Edmonton Riverview Rotary Club

https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/rotaryriverview Rotary Club of Edmonton Riverview 50/50 Fundraiser! The Rotary Club of Edmonton Riverview has been an active Rotary Club since 1985. ... Rotary's motto is "Service Above Self" and our club does this by helping other organizations both locally and internationally. This year our community service is focused on helping youth and seniors in Edmonton's inner city. We work with inner-city schools such as Delton and Norwood, and Operation Friendship Society, a drop-in center for Edmonton's inner-city seniors. Your support will help us keep doing this important work. https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/rotaryriverview

Check out this video where Sikhs for Humanity provide food hampers for those in need. Dr. Roman and Sandra Bayrock from Riverview Rotary are featured in the video commenting on the food and service-above-self opportunity anyone can participate in. Every Friday at 5 pm at Nerval, 1001 Buckingham Dr., Sherwood Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd1mygL5F5A

https://youtu.be/oBBBxcAkPvI Riverview Rotary helps Sikhs for Humanity pack food parcels for the disadvantaged in Edmonton. Friday evening members Darcy Frunchak, Andrew Frunchak, Sandra Bayrock and Roman Bayrock from our Rotary Club helped pack sizable food hampers full of fresh produce for SFH. Saturdays the food is distributed free of charge from their warehouse in Sherwood Park. Great initiative by Sikhs for Humanity! Watch our video! https://youtu.be/oBBBxcAkPvI

Another ambulance serviced and ready to ship to BERT Belize. Thanks to Alberta Health Services for donating the ambulance, Alberta Honda for the maintenance work, Myshak Group for transportation and Roman Bayrock for handling all the logistics. Thank you to the Rotary Clubs of Edmonton Riverview Rotary Club, Rotary Club of Edmonton West, Rotary Club of Belize Sunrise and the Rotary Club of Belize #rotaryopensopportunities.

Covid. Schmovid This pandemic isn’t going to keep Riverview Rotary from helping out our disadvantaged seniors. For the second time in as many months members, Lindsay Robinson and Sandra Bayrock delivered 40 submarine sandwiches from Subway to Operation Friendships rooming house. We couldn’t cook in their kitchen so we did the next best thing and delivered food right to their door. Many enthusiastic thanks from all but especially from Jimmy Morrison the community relations director at Operation Friendship.

What a treat!, Sandra Bayrock from our Rotary Club has contacted by Svetlana Custom Made Dresses. Svetlana donated to our Club over 128 Wedding dresses and other wedding items! After a fun-filled afternoon, all the dresses, yardage, veils, etc. were sorted into bags. Special Thanks to Vera and Sandra Bayrock, and Viola Peters for sorting, organizing, and arranging these beautiful dresses. Southern Emergency Services, an ambulance service in the Stann Creek area of Belize is packing a container of medical supplies in Stony Plain which is destined to depart Alberta at the end of October. With a bit of luck and some creative packing, these dresses will soon be on their way to Belize to help support a Women’s craft shop at Maya Centre in Belize. Many thanks to SES for their support.

Brenda Martin of Beaverlodge Alberta was the winner of our Riverview Rotary 50/50 raffle.

Dear friend, I hope you and your loved ones have been well. I have something to share with you that I think will bring a smile to your face. ... A number of days ago, I promised you that we’d write again with more details on how your donation to Lebanon is helping. Our team here has been closely following the work of our members on the ground. I have to say that, thanks to your gift, the response is so broad and diverse that it’s hard to boil it down into one email. Here are some highlights for you. Your donation provides: food baskets that will last for the coming 12 months: rice, bulgur, pasta, chickpeas, beans, lentils, canned meat, canned tuna, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and tea cash grants to hundreds of needy households so families can meet their basic health, shelter, hygiene and food security needs in a flexible and dignified manner injury care and rehabilitation for people with new or pre-existing disabilities household water tanks to families with damaged homes, and a connection to local water supplies support services for women and girls at increased risk of violence, exploitation or abuse repairs to damaged health centres and schools medicine and medical supplies to local health centres and support for health care COVID-19 awareness sessions, including children’s sessions, and personal protective equipment psychological care and safe spaces for children, and training for parents and caregivers on how to help children overcome their trauma training and counselling for adolescent boys and girls to improve their equal access to work financial help, business development training, technical support and COVID-19 prevention measures for small businesses livestock and feed to smallholder farmers. Our members are hard at work on the ground and you can expect a full report when the projects are completed. Of course, as stories and updates come in, you’ll be the first to know. But for now It’s an old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, so we’re offering you this short video. I watched it yesterday for the first time and this one feels very special. Your generosity and solidarity for the people of Lebanon moved us all. Through these images, I feel like I’m seeing this wave of compassion reach Beirut with all its strength. The hands of the workers on the ground are really your hands. The smiles you see (even the ones behind masks) are for you. It’s with a heart full of gratitude that I wish you a beautiful autumn, with just enough pumpkin spice to make it warm and cozy, Catherine (and the whole Humanitarian Coalition team) Your Donor Relations Coordinato https://youtu.be/4sSusVJzOmw