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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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