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ROTARY CLUB OF SYDNEY-SUNRISE
COMMUNITY & INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AND DONATIONS 
CHARTERED FEBRUARY 18, 1996

 

Since receiving its Charter in 1996, the Rotary Club of Sydney-Sunrise has worked to provide financial and volunteer support to a variety of local initiatives focused on youth, health, food insecurity, seniors, community infrastructure projects, etc.
 
Fundraising activities such as Rotary Ribfest and the Rotary Golf Tournament enable the Club to provide financial support to several local organizations including the following contributed to in 2023/2024
 
  • Loaves and Fishes
  • the New Dawn Guest Home 
  • BGC Cape Breton
  • Big Brothers-Big Sisters
  • Salvation Army
  • Transition House
  • Ally Centre
  • Cape Breton Youth Project
  • Every Woman’s Centre
  • Cape Breton Regional Library
  • Push Cape Breton
  • Cape Breton Literacy Coalition
  • Glace Bay Food Bank
  • the food cupboard on Grand Lake Road.
Over the year, the Club also sponsored the Glace Bay and Memorial High School Interact Clubs, funded student participation in Adventures in Citizenship and provided scholarships to students at Glace Bay and Memorial High.
 
Additionally, the Club, since inception, has contributed to several global humanitarian projects in support of world peace, the eradication of Polio, safe drinking water, reduction of poverty and hunger, health and dental care, literacy and other much-needed developing country and disaster relief projects.
 
For more information on the projects supported by the Rotary Club of Sydney-Sunrise since its charter in 1996, please see  below.
 

Why-Not Torch Run for Canadian Paralympics 1996

Canadian Red Cross Flood Relief 1996

Salvation Army Christmas Kettle Campaign 1996-2000

Rotary Foundation 1996-2000

Camp Carter Boy Scout Camp 1996                                               

Operation Eyesight International 1996-2000   

Loaves & Fishes 1997

Two Rivers Adopt-an-Animal Project 1997-2000

Annual sponsorship of a child to Camp Tidnish 1997-2000

Youth Challenge International 1997

A.C.A.P. Cape Breton’s Annual Paint Swap 1997-2000

 

Heart & Stroke Foundation of N.S. 1998-2000

Horizon Achievement Center 1998-2000

International Student Exchange 1998

Rotary Youth Choir - C.B. Participant 1998

Annual Easter Seals Children’s Clinic Glace Bay Hospital 1998-2000

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of C.B. 1998-2000 

C.N.I.B. 1999

Youth Partnership with Jamaica 1999

St. Vincent de Paul 1999       

Healing Garden C.B. Cancer Center 1999

China Ambulance Project 1999

Honduran Literacy Project 1999

School Breakfast program 1999-2000

Honduran Hurricane Relief 1999 

Red Cross Blood Donor Services 2000                     

Adopt-a-Highway - Route 327 Dutch Brook 2000

C.B. Regional Library’s Adopt-a-Book Program 2000

New Dawn Guest Home 2000                                  

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    • Terry Fox Run – Official Local Sponsor
    • Whaler Boat Regatta (Hospital Cancer Centre)
    • Visits to New Dawn Guest Home (challenged adults)
      • Valentines; Easter; Summer BBQ; Halloween; Christmas;
      • Donations to projects as required (new BBQ, barn, TV)
    • Inner City Churches - Loaves and Fishes
      • Sponsor and serve meals four times per year
      • Volunteer with food drive
      • Donations to projects as required (freezer)
    • Membertou Heritage Park sponsor
    • Glace Bay Food Bank (new door, dishwasher)
    • Punkin’ Palooza Children’s Halloween Party
    • Light Up A Life Christmas Fund Raiser
    • Christmas Daddies
    • Salvation Army Kettles
    • Library Adopt-A-Book program
    • Horizon Achievement Bowl-A-Thon
    • Sydney Minor Football
    • Cape Breton Sledge Hockey
    • Rotary School Dictionary project
    • Junior Achievement – Economics of Staying in School
    • Undercurrent Youth Centre – Glace Bay
    • Adopt-A-Highway clean up (Prime Brook – spring & fall)
    • Holy Angels High School
      • Sponsorship of the Holy Angels Interact Club
      • Support of the Holy Angels scholarship fund
      • Adventures in Citizenship
      • Career/Health Awareness Day
      • Adopt A Family
    • Cameroon Water and Medical project
    • Afghanistan School Project
      • 100th Anniversary of Rotary in Canada
    • Hugs for Haitian Kids – School project
    • Remote Area Medical - Guyana
    • Global Medical Brigades – Honduras
    • Operation Eyesight
    • India Adopt A Village program
    • ShelterBox – Emergency Disaster Relief
    • Rotary Exchange Student Program
    • Mexico Students Friendship Exchange
    • Group Study Exchange
    • Rotary Foundation World-Wide Humanitarian Work
      • Polio Eradication
      • Literacy Promotion
      • Water Projects
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    • 2011-2012 projects
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    • Cape Breton Sledge Hockey
      -  Transition House
      -  Minor Baseball League (Breakfast with Champions) co-support TD Bank
      -  Salvation Army Christmas Kettle (2012 - $500)
      -  Chamber of Commerce Community Stewardship (Service-above Self)
          volunteer award
      -  Remote Area Medical - Haiti - $1000 (member participation)
      -  Brazilian senior's facility (joint-club project) ours $1125
      -  Books for Zambia (joint-club project) ours $2500
      -  Buses to Cameroon - Pete Smith (2011 - $2000; 2012 - $500)
      - WASRAG Adopt-A-School Malawi and Tanzania $5000  (joint-club
                                                                                              project)