To: Club Presidents, Community Service Chairs, Assistant Governors (for information), Rotarians and other interested parties:
Dear Sandy Frum,
Migrant families are being bused into our communities and dropped off at train stations that will take them to Chicago. Rotarians in the Highland Park and Wilmette clubs, as well as many other North Shore residents have responded by collecting “Take Care” packages and distributing them at the train stations or police stations.
The need is great: (14 buses have arrived in Wilmette since the first of the year-700-800 people) and the time for action is now. Often the buses arrive with little notice to the community. Many communities and faith groups are organizing collections. The organizing groups, described below, are coming together with a unified/organized approach to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of these migrants.
How can you help? SaLT, Service and Leaning Together, is a volunteer organization in Highland Park, where the first buses arrived, that is organizing “Take-Care” packages composed of essential items, that are given to migrants while they await transfer to the Chicago Processing Center. SaLT is now assisting Wilmette, which has become the main drop off location for the buses.
Your club can help in a variety of ways:
1. Start a community or club collection of the items that are assembled for these bags
2. Start a collection and assemble the bags and deliver them to SaLT
3. Volunteer to work with SaLT to assemble the bags at their facility.
4. Volunteer to meet the buses and distribute bags at the train stations.
5. Monetary donation to allow SaLT to purchase items: $35.00
Next Steps:
>Please talk about this program with your club and let me know if you are interested in participating.
>Please identify a contact person(s) in your club for additional communication.
>Please join me for an informational meeting at 7:00pm, Tuesday, February 13, 2024, via Zoom, to provide you with more details about the bags, the items needed, and to answer any other questions that you have about these ways to help. All are invited to attend.
>The Zoom link to the meeting is found here: District 6440 Administrator is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Migrant Care Packages Meeting
Time: Feb 13, 2024 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Additionally, there will be an informational meeting on the North Shore's response to this crisis, on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, from 7:00-9:00pm at Saint Francis Xavier School Gym.
Please see the flyer below for more details and to reserve your space. As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
I'm writing today to make you aware of a great event that our Prior Lake Rotary Club and I have been involved with.
Over the past several years, we have been actively involved in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda. On top of many projects and two Global Grants, we've also partnered with the Rotaract Club of Nakivale Refugee Settlement to sponsor the Nakivale Soccer Tournament for Peace. You can see the attachment that shares more description and pictures of the Tournament. What I can share anecdotally:
I was able to attend the championship matches on World Refugee Day (6/20) last summer, and it was one of the most powerful experiences I've had in over 20 years of Rotary. There were around 3,000 spectators watching the matches and cheering on the teams, all in the name of creating positive peace! This tournament is a great way to promote peace and bring a community of marginalized people together and create some joy in their lives.
It takes between $5,000-$6,000 to put on the Tournament, and we'd love your support. Please share this with your club or any other clubs that you think might be interested in participating.
Copied on this email is Paul Mushaho, Founding President of the Rotaract Club of Nakivale Refugee Settlement, 2022-23 Rotary Peace Fellow, and recipient of the Rotary Award of Honor (2019).
If you or anyone else has any questions that Paul or I could answer or would like me to tell the story at a club meeting, please let us know!
Thanks,
Kyle Haugen
Rotary Club of Prior Lake, MN
District Governor 2017-18, Rotary District 5960
District Rotary Foundation Team Leader, 2019-21
Region 36 Rotary Public Image Coordinator, 2021-24
612-382-3168
On February 13th we will be having a Club/Board Meeting where we will be discussing how Community Grants should be structured this year. As this is the area where we give out the most money, I encourage you to attend and be part of the decision-making process. BELOW [Attached] you will find the Agenda as well as a description of one possible option.
In addition, also attached is a proposal from District 6440 on how Rotary Clubs can get involved locally with Migrant "Take Care" Packages.
Please let me know if you would like to be the contact person for our Club.
If you are interested in more information, there is a Zoom meeting scheduled for Tuesday, February 13th at 7:00 pm [SEE BELOW]
Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday. Please let Mike Ellison (docellison@att.net) if you plan to attend.
SANDY
Rotary Club of Northbrook Board Meeting February 13th
at Lunch Meeting Board Agenda
1. Call Meeting to Order
2. Approval of Minutes
3. Treasurer’s Report
4. President’s Report
a) February 15th – Bernie’s Book Bank
b) February 20th – State of the Village – Kathryn Ciesla – ZOOM available
c) February 27th – Social – Hackney’s
d) March 2nd and 3rd – Special Gifts Theater
e) March 5th – Laurie Pasler – Behing the Scenes of the Nuremberg Trials
5. Committee Updates
6. Grants Discussion: How should Community Grants be structured for this coming year?
a. Same as always: $2000 to $2500 to 10-15 organizations which serve the community
b. Special area of focus – i.e. Food Insecurity, Mental Health, Homeless, Migrants
c. Competitive impact grant – i.e. If our grants budget is $30,000, earmark 50% for a competitive impact grant and the balance ($1000 or so) for sustaining grants for multiple organizations based on criteria to be determined (see attached proposal)
d. Leave as is for this year and ask Community Service Committee to make recommendation by November 2024
Community Grants proposal:
Earmark 50% of our Community Grants budget for a competitive Impact Grant and the balance for sustaining grants for multiple organizations based on criteria to be determined.
