Winter Quarter 2017 Sunday, March 19th, 2017 Page 1 Winter Quarter Newsletter Sunday, March 19th, 2017 Members of the Month January 2017: Eden Ines and William Tsu February 2017: Justin Corpuz Distinguished Members Fall Quarter: William Tsu, Diana Cortez, Tiffany Tran Winter Quarter: Justin Corpuz, Kaeley O Shea, Eden Ines Four Way Test 1. Is it the truth? 2. Is it fair to all concerned? 3. Will it build goodwill and better friendship? 4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned? 3rd Annual WAPI Project Our 3rd Annual WAPI Project was the biggest event of the year. With the help of over 200 volunteers from 20 different Interact, Rotaract, Rotary, and UCSD clubs, we made 1491 WAPI s. These WAPI s (Water Pasteurization Indicators) indicate when water has been pasteurized and is safe to drink. We will be sending these off to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, along with solar cookers. Because water pasteurizes at 150 F, much lower than boiling point (212 F), these people will be able to use WAPI s in tandem with solar cookers to ensure that their food is safe to eat while also saving natural resources. Everyone had a great time making WAPI s, meeting new people, and eating sambusas!
Winter Quarter 2017 Sunday, March 19th, 2017 Page 2 Feeding San Diego Juniper Canyon We started off our winter quarter by volunteering at the Feeding San Diego food bank, the largest food bank in San Diego. Did you know that most foods are still edible past their sell by date? Even if a certain food is past its sell by date, it s not necessarily expired. Just use your senses to judge if your food is still safe to eat! On the last week of January, the Interact club of Coronado High School invited us to make WAPIs with them. Fourteen of us joined them for their event, bringing pliers, heat guns, and our own knowledge about WAPI making. We spread out our members among the different stations, providing a wonderful opportunity to get to know the high school students. Perhaps we were able to let them know more about college and inspire them to continue into Rotaract once they graduate. After four hours of making WAPIs, we called it a day. Hopefully they will invite us back to make more WAPIs next year! At Feeding San Diego, most of their donations come from stores that can t sell their expired foods anymore. We were led to their produce storage and tasked to sort out the rotten tomatoes from the edible ones. We gathered the edible tomatoes and placed them into crates to be distributed out to those who need it! We filled up around 50 crates in just an hour! Several of us ended with decorating goody bags that will be given to children, filling up the blank spots of the bags with fruit & veggie decorations, inspirational phrases, and our own personal touches. It was a great event that was actually very close to campus, so we can t wait to come back! Churros and Hot Chocolate Fundraiser This quarter our first fundraiser was selling churros and hot chocolate on library. Though the day turned to be on of the warmest in the quarter, the fundraiser made a little over ninety-two dollars. Fellow members and friends joined together selling and enjoying the day people watching.
Winter Quarter 2017 Sunday, March 19th, 2017 Page 3 WAPI Making at Coronado High School On the last week of January, the Interact club of Coronado High School invited us to make WAPIs with them. Fourteen of us joined them for their event, bringing pliers, heat guns, and our own knowledge about WAPI making. We spread out our members among the different stations, providing a wonderful opportunity to get to know the high school students. Perhaps we were able to let them know more about college and inspire them to continue into Rotaract once they graduate. After four hours of making WAPIs, we called it a day. Hopefully they will invite us back to make more WAPIs next year! 1st Saturdays For this event, we worked with Help the Homeless, a grassroots nonprofit started by old high school classmates seven years ago! The day had three parts. First, we gathered at Ben s apartment to make PB&J s along with some PB and nutellas! Bringing our own homemade donations was an awesome way to get more directly involved. Then, we met with First Saturdays in an empty lot in downtown San Diego to organize all the donations. There were several community service clubs eager to help out and we even happened to meet and introduce ourselves to the Rancho Santa Fe Rotary Club! Lastly, we took these organized donations to Children s Park a few blocks away and distributed the donated items directly to the people in need. It was a rewarding and touching experience to help someone you could see face-to-face. As John (one of the First Saturdays founders) said during the event, our experience was more about the interactions with people than the physical donations we were passing out. Krispy Kreme Donuts The second fundraiser was selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts. We had a pre-sale and sold doughnuts through delivery and pickup. We were supposed to sell on library but we got rained out. Even with a slight of plans the fundraiser was very successful selling twenty-six boxes making $260. A few amazing members bought multiple boxes of doughnuts for a good cause.
