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OUR COMMUNITY WORK |
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What is the ROTARY CLUB OF BOWMANVILLE |
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The Rotary Club of Bowmanville organizes and funds, with the assistance of a grant from Human Resources and Social Development Canada, a Summer Respite Program for families with developmentally handicapped children. The program provides regularly scheduled short-term care for special needs children so their primary care givers can take some well deserved time for themselves. The program has been running for ten years and employs several students as respite caregivers each summer. |
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The Christmas Party for special needs children is an annual heart-warming family event sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bowmanville. |
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Monetary support for the Easter Seal Society is another way in which the Bowmanville Rotary Club strives to support our special needs children. |
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Donations have been made to assist with the purchase special equipment for special needs children. |
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For the past thirteen years the Rotary Club of Bowmanville has given Student Bursaries to deserving young adults looking forward to attending a post secondary educational institution. This past year eight $1000 bursaries were awarded to students from five area high schools. |
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The Rotary Club of Bowmanville provides financial support to the Firehouse Youth Centre. The Firehouse Youth Centre is a non-profit drop in centre for teens between the ages of 12 and 19 and is administered by the John Howard Society of Durham and overseen by the Clarington Youth Advisory Committee. The Youth Centre opened it's doors on February 14, 1998 and has been successful in servicing the youth of Clarington by providing them with a safe alternative to hanging out on out downtown streets. |
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Junior Achievement initiatives are supported both financially and through the participation of numerous Rotary Club members in the Economics of Staying in School (ESIS) program offered by Junior Achievement. For more information about the programs offered by Junior Achievement, please visit their website at www.jaeo.org. |
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Big Brothers and Big Sisters are generously supported by the Rotary Club of Bowmanville. |
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Durham Region's Racing Against Drugs program is financially supported by our Club. |
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The Community of Character Project in Clarington received financial support from the Rotary Club. In 2005 municipal council declared Clarington a Community of Character. The Project seeks to promote positive character in your place of work or play, in your family, and in your community. The first annual Community of Character Conference was held in September 2007 at Bowmanville High School. |
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The Bowmanville United Soccer Association and the Durham East Softball Association both received financial assistance from the Bowmanville Rotary Club. |
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The Club provided our local 4-H Club with a small donation to purchase a trophy and offer a prize. |
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Dewey's Café in the Bowmanville Branch of the Clarington Library receives financial support from the Rotary Club of Bowmanville. Dewey's Café is part of the Clarington Project that seeks to help people with intellectual disabilities to become part of their community. |
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The Rotary Club has provided assistance with special equipment purchases for disabled persons. |
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George Vice and acting President Tim Funchion presented a cheque to Richard Toms and David Chisling in the amount of $10,000 to the Been There Project - a project focusing on a restorative justice program for young offenders. The donation was from a Rotary Fund and was made in honour of George's wife Kay Vice. This donation will be used to not only run the project but will be used to continue bringing the gardens at the Visual Arts Centre back to life. The Visual Arts Centre Park was purchased by Rotary as a 50th Anniversary project of the Bowmanville Rotary Club in 1963. They paid $17,000 for the 17 acre piece of land and they had only $4,000 in hand to put towards the project. This meant that they had to take out a mortgage for the balance of the funds. In 1974, 11 years later, Rotary presented the Town with the park and settled our mortgage with the bank. This piece of land has been an important part of the Rotary Club of Bowmanville for many years and in fact our Rotary Centennial project featured quite heavily on the garden development of the park. The donation through George will ensure that the park will continue to live and improve and it will also provide a living growing experience for young people that seemed to have lost their way in life. |
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The Bowmanville Memorial Hospital Foundation received a generous donation from the Rotary Club of Bowmanville. |
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The Heroes of Hope Campaign to support the new cancer treatment facility at Lakeridge Health Oshawa received generous financial assistance from the Bowmanville Rotary Club. |
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Rotary Centennial Gardens at the Bowmanville Visual Arts Centre were developed by and are supported by the Club. |
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The Rotary Club of Bowmanville was a founding sponsor of the Clarington Older Adults Association, which offers social, physical, educational and informational programs for the active older adults living within Clarington. The Club continues to provide financial support to the COAA. |
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The Adopt-a-Road program is supported by the Club, which has adopted a section of Baseline Road between Duke Street and Westside Drive in Bowmanville. Club members gather twice each year to pick up litter along the section of road to keep our community clean and green. |
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The Rotary Club supplied the Bowmanville branch of the Clarington Library with two boxes of reading material that will be available for loan to preschool daycare classes to help support reading programs. |
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Afrika Neeves-Bentley is in the midst of a fund-raising project to raise $5200.00 to drill a well for a village in Kenya that is using polluted river water for drinking etc. She initiated the Water Health Awareness Club after her month long working visit to Kenya. She saw how poor the water was in the community and that they really were in dire need of clean drinking water. Afrika and some friends have started a fund-raising drive by selling pins with blue and gold beads (Rotary colours!!!) on them. The beads represent water and gold. Clean fresh water is like gold in areas of the world that do not have it. The Rotary Club of Bowmanville donated $2000.00 toward Afrika's project which is now on its way to completion. |
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The Rotary Club sponsors a child , Nai Sen, in Cambodia through World Vision Canada. |
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Funds raised through The Rotary Club of Bowmanville's Night(s) of a Thousand Dinners activity is directed to the Canadian Landmine Foundation. The money is used to help rid the world of landmines and to help people who have been injured by them. |
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The Rotary Club provided financial assistance to the Grey Nuns of the Immaculate Conception to help them in their efforts to bring clean drinking water to poor remote villages in the Dominican Republic. |
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The Club is assisting the support of a student from Afghanistan to attend a college in Canada. |
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The Rotary Club of Bowmanville contributes to the Rotary International Foundation to support its global efforts to eradicate polio, remove landmines, and stem the spread of AIDS. |
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For more information on the good work
Rotary does, please visit If you or someone you know is interested in
becoming involved in the work performed by the Rotary Club of Bowmanville,
please contact us. |
