Club News

The Rotary Club of Whitby's Food Truck Frenzy Festival is Roaring Back to Town for 2025!

Coming back for its 11th Anniversary!
May 24 - 25, 2025
 
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$750 could be yours!  The Whitby Rotary Club recognizes results, and is offering a $750 bursary to Whitby and Brooklin graduating secondary school students who are planning to attend an accredited Canadian College or University.  
Click here for Bursary Postcard.  
 
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Helping to Feed the Need in Durham Region

 
 
Rotarian Steve Cornell is pleased to present LeeAnne Rorabeck, Director of Development and Communications of Feed the Need in Durham, a cheque for $5,000 to help during this busy time of the year. #rotaryclubofwhitby #rotarywhitby

Feeding families in Haiti and Ukraine

 
We will be happy to once again join other Rotary clubs on Nov. 2 to pack thousands of high-protein meals for Kids Against Hunger Canada. Each meal kit consists of rice, texturized vegetable protein (TVP), vitamins and flavouring, and a freeze-dried vegetable blend. Some kits will be shared locally and the rest will be sent to families facing food insecurity in Haiti and Ukraine.

Consumers Road Cleanup


 

 

On Wednesday, July 31st, 2024 members of the Rotary Club of Whitby and their families and friends met up on Consumers Road in Whitby to do some litter cleaning. Bags and gloves were handed out and the volunteers got to work quickly, picking up lots of garbage items that were polluting the road. Great work to all of the volunteers! 

 

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Saving women's lives and keeping families together in rural Zimbabwe

 
 
A pap test is commonplace for many Canadian women. In Zimbabwe, it’s the leading cause of death among women.
 
According to the World Health Organization, Zimbabwe is among the top five countries with the highest incidences of cervical cancer, with 61 of every 100,000 women being diagnosed annually. Pap smears are expensive and therefore not often available or used.
 
The Rotary Club of Whitby is pleased to donate $14,000 to the Karanda Mission Hospital in rural Zimbabwe to make a less expensive technique more widely available. Read on to find out how. 
 
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Avenues of Service

Community

 
Rotary’s character is defined by the way it reaches out to the community  and responds to its diverse needs by supporting programs that enhance the quality of life for various segments of the population.

Youth/Seniors

 
Improving the quality of life for Youth by supporting organizations such as Kids Against Hunger as well as our ongoing support of programs and activities for Seniors leads to meaningful opportunities for service.

International

 
Together with other organizations and clubs, Rotary has brought clean water and support to children and women, delivered ultrasound machines, renovated facilities and provided computers to schools, among other projects.
 

Environmental

 
By helping to protect our natural world, we support all seven of Rotary’s areas of focus & take action to create positive, lasting change in our communities, across the globe & in ourselves.