Community Service

Rotary Centennial Community Service Committee (CSC) – Update Sept 2024

 

Community Service encourages every Rotarian to find ways to improve the quality of life for people in their communities and to serve the public interest. 

Rotary Club of Calgary Centennial’s Community Service Committee’s focus is on supporting causes addressing mental health and wellness by reducing food insecurity and increasing access to affordable housing.  In addition, we partner with our Youth Services Committee to address children’s health and literacy.

 

HomeSpace project involves multiple Rotary Clubs in Calgary coming together to help fund an apartment renovation project in the fall 2024.  HomeSpace is a non-profit that builds, maintains and manages affordable housing for vulnerable Calgarians

I Can for Kids a non-profit that helps tackle food insecurity for children.  Our Club has provided donations and volunteers in support of their mission.

Connaught Elementary School is in the Beltline area of Calgary.  Our Club has adopted the school.  Club members volunteer by helping grade one students twice a week to learn to read. After the reading the volunteers serve lunch, provided by Meals on Wheels, to the entire school. The school has about 350 children many of which come from low-income families whose first language is not English. There are over 60 languages spoken at the school. Other donations include funds for field trips, diapers and I Can for Kids grocery gift cards for those families facing food insecurity.