The Empty Bowls Project, is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. Twin Valley Rotary Club presents this event to support the Twin Valley Food Pantry which feeds and provides food for approximately 60 families in Chester, Berks, and Lancaster Counties. Click here to learn more. 

He will be here for the entire 2010-2011 school year, learning English, and experiencing the American way of life. Esteban enjoys playing soccer, basketball and is an accomplished gymnast. This is the first time Esteban has ever experienced snow, so he was excited to have an opportunity to ski in February, with other Rotary Exchange students in the Philadelphia area.

Our next Rotary Youth Exchange student is Gabriela, a sophomore at Twin Valley High School, and daughter of Rotarian Adrienne Masak-Rozier.

Gabriela will be spending her Junior year as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in Spain. Gaby hopes to become fluent in Spanish, and learn about Spanish culture during her time abroad.

Gaby is one of ten High School students from the Philadelphia area who will be sponsored by local Rotary Clubs as Exchange Students.

Click here to visit the Rotary District 7450 Youth Exchange internet pages.

Would you like to become a host family for a future Twin Valley Rotary exchange student? You don’t have to be a Rotary member to participate; however, you do need to live in the Twin Valley School District. As a host family you benefit from a rich cultural exchange opportunity and you can make a significant difference in the life of an exchange student. For more information, please call us at 484-558-0540 (please leave a message), or email us at info@twinvalleyrotary.org.

Click here for the Rotary International RYLA web pages.

The Rotary Club of Twin Valley is a sponsor of the Twin Valley School District’s elementary school book clubs.

Pictured left to right Principal Bill McKay, Adrienne Masak-Rozier (Twin Valley Rotary President), and Principal Gail Porrazzo. Not pictured, Principal Jamie Whye.

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The program partners Rotary members with third, and fourth graders. Together they choose books, take them home to read them, then meet to discuss the stories and share their views on the content. The goal is to instill a love of reading in young Twin Valley students and build readers for life.

There are three clubs: Honey Brook Readers, Robeson Readers, and TVEC Raider Readers.

In addition to the Rotary member’s volunteer commitment, The Rotary Club of Twin Valley contributed a total of $3,000. $2,000 by direct donation and $1,000 secured from the Rotary District’s Gundaker Foundation.

Application requirements include the submission of a summary of their academic achievements and goals, and their volunteer efforts to help our community. To apply, please contact your Twin Valley High School guidance office.

Cancer Prevention Study-3 website to find an enrollment location near you and for more information about how to participate in research today for a cancer free tomorrow!

For more than 20 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease. Today, PolioPlus and its role in the initiative is recognized worldwide as a model of public-private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal. In addition to providing financial and volunteer support, Rotary works to urge support from other public and private sector partners. This includes the campaign to End Polio Now, inspired by the extraordinary challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Your contribution will help Rotary raise $200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

Click here to learn more about Polio Plus on the Rotary International internet site.

Our 2010-11 Rotary exchange student Esteban, attends the March meeting of the Gundaker Foundation.

The Rotary District 7450’s Gundaker Foundation has granted over $2.5 million since the ’70’s. Each local Rotary club gets up to $1,000 a year to support their own projects.

The Gundaker Foundation also awards $50,000 in graduate and undergraduate scholarships each year to students with superior grades and records of community service.

Gundaker Foundation meetings are held each month, with the 53 clubs in the district represented.

Guy Gundaker, the founder, was the Rotary International president in 1924, and a prominent Philadelphia restaurateur.

The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.

Click here to read more on the Rotary International internet site.