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The Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest meets at DK Maria's Tex Mex located at 1807 W Slaughter Lane Ste 750, Austin, TX 78748. We meet most Thursdays at noon, have monthly service projects and we have a quarterly social. If you need more information, please contact President Jack Gabig . We Welcome You to our meetings, socials and service projects!

Recycling Styrofoam

We will have a booth the first Saturday of every month at the SFC Farmers' Market at Sunset Valley (Toney Burger Center, 3200 Jones Road) from 9 am -1:00 pm.

Texas Ramp Project

Our members help yearly to build a ramp for a needy person. We recently completed a ramp project on May 16, 2026. If you would like to participate next year or with another local ramp, please contact us.

Feeding the Hungry

Club members worked with Oak Hill United Methodist Church to prepare food at the Rise Against Hunger Event to feed 10,000 people.

Speaker on September 17

Join us this Thursday to hear from Trudy Marshall from Libraries of Love, Africa. Trudy was a teacher in Pflugerville for 18 years teaching kindergarten, then 3rd-12th grades. That was followed by a year of teaching high school in Lithuania. When Trudy returned from Lithuania, she began a ten-year career as a librarian in a Round Rock school.

In 2005, a friend suggested that since Trudy had traveled to thirty-nine countries, she should go to Uganda. She agreed! Upon arrival, she went to schools to see their libraries. The schools had no books. Libraries of Love was born - which signified our love and God's love for the African child. Libraries of Love now has forty-four libraries, as well as many college graduates and sponsored students. We also provide humanitarian aid. Trudy lives in Uganda and Kenya 6-8 months a year. Welcome, Trudy!

October 24 is World Polio Day

Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 45 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.

Rotary's first polio project was to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. Inspired by that successful vaccination campaign, Rotary went on to become a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988, which has reduced polio cases around the world by 99.9 percent.

Thanks to the generosity and commitment of our members, Rotary has contributed more than US$2.9 billion in PolioPlus grants and countless volunteer hours to protect more than 3 billion children in 122 countries from this disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $11 billion to the effort.

Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.

Please donate to our fundraiser for Polio Plus 2026.

IF you are a Rotarian, be sure to list the email you use to log into myrotary.org.

Styrofoam Collection

Styrofoam collection is coming up. On Saturday, September 5, 2026 we will be happily collecting your Styrofoam.

Folks, we are so close to 4,000 lbs collected! Tell your neighbors and friends!

Community volunteers always welcome. Click this link to sign up.

Join Us

Fall is fast approaching and things slow down some in our busy lives. Kids are back in school, schedules worked out, and maybe some extra time for lunch with new friends.

We have some great speakers coming this fall and we would love for you to join us for lunch. Join us at DK Maria's on Thursday. Lunch is on us!

Our Rotary theme for September is Basic Education and Literacy. Literacy is a big part of our club's focus.

Flash Book Drive

We successfully had a flash book drive earlier this month thanks to our connection with Streetbooks ATX. Rotarian Keith came across a very large amount of used books, and we knew it could go somewhere other than the landfill. Patrick Crowley with Streetbooks was able to take them, and he'll add them to his collection for books that go out on his mobile library. He also will donate some to Violet KeepSafe Storage as part of their library there. Because of our community connections, we were able to keep over 300 books out of the landfill and hopefully into the hands of someone in need of entertainment, comfort or a little bit of escapism.