More than 23,000 viewers in 24 countries tuned in to Rotary's World Polio Day event, streamed live on 24 October. Health officials including James Alexander, senior medical epidemiologist for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave an update on the polio eradication campaign and praised Rotary's achievements to date. Rotary has contributed more than $1.2 billion to polio eradication since 1979. For World Polio Day, Rotary released $44.7 million in grants to fight the disease in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In addition to the update, the event included entertainment by...
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head for speaking out against the Taliban in support of girls' education, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014.
Yousafzai, whose father is a Rotarian, shares the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a native of India who has worked to combat the exploitation of children for financial gain, according to an announcement in October from the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
In announcing the award, the committee praised Yousafzai for demonstrating that "children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations." It noted...
Business owners and community leaders in Evanston, Illinois, USA, joined Rotary staff and family members in a celebration of the organization's cultural diversity at an open-house Rotary Day event at Rotary's world headquarters on 25 October. Rotary President Gary C.K. Huang is urging clubs and districts to hold these informal events to showcase Rotary's good work. The open house was held immediately after Evanston's Day of Caring, during which volunteers planted trees, fixed up buildings, performed yard work, painted, and participated in other community projects throughout the city.
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Seeing an elderly Tibetan woman weep with joy when cataract surgery restored her vision after 10 years is the kind of moment Dave Razo will never tire of.
For several summers Razo, a member of the Rotary Club of Warner Robins, Georgia, USA, traveled to rural northwest China with a team from Georgia-based nonprofit Gansu Inc., to provide free sight-restoring cataract surgery to some of the country's poorest residents. In 2012, after 22 years and 6,000 successful procedures, Gansu's founder, ophthalmologist William Conrad, retired and discontinued the organization's operations.
But Razo didn't...
Rotary continues to closely monitor the latest developments surrounding the Ebola outbreak, and work with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other partners to respond to both polio and Ebola. Fighting disease is a priority of our members, who have organized countless projects around the world aimed at educating and mobilizing communities to prevent the spread of major diseases such as polio, HIV/AIDS, and malaria.
While our response to Ebola continues to evolve, much has already been accomplished:
• Through our investments in the...
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The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation, that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
The Beginning:
In 1917 RI President Arch C. Klumph proposed “that an endowment be set up for the purpose of doing good in the world”. In 1928, when the fund had grown to more than US $5,000, it was renamed The Rotary Foundation. Since the first donation in 1917, the Foundation has received contributions totalling more than $1 billion.
This year the Chairman of the Rotary Foundation, John Kenny, began his year with five goals:
Top priority is to eradicate polio
Continue to support Rotary’s own charity The Rotary Foundation through our own contributions. Every Rotarian, Every Year.
Ensure the progress of the new grants program, by participating in sustainable educational and humanitarian projects.
Foster goodwill and peace by promoting and publicising the Rotary Peace Centres program.
Emphasise that the responsibility for the future of our Foundation is in all our hands, so we can continue doing good in the world as we endeavour –Light up Rotary.
Dr Barry Morphett and other medical staff provided Rotarians with an overview of the Clinical School and showed them the facilities as well as some of the equipment used in the training. Following the tour everyone was treated to a sumptuous meal at the hospital cafeteria. Thank you for the photos Svet!
Open Gardens/Car Boot Sale - Sunday November 30 - 11am to 4pm
First garden: "Rosandaway" at 100 Rowans Road, just off Ocean Road before Nullawarre. Second garden: " Ashford Park". Entry to the two gardens is $10. Devonshire teas and refreshments will be on sale. All proceeds go to the Nirranda Cricket Club. For enquiries about the car boot sale, contact Alex on 0439 423 005.
RYLA applications are now open and the closing date is 19 December. For any information, please contact Jane Auchettl on email: janef.311@gmail.com.
or see Rachel or Terry. Information documents can also be found in the "Download Files" on the left hand side of this Bulletin.
Rotary District Conference 20-22 March 2015
Members are encouraged to attend and it is recommended to start thinking about seeking accommodation in Maryborough if you plan to attend the conference. If you need help registering, contact Rachel. The 2015 Conference Website is now up and running, There is a program, details of speakers, accommodation details and a site for booking. The site is: http://www.rotary9780conference.com.au/
If you used this site last year, you may need to refresh your screens for the new information to show.
Astrid at the Maryborough Final Briefing for Outbound Students which was held over the weekend. There was a formal Rotary dinner held on Saturday evening with a flag ceremony at the beginning of the meeting. On the night the students raised a further $385 through fines and raffles for their charity "Swags for the Homeless".
A Spanish Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.'
'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'
A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of the feminine gender ('la computadora'), because:
No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
(THIS GETS BETTER!)
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ('el computador'), because:
In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
A painter by the name of Murphy, while not a brilliant scholar, was a gifted portrait artist.
Over a short number of years, his fame grew and soon people from all over Ireland were coming to the town of Doolin in County Clare, to get him to paint their likenesses.
One day, a beautiful young English woman arrived at his house in a stretch limo and asked if he would paint her in the nude.
This being the first time anyone had made such a request he was a bit perturbed, particularly when the woman told him that money was no object; in fact, and she was willing to pay up to $10,000.
Not wanting to get into any marital strife, he asked her to wait while he went into the house to confer with Mary, his wife.
In a few minutes he returned. "T'would be me pleasure to paint yer portrait, missus," he said "The wife says it's okay.
"I'll paint ya in da nude alright, but I have to at least leave me socks on so I have a place to wipe me brushes."
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A painter by the name of Murphy, while not a brilliant scholar, was a gifted portrait artist.