by Southtowne Rotary | Oct 1, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Non-Profit, People and Personalities, Politics
Meet Ibrahim Coulibaly, an advocate for discussing human rights issues and current president of the Eugene Springfield NAACP. Ibrahim grew up in the small, french-speaking country of West Africa. He came to the US for the first time in 2008, where he lived in New York...
by Southtowne Rotary | Sep 25, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, People and Personalities, Politics
Police Reform Amidst Eugene Protests Over the past few months, the Eugene Police Department has been working hard to manage protests safely and effectively. The department has currently spent $650,000 of overtime costs to do just that. Chief of the Eugene Police...
by Southtowne Rotary | Aug 28, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Health and Wellness, People and Personalities
Gender dysphoria is essentially where the mind and body parts don’t match. It has been described as a homesickness in your own body that never goes away. Technically, it is the condition of feeling one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be...
by Southtowne Rotary | Aug 13, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Environmental Concerns, Fundraising, Health and Wellness, Local Business, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities
Welcome to Positive Community Kitchen. This non-profit sources local produce and cooks healing, organic meals for community members with life-threatening illnesses. The meals are plant-based, full of nutritious ingredients, and gluten-free. In addition, local teens...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jul 24, 2020 | Education, Fundraising, International Concerns, International Rotary Programs, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities
Project Amigo Invests In Education Project Amigo is a Rotary education sponsorship project based in Colima, Mexico that supports children from a very young age through college degrees. Fellow Rotarian, Heather Edwards, explains the value of this program and invites...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jul 13, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Miscellaneous, Politics
Hugo Nicolas’s Story When Nicolas was 11, his mother told him and his two younger siblings that they would travel to the U.S. to join their father, who was an undocumented farmworker. He remembers walking for two days to cross the border. He was dehydrated and...
