Coats for Kids

This fall, charter founder Yamin Farhat, of the Rotary Satellite Club of Atlanta Southern Crescent/Clifton-Emory (RSCASC/CE) Angeli Abrol Duggal, and Angeli’s five year old daughter, Avya Duggal, led the Club's winter service project to collect winter coats and clothes for Atlantans in need. Rtn. Neil Shorthouse from Atlanta West End Rotary, and a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, helped RSCASC/CE partner with St. Luke's, and Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch, a supportive, community-focused leader, helped Avya partner with Director Judi Carlson at Malachi Storehouse, St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, to mobilize the distribution of coats and clothing. Together, the Club was able to donate over 800 articles of clothing and 60 baby and expectant/new mom essentials this fall!

Avya and her mother, Angeli Abrol Duggal, President of the Rotary Satellite Club of Atlanta Southern Crescent/Clifton-Emory, partnered with the Glenn Institute and The Westminster Schools (where Avya is a preFirst student) to kick off her Coats for Kids pilot project in November, with the goal of making this an annual student-driven fall service project. True to the Westminster spirit of service, Stacy Chalmers, the Glenn Institute of Philanthropy and Lower School Director of Student Life, was incredibly supportive of Avya's project and ensured everything came together quickly and seamlessly. Avya enthusiastically spoke to her class about collecting warm clothes for other kids, the importance of giving to those in need and Rotary's mission of service above self. The Club members stepped up across the US to donate - Secretary Dr. Jeevan Makam brought a large box of winter clothes from Boston to donate to St. Luke's (all the way from Boston to Atlanta), PP Pia Valeriano donated beautiful women's winter wear, Mrs. Sushma Dersch generously donated her late husband's winter and memorable Army jackets when he served in the U.S. Army, and Karina participated with the Atlanta Arts Collective, where they collected and delivered a truckload of winter wearables to Hurricane Helene victims in western North Carolina.