After three years, we’re excited to celebrate a special Rotary milestone—Bryce is our first outbound Rotary Youth Exchange student in three years!
One of the service areas in which the Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest participates is Literacy. Streetbooks ATX is a unique literacy effort to provide books to the unhoused of Austin. With the help of a mobile book cart, Patrick Crowley, and his organization, Streetbooks ATX, goes to locations in the city where people are living with little access to books taking a wide variety of reading materials. These range from children’s books to Fiction and Non-Fiction.
The Killeen Heights Rotary Club is helping create a lasting reminder of peace and community connection in Gatesville with the installation of a Peace Pole and a new bench in an open area behind Gatesville ISD Intermediate School.
The Rotary Club of Austin came together this summer to help some of our community’s most vulnerable neighbors beat the Texas heat by raising $1,000 for the Family Eldercare Summer Fan Drive.
Thanks to the generosity of our members, the donation purchased 50 new fans that will provide life-saving relief to older adults and individuals with disabilities living in homes without adequate air conditioning.
