East Chapel Hill Rotary Club Foundation

Bicycles for underprivileged children in this annual project, we purchase and distribute bicycles to low-income families during the chapel hill service league's christmas house event. Fifty new bicycles and 50 helmets were given away at christmas house. The total cost of the bikes and helmets was $6,750. Ten rotary club members assisted with purchasing, transporting and distributing the bicycles and helmets. With 50 bikes and helmets provided, the number of children who benefited is probably 100 - 150.

Solar projects although we did not add rooftop solar to any additional homes built through habitat for humanity of orange county this year, we continued the partnership by volunteering at their sites. We raised $1448 to support a habitat for humanity project in abidjan, cote d'ivoire, that provides solar batteries for charging cell phones. Additionally, we sent the $6500 raised in 2023 to support solarequity in its commitment to add solar panels to peach apartments, a new affordable multi-unit housing complex.

Hurricane reliefwe raised money to donate to the nc disaster relief fund in support of hurricane helene victims. In the future, we will provide hands-on work in western nc as well as raise additional funds. In 2024 we contributed $18,319 to the effort.partnerships with other rotary clubs:rotary club of oxford - $5,000 adopt a goat projectrotary club of global partners in peace - $5,000 support former peace fellowsrotary club of garner - $2,000 partner in international water projectrotary club of chapel hill - $2,000 - partner in kiosk project at newborn critical care-unc hospitalsusa-france icc - $10,000 to support the usa-france intercountry committee, an organization founded by the rotary int'l vice presidents from these countries to establish cultural and educational exchanges between their citizensmathkind globalwe provided $3,000 for a local teacher to participate in an international program that explores collaborative methods for teaching math.