The July 7th meeting marked the beginning of the new fiscal year and President Ben Brewer's first official meeting as President. Before the speaker, Warren Sparrow, began his presentation, Ben promoted Laura Lane McKinnon from Red Badge to Blue Badge - congrats Laura Lane! The club then heard from Warren Sparrow who is the Executive Director of Reed House.
Reed House is a non profit organization serving the mentally ill population in and around Savannah. Many mentally ill individuals are told they do not have a future and to focus on staying healthy and safe. Reed House believes that everyone has the potential to make a contribution to their community and society and therefore, their main focus is rehabilitation. They work with the mentally ill to help them achieve this goal by giving them little jobs around the house (sweep, answer phones, placing orders, etc) to helping them find employment in the community (part time job at Humane Society). According to the CDC, 6% of the population will suffer from a serious mental illness and of those 6%, 90% of them are unemployed. Estimates suggest that there are 12,000 citizens in the greater Chatham county area that have a serious mental illness. Reed House's primary source of funding is Georgia medicaid along with donations. They have just launched a capital campaign to raise funds for a new building on Bee Road that would increase their capacity to serve from 30 to 100 people a day.
Mark your calendar for July 20th! Savannah East along with members from Savannah South and West will have a night out at Grayson Stadium for a Savannah Bananas game. $15 bucks and all you care to eat of their fabulous hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, chips, popcorn and soft drinks! What a deal! For every ticket Rotarians buy for this game, $5 will be donated to the Savannah Early Childhood Foundation. RCSE will cover the cost of a member's ticket. If you want to bring a guest, then you will need to purchase a ticket for them for $15. You can RSVP to Kerri at the upcoming meetings. Please note that this event will take the place of our meeting on Friday, July 21.
Haven Elementary is one of the service projects RCSE has chosen for the upcoming 2017-2018 year and there are two opportunities to volunteer in July! The first is the Back to School Breakfast for the teachers on Friday, July 28 from 7:30 am - 8:30 am. This is a great way to meet the teachers and administrators at Haven as well as see the new building! We will need members to serve and provide breakfast items. The second opportunity is on Sunday, July 30 from 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm at Haven Elementary's Open House. Haven has asked for a few of our members to aide in the Open House by greeting and directing parents as they come into the building. Sign up's for both events will be at the check-in table at the next 3 meetings. So, mark your calendars and volunteer!
Paul Tatum is asking for input from members of RCSE who would like to help bring in new and interesting speakers. If you have an interest or any ideas regarding future speakers, please contact Paul at 770-367-6119 or Paul.Tatum@uss.salvationarmy.org
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