Club Service Projects - Overview

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The Object of Rotary is to “encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.”  Rotary is a service organization.  Since 1910, the Rotary Motto has been “Service Above Self.”  The Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids West serves in the community and around the world:

	Eastern Iowa Senior Olympics   All seven Cedar Rapids area metro Rotary clubs are joining with Aging Services, Inc and the Iowa Senior Olympics to bring the Senior Olympics to Eastern Iowa.  The sanctioned events and just-for-fun events happen on May 13 & 14, 2011 on the Coe College Campus in Cedar Rapids.  Learn more.
	Annual Pancake Breakfast   An annual event every March at Jefferson Highschool.  Proceeds are used to provide scholarships for graduating high school students attending Kirkwood Community College.
	Flood Relief   Cedar Rapids West Rotary has joined with Helping Hands to help provide assistance to families who were severly impacted by the floods of 2008.
	Interact   West Rotary sponsors a vibrant Washington High School Interact Rotary Club.  These young men and women demonstrate their leadership by organizing, volunteering and serving needs in the community while applying the principles of Rotary.
	Ghana Water Project   Cedar Rapids West Rotary is working with a Rotary District 9100 club in Ghana, in western Africa, to provide clean drinking water for 10,000 people in southeastern Ghana.  John Mack of West Rotary recently traveled to Ghana to help assess and plan for Cedar Rapids West Rotary help.
	Rockin' Readers   Cedar Rapids West Rotarians work with students at Van Buren Elementary to help them learn to love to read.