When was the last time you felt like you were making a difference?
Our mission is "Service above Self". Come and join us for comradery and service.
You will be welcomed into our Rotary family. We meet every Tuesday at noon at the Reagan Center in El Cajon.
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Our International President (Mr Huang) has indicated that we should continue to “Light up Rotary” this year. He has urged us to read The Rotarian Magazine online at http://therotarianmagazine.com/. This month, April, I would urge that we take advantage of the world becoming smaller through social media. During this age of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, WeChat, and more; we have the ability to share in our work. This age of video conferencing and instant messages allows us to work together from most anywhere, keep in touch and do our Rotary work. The result is helping more people than ever before. Please join us in this effort.
According to a 2012 report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, Ghana has made great strides in providing its people with clean drinking water. But access to better sanitation has lagged.
Only about 14 percent of Ghanaians have access to improved facilities, compared with the 54 percent target set for 2015 by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Addressing the issue isn't simple, as pit latrines need emptying, toilets need maintenance, and promoting hygiene requires education.
The H2O Collaboration, a partnership between Rotary and the U.S. Agency for International...
Two years ago, U.S. Rotary members in Maine set out to improve the education system in Bikaner, Rajasthan, an Indian city near the border of Pakistan.
The Rotary Club of Kennebunk Portside chose Bikaner because club member Rohit Mehta was originally from the area and had connections there. Mehta put the club in contact with Rotarians in India to provide desks for four government-run schools.
But when community leaders returned with a request for more desks, the Maine Rotarians decided they had to think bigger. The Rotary Foundation had rolled out its new grant model, which required that the...
Enjoying calm winds and peaceful Pacific waters, Seung Jin Kim dove off his 43-foot sailboat, the Arapani, to swim with some dolphins nearby. The serenity that day near the equator was a stark contrast to the 60 mph winds and 23-foot waves he had to fight around Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America. But Kim, a veteran sailor and member of the Rotary Club of Seokmun, in Chungcheongnam, Korea, expected such challenges when he set out in mid-October on a 25,600-mile journey around the world. In addition to fulfilling a lifelong dream, Kim is using the trip to raise awareness and funds...
After the first cases of Ebola reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia, last June, local Rotary members feared that the city's limited health care system wouldn't be able to contain the highly infectious, often-deadly disease.
Those fears were realized when infections quickly multiplied, underscoring the speed with which Ebola can spread in an urban center. It was the first time the hemorrhagic fever had threatened a major city since it erupted in West Africa last March.
Now, after months of crisis-level response, and with the number of new cases declining, club members are looking to the long...
Despite his longstanding interest in polio eradication, polio was not on Joe Pratt's mind as he prepared for a mid-April 2012 climb of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. But that changed in late 2011, when the resident of Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA, participated in a polio immunization project in Pakistan with fellow Rotary member Steve Puderbaugh.
Moved by the efforts of the Pakistanis to battle the crippling disease, and by the vulnerability of the young victims, Pratt reset the focus of his climbing adventure. Pakistan is one of three countries where polio has never been...
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Anniversaries
Elmer Heap
Amy Heap
May 5
Susan Ferrara
Michael Ferrara
May 21
Tamara Otero
Andrew Otero
May 28
Join Date
Roger Gordon
May 1, 1993
22 years
Meetings: Every Tuesday at Noon, Ronald Reagan Community Center - 195 E. Douglas Ave - El Cajon CA 92020
President: Humbert Cabrera - President-Elect: Erik Lundy – Vice President: Cheryl Monshew - Secretary: Charles Cole -
Treasurer: Roger Hueppchen Executive Secretary: Dana Fletcher
Rotary Club of El Cajon - PO Box 643, El Cajon, CA 92022 - Phone: 619-588-1985 - Email: info@ElCajonRotary.org