Service Projects


	Avenues of Service

International World Community This is the Service Avenue that distributes the largest percentage of our Club's funds. The Rotary Club of Marin Sunrise has started, or participated in more than two-dozen projects in 12 countries. Here are the projects we have participated in recently:

	Rotarians, guests and Interact members traveled to Tijuana to refurbish a room in the Casa Hogar Sion Orphanage.--- Photos 2008 start
	Sent club members on RotaPlast medical trips to provide free clef pallet surgery.
	Supports the Rotary Peace Center at UC/Berkeley.
	Sponsored two Shelter Boxes

Youth Service Our Youth Service Avenue extends beyond our sponsorship of the Interact Club at the Redwood High School. Here are the major projects of our club:

	Started and supports the Interact Club of Redwood High School
	Call Of the Sea - Educational sailing experience. Day sails for youth. Read the letter Call of the Sea received from the Samuel L. Gompers School.
	Provides scholarships for the Camp Soulejoule Scholarship Program for Marin youth.
	Participates in Rotary International Youth Exchange
	Work with the Redwood HS Interact Youth to refurbish and financially support the Casa Hogar Sion Orphanage in Tijuana Mexico
	Bay Model tour for Timothy Murphy School

Community Service Our major effort in the community is our support of the RotaCare Clinic in San Rafael. Beyond this, there are many other community service programs which our club supports.

	RotaCare Medical Clinic - Ten years of medical care for the uninsured of Marin County.
	Supported the Big God Ministries Thanksgiving Turkey distribution
	Senior Thanksgiving Dinner - Seventeen years of offering a traditional Thanksgiving dinner to senior citizens of Corte Madera and Larkspur.
	Warm Clothing Drive - Fourteen years of coordinating the collection of warm clothing for the Ritter Center on San Rafael, California
	Dictionary Project - Marin Sunrise is working with other clubs in our district to distribute dictionaries to third-graders in four local schools.
	Salvation Army Bell Ringing - We volunteer annually to support the Salvation Army to help them raise money for their work.
	Huckleberry House - We repainted the two bedrooms in the confidential counseling and housing facility for troubled youth. - Photos
	Marin Abused Women Services and Marin Services for Women- The club supports these shelter programs with donations of cosmetics and maintenance of the grounds of the facility.
	Marin Food Bank - We donate/collect food for this organization which serves the working poor and unemployed.

Club Service We are active participants in our District, National and International level Rotary organizations.

	Helped to start two additional Rotary Clubs
	95% Paul Harris Fellows
	A weekly newsletter
	(This) Club Website
	Produced a Rotary "Infomercial" for new members and the interested public