Announcements and Events

East Vs Downtown Charity Softball Game and Beer Tasting is tonight, August 24th at Mulcahy Stadium. Game starts at 6:30. Please join us and help us raise funds for a preschool in South Africa.

General Admission: $10

Beer Tasting: $15

April 7th 6 pm  is our next meeting, FNBA between Ingra and Gambell Come join us!!!

World Rotaract Week: Health Fair Project March 19th at Northway mall 8am -12pm

This Saturday, please come help celebrate World Rotaract Week by participating in a community service project with Gateway Rotary Club. Please email anchoragerotaract@gmail.com for more details.

Covenant House Wish List Drive: Items due at March 3rd Meeting

6 pm Mulchay park Anchorage AKbring your friends, family or even people you don't like!
Watch two Rotary clubs battle the bases for the honor of being champion of service.
4 innings of softball will include games like "heads or tails," a cake walk and possibly a silent or live Auction.
Light concessions will be available for purchase
Admission is $10, $5 for children, ages 5 and under are free.
Funds will go towards the construction of a school in Nicaragua. 

Please email anchoragerotaract@gmail.com to confirm meeting time and location.

2010/2011 Board

President: Heather Karwowski

Vice President: Kayse Ericksen

Treasurer: Skye Frison

Secretary:  WANTED

Past President: Katie Johnson

Local Projects

Paint the Town

Run For Good

Relay for Life 

Health Fair 

Anchorage Rotaract celebrated this year's World Rotaract Week with by partnering with Gateway Rotary Club and volunteering at a community heath fair. Helping children and adults in Anchorage get the information they need for a healthy life. 

Covenant House Wish List Drive

Anchorage Rotaract conducted a wish list drive for homeless teens. Members collected hygiene and clothing items for the local teen homeless shelter Covenant House.  

Toy for Tots 

At this years Rotaract Holiday party members brought a toy to donate to children in need.

Teddy Bear Tea 

Anchorage Rotaract hand decorated and donated nine circus bears to Salvation Army's Teddy Bear tea this year. The bears helped raise money for this organizations vital community programs. 

International Projects

Supplies for Preschool in South Africa

This year Anchorage Rotaract has made a commitment to providing developmentally appropriate school supplies and toys for a South African Preschool in the township of Kwandengezi that will support over 1000 children by the year end. We are hosting a Softball Game and Beer Tasting event to raise funds for this project. 

Mayasa Nicaragua School Project- Rotaract's International Project 2010-2011

Last year Anchorage Rotaract has made a commitment to help build and supply a school in Mayasa Nicaragua. The school will house 150-200 children in a rural and impoverished part of the country. We have partnered with Soldotna Rotary and Project HOPE. In August we hosted a Rotary Softball game between Downtown and East Rotary to raise funds to help send volunteers to help build the school along with raise money for the much needed school supplies for the children.In October we hosted a Rotary Halloween Party to raise funds for the school again. We raised over $2,500 this year! We also sent a team of three Rotaractors to help build the school in September of 2010. The school is now built and holding classes!!! 

2009/2010 Projects

Eagles Nest Orphanage

This is an Orphanage in Easter Russia.  Anchorage Rotaract again is partnering with Anchorage East Rotary to provide assistance to this Orphanage.  Anchorage East has been providing aide and making trips to this Orphanage to a number of years now. 

TEACH A MAN TO FISH 
You may have heard the saying "If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, if you teach him how to fish he eats for life..."  But the reality is that what he really needs are boats and nets.  We are also raising money to fund entrepreneurs in third world countries through the process known as micro loans.  Many people in these countries have the potential and the drive to be successful business operators.  What they need to succeed are small loans to buy the materials to run their business.  
For more information visit Kiva.

Northwest Italy Roundtrip

Our club president, Ian Shepard, was selected to be one of only eight Rotaractors from all over the world to attend this annual event.  He traveled the Northwest Region of Italy experiencing the culture and the food from many different small towns.  He described it as an amazing experience that he is very proud to have taken part in.  The Rotaract District of Northwestern Italy has offered this trip for a number of years for the purpose of broadening cultural horizons. 

HALLOWEEN MADNESS
Anchorage Rotaract worked closely with Anchorage East Rotary to create the best Halloween project in the Anchorage Area.  Great Food, Great Costumes and Great Scares were rampant.  When you partner a successful Rotaract Club with an amazing Rotary Club, the possibilities are endless.

All proceeds supported Rotaract International Projects.

MS BIKE TOUR
Our Rotaract club recently volunteered with the annual MS Bike Tour. This is a bike race from Anchorage to Seward and back over a weekend in September. Seven of our members gave up their weekend to assist with this worthy cause.. All proceeds from this event contribute to the fight against MS (Multiple Sclerosis).

MOBILE FOOD PANTRY

Mobile Food Pantry distribution is the second Saturday of each month at 1:30pm at the Fairview Recreational Center. Contact anchoragerotaract@gmail.com for more information.

This event is organized by Anchorage East Rotary and rotaractors have been involved on a regular basis.