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COMMUNITY SERVICE
Purpose and Scope of Community
Service
If Rotary was a watch - COMMUNITY SERVICE would be
the mainspring. Every Rotary Club, large or small, in every country is engaged in a
community project of some nature. This Avenue of Service is where clubs and members
exercise their community leadership.
They see a need - they act - in working with and
sponsoring youth centers, Boy and
Girl Scout Troops, Boy's and Girl's State, traffic
safety, cultural development, community
beautification, fire prevention, home safety,
assistance to the aged, etc.
The list is endless - only limited by the imagination and
desire to serve by the members
in a Rotary Club.
The Rotarian Magazine each month describes and
pictures COMMUNITY SERVICE
world-wide - U.S. Clubs promoting free enterprise through essay
contests and
seminars for students and teachers - Clubs in Mexico raising funds for
construction
of a home for mentally retarded children - camps operated in England for
handicapped children with special therapy equipment and trained staff. The list goes on
and on.
A community survey by a committee from the local
Rotary Club will result in a list of many areas where help can be used - where people (the
young, the handicapped, the aged)
will be so receptive to a service that persons like
Rotarians can furnish. Some projects
may require money and a matching drive to obtain
funds must be devised - other projects require only time or thought and the desire to
serve others. Do not think that everyone is taken care of now by Government agencies - the
person-to-person concern that can be shown by individuals and Clubs of Rotarians will
never be equaled by a bureaucracy.
Playgrounds furnished - parks built - bicycle safety
classes - driver training - drug abuse information - the list grows: vision and learning
testing in the schools - athletic programs - citizenship and patriotism essay contests -
weekly flowers to a retirement home -
legal and medical advice clinics - take an old-timer
to a ball game - or take that same old-timer to get his hair cut or his wife to the beauty
salon.
Mission Viejo Rotary Community
Service Projects (History)
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Rotary
Club of Mission Viejo