Suggested guidelines:
· Competitive grant proposal should focus on maximizing the impact on and to the community served. Projects may include funding from other organizations and sources, but the Northbrook Rotary Competitive Grant should be the lead sponsor.
· Competitive grant proposal should identify a new or expanded project or program that will be sustainable (with funding from other sources since the competitive grant is a one-year grant) after the grant year.
· Competitive grant proposal should identify hands-on volunteer opportunities for Northbrook Rotarians to supplement the grant funding.
· Competitive grant proposal should focus on serving the greater Northbrook community (i.e. focus on Northbrook and adjacent communities
Join Us for a firsthand look at the State of The Village
February 20th
Village President Kathryn Ciesla will deliver the 2024 Annual State of Village Address on Tuesday, February 20th to our club at the lunch meeting.
This special event will give our club and guests an overview of the progress and success the Village has had over the past year, as well as the scope of challenges, accomplishments, and goals for the coming year. We will get a glimpse of what comes next - stay tuned for some exciting plans!
A Q&A period will be included. We encourage members to invite their friends, other Rotary members and prospective members so we have a full house to celebrate fellow Rotarian Jim Kucienski’s daughter (& our Village President)!
The Village of Northbrook is supportive of our club. Your attendance is a big thank you!
Joni Mitchell Born 1942 - In December 1951, at the age of nine, Joni Mitchell [photo] woke up unable to move her legs due to contracting polio. She was sent to a city clinic for treatment, where she spent weeks alone, as her parents never visited. Faced with the possibility of life in an iron lung, Joni, always rebellious, started smoking during her hospital stay. This habit persisted, and she smoked four packs a day for much of her life.
During that freezing winter in the hospital, Joni started singing for the other polio patients, whether they liked it or not. She explained, "They said I might not walk again and that I would not be able to go home for Christmas. I wouldn't go for it. So I started to sing Christmas carols, and I used to sing them real loud. The boy in the bed next to me, you know, used to complain. And I discovered I was a ham."
Adrian Adepitan - Born 1973- Television presenter and wheelchair basketball player, Adepitan caught polio, aged six months, in Nigeria. His left side is weakened, especially his left leg.
David Sanborn - Born 1945 Jazz saxophonist [photo]. He contracted polio, aged three, and spent one year in an iron lung, followed by two years in bed.
He was advised to learn a wind instrument to help with his recovery.
Sanborn is now affected by post-polio syndrome.
Alan Alda – born 1936 Actor who played Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.
Alda contracted polio at age seven, during an epidemic. His parents administered a painful treatment, developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, in which hot woollen blankets were applied to the limbs and the muscles were stretched by massage.
Neil Young Born 1945 Singer-songwriter and guitarist [photo]. He caught polio at age five, during the epidemic of 1951.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 The 32nd President of the United States, FDR was stricken with a paralytic illness in 1921, at age 39. His main symptoms were fever; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery. He was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
FDR was diagnosed with polio, but retrospective analysis suggested his symptoms are more consistent with Guillain–Barré syndrome – an autoimmune neuropathy which his doctors failed to consider as a diagnostic possibility. In 1926, his belief in the benefits of hydrotherapy led him to found a rehabilitation center at Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1938, he founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now the March of Dimes), leading to the development of two types of polio vaccine.
Francis Ford Coppola--Born 1939 - Film director, producer, and screenwriter.
He recalls, "When I was nine I was confined to a room for over a year with polio, and because polio is a child's illness, they kept every other kid away from me. I remember being pinned to this bed, and longing for friends and company."
Peter Preston Born 1938 Journalist and former editor of The Guardian. He caught polio shortly after his father who died in a couple of days. Preston needed an iron lung to survive and was frequently in hospital for the next 18 months. His limbs were permanently affected as a result.
Judy Collins Born 1939 - As a child, singer-songwriter Judy Collins spent several months in the hospital recovering from bout with polio. Collins later became a representative for UNICEF and has worked to promote polio vaccination programmes.
Itzhak Perlman Born 1945 Virtuoso violinist. He contracted polio at the age of four. Perlman requires braces and crutches to walk, and plays the violin seated.
We are pleased to announce that once again D6440 and the Friedman foundation will offer a total of 15 scholarships in the amount of $1500.00 each. 2024 Scholarship forms .
Anyone interested in helping out with the scholarship interviews?
Please reach out to Pat Boquist, Barrington Rotary Club.
>>>Applications for the Rotary Club of Northbrook's Vocational Scholarship are currently available. Scholarship grants in the amount of $1,500 each will be awarded to support Northbrook residents who are preparing to further themselves in a chosen vocation.
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