this very positive effort.

The project has a history. It started 3 years ago with a suggestion from Rhonda's daughter, Paris. Mother and daughter organized the first efforts through Rotary with the help of many local contributors. This year Rhonda and Jan have worked together on the organizing while Rotarian Dan Tanitaand the new Richmond Target store lent support.

For complete story, see the West County Times article (5/29/08), complete with pictures of babes in arms.

 

Escape 2006-2007

In 2007 the Richmond Rotary teamed-up with a handful of other local non-profits to help kids from Adams Middle School "escape" to some of Northern California's most exciting locations, from Yosemite to the Monterey Aquarium, and many points in between. Want to learn more about it?

 

Rotarians Host FDR's "The Potomac"

A sea-loving group of Rotarians offered tours of FDR's "Floating White House" at Richmond's First Annual Home Front Festival, September 29-30, 2007. Their efforts earned nearly $2,000 for Polio Plus Program. Well done!