The Walterboro Civitan Club held its July 11th meeting at Dukes Barbecue. The meeting was called to order by the ringing of the bell by Civitan Vice President, Paul Capers.
The guest speaker was Janis Young of FoCCAS, Friends of the Colleton County Animal Shelter. Young, a Board Member of FoCCAS spoke about the mission of the group to assist the Animal Shelter. FoCCAS raises funds to assist the shelter with Medical Care, Educational Outreach, and Spay and Neutering. The group also provides Pet Food to Food Pantries and Blessing Boxes in Colleton County. Two of the big events for FoCCAS is Annual Walk and Wag and its Paws Fundraiser now in going into its 14th year. She also showed one of the pet calendars this is sold to raise money. Young is excited about the new shelter building to be constructed and gave a brief description of the building and added that they are always looking for volunteers.
The Civitans voted to donate $250 dollars to the FoCCAS organization.
With more than 30,000 members worldwide, Civitan International is a global organization dedicated to serving the local communities of its members. Using the structure of building local clubs, Civitan equips its members to address local needs with local solutions.
Civitan is the only service organization dedicated to serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). This long-standing focus began as a local project in Baltimore in the 1940s when Civitan began funding specialized teachers in schools. In 1956, Civitan membership unanimously adopted service to I/DD as the major project focus of the international organization. Today, Civitan supports the Civitan International Research Center in Birmingham, Alabama where more than 100 researchers work on diseases that impact the lives of 1 in 6 people worldwide.
