Supporting Children’s Special Needs Projects
On Thursday last The Rotary Club of St. Maarten launched its first fundraising activity for the 2012 – 2013 Rotary year, in grand style at the location of the corporate sponsor Motor World in Cole Bay.
In the presence of Club Members and representatives of Motor World, president of the Rotary Club of St Maarten Elie Bendaly thanked Motor World on behalf of the service club. "Rena Amjad and team, thank you for your generosity in donating a 2012 Hyundai for this worthy cause". The car will be raffled with the objective of raising significant amount of funds to be able to support Youth projects in general and projects that benefit Special Needs Children in particular. Tickets are available at Scotia Bank and from members of the club as of the launch for $10.00 per ticket and the draw will be held on Valentine’s Day, February 14 2013.
The Rotary Club of St Maarten is very thankful to the St. Maarten Community. Since its establishment on March 17, 1972 our projects have been financed through the generosity of the people of St Maarten, corporate sponsors and Rotarians themselves. Examples of such projects are the Christmas "food" hampers which are distributed every year to those in need. Last Christmas the Rotary Club of St. Maarten distributed over 180 of these hampers. Living up to its commitment to increase literacy, the club will for the 4th year consecutively distribute dictionaries to third grade students of the public primary schools. During the past 3 years approximately 2000 students received their own dictionary. Taking the island seniors on an afternoon luncheon lagoon cruise is a much looked forward to annual event. Then there are the Christmas parties for children in need , water Fountains placed in schools , trees planted , and donations such as the $5,000 presented to the St. Maarten Alzheimer Foundation and our donation in support of the HIV / Aids Stronger Together campaign … and much much more.
"Donations from companies like Motor World not only assist us in continuing to make contributions such as these but allow us to add new projects in support of the local community. Thank you again Motor World , Rena and your team": Elie Bendaly.
Motor World was represented my Ami Bora and several members of the Motor World staff and President Elie Bendaly was joined by several members of the Rotary Club of St. Maarten: Robert Judd, Rebecca Low, Pierre Decelles, Kishore Idnani, Danny Ramchandani and Maria Buncamper.