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International Service – This avenue of service enables a local Rotary Club to work together with other Rotary Clubs around the world to provide services to those in need that they may never be able to reach on their own. Through Rotary International, clubs in different countries combine their efforts to achieve results that may only be a dream for a local club. The Rotary Club of Prospect/Goshen has participated with the Downtown Louisville Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of Belmopan, Belize and the students at Bellarmine University to develop a micro lending program in Belize to help residents start businesses. The P/G Rotary Club has also participated in Belize with the University Of Louisville School of Service Learning and the U of L Rotaract Club to send students to that country to help with medical care, dental care, sanitation problems and justice administration services. That work is continuing today with the students of Western Kentucky University.
One of the major International Service projects that P/G Rotary participates in is student scholarship. RI offers both Peace and Ambassadorial Scholarships for advanced studies each year. P/G rotary have sponsored one Peace Scholar and four Ambassadorial Scholars and are presently sponsoring one each for studies in the near future.
Group Study Exchange programs allow them of young professionals along with a Rotary team leader from that country to visit another country to learn customs and exchange professional knowledge while making new friends in another country. P/G Rotary has hosted teams from Our club has also hosted Group Study Exchange teams from Japan, Holland, South Korea, Brazil, Norway.Mexico, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Germany and England.
P/G Rotary began a program in 2005 with the first of the Ambassadorial Scholars which was called “The $100.00 Solution.” Students traveling to another country were provided with a challenge that would help them address the social needs of people in the country where they would be living. They were to identify a social problem, study its causes, and with the local community leaders ask the question “With this $100.00 what can I do to enhance the quality of the individuals in the community?”. This program was also extended to the Semester At Sea students traveling around the world in their studies. The results of the efforts of all the students have been amazing and they have changed the world for the people that they reached.
The P/G Rotary Club also participated in the RI Polio Plus program for the eradication of polio world wide by raising $22,000 for the program.