Community Service in Rotary E-Club Houston
Marcia Allgayer shares:
Fellow Rotarian Jorge Amorim de Assis , member of the Rotary Club of Cariacica - Campo Grande ( D4410 - Brazil ), served with excellence during one of the tasks carried out by Brazilian volunteers and Rotarians of the e-club of Houston - Texas (D5890). A group of Brazilians living in Houston and surrounding cities collected 32 lbs. of diapers and sent it to Vitoria Marchioli, carrier of the Treacher-Collins syndrome. To deliver the bag of diapers to Vitoria’s family, it took a coordinated effort from everyone involved. In particular, we would like to thank our Fellow Rotarian Jorge, who received the bag in Sao Paulo, Brazil and personally delivered it to Vitoria Marchioli’s uncle in Vitoria, Espirito Santo.
Priyamvada Sigh - Celebrated Indian Independence Day with school children. The school is Bal Sansar Sanstha for rural poor children in the age group of 2 1/2 to eleven years in Ajmer City of Rajasthan.
Veronica Kerssemakers - From The Netherlands, continues to serve the elderly, disabled, and share her creative talents with various groups in her community.
Tiffany Cady - Volunteered four full 7-hour days at the Reliant Dog Show in July. The event is huge and promotes responsible pet ownership, responsible breeding, and healthy humane care of pets. I clip nails for a donation in the Friends of BARC (FOB) booth. Mike and Tim Kinsella are FOB Directors and brothers who have been volunteering at the City of Houston Animal Shelter every weekend for 20 years. I worked with them when I was the Volunteer Manager at BARC. Now I volunteer with them at pet events around Houston and donate all proceeds to FriendsofBARC.org, a 501c3. I am doing the PetFest Old Town Spring event with them on Oct 15th and 16th. I will be clipping nails for $5 at that event and donating all proceeds to FOB. I am also doing the DREAM Dachshund Fall Fundraiser Event on 9/25. I clip nails, paint kids faces, and make sno cones and I donate all proceeds to the DREAM Dachshund rescue. The guys at FOB also do microchip implants right in our booth for only $20. It is a great way to help dogs stay out of the shelters
My donations are used to make the lives of shelter pets better by providing toys to chew on and extra supplies such as Clorox to clean the kennels. The money donated to FOB is also used to help the homeless pets at BARC find homes by paying for spay/neuter surgeries, paying for heartworm treatments, and other medical care that may be needed but the City did not budget for.
