Come and enjoy Passport to the Tropics on February 21, 2009. The Tampa Interbay
Rotary teamed up with 10 top-notch restaurants to provide you with an evening
filled with auctions, entertainment, delicious food and lots of fun.
Tickets are $100 in advance or $115 at the door. Visit
www.PassportToTheTropics.com
for more information and to purchase tickets. All the proceeds will benefit Gift Of Life.
Get your tickets early, invite your family and friends. See you there!
The Gift of Life, Inc. Program, was originally initiated by Rotary District 7250 in 1975, and is today a worldwide International Service Program. Its primary purpose is to help those needy children who require corrective heart surgery secure another lease on life, through the miracle of open-heart surgery in a Gift of Life participating hospital in the U.S.A.
The concept of the Program began in 1974 when the Manhasset, NY Rotary Club responded to a request for help from the Kampala Rotary Club in Uganda. The response brought five ¬year old Grace Agwaru on a 5,000 mile journey from Uganda to Roslyn, NY On November 15, 1974 she underwent a very successful four hour open-heart surgical procedure to close a hole between the two lower chambers of her small heart at St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY.
Strange as it may seem, what began as a simple response to help one small girl from a far-away country, has today developed into a very dynamic worldwide movement, involving not only thousands of Rotarians and their families, but also countless people from other community-based service and fraternal organizations, including numerous American ethnic community groups: They all have united with the primary objective of providing the "Gift of Life" to the more than 2,900 children from over 30 countries who have followed Grace Agwaru since 1974.
Tampa Rotary District District 6890 has saved over 120 children since 1996.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
Over the years the Tampa Interbay Rotary Club has made significant contributions to various charities such as: Gift of Life, Boys and Girls Club, Metropolitan Ministries, Salvation Army, Centre for Woman, SHIP, Paint your heart out, ...
The Tampa Interbay Rotary Club (founded in 1954) meets every Thursday at the Centre Club at 12:15 PM.
