Apply to host a booth in the House of Friendship at the 2016 Rotary International Convention in Seoul, 28 May-1 June. This is an opportunity to showcase your club or district project, recruit members for your Rotary Fellowship, share information about your Rotarian Action Group, or market Rotary merchandise if you are a licensed RI vendor.
The application deadline is 30 September. Booth allocations will be awarded by 1 November.
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When Mariana Day moved in 1989 to the small beach town of Chacala, in Nayarit, Mexico, she noticed that the surrounding rural areas struggled to maintain schools. And most children weren’t able to go beyond an eighth-grade education. Day, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Bahía de Jaltemba-La Peñita, in Nayarit, had started a local scholarship program before she joined Rotary. Called Changing Lives, the program provided students with high school tuition, uniforms, school supplies, and transportation.
In addition, Rotary clubs from the United States and Mexico have been investing in the...
From the September 2015 issue of The Rotarian
Eradicating polio is a complex job. Since 1988, we’ve collaborated with the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF to tackle the disease through our Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Here’s how our roles break down.
The Strategist: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) coordinates the management and administration of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and provides technical and operational support to ministries of health in countries around the world. WHO is responsible for monitoring...
Today marks one year since Nigeria last reported a polio case caused by wild poliovirus, putting the country on the brink of eradicating the paralyzing disease.
The last case was reported on 24 July 2014 in the northern state of Kano. If no cases are reported in the coming weeks, the World Health Organization is expected to remove Nigeria from the list of countries where polio is endemic, leaving just two: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Nigeria is the last polio-endemic country in Africa. The continent is poised to reach its own first full year without any illness from the virus on 11 August.
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The rules of the Shaftesbury Rodeo Academy are simple: no school, no rodeo. It’s a message that teenagers who attend school at Bisley Farm, most of whom have never attended any school regularly, take seriously. Because come Friday night, these aspiring rodeo heroes want to join their friends to ride bulls for a heart-stopping eight seconds, if they last that long.
The school in rural Queensland, Australia, also teaches the boys, who are of the Wakka Wakka Aboriginal people, basic academics and farming skills, including how to care for crops and livestock. It’s a fairly common form of...
Visiting Rotarians: Joanne Lemieux from Charlestown, NH
Guests: None
Raffle: Past President Garlan was asked to make the draw. After the first ticket went unclaimed Steve Christy’s number, which he pre-announced, was drawn. Alas, no joy for Steve as the Queen is still hiding somewhere below deck.
Announcements:
PDG Bruce asked if the Club was doing anything for World Polio Day on October 24th. The sense was that the Club would be doing something, but that we will need volunteers. More to come on this
Rich W. - Free seminar about digital marketing trends 9/23/15. After Bill K. called Rich out for promoting his business and suggested a fine of $ zillion, Rich advised that the seminar will no longer be free.
Brags / Fines:
Joanne Lemieux recounted the tragic story of the death of her step-children’s mother two or three weeks ago. She was killed in a motorcycle accident just a week or two shy of her birthday. Joanne reminded us of the fragility of life, how one bad decision can affect so many people, and that we should really make sure that all of our affairs are in order.
Jennifer Grant reminded us of the Chester Rotary Club's upcoming Fall Festival
Steve Christy fined himself, once for forgetting to return the Club’s clock in the Dwinell Room (he removed it to replace the battery), and for not being able to attend the auction because of his number one grandson’s first birthday (which was also his brag).
Rotary Minute: Paul Tierney, who realized on his way to the meeting that he was responsible for the Rotary Minute, recovered by speaking about inspiration and asking what inspires us. PDG Bruce related an event at the Middlebury Rotary Club recently that had inspired him. John Y asked Paul if our next therapy session would be at the same time next week. Paul assured John that his insurance would now only cover a colonoscopy which is tentatively scheduled for 10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Club Forum
There were discussions about giving guidelines and visibility and marketing. At our table we talked about curling and received a lesson on same from Jamie Whyte (a first, a second, a skip, a vice, and a house). Actually this discussion also had to do with visibility and marketing since there will be a curling event at the next District Conference. Steve Whitman said this event was a “hook” to get people interested in and talking about the conference. He asked what did we have as “hooks” to get people interested in and attending our events such as the auction?
Next week’s program will be the new Lebanon City Manager Dennis Luttrell. Come learn more about the new manager and why he wanted to come to Lebanon.
Excerpted from Walter Hughes email on completion of this project:
We impacted 28,890 lives with this one project. We have $750,000 worth of projects that were started since your visit to Ghana. The summary of the project is:
We exceeded most of our goals. We completed twelve boreholes and one hand dug well. We repaired thirty-two boreholes instead of fifteen. We bought seventy-nine tablets instead of six desktop computers for four schools instead of just one school. We completed 116 microflush toilets instead of 131 toilets. We funded more computer labs than our plan. The project budget was $111,224.
This photo was possible because you cared enough to transform lives of children with a new borehole and wells. THANK YOU! Our new team leaves on Thursday for Ghana. The original photos showing the work and the signage for your clubs can be viewed at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/koyjvm3g48oyakr/AADGhnW0v8OzkZRpK6qDcsmea?dl=0 . You can download the Dropbox software at www.dropbox.com/download. The final report is attached as well as the photograph of the children at the well.
If any of you know of someone whose life would benefit from a call or card from the "Sunshine Girl", please let Marion Steiner know. She can be emailed at msteiner@lakesunbank.com or home at 603-826-0081.
“Primarily Rotary seeks to apply the theory of service to business and community life....This is expressed in the first part of our code of ethics: To consider my vocation worthy and as affording me a distinct opportunity to serve society. He Profits Most Who Serves Best is a less ideal expression, but the suggestion of egoism is removed by the added words, Service Above Self.”
— Address to 1926 Rotary Convention, Denver, Colorado, USA
