The Club coordinates the "Birthday in a Bag" Program with School Social Workers, who identify the students and families who may not, for one circumstance or another, realistically be able to celebrate their birthday with a party. Students are typically either in foster care, homeless, or identified as financially disadvantaged.

 

 

 

The “Birthday in a Bag” contains a present for the child, snacks, juice boxes, cutlery, a tablecloth, streamers and a certificate for a large cheese pizza. Because of school privacy guidelines, the Rotary does not know who the families are, so the Club buys the cake with a tube of icing for the parents to write the child’s name on the cake themselves.