Darien Rotary Club Raises Over $50,000 For Community

DARIEN, IL — The Darien Rotary Club held their annual fundraiser, A Taste of Route 66, recently and raised over $50,000 for the community. The fundraiser featured ten area food and drink vendors and over 180 attendees. Funds from the event will go to support the Backpack Food for Kids program, which provides supplemental nutrition to 195 school-age children in the Darien area, ensuring that when they come to school on Monday they are ready to learn, the club said.

According to the club, other programs that will receive support include Grants-in-Aid benefiting local civic efforts, RYLA which provides leadership training for local high school students and the Darien Rotary Dictionary Project handing out dictionaries annually to every third grader in the Darien area (over 700 in 2017 and over 6,000 in the last 9 years).

Image via Darien Rotary Club.