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Lower Main Line members Rick Trivane and Richard Li join Donna Henry (rt), on November 28 to hand out Thanksgiving meals to seniors shut in for the holiday. Dozens of turkey dinners were gratefully received by residents of Southwest Philadelphia.
A Rotary Chinese Dinner Roundtable in Philly
Rotarians and significant others heeded the invitation of past club president Richard Li, third from right, to a social gathering in Chinatown, Philadelphia, in October. From left, Tranda Hatzfeld, Bozena Leis, Sherman Leis, Manajeh Bina, Michael Solomon, Rick Trivane, Glenn Snyder, Richard Li, Pat Broderick, Connie Broderick. Not shown, George Hatzfeld.
At the July 4, 2024 Bala Park Festival our club introduced Nuts to Polio, a reference to Rotary’s efforts to rid the disease from both Pakistan & Afghanistan, two countries where pistachios are harvested.
Club Program Director Patrick Walsh recently was notified of his selection to the Forbes “Best in State Wealth Advisors List.
Club members Glenn Snyder, George Hatzfeld, Tree House CEO Michael Brix, Jack Dawson, Ken Podell and Gerri Huber with the Traveling Tree House mobile library visiting Narberth.
North Philadelphia’s Tree House Books celebrated another banner year with a gala to honor its volunteers and sponsors. The Lower Main Line Rotary was named 2022 Partner of the Year for our support of the Traveling Tree House. Through this imaginative literacy program some 15,000 books are given annually to neighborhood kids throughout Philadelphia. Continuing contributions help sustain Tree House Books’ operational programming.
Our “seed money” for literacy and the work of Tree House Books has helped the organization attract area-wide attention and funding from NBC Philadelphia Channel 10.
Click here to see the station honoring the program with a $35,000 “Champions-in-Action” award.
Dedicated volunteers were on hand to load a 40-foot container with collected medical supplies and equipment to a hospital in Liberia.
When our club was presented with the opportunity in 2014 to foster a humanitarian project that could reduce suffering and deaths worldwide, we took the steps necessary to help establish an eastern collection and distribution warehouse for Project C.U.R.E., the nation’s largest distributor of donated medical materials and equipment. It began shipping containers in 2016. In June, 2024 this 60,000 square foot facility in Jennersville, PA launched its 100th seagoing container and achieved a benchmark goal of sustainability.
In developing countries across the world, families must purchase needed surgical and medical supplies for their loved ones on the street, often at highly inflated prices. Every container Project C.U.R.E. ships has a street value of $250,000 to $550,000, with medical supplies hospitals can offer to disadvantaged patients. Conservative estimates would value the eight years of shipments from the Project C.U.R.E. Mid-Atlantic Distribution Center at $33 million. And the Lower Main Line Rotary Club sparked the way to this accomplishment.
Click here for more on our connection to Project C.U.R.E.
Project C.U.R.E.’s 100th Container Ships from the Mid-Atlantic Distribution Center — A Stellar Achievement that Proves Our Faith in Its 2015 Creation
LML Rotary is Honored for our Support of Literacy and Tree House Books in North Philadelphia
Pledging operational support for the book van are Richard Li, George Hatzfeld, Laya Charlestein, Rick Trivane, Pat Broderick and Glenn Snyder
Jenna Sanzo, newly appointed operations director at the MADC in Southern Chester Co., has overseen packing and shipment of their 100th medical container.