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Amplifying Rotary
The Power of Collaboration as We Serve the Community

September 11-17 of this year is Celebrate Community Week. John Hewko, the General Secretary and CEO of Rotary International wrote, “we’re encouraging Rotary and Rotaract clubs to partner with local Kiwanis, Lions, and Optimist clubs on a service project that will have a long-term impact in your community.”

The Rotary Club of North Atlanta (RCNA) got a head start this August.

For the past three years, the RCNA has hosted a used medical equipment collection day for FODAC (Friends of Disabled Adults and Children – a local non-profit that gathers, refurbishes and distributes wheelchairs, hospital beds, and other medical gear to those in need), joined by a local Lions club as well as the seven clubs in the DeKalb County Rotary Council and The Atlanta Metro Rotaract club.

Volunteers at the event team up to drive to various pick-up locations in the greater metro area. A total of ten teams including 54 volunteers from six Rotary clubs, Rotaractors from Atlanta and Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Lions from the North DeKalb Lions Club participated.

Jon Yaeger, past president of the RNCA and former chair of the DeKalb Rotary Council joined the Lions in 2019 to look for opportunities for the two volunteer organizations to collaborate and partner on projects. He is serving as president of the North DeKalb Lions Club this year, to better understand the Lions culture and how they work.

According to Yaeger, “partnering with other Rotary clubs and volunteer organizations is an excellent way to bring new energy into a club, as well as to multiply the good we can do through service projects.  It also helps to recapture some of the energy and enthusiasm that dissipated during Covid, while exemplifying the Rotary 4-Way Test.”

Contact Jon Yaeger if you would like to get in touch with a Lions club in your area:  jonyaegerrotary@gmail.com

Posted by Jon Yaeger
August 23, 2023

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