Projects Undertaken By The Rotaract Club

One of the primary goals of Rotaract clubs is to provide service both locally and internationally.

Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation have a variety of programs, activities and emphases to support the efforts of both Rotary and Rotaract clubs in developing their service projects. The following section details Rotary International and Rotary Foundation programs, projects and emphases and explains how your Rotaract club can obtain additional information.

A I D S Awareness

The Rotary International(RI) Board encourages Rotary clubs to work with governmental health agencies and non-governmental organizations to increase awareness among their membership and the broader community about AIDS education and prevention. Rotary clubs have been asked by the Board to use United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) materials in expanding collaborative activities with Rotaractors and Interactors.

Rotaractors are the key leaders in enhancing AIDS awareness among their peers, working within cultural and community sensitivities.

Children At Risk

Recognizing that children are an especially vulnerable population and need special care and protection, RI’s Children at Risk emphasis encourages clubs to undertake projects to alleviate the hardships suffered by children living in exceptionally difficult conditions in order to enable them to grow into adulthood in an environment of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom and equality. This emphasis is an extension of RI’s endorsement and support of the rights of all children to food, shelter, health care, education and freedom from abuse and violence, regardless of race, creed or nationality.

Service projects encompassed by the Children at Risk emphasis focus on hunger, literacy and primary education, health care and immunization, safe communities and schools, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, alleviating homelessness and promoting stable and nurturing homes.

Concern For Aging

As people’s life expectancy expands, concern for the aging is a growing need in many communities. This Community Service activity is designed to encourage Rotary and Rotaract clubs to undertake projects that respond to the social, physical, vocational, and educational needs of senior citizens.

Concern for the aging projects incorporate senior citizens into community activities and help break down generational barriers.

Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention

Through its emphasis on drug and alcohol abuse prevention, RI is drawing attention to a problem of global proportions. Rotary and Rotaract clubs are encouraged to undertake service projects that help reduce substance abuse in the community, particularly through educational programs on the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse.

Given the importance of addressing this problem to the nation as early as possible, Rotaractors are in an ideal position - both to influence younger children and their peers with respect to this issue.

Rotary Volunteers Program

The Rotary Volunteers program links Rotarians, Rotaractors, Rotary Foundation scholars, and non-Rotarians with exciting volunteer opportunities in community and international service projects.

The Rotary Volunteers program is designed to create greater awareness among Rotarians/Rotaractors of volunteer opportunities within their own and other communities, provide expertise or skills not available within the community to service projects, and increase and facilitate participation in all types of volunteer activities.

"The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow" stated Pandit Nehru. It is this goal that the Rotaract Club Of CEG endeavors to achieve and which aptly applies to its motto :

" BE A PART OF THE REVOLUTION !!! "

Projects for the year 2004-2005

A Discussion has been initiated within the Rotaract Club and outside the Campus in view of proposing new projects for the upcoming year and bringing glory to our community.

 

The Rotaract Club Of College Of Engineering, Guindy
Last Updated: March '07

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