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District 7230 District Assembly will be held via Zoom this Saturday at 10:00 AM. Please follow the link above to register for this event. |
Little-Bertie Genealogical GroupMigration of families to Ossining |
Ossining Rotary donates Bookshelves |
Ossining Rotary awards multiple scholarshipsThe Rotary Club of Ossining Awards Scholarships |
Rotary 7230 Volunteers with The OutreachProgram |
Do you wear your Rotary pin |
Are you a Rotary RINO ?"RINOs are not effective. RINOs are not involved. RINOs don’t contribute. They come to lunch (occasionally) and think they are Rotarians. But they are Rotarians in Name Only. DON’T BE A RINO." |
August is Rotary Membership Month |
Membership |
Ossining Rotary Supports LiteracyThe Rotary Club of Ossining Support LiteracyRotarians from the RC of Ossining under the leadership of Pres. George Weeks distributed both dictionaries and thesauri to students in 3 schools in Ossining. At the Roosevelt School, third graders received dictionaries with some Bilingual classes receiving both English and Spanish Versions. At the Claremont School, fifth grade students received Thesauri and at the St. Augustine Parochial School third grade students received dictionaries. The Rotarians an additional trip to St. Augustine's to distribute Thesauri to the fifth grade students. Rotarians assisting Pres. George Weeks included PP Joan Beldotti, PP Bob Hooley, PP Bob Nolan, School Board Pres. Bill Kress, Rtn. Matt Gulotta and Past District Governor George Camp. Financial support for this program was provided generously by the Mahopac National Bank and Anthony and Joan Beldotti of Anthony P. Beldotti Management Corp. |
Ossining Rotary: Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert |
Polio the week of March 21st 2012Polio this week - As of 06 November 2013
Emergency plans are under way to vaccinate more than 20 million children in the Middle East after polio resurfaced in war-torn Syria, the United Nations said on Friday. Lebanon launched a massive public health initiative on Friday to vaccinate all children under five against polio, following a confirmed outbreak of the crippling disease last month in neighboring war-torn Syria. The task is a daunting one in Lebanon, where more than 800,000 refugees are spread across the country in nearly 1,600 locations, including 400 informal tented settlements. Unlike Jordan and Turkey, which each host more than half a million Syrians, Lebanon has avoided establishing large-scale camps and many of the refugees are living among Lebanese.The vaccination plan in Lebanon is to go "house by house, tent by tent. Unveiling the region's largest-ever polio campaign, Rotary's Partners, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) and World Health Organization (WHO) said vaccinations would be carried out over six months in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Syria and Turkey. |
ROTARY AND......1- ROTARY AND WATER Rotary recognizes the importance of safe and clean water and has made it one of its highest priorities. Through its network of 33,000 service clubs, Rotary encourages its clubs and districts to support efforts which help people to provide themselves with safe water reasonably close to their homes using simple, sustainable technology. This policy is reflected in Rotary projects of all sizes in all parts of the world. Rotary partners with other nongovernmental organizations, corporations and agencies to improve water conditions throughout the developing world. Additionally, Rotary club members initiate thousands of projects each year to supply, conserve, and purify water – all with the goal of providing clean and safe drinking water to communities in need.
2- ROTARY AND POLIO Polio Poliomyelitis (polio) is a crippling and potentially fatal disease that still threatens children in parts of Africa and Asia . The poliovirus invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but mainly affects children under five years of age.
PolioPlus In 1985, Rotary International created PolioPlus – a program to immunize all the world’s children against polio. To date, Rotary has contributed more than US$2 billion and countless volunteer hours to the protection of more than two billion children in 122 countries. Rotary has raised an additional US$200 million toward a US$355 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These efforts are providing much needed operational support, medical personnel, laboratory equipment and educational materials for health workers and parents. In addition, Rotary has played a major role in decisions by donor governments to contribute over $8 billion to the effort.
Polio Today Today, endemic wild poliovirus has been eliminated from all but three countries in the world (Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan), and less than 750 cases were reported worldwide by January 2012 [India was declared Polio Free on January 2012]. Though great progress has been made, challenges remain. Overall, the quality of immunization campaigns must be improved, and more funding is critically needed. In response, governments, donors and international agencies have endorsed a plan with clear milestones to tackle these and other challenges to a polio-free world.
