The Rotary Club of District2780 Kanagawa Shonan, the first alumni club in Japan

With small children living in an orphanage in Fujisawa City, we cleaned city streets, had a nice outdoor lunch, played games and sang songs . After the clean up, President Mama, who supervises recyling in the city govenment, showed how to recyle the garbage collected and emphasized the importance of recyling. A perfect vocational service! We all enjoyed working with the children.

The club's first matching grant project with Mandaluyong- Pasig-San Juan (Manpasan) RC, the first alumni club in the world, District 3800 and District 3220 in Sri Lanka, which also has an alumni club, created three deep wells and fixed one well pump in four schools in Caloocan City in Manila, providing water for more than 10,000 pupils and students every day.
Three club members visited the sites in February 2008, and enjoyed the warm hospitality of PDG Lina Aurelio, who led the project in the Philippines, and wonderful members of the Manpasan RC. Our members attended the 6th anniversary meeting of the Manpasan RC and found the two clubs are so much alike, like twins. We are all looking forward to working with them in the future. Salamat po and let's keep in touch!

For two years in a row, we hosted the orientation for Youth Exchange inbound students with Rotex members. The students were from all over the world, the US, Canada, Australia, France, Brazil, Russia, Taiwan and Korea. The orientation focuses on introducing the Japanese culture and Rotary, and has been well received by the students in the past years. This is a great service opportunity for us who were once in a position similar to these students.