COMMUNITY SERVICE |
- Nova-Ro I and II are two award winning senior citizen low rent housing projects with a combined 86 units of one and two bedroom apartments. Nova-Ro III, with 40 additional senior units plus a meeting room and Rotary meeting room, was constructed and opened in 2004. These projects were Rotarian designed and constructed and are operated by an independent board comprised of club members.
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- The club developed many smaller public improvements such as the decorative fountain at Redwood Blvd. and Grant Ave., and new field events facilities at San Marin High School. The club built several tot lots, two fish dams on Novato Creek at Miwok and O'Hare parks, and constructed playground and barbeque equipment at the Novato Youth Center. The Ruben Kaehler memorial-hiking trail was built on property owned by the City. Three Novato Rotary Clubs and the Novato Rotaract Club improved the City’s Scottsdale Pond by planting trees and shrubs, constructing irrigation and lighting systems and building a Gazebo. This community project was done in conjunction with the reconstruction of the San Miguel tot Lot as a Rotary Club Centennial Project.
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- The club constructed the docent house at the entrance to Stafford Lake Park, helped construct the Gary Gates Memorial Field announcer's booth and snack shack at San Marin High, and helped the City of Novato develop a Community Youth Center at 7th St. and Grant Ave. In 2004, the club built a hut for the Girl Scouts at Stafford Lake.
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- The club has also undertaken a vast variety of local maintenance projects including repainting the Novato Youth Center, the Senior Access facility, and the American Cancer Society Thrift Shop.
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- The club supports the annual Novato Human Needs Center Holiday Share programs and the Hearts-a-Plenty holiday dinner for the Marin Head Start families.
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YOUTH SERVICE |
- The club provides annual scholarship grants totaling more than $9,000 for graduating high school students of Novato. This includes a program to help college bound students obtain college funding.
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- The club assists local non-Rotarian students in competing for Rotary educational scholarships that allow students to study abroad for one full year without cost.
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- The club sponsors an Interact Club at San Marin High
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- The club has an active mentoring program for "at risk" middle and high school students that provides a financial reward for students successfully completing their contract and graduating from high school.
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INTERNATIONAL
SERVICE
Written by Phil Brown, Updated 3/14/05 |
- The club has raised over $120,000 to help eradicate Polio worldwide. Internationally, more that $220 million was donated for the program.
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- The club physically and financially assists an education and scholarship program in Colima, Mexico, and has helped communities in Ukraine by sending medical help, equipment and medicine.
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- Since 1990, the club has provided financial assistance to the small community of Mactan, Philippines, to cap their ground water wells to keep them from becoming contaminated from polluted groundwater run-off.
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The club is in the second year of a project to assist in providing funds to purchase clothing, supplies, and lunches for indigent children in Mactan, Philippines, so that they can attend school.
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- Beginning in the year 2004 our club formed the Novato Rotoplant program in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Downtown Davao in the Philippines. Cutting edge technology in Kidney transplants is taught and performed by our Rotary Doctor member while another Novato Rotary Doctor teaches preventative medicine techniques. Health supplies and information is collected by non-doctor members and distributed in Davao.
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- In 2004-2005, the club partnered with a Rotary Club in Johannesburg South Africa to furnish a small African AIDS clinic.
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- Another new project involves collecting and shipping sewing and other supplies to an orphanage/school operated by two nuns in the Tarahumara Indian country of the Copper Canyon in Mexico.
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