Global Polio Eradication Initiative With its community-based network worldwide, Rotary is the volunteer arm and top private sector contributor to a global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. Since its launch in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative - spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF - has reduced the incidence of polio by more than 99 percent. At the time, more than 125 countries were polio-endemic, and more than 350,000 children were paralysed by the disease each year.
Rotarians in Action Besides raising funds, over one million men and women of Rotary have donated their time and personal resources to help immunize nearly two billion children during mass immunization campaigns throughout the world. Rotarians prepare and distribute different types of mass communication tools to get the message those isolated by conflict, geography or poverty. Rotary members also recruit fellow volunteers, assist with transporting the vaccine, administer the vaccine to children and provide other logistical support.
Lasting Legacy The savings of polio eradication are estimated at $40-50 billion dollars - funds that could be used to address other public health priorities. The savings in human suffering will be immeasurable.
3- ROTARY AND LITERACY In 1985, Rotary declared basic literacy to be a pre-condition to the development of peace. Through this organizational emphasis, more than half the world’s 33,000 Rotary clubs address the full range of literacy and mathematical challenges for primary, vocational, and adult learners as well as teacher training. Many Rotary club members promote what is termed "lighthouse" literacy projects – those that can be replicated easily, thereby increasing the scope of their impact.
Lighthouse literacy projects have been created for formal schooling, older children who are not in school, functionally illiterate adults (particularly women), special groups, and teacher’s training. The purpose of these projects is to inspire, guide and support national authorities toward alleviating mass illiteracy in developing countries. In Thailand, for example, the “lighthouse” literacy effort has been so successful that the government adopted it as a national program. Similar literacy initiatives have been sponsored by Rotary clubs in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, and South Africa.
4- ROTARY AND PEACE Rotary is committed to building peace and international understanding through its network of 1.2 million community volunteers in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Rotary club members initiate humanitarian projects both locally and internationally to address the underlying causes of conflict including illiteracy, disease, hunger, poverty, lack of clean water, and environmental concerns.
Rotary has partnered with eight leading universities around the globe to develop the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution. Each year, Rotary awards up to 60 fellowships for a master’s degree and up to 50 fellowships for a professional development certificate through a program aimed at equipping the next generation of global and community leaders with skills needed to reduce the threat of war and violence in the world. The six Rotary Centers based at leading universities in six countries include: International Christian University, Japan; Upssalla University, Sweden; University of Bradford, United Kingdom; University of Queensland, Australia; Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Rotary Centers’ alumni work in a range of areas, from grassroots and local non-governmental organizations to consulting firms, national governments, military, and police, to bilateral and international organizations. Alumni are currently employed with, for example, the United Nations, World Bank, International Organization for Migration, and Organization of American States. |
The 4th Annual Great Duck Race Held on July 2,2011 |
Diveheart Founder to Speak at Ossining RotaryDIVEHEART MISSION STATEMENT: To build confidence and independence in children, adults, and veterans with disabilities using SCUBA diving as a tool.
For an inspiring look at what Diveheart is all about click to follow the link below: http://diveheart.org/images/stories/2011/News/huffingtonpost_2011_02_22_diveheart-disabled-div.pdf |
Marybeth Gallagher in NamibiaMarybeth Gallagher at the school she is running with local Rotarins from the RC of Winhoek Aust . Here is a video of Marybeth singing with the school children "Feeling Groovy" |
The Rotary Foundation Receives Top RatingCharity Navigator an independent organization has rated The Rotary Foundation as one of the ten best charities in the USA.
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No-One has Ever Become Poor by Giving |
Ossining Rotary Supports Literacy |
Happy New Year! |
Famine in East Africa |
Rotary Club of Ossining: Gift of Life
Panamanian Girl Gets Gifts of a Lifetime
(04/16/10) OSSINING - A 6-year-old
girl from Panama is expected to return home in about a month after
receiving some very special gifts from the Rotary Club of Ossining.
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How to propose a new memberRotary international provides a convenient form for proposing a new member.
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for a printable copy.
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Mahopac Bank Partners Again with Ossining RotaryPresident Robert Nolan present an award to Jerry Klein, President/CEO of Mahopac National Bank; Charles Hellmich, VP Sales Effectiveness of Mahopac National Bank.
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30 Years Ago Today, Polio......On a sunny afternoon in September 1979, Rotarians and delegates of the Philippine Ministry of Health looked on as volunteers administered drops of the lifesaving Sabin polio vaccine to about 100 children in the Manila barrio of Guadalupe Viejo. |