The Rotary Club of Vinings was chartered in November 1989 with 37 chartered members and now boasts 74 very active members.  Our reach in the community and across the globe has been well documented.
Locally, our signature annual fund raising event, the successful Vinings Downhill 5K, enables our club to grant worthwhile charities financial resources to continue and build. Additionally, we've initiated and sponsor with manpower and resources many projects including, but naming just a few:

• Smyrna Seniors, providing fellowship to our local senior community
• Breakthrough Atlanta, scholarships for inner-city youth
• Trinity House, recovering addicts
• Cobb Christmas, helping to provide presents to needy families
• MUST Ministries, coat drives
• AIDS Awareness, Kell High School
• English as a Second Language
• Literacy Programs, Teasley Elementary School; Tutoring, Computer Assisted Learning, Book Drives
• Interact Club, Campbell High School, 60+ members
• Laws of Life Essay Contest, High Schools
• Vinings Clean Ups
• Vinings Historical Society alliance
• Environmental; clean water projects

Internationally, we've initiated or participate in meaningful projects worldwide, including:

• Kilifi Kids, Kenya, de-worming 28,000 school aged children over the next four years, funding fifty high school students to attend in a cooperative environment with Campbell High School
• Children's Hospital, Costa Rica, providing medical equipment and infrastructure to the hospital
• Children of the Andes, providing computer equipment and school repairs in rural Ecuador
• Ethiopia Water Project, funding the drilling of water wells with other clubs in our District
• Wheelchair Foundation, providing over 380 wheelchairs to recipients in third world countries that otherwise have no means of mobility
• Georgia Rotary Student Program, hosting college students from around the world for an academic year
• Group Study Exchange, meeting with Rotary sponsored teams from around the world in a spirit of international exchange, last year from Argentina, this year, a team from Turkey

Want to know more? Join us every Wednesday at noon at the Vinings Club!