Tom Barnes has a dream that all children in Iowa deserve to have a good pair of shoes that fit them. In 2003, he took over the neglected project, Shoes for Kids (S4K), which aims to supply...
Champions of Change: Rotary International
The White House honors twelve Rotary International members who are Champions of Change for their service in the workplace, in communities, and internationally.
Some of the poorest communities in Tennessee’s Williamson County are concentrated in the higher elevations, far removed from the region’s more prosperous areas. Since 2002, Bob Dietrick has been...
John Germ is an individual who truly embraces the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self.” Currently the vice chair of fund development for Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee, he also led...
“Service Above Self” is a personal mantra for Peggy. A Rotarian for almost 7 years, Peggy has dedicated her retirement to working full time to help others. In 2008 Peggy created the Golden...
In 2002, Nancy Sanford Hughes’s life changed forever. During a medical mission to Guatemala, Nancy noticed that the smoky open cooking fires were causing a litany of health problems: babies were...
Walter Hughes passionately provides clean water to over 250,000 people in communities with the highest incidence of Guinea worm disease in Ghana and South Sudan. He leads a partnership of eighty...
Ann Lee Hussey has made the eradication of polio and the alleviation of suffering by polio survivors her life’s work. In the past 12 years she has actively participated in 25 volunteer NID (...
Jeremiah J. Lowney, Jr. is the Founding President of The Haitian Health Foundation (HHF), an outreach to southwestern Haiti, established in 1982, that provides full health care and disease...
Doug McNeil co-developed Lighting for Literacy (LFL), a humanitarian STEM project for youth to bring light into the homes of 1.5 Billion people who live off-grid. As a Rotarian, community leader...
Creating awareness of the importance of childhood immunizations and taking action to insure that all children are fully immunized, Harriett Schloer of the Rotary Club of Bend High Desert in Bend,...
Bonnie Sirower serves as District Governor 2012-13 for Rotary District 7490 in Bergen, Passaic and Hudson Counties, New Jersey. A certified fund rising executive, Bonnie has worked in the non-...
Neli Vazquez Rowland has been recognized throughout Chicago for creating one of the most successful multifaceted organizations that addresses important issues like homelessness, unemployment and...