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Rotary Club of Northeast Sunrisers Philadelphia, PA |
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Our Club is Hard at Work with Several Important Projects, Help is Needed by All Please read about our New Addition to listed projects: Aid for Friends.....Magazines for Hospitals.....The Widener Holiday Party.....Project Warm Click on each name listed above to find more information Magazines
for Hospitals: The
magazine project idea is in full swing. Hospitals have lots
of waiting rooms and very few magazines. We are collecting them
and putting a sticker on the front "Compliments of the
Rotary Club of Northeast Sunrisers Philadelphia, PA" and
on the back with information about our Rotary Club. Carl Mariano
has been collecting them at our meetings. Aid for Friends: This is a charitable non-profit organization that provides seven free home-cooked dinners weekly, friendly visiting and supplemental outreach services to almost 2210 isolated, needy shut-ins, primarily the frail elderly, in the five-county Greater Philadelphia area. In conjunction with Pastor Dave Carey's church we have committed to providing this worthwhile program with meals. One way you can help to to do this is by filling the foil dinner trays with home cooked food, freezing them and bringing them to our meetings on the first Friday of each month when Pastor Dave will collect them and take them back to the specially dedicated freezer at his church. He has more foil trays for you if you are ready for them.
Mark Michelman will be coordinating volunteers from our club to be trained through the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy or Urban Bridges to be one-on-one tutoring to learners at Urban Bridges at St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church. Urban Bridges offers adult tutoring in basic literacy and GED/pre-GED programs during several evening programs each week as well as English as a second language program. The program meets at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church and learners from all races and religions are welcome. Mark reports that he has never worked with more motivated students and because of their diversity, is not sure who learns more, him or the learners. He's had students from Afghanistan, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, South Korea, and Columbia, just to name a few countries represented in recent classes”. Mark has been tutoring on Wednesdays from 6-8pm for the past year. If you would like additional information on how you can get involved volunteering a few hours per month, contact Mark at 215-677-7649 or via email at m.michelman@verizon.net. St. Gabriel’s is located at 101 East Roosevelt Blvd, just ½ block East of Rising Sun Avenue. This project was a huge success. We collect coats, sweaters, scarves, hats and gloves for families of need in the Philadelphia area distributed them through social service agencies which work with individuals and families in transition such as: new immigrants to the US; orphans; women at battered women's shelters and a halfway house. This project was capped off by a wonderful working dinner party hosted by Gary Winkler where all the collected items were sorted and packed for distribution. Thanks to Jeanes Hospital, NEHS, Marriot Hotel, Citizen's Bank and State Farm Insurance Company for serving as collection points for these items.
Together with Jenkintown Rotary and the Interact Clubs from Jenkintown and Central HS, we host a holiday party for the children at Widener Memorial School. This is a school for children with physical disabilities. The party is held just before the beginning of winter break.There are snacks, songs, and fellowship with the children capped off with a special visit by Santa to deliver gifts for each child in the program. The Widener School Choir performs using the amplification system donated by our club. Our donations go for individual gifts for these most needy of children. The Interact Club of Jenkintown has been shopping for the presents. In addition a donation is usually made to the Home and School Association for use to supply their needy children with gloves, hats and scarves or to provide the school with needed equipment..
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