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Community Service by our club member Anna in Warsaw

Anna Wieczorek is showing amazing community service helping those leaving and remaining in Ukraine with financial support by Rotary Club of Edmonton. Below are some stories from Anna.

March 29th:

Łukasz delivered supplies to Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Items purchased in Poland with financial support by our club.

March 20th:

I have just completed the new shipment to Ukraine.

It’s always a lot of driving and visiting a big warehouse outside Warsaw where I can get stuff cheaply & good quality plus other shopping centres for instant food and toiletries, then sorting out and packing and preparing the parcels, labelling them with our logo etc.

Most of the times it’s a challenging job but always making me feel happy that we can still provide help for Ukraine when most of the people around seem to be forgetting about the war.

Whenever I do the shopping for Ukrainians, the shop assistants ask me why we still keep helping Ukraine. I always have very interesting chats with them and tell them about Rotary. Last time a shop owner asked me if we are a religious organization! I had to explain and tell them what we do and how we provide help all over the world etc. Working for our project is a great occasion to spread more information about Rotary here in Poland and I must admit, people seem to be very interested and always greet me with a big smile and even offer a cup of coffee in a shop. I think this is great!

Thank you so much for your constant financial support for our Ukrainian project! This means a lot to the people who have to live in the country occupied by nasty Russians and it means a lot to me! I always ask guys who are not very open to cultural and language diversity if they would swap with one Ukrainian family and went there right now to live! Then, they stop complaining about Ukrainians coming over and taking working posts in Poland. We are so lucky to have a safe place to live and enough food and access to education and so called ‘normal life’. And this is our obligation to remember that the war is still there. So close. So real. So horrid.

I think our club is showing a perfect example of persistence in providing help. This is not easy but I hope many people might follow our example. So thank you, thank you, thank you for remembering about Ukraine all the time and providing finances that let me buy stuff the people there need right now.

Yesterday, Łukasz picked the goods from my place yesterday morning and off he went straight to the border. Łukasz will be driving there again in May. Who knows? Maybe this time I’ll go with him.

As always, all our goods that we had bought will be delivered straight to the Ukrainians who really need them.

I’m so proud to be a member of our Club! I have given Łukasz our emblem and he has hung it in his truck on the mirror so it proudly travels now through the roads of Ukraine. Thank you for having me among this wonderful family of RC Edmonton!

Anna

Click here for notes and pictures from Anna for November 2022 to February 2023

Donations are welcome. If you would like to contribute to help our club support Ukrainian Refugees donate to the Community Service Trust Fund thru ATB Cares https://atb.benevity.org/community/cause/124-888824448RR0001 Tax receipt provided by ATB Cares. Please include a comment like "Support for Ukraine" by clicking on Share my name and comments before entering your donation details. Thanks for your support in helping to purchase 30 suitcases, backpacks, womens shoes and help find emergency housing for refugees.

Click here for a review of Anna's community service - Oct 2022

Click here for notes and pictures from Anna (August and September 2022)

Click here for notes on how Anna helped Ania come to Canada for Adventures in Human Rights Aug 2022

Click here for CBC News interview when Adventures in Human Rights visited Canadian Museum of Human Rights Aug 2022

Click here for notes and pictures for Anna (June and July 2022)

Click here for notes, pictures and broadcast media recordings for Anna. (April to May 2022)

Help contribute to the ongoing need to support those forced to leave Ukraine

Our club acknowledges we are on Amiskwacîwâskahikan Treaty 6 land. We are all Treaty People.

We respectfully acknowledge the land upon which our club operates is located on Treaty 6 Territory and has served a purpose as a traditional meeting ground for many First Nations groups. This territory has provided a traveling route and home to the Nakoda Sioux, and later, Blackfoot and Cree peoples, followed by Saulteaux and Métis and other Indigenous peoples.

Link to Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations

Edmonton is also in Metis Zone 4. The Metis flag is the white infinity symbol on a blue background recognizing a mixture of two distinct cultures.

Donate to the Rotary Club of Edmonton - Community Service Trust via ATB Cares. You will receive a tax receipt right away and 100% of your donation goes to the Rotary Club of Edmonton. PLUS: for donations made in the first couple of days of the month, ATB may match a certain percentage of your donation.

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Based on the number of hospitalizations, ICU bed utilization, deaths and other considerations, the Board voted to require people attending our regular meetings to be fully vaccinated and symptom free. Attendees are also asked to wear masks when not eating or drinking.

It is important to keep our members as safe as possible while enjoying the fellowship of in-person attendance at our meetings at the Chateau Lacombe on Mondays. The meetings are hybrid and on line attendance will continue to be available.

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Big cheque presentation Mar 27th to Ziad, coach for Start 2 Finish Running & Reading program. This organization offers after school programming for the following local schools:

Belvedere

Delton

McDougall

Norwood

Volunteers needed for this weekly program leading to a 4 Km run for the elementary students in May.

Photo of the first four Rotarians who met in 1905 in Chicago to start the service club.

Read up on who they are:

https://www.rotary.org/en/history-first-four-rotarians

It was our honor to present a cheque to Inner City Youth Development Association to support them for lunches for their students. With me in the photo on the left is Joe Cloutier, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of the association and Inner City High School. The school, on the corner of 101 St and 112 Ave, has a lot of amazing indigenous art some of which you can see in the background of this photo. Neil Lang

In support of lunches at Inner City High School and Inner City Youth Development Association.

The Inner City Youth Development Association (ICDYA) was established to provide Edmonton's marginalized Indigenous and other urban youth, with tools and opportunities to break the cycle of poverty, desperation, and dependence that dominates their lives, enabling them to become contributing members of our community.