Welcome to our club website. We differ from traditional "Terra Clubs" in that we meet online. Our meetings are available 24/7/365, consisting of engaging and interesting topics every week. Our membership is dynamic and global in nature.
The purpose of Rotary eClub of the State of Jefferson is to extend Rotary membership to business, professional and community leaders who are unable to meet traditional attendance requirements or who prefer the convenience of an online club.
We offer the opportunity for Rotarians who are considering terminating their membership in a traditional terra club due to demanding business or family commitments, extensive travel, confinement due to ill health or disability, or residence beyond reasonable distance from an existing Rotary club; to remain connected to Rotary, fellow Rotarians and continue to perform Service Above Self.
Our philosophy is...
- To develop symbiotic relationships with terra and eclubs around the world;
- To encourage our members to participate in terra club activities in their communities. This includes but is not limited to helping with local service projects, serving as host families for exchange students and doing make-up when possible at a local club;
- To encourage terra clubs that have members resign to suggest that their previous member consider joining our club or some other eClub so that those people will not be lost to Rotary
- To partner with other clubs on both local and international projects and grants.
Our club initially took this on as a worthwhile international project; to date we have sponsored five boxes and one kit. All but one of the five boxes we sponsored have been deployed to assist in disaster areas around the world: 
With this letter, I give you my sincere and grateful thanks for the help that you are giving me during this school year 2019. I truly appreciate your infinite generosity towards me. I promise that I am going to put all my efforts into my studies so that I can do my very best.
I am sure that the road of study is complicated, but the powerful desire that I have to succeed will give me strength to fulfill my dreams. This year, there is peace, love and happiness in my heart because of a new term alongside my classmates, and maybe the last in this beautiful school, because this is the last year of my high school studies. Emotion fills my soul because I have in my hands the possibility to learn new things and acquire new experiences in the courses we are being taught. I am taking new courses like: statistics, a seminar and the rest of the courses that I have taken in past years, only, at this level they will be complex and advanced. The technology course opens the doors for us to have new knowledge and intelligence for high personal and social development, in order to easily get employment.
This year, I want to obtain good grades, no matter how difficult they will be to get. I know that to be able to acquire that which I desire, I have to fight and make an extreme effort to learn enough. My goal is to be a student with positive initiative and to make an impression on my classmates where they remember me as a girl who worked towards her dreams and was a young woman responsible for everything she did. During all this time, I’ve struggled to improve my vocabulary [in Spanish]. I long to be a young woman with an excellent lexicon. I love to read about the characters in novels and how they speak and express themselves easily and correctly. I feel motivated because I’ve learned a lot, but that’s not enough for me. I want to learn more.
We will gather at the Sanostee Chapter House, a part of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. That will be our central base. The work will be done throughout the Sanostee Chapter as well as other nearby Chapters as selected by tribal elders
How can I help?
Although our club has been supporting this project since its chartering with volunteers, donations, and matching district grants, it might be useful to take this opportunity to look at it a little more closely. Most people in the United States take electricity for granted. Only if a powerful storm hits and it is taken away do we get an understanding of what it is like to depend entirely on the sun for our light. There is still a significant number of families who live in the heart of the United States (barely a 3-and-a-half-hour drive from the comfort of my home in Albuquerque,) with the sun as their only source of light - that is the Navajo Nation. The reservation, bigger than the state of West Virginia, sprawls across Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, in a harsh, beautiful land marked by extremes of temperature, sun, wind, and dryness.
There is, however, a significant population in the heart of the United States, (and only a 3-and-a-half-hour drive from the comfort of my home in Albuquerque,) that live their lives with only the sun to light the way. That is the Navajo Nation.The reservation, bigger than the state of West Virginia, sprawls across Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. It’s a harsh, beautiful land marked by extremes of temperature, sun, wind, and dryness.
Many Navajo — Diné in their own language — have lived in these rural areas for generations, as the land is passed from grandmother to granddaughter. Although they are blessed with big skies and vast desert vistas, these remote locations are often far from services and paved roads. According to a 2016 assessment, about 16,000 Navajo homes don’t have access to electricity. Nearly a third have no running water, and more than half lack kitchen and toilet facilities. Many Navajo are caught in isolated pockets of land, which are called The Checkerboard. Electric lines traverse the land on the horizon, and many hogans are wired and ready for electrical power, but with all of the permissions and work required by the utility, it would cost from $30,000-$80,000 to connect to the power.
Due to the remote location of many homes, children often travel by school bus for multiple hours every day. Before having light in their home, all homework had to be completed on the bus, or by candlelight or kerosene lantern. The Navajo Solar Lighting project is an effort that bring solar lights to at-risk populations on the reservation, especially elders over 70 years old and disabled tribal members.
"To see a house go from kerosene to solar ... it’s life-changing. No longer do they have a proclivity for upper respiratory infections because of the soot." -- Rotarian Joe Williams
The Navajo Solar Light project and our plans for a Spring, 2017 work party on the reservation. 
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