From the Rotary Club of Space Center, Houston, Texas, Suzi is passionate about sharing her training and educational skills. She has volunteered as training leader and as a member of the Rotary Leadership Training and Development Committee. She has also served RI as regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, host committee advisor for the 2022 Rotary International Convention, and vice chair of the End Polio Now Countdown to History Challenge Committee. In 2005, Howe won the Dome City Award on behalf of all Houston-area Rotarians for her work running logistics for the 650 Rotarian volunteers at the Houston Astrodome who helped 250,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans over a three-week period.
Howe is also a talented fundraiser, having organized three separate Million Dollar Dinners, the last one alone raising $3.8 million for The Rotary Foundation. “If you make eye contact with me, I will be asking you to make a contribution,” she says.
Howe is a recipient of the Service Above Self Award, and The Rotary Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award and Citation for Meritorious Service. She and her husband, Bill, are Arch Klumph Society and Bequest Society members.
Walk, run, swim, or hike your way to register for the upcoming Stop the Trafficking 5K Virtual Run. Only 1 day left to ensure you get the T-SHIRT! Our club logo (along with the above organizations, and many more) will be highlighted on the back of the t-shirt. Sign up by May 31 at www.stopthetraffickingrun.org. Enter code SPONSOR2020 to register for 50% off. That is only $15 for an adult!
We need your help and ideas to promote the event through your spheres of influence: your family, work, friends, even your entire neighborhood. Imagine sharing a selfie of you and your family wearing the t-shirt as you get ready for or on the 5K. Make a lasting memory for an important cause!
*The official virtual 5K begins June 13 and goes through June 21. Anyone can walk/run during this timeframe. Registrations are accepted until June 20 (but no t-shirts are guaranteed after 5/31.)
*There will be a safe packet/t-shirt pick-up option on June 12 at Grace Church. Packets can be mailed as well. Details are on the race website, www.stopthetraffickingrun.org.
Contact Andrea Jamison or Roger Jorgensen if you have questions or ideas to help us grow this event, support our community, and the lifesaving organizations listed below.
*All registration fees support these organizations:
· Terebinth Refuge – St. Cloud (support for their transitional home)
· Breaking Free – St. Paul (support for their emergency drop-in center)
· The Link (Passageways) – Prior Lake (emphasis on critical supplies for at-risk youth)
· Source and InvolveMN – Minneapolis (emphasis on providing food for at-risk, homeless populations during COVID-19)
· Hope Sewn (support for organization in Haiti that employs women through sewing projects, so they can escape prostitution and support their families)
International Village Clinic/Manav Khidmet Foundation – Dr Abul Sharah
Dr Sharah was introduced by Mark Lewis and Prafulla Vegunta. Dr Sharah is retired from a distinguished career including 27 years at Honeywell. Dr Sharah met Mother Theresa in 1996 and began giving back to his native India through a clinic and hospital in Uttar Pradesh (eastern border of India). He shared pictures of the clinic campus and school facilities that are under construction. The healthcare programs consist of curative and preventive programs which in 2019 served nearly 41,000 patients (curative) and 180,000 people in 56 communities (preventative). The hospital and clinic employ 60 staff including 4 doctors on an annual budget of $150,000. The doctors on staff make $300 per month. The campus facilities are powered by solar panels. Recent grants have added to the number of panels and batteries powering the campus. Visit http://www.villageclinic.org/ivc-news for more information.
In recent years, Dr Sharah has branched out into education starting the World Class English School and is adding one grade each year until they have a full Nursery through High School enrollment. Dr Sharah thanked EPAM Rotary for its continuous support over the past fifteen years.
June 30th marks the end of the RI year. Please submit your contributions to Roger Jorgensen or log in to RI website https://my.rotary.org/en/donate to give electronically. To date 30 of 70 members have contributed $17,000 of our $31,000 goal.
EPAM Rotary Foundation will hold its annual meeting June 23rd via Zoom after our regular meeting. Members are invited to join the meeting.
Grants Committee is looking for additional members. Contact Carol Bomben. The Committee and the Board of Directors recently approved three grants totaling $3,000.
Jenifer Loon talked about a $500 grant EPAM Rotary made as part of larger grant sponsored by Edina Noon which is funding a water purification project in Guatemala.
Their generous support helps sponsor all that our club does in our community and around the world! This includes the Above and Beyond Awards Dinner, the Golden Eagle Awards, the Ethics Lunch and STRIVE scholarships and much more. Interested in becoming a Rotary Sponsor? Click here
Join us live on Zoom anytime after 7:15AM. Meeting will begin at 7:35.
Dr Sharah was introduced by Mark Lewis and Prafulla Vegunta. Dr Sharah is retired from a distinguished career including 27 years at Honeywell. Dr Sharah met Mother Theresa in 1996 and began giving back to his native India through a clinic and hospital in Uttar Pradesh (eastern border of India). He shared pictures of the clinic campus and school facilities that are under construction. The healthcare programs consist of curative and preventive programs which in 2019 served nearly 41,000 patients (curative) and 180,000 people in 56 communities (preventative). The hospital and clinic employ 60 staff including 4 doctors on an annual budget of $150,000. The doctors on staff make $300 per month. The campus facilities are powered by solar panels. Recent grants have added to the number of panels and batteries powering the campus. Visit 
