Be A Santa To A Senior program - sponsored by the Lakeville Rotary Club Noon Meeting - Gift Ornament's will be available during the month of November at club meetings. Contact: Christi Fletcher, christianalfletcher@gmail.comor cell 763-772-2367, for more information.
Our noon Rotary members will be working to collect school supplies for the school district’s Ready, Set, Achieve!event and we are also working to get a Rotary team to walk/run/volunteer with the Lights and Sirens Glow Run for the Lakeville Public Safety Foundation.
Rotarians will be collecting school supplies at every Thursday morning meeting from now through the end of July. All supplies will be donated by Rotary to the Stuff the Bus and used for Ready, Set, Achieve! so students have the basic, necessary supplies to start them off for a successful school year. For those wishing to donate supplies, please bring them to the morning meeting and deposit in the collection boxes.
Register below to be part of our Rotary team! A family-friendly 5K non-timed run OR 1.25 mile walk that welcomes runners and walkers of all-ages and ability. Light up the night and support the Lakeville Police and Fire Departments – all proceeds from the Glow Run benefits the Lakeville Public Safety Foundation.
The registration for the 2nd annual Lights and Sirens Glow Run/Fun Run is now open! Register today!
Today’s speaker, Abul Sharah, was introduced by Peg Duenow.
International Village Clinic is a Minnesota nonprofit providing hope and vitality to women and families in rural villages in India through high quality healthcare.
Abula Sharah was a fatherless, impoverished boy from, Uttar Pradesh, India’s poorest province. He worked hard throughout his life and career and rose to senior engineering and marketing positions at Honeywell and MTS Systems.
While on a business trip to Calcutta, India, Dr. Sharah had the opportunity to visit with Mother Theresa’s Home for Dying Destitute. Abula already had the urge to give something back to world but was encouraged further by words from Mother Theresa to pursue a mission of “love and human service.”
He formed International Village Clinic (IVC) in order to focus on improving the regions standard of living through: healthcare, education and income. They have established a medical clinic which provides nutrition, vaccination and health-education programs delivered by qualified medical personnel in an area where illiteracy and disease are rampant.
Last year our club donated $2,000 toward IVC and Abula’s work. Our donation along with other donations he has received has allowed IVC to distribute nutritional supplements to over 2600 children and pregnant women, provide screenings and health interventions for families and care for over 40,000 malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, asthma and other common diseases for patients in the clinic.
