The Empty Bowls Project, is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. Twin Valley Rotary Club presents this event to support the Twin Valley Food Pantry which feeds and provides food for approximately 150 families in Chester, Berks, and Lancaster Counties. Click here to learn more.
Tri County Art Show and Sale
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Our annual Tri County Art Show and Sale is our premier fundraising event. Talented artists from around our region offer their artwork for sale and donate a portion of the proceeds to our club. Local and regional businesses and individuals sponsor the show and benefit from their association with a socially responsible organization. Click here for our Tri County Art Show and Sale pages. Interested in becoming a sponsor or participating as an artist in next years event? Please email us at rmoyerfb23@gmail.com, or call us at 610-286-7689.
Each month students from the Twin Valley High School are recognized for their high academic achievement and their volunteer commitments to our community. Students attend a Rotary Club of Twin Valley meeting and receive a gift certificate and an award.
Mosaic – piecing lives together
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The AIDS-orphan crisis is a growing phenomenon in Africa leaving millions of vulnerable children abandoned and neglected. Mosaic believes that more families in Africa will take care of AIDS-orphans if they had the resources. Mosaic provides foster families of orphans with proper housing, jobs and skills training. These resources put foster families in the position to take care of up to five orphans without financial support from Mosaic. Click here to go to the Mosaic website.
Rotary Youth Exchange
Alumni gather at the 2008 Rotary Alumni Celebration in Los Angeles.
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Rotary’s programs for students and youth can change the lives of those who participate. Through the Rotary Youth Exchange, young people can earn scholarships, travel on cultural exchanges, and help a community through a service project. We are currently sponsoring Esteban Sanchez, who is our 2010-2011 Rotary Youth Exchange student from Mazatlan, Mexico. He attends Twin Valley High School, and is in the 10th Grade. Click the picture below to see some of the educational and fun experiences that Esteban has had so far.
He will be here for the entire 2010-2011 school year, learning English, and experiencing the American way of life. Esteban enjoys playing soccer, basketball and is an accomplished gymnast. This is the first time Esteban has ever experienced snow, so he was excited to have an opportunity to ski in February, with other Rotary Exchange students in the Philadelphia area.
Our next Rotary Youth Exchange student is Gabriela, a sophomore at Twin Valley High School, and daughter of Rotarian Adrienne Masak-Rozier.
Gabriela will be spending her Junior year as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in Spain. Gaby hopes to become fluent in Spanish, and learn about Spanish culture during her time abroad.
Gaby is one of ten High School students from the Philadelphia area who will be sponsored by local Rotary Clubs as Exchange Students.
Click here to visit the Rotary District 7450 Youth Exchange internet pages.
Would you like to become a host family for a future Twin Valley Rotary exchange student? You don’t have to be a Rotary member to participate; however, you do need to live in the Twin Valley School District. As a host family you benefit from a rich cultural exchange opportunity and you can make a significant difference in the life of an exchange student. For more information, please call us at 484-558-0540 (please leave a message), or email us at info@twinvalleyrotary.org.
Twin Valley High School Student Art Show Awards
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Students from the art program at Twin Valley High School have the opportunity to show off their artistry at our Tri County Art Show and Sale, where a panel of judges awards the top four artists, recognizing them for their achievements. The artists visit a Rotary meeting where they talk about their artwork and are presented awards and gift certificates.
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
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Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is Rotary’s leadership training program for young people. RYLA participants can be ages 14-30, but most clubs and districts choose to focus on a narrower age range, such as 14-18 or 19-30. RYLA emphasizes leadership, citizenship, and personal growth, and aims to:
• Demonstrate Rotary’s respect and concern for youth
• Provide an effective training experience for selected youth and potential leaders
• Encourage leadership of youth by youth
• Recognize publicly young people who are rendering service to their communities
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Twin Valley in Partnership
The Rotary Club of Twin Valley supports Twin Valley in Partnership which provides after-prom parties to Twin Valley School District students.
The Rotary Club of Twin Valley is a sponsor of the Twin Valley School District’s elementary school book clubs.
Pictured left to right Principal Bill McKay, Adrienne Masak-Rozier (Twin Valley Rotary President), and Principal Gail Porrazzo. Not pictured, Principal Jamie Whye.
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The program partners Rotary members with third, and fourth graders. Together they choose books, take them home to read them, then meet to discuss the stories and share their views on the content. The goal is to instill a love of reading in young Twin Valley students and build readers for life.
