Our Service Projects

HEARING & SPEECH

• We provide scholarships to deaf or hearing-impaired students or to students who are pursuing a degree in Speech Pathology. 
•  Provide product aids for deaf or hearing-impaired such as alert systems or bed shaker alarms
• Promote healthy hearing by distributing disposable ear plugs

CHILDREN'S EYEGLASSES

• Work with school nurses in area schools to provide eye exams and glasses to needy children and youth.
• Investigate other needs in the area of vision.

SERVICE TO DISADVANTAGED WOMEN & CHILDREN

• Investigate needs in the community, particularly women's shelters and other organizations or agencies that assist women, children and families in need.
• Make recommendations to membership for allocating budgeted funds.
• Examples of agencies recently assisted include: Northeast Iowa Food Bank, Bremwood, Family & Children's Council, Devonshire, Exceptional Persons, Aspire, Quakerdale and others.
• Additional projects may involve helping families at Christmas, fund raisers for flood victims, Care Bears provided through hospital emergency rooms and more.

WORLD SERVICE

• From preschools to high schools, medical clinics to resource centers, vocational training to therapy sessions, Quota-run projects in the We Share Foundation's Club-to-Club World Service Program vary according to the needs of  the community they serve.
• While the 15 current projects differ in many ways, they share one common goal - helping people pave a route out of poverty.
• This committee reviews programs approved through Quota International's World Service and makes recommendations for donations of budgeted funds.
• Examples of Club-to-Club projects we have supported include a vocational training program for women in Ba, Fiji; a neonatal hearing screening center in Davao City, Philippines; and a day care center in Cebu, Philippines.

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World Service Projects

COPS-N-KIDS

• First started by a Racine, WI police officer, Cops-n-Kids is a program to promote reading in children by providing books to police officers who distribute them to area children while on routine patrol. 
• There are over 70 Cops-N-Kids programs in cities across the country.
• Book give-aways are also held in schools, parks and at neighborhood events.
• In addition, because of our communities' needs, we provide Hispanic and Bosnian language books in Waterloo.
• Since our Waterloo Cops-N-Kids program was kicked off in 2002, over 12,000 books have been distributed.
• Our dream for every child is a future full of reading, writing, successes in school, confidence, self-respect, creativity, potential, and the ability to make their own dreams come true.

GRANT AWARDED

Cops 'N Kids co-chairs Rose Quirk and Marsha Stroh with Chief of Police Tom Jennings showing the $10,000 grant awarded by the Iowa Gaming Commission and Isle of Capri for the Cops 'N Kids program.

 BOOK GIVE-AWAYS

2009 HEARING & SPEECH

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

$1,000 Winners

  Carol Byrne

     Brianne Thompson

Holly Drury

$500 Winners

Jeanna Sheedy

 Crystal         Williamson

 Hannah Moser

QUOTA CARE BEARS

Care Bears help comfort children at local hospitals

QUOTA BLANKET PROJECT

Members made blankets for infants and children at a local shelter.