Projects

Service to our Community…

For more than 40 years, Dracut Rotary Club has placed the highest priority on projects that help those in our own community. Dracut Rotary Club…

• sponsors youth leadership programs such as RYLA
• sponsors the National Business Honor Society at DHS
• supports student competitions through Dracut Band Boosters and DECA
• donates thousands of dollars annually for scholarships
• sponsors the annual Handicapped Children’s Fishing Day
• supports the Dracut Food Pantry and Merrimack Valley Food Bank
• funds the Old Home Day 5K Road Race
• funded the Tercentennial Monument in Dracut Center
• funded the Dracut Children’s Memorial Project
• annually funds programs to help children and the handicapped
• donates Thanksgiving Day dinners annually for families in need
• funded handicapped access doors at the Senior Center
•supports community organizations such as the Salvation Army, the VNA of Lowell, CTI, D’Youville Senior Care, and the Merrimack Valley Medical Reserve Corps

Service to America and the World…

This commitment to those in need stretches across our nation and around the world. Dracut Rotary Club…

• is a major facilitator for the Crutches 4 Africa Program
• collected and shipped thousands of books to India
• funded a hospital for mothers and children with AIDS in South Africa
• is an ongoing participant in the Group Study Exchange Program
• sent over $38,000 in flood relief to America’s Heartland
• sponsored bike-a-thon raising $23 K for fight against hemophilia
• helped to bring electricity, water and needed supplies to people in Haiti
• sponsored an exchange student from Ecuador for a year
• funded medical equipment for a women’s clinic in Cambodia
• assisted in a relief effort for Afghan refugees in Pakistan