There are three clubs: Honey Brook Readers, Robeson Readers, and TVEC Raider Readers.
In addition to the Rotary member’s volunteer commitment, The Rotary Club of Twin Valley contributed a total of $3,000. $2,000 by direct donation and $1,000 secured from the Rotary District’s Gundaker Foundation.
Twin Valley Rotary High School Scholarship
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Students at Twin Valley High School can apply for our scholarship program.
Application requirements include the submission of a summary of their academic achievements and goals, and their volunteer efforts to help our community. To apply, please contact your Twin Valley High School guidance office.
Local Libraries
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The Rotary Club of Twin Valley supports a range of education based causes, and our local libraries are no exception. Our libraries provide a wide range of programs designed to educate and enrich the lives of everyone in our communities.
This year, select Relay events in our community are offering the unique opportunity to participate first-hand in a landmark new study, the Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3).The American Cancer Society will be enrolling people into CPS-3, a long-term study that will help researchers better identify the lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer. Please spread the word and visit the
Cancer Prevention Study-3 website to find an enrollment location near you and for more information about how to participate in research today for a cancer free tomorrow!
Polio Plus
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For more than 20 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease. Today, PolioPlus and its role in the initiative is recognized worldwide as a model of public-private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal. In addition to providing financial and volunteer support, Rotary works to urge support from other public and private sector partners. This includes the campaign to End Polio Now, inspired by the extraordinary challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Your contribution will help Rotary raise $200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.
Click here to learn more about Polio Plus on the Rotary International internet site.
Rotaplast
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Rotaplast International is a non-profit humanitarian organization providing free reconstructive operations and treatment for children in need worldwide. Rotoplast provides long-term solutions by funding and mentoring local physicians; launching public education projects; and advancing research. Through collaborative programs throughout the world, Rotaplast efforts expand far beyond surgical intervention and help foster international goodwill, peace and understanding. The goal of Rotaplast is to eliminate the incidence of untreated cleft lips and palates in children worldwide by the year 2025. Many local Rotary clubs support Rotoplast missions by providing the support team required for the logistics and operation of each mission. A number of Twin Valley Rotarians have gone on missions and have been rewarded by a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Click here to visit the Rotoplast website.
Twin Valley Food Pantry
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The Twin Valley Food Pantry supplies food supplements to our community to ensure that there is no undernourished children in our schools. They serve hundreds of families in in the Twin Valley School District who experience periodic food shortages due to lack of income. The program is maintained by the Conestoga Mennonite Church of Morgantown and is a member of the Greater Berks Food Bank family of pantries, kitchens, and shelters. Click here for more information.
Horse Power for Life
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Horse Power for Life is an organization dedicated to providing lessons and equestrian activities for cancer patients and their families. Their goal is to improve the physical and emotional quality of life of their riders, in an atmosphere of professionalism, teamwork, and fun.
We’re helping to improve the quality of our environment. In 1998, under the leadership of Rotarian Bob Bradford, we joined PennDot’s Adopt-a-Highway program. Each year Rotary members keep a two-mile stretch of Route 23 in Elverson Borough beautiful and litter free.
The dedication of the men and women at the Twin Valley Fire Department who volunteer to protect our homes and businesses is a worthy cause and one that we support. Click here to view pictures of our tour of the new fire company.
Canine Partners for Life
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We support Canine Partners for Life, an organization dedicated to training service dogs, home companion dogs, and residential companion dogs to assist individuals who have a wide range of physical and cognitive challenges. Each dog receives a comprehensive and customized training program to meet the specific needs of their partner. We recently sponsored a training dog and had the opportunity to choose the name, “Sky”.
Our 2010-11 Rotary exchange student Esteban, attends the March meeting of the Gundaker Foundation.
The Rotary District 7450’s Gundaker Foundation has granted over $2.5 million since the ’70’s. Each local Rotary club gets up to $1,000 a year to support their own projects.
The Gundaker Foundation also awards $50,000 in graduate and undergraduate scholarships each year to students with superior grades and records of community service.
Gundaker Foundation meetings are held each month, with the 53 clubs in the district represented.
Guy Gundaker, the founder, was the Rotary International president in 1924, and a prominent Philadelphia restaurateur.
The Rotary Foundation
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The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
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