Our Local Work
Community projects over the years
The Healing of the Seven Generations ; Strong Start ; Child Witness Centre ; KidsSports ; Adventure4Change ; Bereaved Families of Ontario
Sanctuary Refugee Health Centre ; Children's Snow Suits ; KidsAbility ; Hot Planet Cool Athletes ; KidSport
Anselma House is 45-bed shelter serving women and kids fleeing abusive homes in Kitchener, Waterloo and surrounding townships.
Lifeline is a wearable call unit in case of emergency
Meeting the challenges of the changing environment for delivery of health and social services plus hosting the regional cardiac centre.
Helping support teams and people with a disease that destroys brain cells, causing thinking ability and memory to deteriorate over time.
One-to-one mentoring relationships to support the critical social and emotional development of children.
Kitchener-Waterloo's 60-bed emergency shelter for women (16 and older), transgendered people, and families who are homeless.
Kitchener-Waterloo's 60-bed emergency shelter for women (16 and older), transgendered people, and families who are homeless.
Providing everyday medical procedures and testing plus hosting the regional cancer centre.
Teach and provide first aid and emergency medical services, staffed primarily by volunteers.
Empowering children and youth with special needs to realize their full potential.
Making it easy for people, companies, and organizations to do more good by providing Granting, Impact Investing and Convening for community projects.
Empowering children and youth with special needs to realize their full potential.
Empowering children and youth with special needs to realize their full potential.
Empowering children and youth with special needs to realize their full potential.
Empowering children and youth with special needs to realize their full potential.
Our community service
Fund-Raiser Activities
Rotary Dream Home
Thirty years ago, The Club became KW Rotary’s largest community service contributor when it took over a risky project started by one of our members and his friends. Since then the DreamHome has raised over $7,000,000 for charitable projects in KW.
The first Rotary Dream Home established Anselma House into proper facilities on Ann Street. The cost of approximately $250,000 was levered by past mayor Harold Chapman who convinced the Ontario government to fund remaining costs.
Over the years, many projects, large and small were funded by proceeds from the Dream Home fund-raiser, including Strong Start, Child Witness Centre, Carizon and the local hospitals.
Unfortunately, the realities of huge inflation in costs ended the project in 2018, beut the club is looking at new ways to continue our fund-raising for community project support.
The Christmas Turkey Drive
Every fall the Club members solicits friends, family and the KW community to donate money to make a memorable Christmas for over 12,000 needy families within the Waterloo Region. The project was started many years ago by our member, Barry Abelson, to purchase turkeys for less fortunate families.
This project now supports the House of Friendship Christmas Hamper program as well as several smaller urgent needs.
A fun late November afternoon is spent by our members and their families packing the thousands of hampers, which our members, along with many others in the community, help distribute.