The Rotary Club of Rogers submitted its first-ever international grant to the District 5950 Grants Committee…and the application was approved on August 20! The collective funds and matching district support will provide personal protective equipment (PPEs) and ten educational iPads for a rural Nicaragua village.
Along with Rogers’ seed money, other participating Rotary clubs include Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove, Minneapolis University and Minnetonka. The Host (Nicaragua) Club will be the Rotary Club of Jinotepe.
On August 10th, widespread, destructive, straight-line winds blew across central Iowa, destroying outbuildings, barns, grain bins, homes, mobile homes, apartment buildings, trees and power poles in parts of Benton, Linn, Jones, Cedar and Clinton Counties. The Cedar Rapids area was particularly hard hit. As #PeopleOfAction, District 5950 Rotarians will do what we can to help our neighbors to the south.
Foundation Trustee Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s president for 2022-23, a groundbreaking selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history.