Rotary Club of Villa Park, California

Delivering meals to senior shut-ins with the Meals on Wheels Program

Supporting our local schools through mini-grants to teachers, sponsoring Grad Night Events at Villa Park High School, as well as, their marching band and choir programs

Providing food and refreshments at the Villa Park “HalloweenFest,” Holiday Boat Parade and Villa Park Picnic at Villa Park High School

Sponsoring Boy Scout Troop 850 & Pack 850

Helping at the We Give Thanks Thanksgiving Dinner at the Honda Center and Veteran's Day Celebration at the Long Beach VA Hospital.

Providing art, cooking and athletic supplies to other local youth groups such as the Orangewood Children’s Home, Wayfinders (a halfway home for troubled teens) and the Youth Centers of Orange.

Similarly, we have provided vocational projects like:

Junior Achievement for middle school students

Sponsoring High School Interact members to attend RYLA – a life-changing Rotary Youth Leadership training

We have also supported the Villa Park High School Interact Club, which boasts over 300 members

Support for the American Chemical Society at Villa Park High School.

Early Act at Serrano Elementary School

Helping to Create a STEM lab at Cerro Villa Middle School and Maker's Space at Villa Park Elementary School

Last, but not least, we have done some life-changing international projects:

Partnering with the Tecate Rotary Club to build a medical clinic in Tecate that provides care for over 5000 needy families and serves as a platform for other groups that provide cleft palate surgeries, eye exams and childhood vaccinations.\

Sending Love Packs with school supplies to orphans in Liberia, Afghanistan, and Mexico.

Sending comfort food snack and DVDs to our troops

Collecting DVDs for the troops in Afghanistan

Traveling to Caborca, Mexico to provide life-saving Polio inoculations to the local children

Global grants that have provided Fire Engines, Water Towers, a Medical/Dental van to provide care to people in outlying areas, and donate to the Caborca Children's Treatment Fund that provides care to needy children with no financial means

Assisting North Korean families that have escaped to South Korea

Sponsoring exchange students who come to America for 6 months and attend our schools.

Sanitation and water projects in India and Africa

Provide Shelter Boxes to countries or areas that have suffered natural disasters.

We're a fun group, meeting every Thursday morning at 7:00 a.m. in the Villa Park City Hall Council Chambers, for food, fun, and fellowship. We've got great speaker programs and are always looking for more hands to help us with our projects. Joining Rotary was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Take it from me, there is no greater satisfaction than knowing that you've done something that helped people you may never meet overcome barriers to success, preventable diseases, natural disasters, and geopolitical strife. It's contagious!! And, our efforts are multiplied many times over by Rotary Clubs and the more than 1 million Rotarians all over the world.

Come join us for breakfast on Thursday morning and see what we’re all about.

Thank you,

Genene Dunn