Rotary Club of Asheville West Scholarship Fund

The Rotary Club of Asheville West maintains a Scholarship Fund to provide annual college scholarships for graduating Seniors at Enka and Erwin High Schools.  The Club also sponsors the Hattie Balwin Scholarship which goes to a deserving young person planning to attend Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.

The Club has several fundraising events throughout the year to support this effort.  Interested individuals can also make a direct contribution to the fund.  Donations may be sent to:

The Rotary Club of Asheville West

PO Box 6065

Asheville, NC  28816-6065

Student and Teacher of the Month Recognition Program

Each month The Rotary Club of Asheville West recognizes outstanding students and teachers from Enka and Erwin High Schools.  The recipients are invited to a weekly Rotary meeting where they are presented a plaque in honor of their selection, a name plate to add to the Student of the Month Award plaque at their respective schools, and given an opportunity to talk about their work and plans for the future.

Rotary Youth Leadership Academy

Every year dozens of future young leaders descend on the Brevard Music Center to attend Rotary District 7670's Rotary Youth Leadership Academy.  The Rotary Club of Asheville sponsors two youth from the West Asheville area to attend the camp each summer.

RYLA teaches the young people leadership skills, etiquette and social skills and works to build self confidence in an effort to build the leaders of tomorrow.

Emma Family Resource Center

Emma Family Resource Center is a direct-service project of Children First, in partnership with Buncombe County Department of Social Serivces, Emma Elementary School and Mission Hospitals.  The EFRC works to support current residents, recent immigrants and struggling families living the Emma community in West Asheville.

The Rotary Club of Asheville West partners with EFRC throughout the year on such projects as the Emma Annual Rummage Sale, Thanksgiving and Christmas Food Baskets, Homework Club and the Emma Community Garden.

Emma Family Resource Center Wish List

Books for Africa

Rotary West has been working for several years to purchase school books for schools in Africa.  To date they have provided books for grades 1-7.  Pictured here is Project Coordinator Mable Carlyle (l) with the books for the next shipment.

Rotary International Matching Grant Water Project                  Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico

The Rotary Club of Asheville West has taken up Rotary International's challenge to help bring clean, potable water to needy people in the world.  Partnering with The Starfish Fund, The Mills Family Mission, Hebron USA and the Mayan Synod, the Club will drill a well in Ocosingo to provide clean water for the new Los Manos de Cristo Medical Clinic.   The Clinic will bring much needed medical care to the indigenous Tzeltal Indian people of the region.

In an innovative twist on providing clean water, the project includes purchasing portable drilling equipment that will stay on site in Mexico.  The equipment will be available for other civic, church and Rotary groups to drill additional wells in the hundreds of small villages in the region without clean water.  For more information on the project contact Glenn Pierce.  To see Glenn's first visit to our partner club in San Cristobal, click on the link below.

Rotary West Meets Rotary San Cristobal