Rotary Club of Briarcliff Manor
Nearly half the world’s families rely on cooking over an open fire inside their homes, unintentionally polluting their homes and the environment. According to the World Health Organization, about 3.8 million people die each year as a result of cooking indoors over this open fire.The Cookstove Project aims to eliminate the preventable deaths and diseases that are caused by cooking indoors over an open fire. Using locally sourced materials, we help families to gain access to safe, efficient, clean cookstoves through solutions that are unique to each nation where we work. Our cookstoves contain and direct the fire to produce clean, hotter energy with much less smoke inside and outside of the home. The stoves have airtight cooking chambers and built-in chimneys ensure that any remaining fumes are not released into the home.
Rotary Club of Chinatown NYC
This project is aimed at assisting the NYC Chinatown community, comprised predominantly of family-owned small businesses run and employed by immigrant or first-generation Americans, safely and successfully reopen for business amid the COVID-19 pandemic within the required guidelines and rules established by the city andstate. Our project seeks to:
1. Help to establish health and safety in the business community.
2. Facilitate communication with businesses in the community to collectively develop innovative ways to address the unique needs of Chinatown businesses.
3. Build capacity through training.
Rotary E-Club of Heritage
Abuse and isolation can lead to not only threats to a woman’s physical safety but also psychological disorders. Similarly, children in immigrant families face different challenges at home and outside which may impact their mental health severely. Members of minority groups are the worst sufferers who cannot seek assurance due to hesitation and lack of finances. The objective of this project is to bring awareness among women and young children who are potential targets of abuse and then to empower them. The project consisted of lectures, workshops, therapy, and individual discussion sessions. The total estimated budget is $4,000 to cover the costs of speakers, lecture materials, and technological logistics. The Club raised $2,000 from its members to match the approved grant.
Rotary Club of Hudson Valley
Early detection is the key to the challenge of breast cancer. But screening for early detection presents serious obstacles for too many women. So we brought this Public Health Initiative (PHI) to New York so that EVERY woman here could get tested in the most convenient manner possible, at no cost to her, for early detection of breast cancer lesions with no drugs, no surgery, no pain, and no radiation - and results in minutes.
A series of 17 outreaches based on an innovative, FDA-cleared device, iBreastExam. The iBreastExam is based on tactile sensing technology and has been hailed uniformly by medical professionals and health organizations as a highly effective supplement to the established methods to diagnose breast cancer such as mammograms or biopsies. Further, iBreastExam is portable and low-cost.
Rotary Club of North Shore
Nine-year-old Jack Callas approached the North Shore Rotary Club, on his own initiative, with a plan to collect items and money, from his friends, family, and peers at P.S. 52, for the refugees. His selflessness and compassion for others were evident, to the club immediately.Thanks to Jack’s tireless efforts and the generosity of club members, funds were raised to partner with the Zamosc Ordinacky Rotary Club in Poland. The Zamosc Ordinacky Rotary Club administers a therapeutic camp for Ukrainian children who have lost a parent due to the war, where 71 children between the ages of 8-14 received new shoes to help them stay warm throughout the winter/spring.
Jack’s efforts have made a significant difference in their lives.
Rotary Club of Promise
One of the main concerns our communities are facing is food insecurity, but they want to have food that is not only accessible but also healthy and fulfilling for their families. Partnering with Long Island Cares, a local organization that services food pantries, we hosted a food drive. From the end of November to the beginning of December of 2022, our club was able to collect close to 500 pounds of food and hygiene products for our community.As we were delivering these items, we had an unexpected encounter with a local resident who was picking up food from the pantry. She saw us unloading the items from the cars and was so overjoyed and filled with gratitude that there were more supplies coming to serve more people like her.
