The 12th Annual home medical equipment collection event for FODAC is in the books!  On August 3, 2024 our community of Rotarians and Rotaractors came together on the back patio of the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant to organize into groups who were then assigned to go into the community to pick up donated home medical equipment.  This equipment is then refurbished by FODAC at their Stone Mountain site, and distributed back out to those in the community in need, generally for free or at a very low cost.

Over the previous 11 years that North Atlanta Rotary Club has organized this event, we have collected equipment totaling about $2,000,000 in value (verified by FODAC). Over the last 9 or so years North Atlanta Rotary Club has organized this project with the cooperation and participation of our fellow Dekalb Rotary Council Clubs: Atlanta Metro, Brookhaven, Decatur, Dunwoody, Emory Druid Hills, North Atlanta, South DeKalb, Stone Mountain, Tucker, and Metro Atlanta Rotary, the Atlanta Rotaract Club, the North DeKalb Lions Club, and friends and family members.  This year we gathered about 70 volunteers, including District Gov Gordon Owens and his wife Ashley.  We made 43 pickups from around the greater Metro Atlanta area including Chamblee, Doraville, Stone Mountain, Snellville, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Marietta, and Roswell.

Our gratitude to all those involved:  Volunteer and Event coordinator North Atlanta Rotary PP Ralph Sims, all of the volunteers, the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant, the FODAC staff, and especially the donors from our communities.  THANK YOU!  We couldn't accomplish this project without each of YOU!