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2009 Naperpalooza Beneficiary

more than just a concert...
more than just great food...
more than just a charitable fundraiser...

All proceeds from your all-inclusive ticket is your chance to contribute to
Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise’s “Fund for Education”. 

Our projects include:

  • Turning Pointe School for Students with Autism

  • A school project in Tikondone, Zambia, Africa

  • Needs-based college scholarships for deserving Naperville students.


Turning Pointe
is a private school being built in Naperville to improve the future of Naperville Children challenged with Autism.

  • It will house up to 35 kids, most of whom are presently being bused to Palos Hills over 40 minutes each way. The cost to Naperville Schools is about $25k a year per child just for transportation. It is an incredibly disruptive routine for these children.
  • Today, 1 out of 150 kids is born with Autism so the problem is growing.
  • The $3 million dollar parcel of land for the school has been donated by the Wolf family. Now the Turning Pointe Board of Directors needs to raise money to build the school.

The lives of all these kids and their families will improve dramatically along with many indirect benefits to our community and schools.

Pursuit of Life Awards is a scholarship program that makes financial scholarships to local needy student(s) so they can attend a program of their choice after graduation from high school.  This program is administered by the Rotary Club.  For more details, see our web page.

 

Lastly, we are also raising funds to further education in Zambia, Africa. We have a long term relationship with a community center called Tikondane in Zambia, one of the poorest nations in Africa. We are adopting a holistic approach to helping the 30 surrounding villages become self sustaining. Education is a critical piece of that development. We are planning on funding a permanent school structure.  For more details of this significant international project, see our web site.

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2008 Naperpalooza Beneficiary

more than just a concert...
more than just great food...
more than just a charitable fundraiser...
 

All proceeds from your all-inclusive ticket is your chance to contribute to
Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise’s “Fund for Education”. 

Our projects include:

  • a school project in Tikondone, Zambia, Africa,

  • replacing musical instruments for Pass Christian, MS (Naperville’s sister city) high school music programs devastated after Katrina, and

  • needs-based college scholarships for deserving Naperville students.

Naperville Sunrise Rotary has a comprehensive program for supporting the Tikondane Community Centre.   Naperpalooza is providing funding for the educational efforts in the community.  Thank you for your support!

In addition to education in Tikondane, our Rotary efforts include clean water (e.g., water wells, irrigation, etc.), medical supplies, and general supplies.  Naperpalooza provides an opportunity to collect supplies from the public to include in our shipping container being sent to Tikondane (below).

For more information about our educational projects, see our Rotary Club links at the bottom of this page.


NAPERVILLE DONATIONS TO ZAMBIA AT NAPERPALOOZA!

Here is the chance to have a significant and direct impact on an impoverished community in Africa.  One of Naperpalooza’s beneficiaries is Tikondane Zambia and the Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise is sending a container to Africa. We are asking for your donations to help fill the container before its anticipated departure the middle of February.  The container will be at Naperpalooza so bring items you would like to donate and get a peek at what we are sending, as well as pictures of the community itself.  Bicycles for the aids caregivers, clothes, shoes, used eyeglasses, watches, medical aids, and devices for the local hospital, and used computers for the school are all needed.

Please open your hearts, your closets and your garages and bring us those items that can benefit these deserving souls.

Call 630-420-0011 for more information.


NAPERPALOOZA WANTS YOUR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!

 Another of Naperpalooza’s beneficiaries is the Pas Christian, MS school music programs. Katrina dealt a horrible blow to the school community and it still hasn’t fully recovered. In keeping with the Education and Arts programs the Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise supports, we are collecting used musical instruments that you may have laying around the house and sending them to the schools to help revitalize their once proud music programs. So please don’t forget to bring them with you – we will be collecting them at Naperpalooza.


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community service...
vocational service...
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Last Update: 11/25/2008
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