2023-24 Service Year in Review

By lelandrotary | June 28, 2024

This year’s service projects included:

  • District Grant #1 – Lincoln Elementary School – Supporting Literacy / Stream
    • Provided pumpkins
    • Provided candy for prizes
    • Deposited money in the library wallet (online) for the first-place winners to purchase a book from the reading list
    • Second place winners received candy and popcorn (donated by Mimi & Papa’s.)
    • Third place winners received candy.
    • Rotarians engaged with students in the reading and voting process.
    • We purchased a Sphero (coding robotic balls) BOLT power pack (power pack case, 15 robots, charging cradles) for the Media Center in addition to a code mat. 
  • District Grant #2 – Brunswick Senior Resources / Senior Center
    • Purchased a large storage cabinet for the Senior Sundry Closet
    • Sourced and purchased “most needed items” for Senior clientele of the center such as hygiene items, cleaning products, paper goods, etc.
    • Rotarians stocked the closet and will replenish as the need arises.
  • School Supply Drive: Sponsored by Signature Wealth Rotarians donated requested school supplies as part of a school supply drive sponsored by Signature Wealth Strategies at the beginning of the school year.
  • Lincoln Elementary School Book Fairs: Rotarians participated in both the September and April book fairs at Lincoln Elementary School.
  • Trunk or Treat: Rotarians donated more than 2500 pieces of candy to hand out to children at our Peanuts themed van at the Town of Leland’s Trunk or Treat event.
  • Book Inventory: Helped Lincoln Elementary School comply with a state mandate by recording books and authors of books in teachers’ classrooms.
  • Read Across America: Rotarians participated in nationwide program by reading a book in classrooms at Lincoln Elementary School.
  • Lunch Duty: Rotarians volunteered to cover lunch duty for teachers at Lincoln Elementary School.
  • Adopt-a-Highway: Trash pickup on Village Road.
  • Meals on Wheels: Filled holiday candy bags for delivery to Meals on Wheels clients in November & December.
  • Operation Christmas Child: Sourced and purchased suggested items for 50 shoeboxes for children in need around the world.  Our boxes were delivered to a village in Burundi, Southeast Africa.
  • Angel Giving Tree at the Senior Center: Rotarians gifted “Wish List” items for Seniors who put tags on the Senior Center Christmas tree.
  • Brunswick Family Assistance: provided a full holiday meal for four families in addition to a $50 Piggly Wiggly gift card and a hygiene gift bag for each child. (9 adults, 5 children)
  • Festival of Trees: Supported the Belville Elementary School fundraiser by sponsoring a tree and all the ornaments to be auctioned off at the event.  Rotarians also participated inthe decorating of the tree.
  • BCC Brunswick Interagency Program (BIP): Participated in a cookout with all the Brunswick County Rotary Clubs to provide food, games, crafts and interaction with the BIP students enrolled at the college.  BIP serves adults with intellectual disabilities. 
  • Backpack Program: Packed and delivered 36 weeks of food averaging 130 bags/week for a total of 4,680 bags of food provided to food-insecure students at Lincoln Elementary School.
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