Project Highlights

Our club members believe in teachers and students, safe/clean water, books, flags and blood, among other worthy projects, locally and internationally.

Fort Worth South Rotary’s main local effort is enhancing Education and Literacy

• We raise funds for “adopted south FW schools” through our annual wine tasting event, our own FW Foundation and our American Flag Display Project.
• Award TCC scholarships annually to Pascal High School seniors.
• Recognize a TCU nursing student in need and help with their schooling costs.
• Grant annually, two Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) to Pascal High School Juniors, and send them to the RYLA Leadership Conference.
• Donate teaching materials to R.J. Wilson elementary school.
• Donate dictionaries annually to all 3^rd grade R.J. Wilson Elementary school students.
• Donate dictionaries annually to all students at Rosemont Middle school.
• Provide awards to A&B Honor Roll students at R.J. Wilson Elem. to encourage good grades and give bicycles to a student in each grade at end of the year that made all A’s and B’s.
• Furnished IPad lab to R.J.Wilson Elementary 

Other Activities

• In 2006, our Flag Project presented its first check to our local foundation, the Fort Worth Foundation. More than 350 flags are distributed on designated flag days.
• Participate in blood drives. A blood drive challenge that started with our club has hit the big time. The challenge has collected 50,000 units of blood.
• Man the Angel Tree booth at Hulen Mall in conjunction with the Salvation Army.
• Give to local charities.
• Through local fundraising, we support Rotary International’s “Polio Plus” program to eradicate polio worldwide.

What about our international efforts? 

• We provide clean water filters to Moskete natives in La Moskitia Honduras.
• Our club helped collect books to send to Africa. We are proud to announce that about 1.3 million books were sent with clubs from three districts participating.
• Rotary and its health partners have contributed over $800 million to eradicate polio.
• Provided blood banking equipment to third world countries in need.
• Provided cows and barns to a village in India.
• Drilled water wells in third-world countries like Honduras.
• Provided disaster relief throughout the world including Haiti and other locations.
• Supplied wheelchairs to the disabled in Mexico working through and with local Mexican Rotary Clubs.
• Supplied fishing boats to Typhoon and Earthquake displaced Philippine Fishermen.