Portland Metropolitan Rotary Club

We are excited to be going to this years District Conference! Join our President Teri Johnson Joly and International Project Coordinator Zb Chaberski this weekend at Seaside - learn all about our continued efforts to raise money to help Ukrainian Refugees, and talk to our members about our upcoming service trip to Poland this fall.

One Rotary Conference | Rotary District 5100 ONE Rotary Conference Event Details Thursday, May 19th – Sunday, May 22nd Seaside Convention Center415 1st Ave, Seaside, OR 97138 For the first time, we are combining District Training with the District Conference for one weekend to learn, inspire, and celebrate! Over 40 learning sessions will be ...

We are honored to support our sister club Rotary Club Biała Podlaska, Poland, in helping Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Thank you to all the individuals and Rotary clubs that donated in the past few months.

Here are a few photos from our International Project Coordinator Zb Chaberski's latest trip.

Listed below are all the projects our $100,000 donation sponsored:

1) Purchased ambulance and sent to Ukraine
2) Equipped ambulance with all necessary medical devices and supplies
3) Bought special vehicle to aid in safely transporting physically and mentally disabled refugees
4) Purchased medicine that was sent to the front lines in Ukraine
5) Dedicated a portion of funds to help mothers and their children with medical and basic needs

For more information on how you can donate and be a part of our continued efforts to support those displaced by this unjust war, comment below and we will reach out to you!

We are just finishing up a matching DDF grant for the funds we raised at our February Fantasy. We worked with the Milwaukie-Portland Elks Lodge to put on the dance/auction for A Village for One (anti-sex-trafficking), Annie Ross House (a shelter for homeless families), and Clackamas NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness, support for families with mentally ill members).

In the coming weeks we will start buying the charities' requested items, which include bunk beds, bed sheet sets, computer equipment, printed workbooks, and more. This is the second yearly fund-raiser for us, the other being the Portland, Oregon USA Polish Festival.

Our club almost expired from lack of membership, but we brought it back from the brink. We are concentrating on getting enough members to allow projects like this (we are up to 15 at the moment). We also would like to get away from the positions "treasurer for life", "secretary for life", and "president for life" at some point. (-;}>