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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

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!

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?

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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!

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!

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!

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.

Churros and Hot Chocolate

Fundraiser

Feeding San Diego Juniper Canyon

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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!

For this event, we worked with Help the Home-

less, a grassroots nonprofit started by old high

school classmates seven years ago! The day had

three parts. First, we gathered at Ben’s apart-

ment to make PB&J’s along with some PB and

nutellas! Bringing our own homemade donations

was an awesome way to get more directly in-

volved. 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 hap-

pened 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 re-

warding and touching experience to help some-

one you could see face-to-face. As John (one of

the First Saturdays’ founders) said during the

event, our experience was more about the inter-

actions with people than the physical donations

we were passing out.

The second fundraiser was selling Krispy

Kreme doughnuts. We had a pre-sale and

sold doughnuts through delivery and pick-

up. 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.

Krispy Kreme

Donuts

1st Saturdays

WAPI Making

at Coronado High School

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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.

For our week 9 event, we volunteered at the

Greyhound Adoption Center (GAC) in El Ca-

jon. Originally, we were supposed to go dur-

ing week 6, but unfortunately that was can-

celled 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 rehabili-

tates 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 peo-

ple 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 grey-

hounds were eager to interact with each oth-

er 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 re-

warding, especially on week 9 due to the

stress from midterms and upcoming finals.

We look forward to volunteering again!

Greyhound Adoption Center

Friends of Cats

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.

Food Run!

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 attend-

ed 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.

Laser Tag

Rotaract Club at UCSD

Sponsored by international service organization Rotary

International, Rotaract is a service club for young men

and women ages 18+.

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 fastest-

growing 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.

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

Find us on Snapchat! ucsd_rotaract

Find us on Instagram! @rotaract_at_ucsd

Visit our website: rotaract.ucsd.edu

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