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The Rotary Club of Chicago Southeast
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The Rotary Club of Chicago Southeast - Who We Are, What We Do and how YOU can be a Part of It!
PEOPLE OF ACTION
Our club offers opportunities for our members — and those interested in making a difference — to get involved. Through meetings, social events, and volunteer projects, our members learn about the issues facing our community and communities all over the world, partnering with local, national, and global experts to exchange ideas about potential solutions and to draw up action plans to respond. Along with these opportunities to serve, members also are able to regularly network, resulting in lifelong friendships and business connections.
Our club is a proud part of this community and of Rotary International. Rotary is a global network of more than 1.2 million members who believe that great things happen when dedicated minds come together. We are community and business leaders representing different professions, experiences, and perspectives but with a shared desire to connect with others to address the challenges affecting our community and communities around the world.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Solving real problems takes real effort, commitment, and vision. Rotarians work to protect communities from preventable disease, keep women and children healthy, improve education and economic outcomes, create safe water and sanitation infrastructure, and make our community and the world a more peaceful place.
We are working with various partners on the following projects:
Peace Projects — We work with grassroots organizations to assist them in developing young leaders to use their oratory and organizing skills to promote community peace and develop conflict resolution techniques.
Holiday Gift Drive — In partnership with Grundy County Waste management, we provide Holiday Gifts to Community Centers and Shelters in time for the Holiday Season.
Library and Technology Training – In collaboration with Nigerian Rotarians, we are planning to assist a library in southern Nigeria, supporting their management and training them on technology use and implementation.
Ending polio — Partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF to end polio, once and for all.
GET INVOLVED
Becoming a member enables you to meet your community’s leaders and to make an impact both here and around the world. We invite you to visit our club and find out more about us and the opportunities we offer to get involved.
Our members have found that it’s a truly rewarding experience.
“Because of my involvement in our Rotary Club, I have been exposed to a whole new world of business connections and lifelong friends that have allowed me to do service both in our community and around the world.” - RCCSE Member “Our Rotary Club is my extended family. The members are people I know I can count on and trust, because we all share common values of integrity and a desire to ‘give back’ to our community.” - RCCSE Member |
A glimpse of richness that was chartered on March 25, 1997 and continues to thrive today! 2of5
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Community Service Committee 03/25/2023
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Matthew House Chicago Community Service 02/25/2023
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Paul Harris Certificate - 2021-2022 President Mel Smith 05/10/2022
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Rotary International District 6450 Foundation Dinner 04-29-2022
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Fundraiser - Authentic African Masks 2021-2023
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The meaning behind the RCCSE Club Banner
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The meaning behind the RCCSE Club Banner:
The Rotary Club of Chicago Southeast proudly serves under this banner.
Founded in 1997, next year the club celebrates 25 years of service!
Kente Cloth Border - Represents our African heritage and connection to the continent.
Clock - This clock was built on ‘Rotary Island’ located at 87th and Stony Island in Chicago in 2007. It was donated by RCCSE and is the 1st permanent edifice erected by a Rotary club in the Chicago area.
Rotary Wheel - The international Rotary symbol recognized around the world.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Homage to the founder of Chicago. DuSable, of Haitian decent, was the first permanent non-indigenous settler in Chicago. He became a powerful trader and pioneer of the Midwest.
The Rotary Club of Chicago Southeast proudly serves under this banner.
Founded in 1997, next year the club celebrates 25 years of service!
Farrad Ali founded Mende Cybernetics, LLC
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Farrad Ali founded Mende Cybernetics, LLC
With over 30 years of information technology management experience, Farrad Ali founded Mende Cybernetics, LLC in 2020 with the goal of delivering effective and secure IT services to businesses and organizations. Mende Cybernetics designs and implements effective IT infrastructure management solutions that empower businesses to better understand their IT operations and to equip businesses with the tools and processes to address cyber security threats.Farrad has worked in the FinTech and ISP industries since the late 1990s. He has worked and lived abroad in Europe and he has established partnerships with organizations in Ghana. In addition, he is currently engaged as the co-founder of an NGO with active infrastructure projects in Ghana. Farrad possesses a BS in Computer Science from Chicago State University (1990), a MS in Computer Science from Governors State University (1994), and an MBA from Purdue University (2008).
Meal Distribution Slideshow 06/16/2020
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COVID-19 Meal Distribution to Trinity Hospital Staff Slideshow 04/14/2020
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WE CONNECT PEOPLE
Rotary unites more than a million people
Through Rotary clubs, people from all continents and cultures come together to exchange ideas, and form friendships and professional connections while making a difference in their backyards and around the world.
WE TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES
We take action locally and globally
Each day, our members pour their passion, integrity, and intelligence into completing projects that have a lasting impact. We persevere until we deliver real, lasting solutions.
WE SOLVE PROBLEMS
No challenge is too big for us
For more than 110 years, we’ve bridged cultures and connected continents to champion peace, fight illiteracy and poverty, promote clean water and sanitation, and fight disease.
Together, we see a world
where people unite and take action
to create lasting
change across the globe,
in our communities, and in ourselves.