Upcoming projects 2019 - 2020

• November 28, 2019 — Salvation Army 49th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
  1:30PM to 2:30PM (Volunteers are needed to serve lunch to over 2,000+ meals to our community)
  POC: Stephen Morgan: waikikirotarysteve@gmail.com
• December 5, 2019 — Christmas Boxes for seniors @ Waikiki Community Center
  1:30PM to 3.00PM
  POC:  Kathryn Henski islandsong@sbcglobal.net
• December 12, 2019 — Make sidewalks Safe @ Waikiki Community Center
  2.00PM to 4.00PM
  POC:  Stephen Morgan waikikirotarysteve@gmail.com
• February 15, 2020 — Rotary Club of Osaka Hirano 45th Anniversary
  POC:  Ikko Tomita ikko@hawaiiantel.net (RSVP prior to December 23, 2019)
• March 11, 2020 — Kahauiki Project
  8.00AM to12 Noon (Household goods needed for 2 residents)
  POC:  Stephen Morgan waikikirotarysteve@gmail.com

World Polio Day

October 24, 2019

World Polio Day is celebrated on October 24th.  It was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk who led the first team to develop  a vaccine against poliomyelitis.

Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease that Rotary has worked 30 years to eradicate. We have reduced polio cases significantly throughout the world by 99.9 % and have eliminated it completely in the United States. However, we are not finished. Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nigeria still have active cases and they are just a plane ride away. We have immunized more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries and have joined together with The World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Centers for Disease Control. Because of the Bill and Melinda Gates Eradication initiative, the incidence of polio has plummeted considerably. The World Health Organization calls the progress encouraging, but we are not done.

Rotarians are people of action. We must see this through to the end. Let’s work together to make this a 'polio-free' world.

Sally A. Blanchard, Foundation Co-Chair

School Supply Drive

July 27, 2019  9AM-2PM

At Walmart – Keeaumoku, Honolulu

SUCCESS! Always a GREAT day when we can help those in need of school supplies at our Annual Back to School Supply Drive. The Rotary Club of Waikiki was in full force at Walmart Keeaumoku to help collect school supplies for children in need. 

Community Service director Stephen Morgan says:

We want to sincerely thank the amazing and generous Walmart Shoppers who made this project a HUGE success for our island keiki!" and "We have never seen so many contribute from their hearts to give to this wonderful project. 

 Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who came out on Saturday to help with this fun event. We collected a large suburban SUV full of school supplies and collected over $400.00 in cash. With the cash we will purchase backpacks and additional supplies. The school supplies will be donated to local schools in Kalihi, Waikiki and The Hawaii H.O.M.E Project.

The mission of the Hawaii H.O.M.E. Project is to improve quality and access to health care for Hawaii’s homeless, while increasing student and physician awareness and understanding of the homeless and their healthcare needs. The project was founded in August of 2005 and currently provides free medical services to sheltered and unsheltered homeless individuals, through weekly student-run free clinics per at nine sites across Oahu. In addition to these clinics, we also utilize our mobile health van for outreach to other unsheltered homeless populations on Oahu and to provide special events for the keiki at the shelters.

Hawaii H.O.M.E. Project is a John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) student-run free clinic staffed by volunteers,including:

• University of Hawaii premedical students
• JABSOM medical students
• University of Hawaii and Tripler Army Medical Center resident physicians
• University of Hawaii faculty and community attending physicians