Winter Quarter 2017 Sunday, March 19th, 2017 Page 4 Greyhound Adoption Center For our week 9 event, we volunteered at the Greyhound Adoption Center (GAC) in El Cajon. Originally, we were supposed to go during week 6, but unfortunately that was cancelled due to the rainy weather. The mission of the GAC is to find loving homes for greyhounds that formerly only knew a life of track racing. GAC rehabilitates the greyhounds so they can recover from any injuries they received from their track racing career, and they make sure the dogs grow accustomed to a life of love and trust with people. When we arrived at GAC, we got a nice tour of the place from the people in charge. Then we split off into 2 groups doing two different jobs. We started off with one group removing the enclosure near the grassy field, while the other group spent time with the greyhounds, and then we switched tasks. When we spent time with the greyhounds, we helped them practice walking on a leash, played with them, and watched them freely run in the field (they are extremely fast runners!). The greyhounds were eager to interact with each other and with all of us. One of the greyhounds, Nicole, wanted to be petted by everyone and lick everyone s face. Volunteering at GAC was wonderful and rewarding, especially on week 9 due to the stress from midterms and upcoming finals. We look forward to volunteering again! Friends of Cats This event was quite the hit during fall quarter. We had a lot of members sign up but unfortunately we couldn t all participate, so we were excited to take everyone who didn t the chance to join us last quarter! In this event, we visited a cat shelter in El Cajon. Friends of Cats is a non-profit no-kill cat shelter that strives to maintain a shelter for homeless and unwanted cats until they are adopted into a loving home. In addition to providing shelter, they also provide medical care to abandoned cats, and assuring they are healthy enough to then be adopted to families. As volunteers, we attended the shelter to socialize with some of the cats in the shelter that are waiting to be adopted. Volunteers simply visiting, grooming and playing with the cats allows the cats to stay active and make sure they know what that loving human interaction is like prior to them getting adopted.
Winter Quarter 2017 Sunday, March 19th, 2017 Page 5 Food Run! Our food run this quarter was at Taste of the Himalayas - and boy, do they taste great! The restaurant owner graciously kept their doors open much later than usual to accommodate our crowd, allowing us to have a great night of bonding over excellent food. Laser Tag For our quarterly social, we shot down to UL- TRAZONE San Diego for an evening of laser tag. We had an excellent set of three games; by the end of the night, everyone who attended was tired but beaming with excitement. We then tagged along to the nearby In N Out for some burgers before dimming down the night and heading home. Rotaract Club at UCSD Sponsored by international service organization Rotary International, Rotaract is a service club for young men and women ages 18+. Check out the other Rotaract clubs in our district: SDSU Rotaract USD Rotaract City Heights Rotaract San Diego Rotaract Pacific Beach Rotaract Check out the other I-House organizations at UCSD: Model UN PROSPECT Refugee Connections ISSA Find us on Facebook! Rotaract at UCSD Modeled after similar goals and standards to those of Rotary, Rotaract brings together college students and young business professionals for the purpose of humanitarian service, networking, building goodwill and promoting peace in the world. As one of the fastestgrowing Rotary programs, Rotaract on the international scale includes more than 8,000 Rotaract clubs in some 155 countries. Each individual Rotaract club is sponsored by a local Rotary club, and are generally either university- or community-based. Each chapter has its own unique personality, sometimes with special emphases and focuses dependent upon the array of members and their particular interests. Like Rotary, Rotaract clubs meet on a regular basis, and are nonpolitical, nonreligious and open to anyone interested. Rotaractors address many of global and local issues pertinent to today's society, developing projects that promote service, build friendship and provide a forum for cultural exchange. UCSD Rotaract meets every Tuesday in the Asante Rooms from 8 PM 9 PM. Find us on Snapchat! ucsd_rotaract Find us on Instagram! @rotaract_at_ucsd Visit our website: rotaract.ucsd.edu