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Ithaca Rotary Launches 30th Annual Share the Warmth
A red collection box with a Share The Warmth poster on the front.
Please donate your spare winter coats, boots and mittens to the annual Share the Warmth Campaign. This year is the 30th anniversary of the project, which collects winter clothing in more than 25 of the familiar red boxes throughout Tompkins County. The drive ends on Dec. 12.
 
To learn more about Share the Warmth, tune into Gary Stewart’s interview with Loralyn Light, one of the project’s coordinators, on WHCU’s All Things Equal: https://whcuradio.com/podcasts/all-things-equal-11-29-22/
Rotarians sorting winter clothing.
Inaugural Visitors Day - Nov 9
Join Us for Ithaca Rotary Club’s Inaugural Visitors Day!
 
When: Wednesday, Nov. 9
Time: 12-1:15 p.m.
Where: Community Center at St. Catherine of Siena Church, 309 Siena Dr., Cayuga Heights
Program: A live interview with a member of the Rotaract Club in Lviv, Ukraine
 
Rotary members can register their names and guests here by Nov. 1. If you are not a Rotary member and would like to attend visitors day, please contact Sherrie Negrea at sherrie@versatilewriting.com.
 
If you missed the interview with Ithaca Rotary Club President Mary Kane on WHCU’s All Things Equal, hosted by Rotarian Gary Stewart, you can listen to it here. 
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Ithaca Rotary Funds Projects in Uganda
Gertrude Noden, her husband Drew, and a group of teachers in Uganda after attending a workshop on teaching life skills.A grant from the Ithaca Rotary Club has funded a project in Uganda to produce reusable feminine hygiene kits, allowing dozens of girls to attend school during their menstrual periods. The first set of kits created by a cohort of girls in Gulu, Uganda, was delivered to local schools this summer. The girls began six months of training as seamstresses in May at a women’s cooperative in Gulu.

The project was funded by the Ithaca Rotary Club’s Dozen Dinner Draw raffle, which this year raised $15,000 for two nonprofits that support the menstrual hygiene of girls in Uganda, South Sudan and Guatemala. An additional $10,000 challenge grant, offered by Backyard Brands, Inc., was provided to the project in Uganda.

The project in Uganda has been championed by Rotarian Gertrude Noden, an Ithaca education consultant who founded Words into Deeds, a nonprofit that promotes youth awareness and engagement in local and global human rights issues.
(Pictured: Gertrude Noden, her husband Drew, and a group of teachers in Uganda after attending a workshop on teaching life skills.)
 
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Celebrating 107 Years of Service Above Self
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Wednesdays at 12:15 PM
St. Catherine's Community Center
309 Siena Drive
Ithaca, NY 14850
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Meeting Speakers
Pride Of Ownership
Dec 07, 2022
Nancy Tisch and Kit Kalfs of Bet The Farm Winery
Dec 14, 2022
Where’s the Cab?: Little-known red varieties in the Finger Lakes
Amy Santobianco
Dec 21, 2022
Doing Good in the Neighborhood
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