Our President Chris Farren

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Silver City website. We are pleased to bring visitors and members together with this valuable Internet resource.

Silver City is located an hour's drive north of Deming, New Mexico, in the heart of the Gila region. The Rotary Club of Silver City is one of over 31,000 volunteer Rotary clubs with over 1.2 million men and women in 168 countries whose membership is dedicated to "Service Above Self." We donate our expertise, time, and money to help make our community and the world a better place for all.

Rotary International continues its efforts to eradicate polio. Working with the World Health Organization, U. N. Children's fund, the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and governments around the world, Rotary International has achieved 99 percent reduction in the number of polio cases.

At the local level we have raised thousands of dollars for the El Refugio shelter from domestic violence. We are also pleased to support Alimento para el Nino, a program to provide "take home" easy-to-open, nutritious food for school children who might otherwise not have access to healthy meals over the weekend, when school is not session. Two local high school students received scholarships from the Silver City Rotary Club in 2007.

In addition, our Rotary club raised funds to support the creation of a literacy center in the Silver City Library and funded the building of a labyrinth at the Gila Regional Medical Center. Our many local projects are funded in large measure through our major fund-raising event, a biennial Rotary Silent Auction. The next auction will be held in the spring of 2009.

Our Rotary Club continues to support water projects both in Guatemala and in New Mexico. We are sending much needed supplies and equipment to a local rural community and, in collaboration with several other New Mexico Rotary clubs, we are ensuring that potable water is brought to small communities in Guatemala.

Thank you for visiting our Website. We hope you will also visit our Rotary meeting on a Tuesday when you are in our area to enjoy the fellowship of Rotary.

Sincerely,

Chris Farren
President, 2007-08