Camarillo Breakfast Rotary - A Message from the Club President

We are so pleased that you have visited this website! The Breakfast Rotary Club of Camarillo (BRCC) membership is a dynamic group of business and civic leaders who have joined together to support local and international causes. Please enjoy reading through some of this groups service projects.

The Breakfast Rotary Club of Camarillo, established more than 25 years ago has raised well over $500,000 in support of local and international needs.
As part of this club's Centennial Project, in recogntion of Rotary International's 100 years of service, we're proud to have sponsored a portion of the gymnasium floor at the brand new Camarillo Family YMCA.
Annually, club members travel to Romania on a service project to provide dental and optometry services to orphans
The Beer & Wine Garden at Camarillo Fiesta Days, Electronic Waste Disposal, and the Care for Kids Golf Classic (the golf classic also helps Casa Pacifica and CRF) help support the various causes of the CBRF.

As part of our service to youth, we are proud to sponsor students to attend Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA) each year. Please read these letters from two students who have just returned from their RYLA experience!

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for sending me on this great experience. I have met many new people and have recognized many new opporutnities in my life. The speakers have also been very inspirational. Leadership is much more difficult, complicated, and diverse than I ever thought. But, now that I understand more, I am more intrigued to be a good leader. I am impressed at now accomplished some of the kids are here. I feel I am very accomplished so I love sharing my thoughts and hearing others. This camp, I feel, is very unique in what they are giving us...skills to be a professional, successful adult. I don't think, before I came here, that I truly looked into those leaders that affected me, how they were able to bring people together and unify them. I want to BE that person now. Thank you so much, again."

"So much happens in the blessed days I spend at RYLA that it is impossible to confine it to one page and one letter! I can't help but smile when I think of new friends and lessons that will stay with me throughout my life. The public speakers' messages are instilled in my mind and I believe the truth in what they say will affect my decisions and future profoundly. It stands out to me that a situation I was in at RYLA is symbolic of my life. It may seem silly, but on Friday night, there was a rock climbing wall, a blow-up laser tag, and a blow-up slide (20 ft tall). I've never gone down a 20 foot slide at a 70 degree angle. I was standing at the top of the slide saying to myself, "okay, I'll go now. I'm going to go. I'll just jump, it's safe. What's the worst that could happen? Okay, I'll go now." Two weeks before RYLA, I would not have jumped. WIth two days of courage under my belt, and the support of a new friend, I jumped! That's the symbol. I know I'll never go back and un-learn being courageous. AFter all, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence when you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."(Eleanor Roosevelt)".