Bluffton Rotary September 26 Bulletin (Sep 26, 2023)

UPCOMING MEETING: SEPTEMBER 27

Join us this Wednesday at the Rotary Community Center at 7:30 AM for our weekly meeting. This week is our monthly Business Meeting.

See you there!

MEETING RECAP: SEPTEMBER 20

Fellow Rotarian and Founder/Chair, Roy Austin, of Libraries for Kids International joined us to share of the importance of reading and having accessible libraries.

After visiting Kenya to see the animals in their natural habitat, Roy visited a primary school. When the teacher was asked if they had a library, she smiled and said “No, but we’d love to!” Since then, Roy founded Libraries for Kids International with the purpose of placing libraries in all of the schools in Kenya.

Fun facts:

• Children often walk 4-6 kilometers to get to school.

• The same textbooks are used for 10-15 years

• 20-30 kids share 1 textbook

• The communities build the school while parents pay all of the fees. The government provides $5.50 per student/per year.

• In 4 years, they have shipped 15 containers containing 600,000 books to 6223 schools. That’s a total of 1,550,000 students impacted!

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MEMBERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT!

Go Dean Go! Dean Turner represented our club today at the District 7770 Fall Seminar educating Rotarians about the Rotary Foundation.

SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES!

Historic Bluffton Arts and Seafood Festival - October 14 - 22. Sign up to volunteer HERE.

Special note: the money raised during this festival allows our club to make an impact in our local community through the Charitable Giving Grant process. We need everyone to play a role in making this year's event a success!

REQUESTING YOUR RESPONSE: ROTARY TESTIMONIALS

To help increase our social presence, we will begin featuring Rotarians and their WHY! Please respond to this email or directly email Natalie Osterman with an answer to one of the questions below and a headshot that can be used.

1. What does Rotary mean to you?

2. What is your favorite service project that the Rotary Club of Bluffton participates in/does?

3. Why did you choose to be part of Rotary?

CART FUND DONATIONS

Do you worry about Alzheimer’s? We do not have a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but we must find one. Finding a cure starts with you. Every year the CART (Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust) Fund gives research grants focused on finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

Have you given to the CART Fund this year? The CART Fund is dedicated to raising funds to provide “seed” money for cutting edge, high impact research in hopes of finding a cure/prevention for Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of the CART Fund is to encourage exploratory and developmental Alzheimer’s disease research projects within the United States. This is accomplished by providing financial support for the early and conceptual plans of those projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data but have the potential to substantially advance biomedical research. These projects should be distinct from those designed to increase knowledge in a well-established area unless they intend to extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications.

If you would you like to donate to the C.A.R.T. fund, please scan the code below:

BRC YOUTUBE CHANNEL

The Bluffton Rotary Club has a YouTube Channel! You will find previous guest speakers and other fun videos, so be on the lookout for more content in the future. All you have to do is create a YouTube account and subscribe...with 80+ current members, we can do better than eight subscriber's!! Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8TYzr9_xUE8Jfy-lniTt1A

CLUBBRUNNER MOBILE APP

Did you know ClubRunner is now available on your mobile device app store for FREE?!? Once downloaded, use your ClubRunner log-in. This will give you instant access to our member directory, events, news and other important information. Here is a video that highlights some of the features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFLu08meAHI&t=12s