Richmond Rotary provided volunteer support to Richmond’s Freedom School sponsored by Easter Hill United Methodist Church. The goal of Freedom School is to provide a safe, fun and fulfilling learning environment for 6 weeks during the summer. This helps students so they don’t fall behind once school starts in the fall. Rotarians helped serve lunch (Don Lau, Jan Brown, Darlene Rios Drapkin, and Rolanda Wilson) and Shawn Dunning did a Read Aloud session. Rotary also provided funds for field trips.

Richmond Rotary Member Florian Santos volunteers at GRIP Greater Richmond Interfaith (Housing houseless families) and represents Richmond Rotary Club. She teaches a parenting class twice a month at GRIP and privately coaches GRIP parents individually. The shelter provides housing for eighteen families including 48 children.

On June 9th, we celebrated the accomplishments of the Community Services Team with a fun “Mahalo Party”. Special thanks to Don Lau for being a great Chair to our Team and Yenny Garcia as Vice-Chair. Collectively, the Richmond Rotary club gave an estimate of over $70,000 in 2022-2023 to 30+ organizations locally and internationally.