Great job this past weekend! Hope you enjoyed making a difference in our community while having fun and enjoying each other's company!
Our next service project is to create Welcome Home Kits for households transitioning out of homelessness. This includes purchasing items and creating the kits.
To save us some time, we're going to try to purchase the items beforehand by breaking up the list of items. Then we're going to meet on Sunday, May 2 at 9am at Partners in Care (located at the Aloha United Way building) to assemble the kits. This way we can leave the kits there, saving us a delivery trip. Here are the details:
Project: Welcome Home Kits
Date: Sunday, May 2, 2021, at 9:00 am
Location: Partners in Care (Aloha United Way Building, 200 N. Vineyard Blvd, Building A, Suite 210)
Details: We will be making 10 Welcome Kits for 1-bedroom apartments.
Take a look at theshopping listand sign-up in the blue column for the items you'd like to shop for by the end of Wednesday, April 28. The items, quantities, and basic descriptions are listed. Please use your own judgment with regards to size, quality, and cost. We'd like to get the best value, if possible. The items don't have to match. However, we'd like to at least keep the items per kit the same (e.g., eating utensils, plates, etc.). We also welcome donated items if you would like to purchase and donate or if you have unused items at home.
Shop at your own time at your favorite store for the items and quantities you signed up for. Suggested stores include Walmart, Target, Sam's Club, and Costco. Keep your receipts.
By Friday, April 30, please mark if you have purchased your items or are certain you will purchase the items by Sunday in the green column. Any remaining items Cici will try to pick-up on Saturday.
On Sunday, May 2, join your fellow WHR members at Partners in Care to assemble the Welcome Kits. Bring the following items, if you have them:
Large cardboard boxes
Permanent markers
Scissors
Packing tape
String
Newspaper
Plastic or paper shopping bags
Rolling cart/hand truck
Attire: Feel free to wear your WHR polo. **NOTE: The AC is off in their building. They will have fans, but it will likely be warm.
Questions: Please contact Cici Fong (cafong@gmail.com or 808-429-8535).
Please join us on Fri May 7, at 12:00n and meet our speaker!
Todd Nacapuy Vice President, Chief Information Officer TOPIC: Driving Innovation in Multigenerational Companies
Prior to joining HEMIC, Todd Nacapuy most recently served in the public sector, as Chief Information Officer in the State of Hawai`i’s Office of Enterprise Technology Services. Appointed by Governor David Ige, Todd led the State’s technology team, putting systems and resources in place for a more effective, efficient, and open government. He developed statewide initiatives to leverage economies of scale and reduce waste, including implementing a “paperless” environment and accelerating the State’s move to a single communications platform to provide long-term budget sustainability, fortified security, expanded applications and services, and tools for collaboration.
Prior to serving with the State, Todd had a successful career as an entrepreneur, then joined Microsoft as Senior Technical Account Manager tasked with the mission to “modernize Hawai`i”. Todd is a graduate of Seattle University and Waialua High School.
Thanks again to everyone who supported this past Saturday's service project and came out for Rotarians at Work, Ridge to Reef Project at Ala Moana Beach Park.
We had a total of 21 volunteers that helped collect 51.1 lbs of trash.
I'll eyeball the rest but here are some highlights:
cat food containers
shoes (4 total but I don't think there was a full pair)
clothes
PPE
lots of cigarette butts
lots of plastic bottle caps
lots of beer bottle caps
1 amazing wooden pallet (dragged from the Ewa side of the beach back to "base camp"/near Magic Island)
Thank you again for making our home, from ridge to reef, a little cleaner!
If you have any photos, please send them to me and I'll send them to EcoClub who is compiling all the information and pictures. I've attached a few for your viewing delight!
For those who can join us for our next service project, please save the date and time, Sunday, May 2 starting at 9am - until pau. I'll start a new email string.