The Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club meets Tuesdays from 7:15 to 8:30 am at the Rotary International building, 1560 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201, for breakfast and a speaker. Membership is open to service oriented residents and workers of the area.  Guests are welcome to attend the meetings.  To learn more about the club, its schedule of breakfast programs, and its charitable and service programs, visit www.evlrc.org.

The Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club serves the needs of our local community and our brothers and sisters around the world.  Here’s what we are currently doing:

Community Service Projects

  • Repairing homes of low income elderly, disabled and families with children

  • Providing professional dental care for those in need

  • Supporting healthy breakfast programs for elementary school students

  • Funding job training programs

  • Supporting mental health care for our neighbors in need

  • Funding addiction treatment for young adults

  • Helping to provide legal services and advocacy for disconnected youth

  • Delivering meals for the homebound in Evanston

International Service Projects

  • Supporting ongoing work to eradicate Polio worldwide

  • Partnering on a long-term project to build sustainable access to clean water and sanitation for every household in Haiti

  • Supporting victims of war in Ukraine with medical supplies, generators and emergency shelter

  • Funding safe sex education in rural communities in Kenya

  • Sponsoring in-country surgeon training and advanced cleft repair surgery at no cost to families in need in Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines

  • Funding the rescue and rehabilitation of trafficked children in Ghana

  • Collaborating with a women’s collective in Uganda to purchase farm equipment and provide hospital equipment to improve economic and health outcomes for the women and children.

  • Providing emergency assistance and support for Ukrainian refugees in Lithuania, Syrian refugees in Türkiye, as well as refugees and asylum-seekers at the Mexican border from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala

  • Supporting construction at a school for indigenous students in Guatemala