Service Projects - Sub Committees

Alamo Heights Holiday Decoration

Function: To conduct a contest to select the best three residences in Alamo heights decorated for the December 2007 Holiday season. Goals: Conduct the contest, obtain publicity, obtain and make the awards.

Child Abuse Prevention

Function: To provide materials to make people aware of how to prevent child abuse.

Donate-A-Phone

Function: To collect used cell phones for turn in to a designated vendor that pays cash to the Battered Women's Shelter for the phones we collect. Goals: To increase the locations phones are collected from 2 to 5 by the end of the Rotary year. To publicize the program.

Entrepreneurial Scholars

Function: Exposure to a business service club for college students

Donate-A-Book

Meals on Wheels

Function: To deliver noon meals Monday throug Firday to area Meals on Wheels participants.
Goals: to have enough AHR members to deliver timely meals 5 days per week

Medical Equipment

Mentor, Boys & Girls Town

Function: To provide opportunities for the AHR to participate in volunteer opportunities that will enrich the lives of the children at the Boys and Girls Town through mentoring and participating in special projects. Goals: To involve AHR members in both mentoring and special events (Fall Festival) at the center.

SAMM SHelter

Function: To provide services to the poor through volunteer efforts at the Samm Shelter on a quarterly basis. Goals: Putting service into action once a quarter at the Samm Shelter Blanco Campus with 4-8 Rotary members attending.

Western Trail Project

Magazine

This committee shall stimulate reader interest in The Rotarian; sponsor a magazine month; arrange for brief monthly reviews of the magazine on regular club programs; encourage the use o the magazine in the induction of new members; provide a copy of the magazine for non-Rotarian speakers; secure international service and other special subscriptions for libraries, hospitals, schools and other reading rooms; send news items and photographs to the editor of the magazine and in other ways to make the magazine of service to the club members and non-Rotarians.

Red Cross Shelter

Function: Serving out of Douglas MacArther High School a community service provided by members of AHR in conjunction with the American Red Cross. All members have been trained in functions of running an emergency shelter during emergencies. Goals: We stand ready to activate the Shelter in the event of a hurricane that is projected to hit the Texas coast in the Corpus Christie area. Provide training.

Vocational Awards

Function: Four way test plaques awarded to business's in the community, that are not members of Rotary. Awarding area teachers from AHISD & NEISD

Wine Cork Recycling

Function: To collect corks for recycling. Goals: To collect as many corks as possible.

Youth Services

Function:Offer exposure of positive programs and interaction with positive role models for youth incarcerated at the Cyndi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center. Goals: To provide enriching, educational experiences for the youth through activities that enhance a feeling of achievement and increase self-esteem.