Service Above Self

Service to your community and to communities throughout the world is a basic philosophy of Rotary. Rotarians serve by volunteering their time and expertise as well as through fundraising and personal contributions.  Below are some of the community service project our club has undertaken during our first seven years.  

 
Food Bank
PolioPlus
Rotarians Pearl Masterson, Jim and Gayle Sleznick and Dean Hallberg helping out at the Food Bank Club member Linda Murdock gives vacine to a child in Ghana.
Every month, members of our club
volunteer their time at the San Benito
County Food Bank. Our club also
donated funds to help purchase a
van for the Food Bank.
More than one million Rotarians have contributed toward the success of a world wide polio eradication effort. By the year 2005, Rotary's contributions to the effort will be approximately a half billion dollars.
San Juan School
Computers for Kids
When the San Juan School needed new playground equipment, a citizen's group began a fundraising effort.  Our club contributed $1,000 to that effort. Our club accepts donations of outdated computers, upgrades them and gives them to deserving students in our community.
Sister Families Project
Interact
Interact students laying the foundation for a better life for a family in Mexico

In 1992, two San Jose Rotarians began the Sister Families program to offer help to the more than 10 million abandoned children in Brazil. The Sister Families program places abandoned children, between the ages of birth and five years old, in a loving Brazilian family. Currently, over 350 children are being cared for in qualified, caring Brazilian homes.

Our club sponors one child each year. 

Our club sponsors the Anzar High Interact Club. Interact clubs are international service and social organizations for young people of secondary school age that foster leadership and responsible citizenship and promote international understanding and peace. Each year, Interact clubs complete at least one community service project and at least one project that furthers international understanding and goodwill.Today there are more than 6,650 Interact clubs in some 103 countries and geographical areas, making Interact a truly worldwide phenomenon.

Rotaplast

Hurricane Mitch Relief



The mission of Rotaplast International is to provide free reconstructive surgery to indigent children worldwide, together with education and prevention of birth defects. The goal of Rotaplast International Inc. is to eliminate the incidence of untreated cleft lips and palates in children worldwide by the year 2025. Over 1000 surgeries, with a combined value of over US$8.5 million have been completed. The projects are conducted entirely through volunteer effort. Our club sponsored surgery for one child during 1999.



In 1998, Hurricane Mitch killed nearly 20,000 persons and left a quarter of a million families homeless.

Our club raised over $2000 to help in the relief effort. All totally Rotary Clubs from around the world donation over 3 million dollors in emergency relief aide and over 1 million dollars in long term economic development assistance.

Rotary Gives Thanks

1999 Scholarship Recipient
Club members Larry Cain and Garry Offenberg hard at work painting the town library annex Jena Pollock, Attending Cal Poly, Computer Engineering Major
Each year, our club picks a hands on project in which our members takle a project in our community as a way of giving thanks. In 1998, our club began a scholarship program. Each year a deserving student receives a $1,000 college scholarship.
2000 Scholarship Recipient
1998 Scholarship Recipient
Jessica Zepada, Attending University of California San Diego Magdelana Metcalf Rios, Attending Mt. Holyoke College, Liberal Arts Major