Our mission:
Helping children
The Rotary Club of Las Vegas West mentors
students and provides books, computers, clothing, food and shoes to
at-risk children in the Las Vegas Valley. We also offer scholarship
opportunities and grants to students and teachers
The club partners with the Andre Agassi College Preparatory
Academy, Fay
Herron Elementary, Helen
Jydstrup Elementary, Twin Lakes Elementary,
and West Prep.
Club
members play active roles in school affairs and are much in evidence at
school assemblies and award ceremonies.
These
members are our points of contact with our sponsored schools for Rotary
year 2009-10:
Annual
school grant
Each
year our club makes a major grant to one of our
sponsored schools. The winner of a $10,000 grant in the last Rotary
year was Helen Jydstrup Elementary.
The Rotary Club of Las Vegas West
will award a $10,000 major grant for the 2008/2009 school year. This
grant is to be used by one of the club’s five partnered elementary
schools to create a long-lasting educational foundation for students.
Each school is
invited to submit one proposal. The Rotary Club of Las Vegas West membership will select the recipient. The scope of the proposed project
is left entirely to the discretion of each school. The Rotary Club of
Las Vegas West reserves the right to withhold this grant if no proposal
satisfactorily meets the grant criteria.
Rotary Youth
Leadership Award
Where will we find the leaders of tomorrow? Undoubtedly,
many will come from the Rotary Youth Leadership Award
participants. RYLA, as the program is known, is an intensive training
program for community youth leaders.
Young people ages 14-30, chosen for their leadership potential, attend
an all-expense-paid seminar, camp or workshop, generally three to 10
days in length, organized and run by Rotarians with records of
achievement.
RYLA programs vary according to the age and interests of participants
and length of event. In 1996, the Rotary International board of
directors recommended a core curriculum for every RYLA that includes:
• Fundamentals of leadership;
• Ethics of positive leadership;
• Importance of communications skills in
effective leadership;
• Problem-solving and conflict-management;
• What Rotary is and what it does for the
local community;
• Building self-confidence and self-esteem;
• Elements of community and global citizenship.
RYLA introduces a large number of young people and their families to
the Rotary ideals of service each year.
It helps bridge the communication gap between the generations and helps
improve relationships among youth groups, families, and the community.
District 5300 Teen Leadership Camp
The Teen Leadership Camp is a spin-off
program for 8th grade students from the Rotary Youth Leadership
Award program.
The program aims to develop understanding of Rotary among youth
participants while using Rotarians as role models and the telling of
Rotary ideals and programs.
It also recognizes participants' efforts, accomplishments, skills and
potential as leaders, and develops those leadership skills with
emphasis on:
•
Self-confidence and self-esteem;
• Personal responsibility as a basis of
leading others;
• Ethics of positive leadership;
• Group dynamics and peer pressure
Know an 8th grader who might benefit
from participation in the Teen Leadership Camp? Contact a member of the
Rotary Club of Las Vegas West, or email us at:
secretary@lasvegaswestrotary.org
Four-Way Test youngsters compete
Top-notch students from Agassi Prep and
West Prep held Las Vegas West Rotarians rapt
when they participated in the club level of District 5300's annual Four-Way
Test Speech Contest.
The students gave their views of Rotary's time-tested guide
to ethical behavior.
And
much else
Our club participates in many other worthy community service
activities, including the Santa Clothes project that buys
clothing and other items for needy children at Christmas.
International
Service
The mini-van used by the Motse wa
Tsholofelo day-care center and pre-school in Maun, Botswana was falling to
bits from hard use on the rough roads of Africa's remote
Kalahari Desert.
Enter the Rotary
Club of Las Vegas West, which spearheaded a Rotary
International project to buy a new vehicle. More than 60 children
orphaned by AIDS or road accidents are cared for at the center, whose
name means Place of Hope. Our club's work gives these
youngsters a greater hope for success in life.
Our club also donated to help
transport books to the Great Lakes College in Uganda.
Our members play active roles
building homes for the needy in Mexico, and other global projects of
Rotary International.
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