Earth Day Bahrain

About

The Rotary Club of Adliya was chartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain in July 1994 as the third Rotary club under the umbrella of the Rotary International.

Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

There are over 32,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto “Service Above Self” Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, the workplace and throughout the world.

The club has been active along with its sisters clubs in jects undertaken over the last 14 years include holding the annual Model United Nation Assembly for Youth and Assisting the Ministry of Labour of the Kingdom of Bahrain in establishing Career Expo – a career Fair for Young Job Seekers; organizing outings and activities for the elderly and less privileged families; arranging events where the funds raised were donated in support of variety of social humanitarian projects; raising BD 40,000 from the annual Bahrain Golf Invitational that was donated to Al Wafa Center, a project initiated and developed by the Club; raising funds for the purchase of various medical equipments.

One of the many social humanitarian activities of the Club is The Restoration of Houses of the needy families. The Club has been working in association with the Bahrain Philanthropic Society and Bahrain Duty Free Company for this cause. Several houses have been restored with many others are currently being planned to be restored. This is an on going project where funds raised from Collection boxes placed at the Bahrain
International Airport plus other specific projects are earmarked for the Restoration of Houses.

There are several projects planned for the Rotary Year 2007-2008 and the funds raised are all marked for specific humanitarian projects. Among the projects planned for this year are:

• Bowling Competition: funds shall be used for the purchase of Computers and other peripherals for Information Technology Bus. This is one of the Ministry of Social Development Projects aimed to eradicate the Information Technology among the residents of the Kingdom.
• Art Competition: The Club in association with Ispektrum-Bahrain, shall hold this event and funds raised shall be used in provision of a workshop for arts and crafts, including painting, for the less privileged people.
• Musical Concert: The Club intends to hold a function in conjunction with The Bahrain Music Institute where the funds raised is earmarked for the provision of suitable place for the youth of Bahrain who are interested in the fashion industry to learn the design and other related activities associated with the clothing design and tailoring. This is also a project which has been identified and supported by the Ministry of Social Development
• Other Humanitarian projects: The Club plans to hold several of these projects in addition to what have been held over the last period of the Rotary Year