Service Opportunities

Each spring, The Rotary Club of Dallas, in partnership with Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, hosts a Bike Rodeo & Child Safety Day for Dallas area children and parents about bike and traffic safety, and also general safety, including poison control and fire and water safety.

    

        

  

Children also have the opportunity to interact with members of the Dallas Police Department. The lineup varies each year but past activities have included:

- A CareFlite Helicopter landing and meet and greet with the flight crew

- Meeting the Dallas Fire Safety Robot and Dallas Police Department Bike Bot Children

- Participate in an official fingerprinting activity with Dallas Police Department

- Explore the inside of a fire truck and experience exhibits from a variety of community partners.

 

        

 

The Bike Rodeo safety course provides a safe environment for children to practice bicycle safety skills by riding on a course designed to simulate actual road conditions making the participants aware of bicycle safety issues and teaching parents the importance of ensuring their children always use safety equipment. During the event, children have their bikes inspected, sign a “Safety Day Pledge” and have the chance to win one of the 25-35 bikes given out each year.                      

 

 

      

 

The Rotary Club of Dallas' 3rd Scholastic Book Fair was held May 13-16, 2024. This project not only has the goal of cultivating a love of and passion for reading with young students, but also, through our partnership with Dallas Police Department, the Department of Justice, and Thurgood Marshall Elementary School: Project Safe Neighborhood’s focus elementary school, an opportunity for a positive experience with law enforcement for kids who live in one of Dallas’ highest crime neighborhoods. Police officers and Rotarians help the children select books and read a story. Each student can select three books to take home, with the cost of the books underwritten by the Rotary Club of Dallas.  

 

          

 

As project leader and The Dallas Rotary Member Linus Wright says, "Education for the young is so much less expensive than paying for the lack of it in adults.”

 

Imagine that to be able to access drinking water, your children had to cross a busy street and bring it back to your home in plastic containers.  Or that the town where you live doesn’t have a dentist and you or your neighbors have to live with major dental issues for years or even decades.  This is the currently reality for people living in parts of Ghana.  Through relationships with two Rotary Club of Dallas members from Ghana, over the past several years our club, with funding from global and district Rotary grants, has been able to partner with local Rotarians, and groups like the Baylor School of Dentistry and other U.S. Rotary Clubs, to provide dental services for thousands of Ghanaians and training for local nursing students, as well as establish several clean water wells for multiple villages.