•Youth: The club promotes the Four-Way Test with elementary school
presentations by Club members and middle school essay contests; provide student
recognition; sponsor three to four delegates to the Rotary Youth Leadership
Award Conference; and provide $5,000 through seven scholarships for
post-secondary education.
Rotarians Against Drugs:
(RAD) is Rotary's program to irradiate drugs of our youth.
•Boys & Girls Home: The Roxboro Club actively participates in Rotary’s
commitment to the Boys & Girls Home at Lake Waccamaw through field trips;
providing material needs for the Rotary Cottage.
•Needy Families: Our members share in Person Counties annual
fund-raising for the needy by contributing and delivering food and other items
families in need at Christmas. We also have provided fans for the needy
during summer.
•The Rotary Foundation: We support the programs of the Foundation
through annual & planned giving; by participation in Group Study Exchange;
sponsoring Ambassadorial Scholars; and in the development of matching grants. We
recently participated in an exchange and hosted an eight pair group from
Australia.
•Picnic Shelter: In the Fall of 1997, we built a picnic shelter at Bushy
Fork Park with Rotary volunteers, who worked very hard and turned out the best
shelter in the program, as reported by the Person County Recreation Department.
•Hunger: During
2007 our district provided 1,000,000 ready made meals sent to the Congo.
•Dictionary Project: We
are currently providing all third graders dictionaries in Person County.
We are also providing dictionaries and thesauruses to the Charter High School.
•Environmental Project:
We annually clean up a roadside in Person County. We have also provided
funds for water and sanitary projects in 3rd world countrys.
