Girard-Liberty Rotary Club helps ‘Poorest of Poor’ in Appalachia, Haiti
GIRARD — Do the math:
Girard-Liberty Rotary Club has sent 200,000 pounds of clothing and medical supplies per year to people and places in need. The project is in its 28th year.
S. Paul Wright of Brookfield said this year’s effort is unique in that students from Girard and Liberty are assisting in the effort. They’re helping to pack a semi-truck with clothing earmarked for Appalachia and clothing and medical supplies for Haiti.
“It’s called the Poorest of the Poor,” Wright said of the project. He said he hoped the young people’s involvement in the community service project helped make them aware of the need in the United States and around the world.
S. Paul Wright said Rotary got involved in this project when his son, Dr. Paul Wright, now a retired cardiologist from Brookfield, was student at the University of Notre Dame. The younger Wright had volunteered at a clinic in Mexico. The elder Wright said his son relayed to him the poverty and poor medical care that the people of the country endured.
“We [Rotary] decided to do something to help,” said S. Paul Wright, himself a retired long-time educator in Trumbull County.
The club has been doing it ever since.
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