This high profile event serves as their primary fundraiser and has been extremely successful. In the first ten years of this event, they have raised over $200,000 that has gone directly to:

community service programs supporting -

• personal and neighborhood safety
• drug awareness and at-risk youth

The Mesquite Rotary Club Programs

Mesquite Rotary Club – Benefactors 2009 – 2010

• Addressing Mesquite $5,000
• Boy Scouts $1,200
• Rotary International (Water tanks in South Africa) $6,000
• Have A Heart Dental $3,000
• Historic Mesquite $25,000
• Mesquite Social Service $2,500
• Mesquite Sunrise Club (Coats) $1,000
• Mission East Dallas $10,000
• Mesquite Youth (Various Programs) $15,800
• School Supplies $4,500

Monetary Support for International Needs

• Donating to the Rotary District 5810 Wheelchair Project with the Wheelchair Foundation to provide wheelchairs to those in need locally and internationally (individually, and with club matching funds)
• Have donated to Rotary’s Send-a-Book Project, providing textbooks for schools in the Philippines
• Donated to the HALO Project, which clears land mines in formerly war-torn areas abroad
• Supporting the Rotary International Polio Plus Campaign that will soon eradicate polio in the entire world, and is providing far greater vaccination levels against other common diseases all over the world