Rotary Club of Batesville, Indiana, USA

Batesville Rotary Club Projects and Activities:

• Sponsoring the Critical Issues Community Forum
  
  [Rotary Areas of Focus: Disease Prevention and Treatment, Maternal and Child Health]
   

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• Youth Service Project :
  Batesville Middle School Interact Club for students in 7th and 8th grades  |   Batesville High School Interact Club for students in 9th through 12th grades
  

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• Youth Service Project :
  Rotary Youth Exchange Sponsor for Katie Warmuth
  [Rotary Area of Focus: Basic Education and Literacy]

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• International Service Project :
  ShelterBox USA – Providing humanitarian aid in the form of shelter, warmth and dignity to people displaced by natural and other disasters worldwide.
  [Rotary Areas of Focus: Water and Sanitation, Economic and Community Development, Maternal and Child Health]

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• Local Literacy Project :
  The Dictionary Project – We give a dictionary to each Batesville student in the Third Grade at both Batesville Intermediate and St. Louis Catholic schools.
  [Rotary Area of Focus: Basic Education and Literacy]

   

  

  Rotary Dictionary Project

  

  Dictionary Project for Batesville 3rd Graders

  

  Batesville Third Graders enjoy receiving their dictionaries from our club

  

  Giving dictionaries to all the 3rd Graders in the Batesville schools. 2014

  Some Third Graders sent us this “Thank You” video.

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• Making donations to End Polio
  [Rotary Areas of Focus: Disease Prevention and Treatment, Maternal and Child Health]

• Sponsoring a Kiva Lending Team to support Third-World entrepreneurs
  [Rotary Area of Focus: Economic and Community Development]
  

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• Teaming with Batesville Quilters to ship quilts for children in the Rotaplast project [Rotary Area of Focus: Maternal and Child Health]
  

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• Ringing the bell for the Salvation Army during the Christmas season

• We have donated $1000 to the Batesville Police Department for the purchase of two surveillance cameras.
• We gave money to entrepreneurial students at Batesville High School for a “Spirit Store” merchandise cart.
• Batesville Rotary Club “Student Opportunity Fund” – Batesville Community Education Foundation
• Regular donations to the Batesville Area Ministerial Association Food Pantry
• Annual donation to the Batesville’s Summer Food For Kids Program
• Co-sponsoring Batesville’s National Day of Prayer Breakfast with Batesville Lions and Kiwanis clubs, and the Southeastern Indiana YMCA
• Providing Disaster Preparedness information and a ShelterBox USA demo at Batesville Memorial Public Library‘s Kids Health & Safety Fun Day
• Sponsoring author Dorothy Drummond at the Batesville Memorial Public Library
• Making and serving free coffee for Batesville’s Holiday Light Up the Town event
• Sponsoring a Polar Plunge Team to raise money for Special Olympics Indiana
• Arbor Day planting / Tree City USA Event / Earth Day Celebration

Rotary Club booth at the 2013 Kids Health & Safety Fun Day

BHS School Spirit Cart

(Above) The club hosted a booth with info on ShelterBox USA and disaster preparedness at the Batesville Memorial Public Library’s Kids Health & Safety Fun Day.

Batesville Rotary Club Fundraisers:

• “Batesville Day” with the Indianapolis Indians  – The Rotary Club of Batesville, IN invites our community to an exciting day of AAA baseball at one of the nation’s premier Minor League Ballparks, Victory Field in Indianapolis. Tickets sell for just $10 each.
  Proceeds go to assist the Batesville Food Pantry and other local projects supported by the Batesville Rotary Club.
• Batesville Rotary Fall Golf Outing – Saturday, Date TBA, 2019 – A 9-hole event and luncheon at Batesville’s  Cricket Ridge Golf Course in order to raise funds for our local and international service projects. 
• Batesville Rotary Spring Golf Outing – Sunday, Date TBA, 2020 – Our first 18-hole fundraising event and dinner held at Hillcrest Golf & Country Club. Watch for details!