A s forest fires continue to burn in northern California, local Rotarians are finding many immediate ways to help support firefighters battling what Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called an "unprecedented wildfire threat."

D angling by a rope 50 feet above a swift-moving river is no easy way to go to market. That's why Ken Frantz of the Rotary Club of Newport News, Virginia, USA, is building footbridges in some of the world's most remote places in an effort to fight extreme poverty.

R otary clubs in Springfield, Missouri, USA, are helping turn hunger into hope through a mobile food pantry program that is reaching rural communities in southwest Missouri.