Despite the challenges created by the shutdowns and social distancing required due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rotary Club of Shady Brook hosted a Virtual Charity Walk over a five-week period in July and August. The walk helped the club celebrate 14 years of service.
Thanks to the generosity of participants, the club presented a check of $3,387 to A Woman’s Place – the only domestic violence community benefit organization in Bucks County, which provides a full range of programs and services to protect and support individuals experiencing domestic abuse and their children.
The club also donated $2,084.25 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, whose mission is to find treatments and cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families, serve as the voice for all blood cancer patients and work to ensure access to treatments for them.
The mission of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society holds particular significance to the Rotarians, as several members have been stricken with a variety of blood cancers, two of whom have passed away from their illness, as have a child of two members. The club’s five-year total donations to the society now exceed $52,000.
Additional funds generated from the event will also help the club support a number of other local nonprofit causes. During its 14-year history, it has donated more than $260,000, made over $75,000 of in-kind contributions and provided in excess of 12,000 volunteer hours to a wide variety of causes, veterans organizations and community service projects.
The club is always looking for new members who value Rotary’s motto of “service above self.” Visit rotaryclubofshadybrook.com for more information.
