Local Community Service:

• Scholarships
• Project Graduation
• Adopt a Family
• Englewood Elementary AR Program
• Women's Resource Center
• LBHS Athletic, Interact, Drama, Music Departments
• Salvation Army
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Little League
• YMCA
• Halloween Safe Walk
• Sailing Club
• Hospice of SW FL
• Rotary Camp Grounds
• HOPE of Englewood
• Habitat 4 Humanity

Rotary International's Polio Plus Program... Has reduce wild Polio cases from 350,000 in 1988 to less than 2000 last year - world wide!  We continue to make strides in this campaign and hope to reach even the most remote locations to completely eradicate this disease!

The Rotary Club of Englewood is involved in helping others in need locally, nationally, and internationally.  Throughout the world, more than 12 million people are homeless at any given time due natural and man-made disasters.

There are no warnings of when or where the next disaster will strike, but Shelter Box’s ability to respond quickly requires a supply of Boxes to be ready in our warehouse for shipment. The response to tsunami needs has depleted all reserves.

The civil wars and genocides taking place in many countries, especially Liberia and Uganda, are leaving tens of thousands of children and widows without homes. Many are seeking sanctuary near churches and missions as they try to go on with what is left of their lives. Shelter Box has a standing request for thousands of Shelter Boxes throughout the region.

Orphans and widowed mothers currently occupy hundreds of Shelter Boxes supplied over the past years, but tragically many more are needed. Currently (Summer, 2005), multiple shipments, totaling 1000 Shelter Boxes, are being prepared for deployment into Northern Uganda. (stay tuned to this space for updates and further details).

Shelter Box is committed to providing humanitarian aid on an on-going basis to peoples around the world. Shelter Box asks all Rotary clubs to make an annual commitment to sponsoring one Shelter Box per year, to ensure that those with the greatest need will find aid and relief in the form of a big green box.

Find out more about shelter boxes HERE!