RECENT PAST EVENTS:

YMCA Homeless Youth Dinner

• Saturday, Feb 7^th 4pm-7:30pm
• Get together and cook a dinner, then serve it at the U-District YMCA Homeless Youth Dinner

Ronald McDonald House Activity Night:

Wednesday January 14th from 5:30 ~ 8pm. Join your fellow Rotaractors and our parent club, Sunrise University Rotary, as we host an activity night for RMDH children.  We need 4 or 5 people to come and play!  This week's activity: Fun With Playdoh

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at NW Harvest:

Monday January 19^th 8am ~ 4:00pm. Rotaract is joining with SPARX in celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day by making a difference!  We will be going to the Northwest Harvest Food Bank to help sort, re-package and label food at the Kent 

Latina Health Fair

UWHS Rotaract has participated in the Latina Health Fair for several years. This year's event was held at North Seattle Community College. Our team gave presentations in Spanish about nutritional information and ran a booth directed towards teaching kids and families how to make healthy food choices. The last Latina Health Fair was held on September 6^th, 2008.

Sand Point Community Fair

University Sunrise Rotary, our parent Rotary club, started this event three years ago to support the Transitional Housing residents of the Sand Point community. The residents are often homeless, displaced, and/or youth without families, etc. UWHS Rotaractors lend a helping hand with the event including a barbeque, picnic, games for kids, and live band music, etc. In the past, educational booths have been run by our club members promoting oral health care.

Brain Awareness Week at the UW

This event is focused on elementary school and junior high youth to teach them about how the brain functions and the importance of keeping the brain healthy.

Ronald McDonald House

UWHS Rotaract runs movie nights and activity nights with the kids where we have decorated cookies and run arts and crafts projects.

University District Food Bank

Our volunteers lend a hand on a biweekly basis cleaning, packaging food supplies and providing other assistance to the local food bank.

YMCA Homeless Youth Shelter

Our club raises funds every year to supply a lunch to feed ~60 local homeless youth. Our next event is scheduled for Saturday November 1^st at noon.

Med rest

Our club members are supporting homeless youth by volunteering with Med rest which offers clients seen in clinics a safe, warm, comfortable overnight stay with supervision at a local youth serving agency's transitional living house, and assistance with intake at Respite the following morning.