Today is “World Polio Day” and I hope you take a few moments to think about how you can work towards the eradication of Wild Polio. The two main ways to help stomp out this terrible disease is to educate your friends, family and community and/or donate. If you would like to spread the word on Polio Eradication within your community how about thinking how you can use RILEE at a community event. Remember, your club pays the registration fee and I send your club a $100.00 donation. Now if donations and RILEE are not your thing then let’s start wearing the Rotary Pin again. I understand that during the pandemic many of us were much more casual in our dress and some of us worked out of our homes. However, if you always wear your Rotary Pin then someone might ask about it and then you can spread the word about your Rotary involvement, your Rotary club’s involvement within the community and Rotary’s incredible work around the world including the fight to Eradicate Wild Polio. I’ve attached a donation form for your use.
Remember the challenges currently available;
Two D6440 Rotarians will match up to $10,000.00 the $100.00 to join the Polio Plus Society.
Complete the registration for RILEE and receive a $100.00 donation form the Garlick family.
The first five (5) Rotarians to make a donation to End Polio of $5,000.00 by the end of November, 2023 will have their donation matched by the Blane Foundation.
Each donation made to Rotary’s End Polio Now effort is matched 2:1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to maximise its effect. As such, if you give US$10 to the effort, as an example, the amount becomes US$30, and with that, 60 children will be vaccinated in the remaining affected countries. Thank you for everything that you do! We wish you a very successful World Polio Day!
Total Wild Polio cases
Year-to-date 2023
Total
2022
Total
2021
Total
2020
Total
2019
Globally
9
30
6
140
176
- in endemic countries:
9
22
5
140
176
- in post-endemic countries:
0
8
1
0
0
2023 Wild Polio Case Total 8 - Afghanistan 6, Pakistan 3
2022 Vaccine Derived Polio Cases – 912 in 25 Countries
2023 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 322 Benin - 3, Burkina Faso - 2, Burundi - 1, Central African Republic - 12, Chad - 37, Cote d' Ivoire - 5, DR Congo - 176, Guinea - 7, Indonesia - 3, Israel - 1, Kenya - 5, Madagascar - 17, Mali - 9, Mozambique - 3, Nigeria - 26, Somalia - 3, Tanzania - 2, Yemen - 3, Zambia - 1.
2022 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 912 Afghanistan - 43, Algeria - 3, Benin - 11 , Burundi - 1, Cameroon - 3, Central African Republic - 6, Chad -44, DR Congo - 507, Republic of Congo - 1, Eritrea - 1, Ethiopia - 1, Ghana - 3, Indonesia - 1, Israel - 1, Madagascar - 14, Malawi - 4, Mali - 2, Mozambique - 22, Niger - 16, Nigeria - 48, Pakistan - 8, Somalia - 5, Sudan - 1, Togo - 2, United States - 1, Yemen - 162.
New Polio Cases & Samples reported this week -
Cameroon: two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Central African Republic: one cVDPV2 case
Côte d’Ivoire: two cVDPV2 cases and four positive environmental samples
DR Congo: three cVDPV1 and three cVDPV2 cases, two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Madagascar: three cVDPV1 positive environmental samples
Mali: one cVDPV2 case
Yemen: one cVDPV2 case
Quote of the Day - "It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line." - Ashleigh Brilliant, Writer, Cartoonist
The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries:
Pakistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Three Wild Polio cases reported in 2023. Twenty Wild Polio cases reported in 2022. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 9/13/23. No WPV1 Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan.
Afghanistan No new Wild Polio case reported this week. Six Wild Polio cases reported in 2023 - all from the Nangarhar Province. Two Wild Polio Cases reported in 2022. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 9/24/23. No WPV1 Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Afghanistan.
Advocate, Donate & Educate to END POLIO NOW & FOREVER!
20,500,000 Children Saved from the Paralysis of Polio
On Wednesday, October 25 at 7PM at Highland Park High School hosted a program featuring Sam Harris. Sam will be sharing his story of 56 years in Rotary, his role in bringing Interact clubs to District 6440 and his history as a child survivor of the Holocaust, and the Founder and President Emeritus of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
Here is some of his story from the Illinois Holocaust Museum website. Samuel R. Harris (born Szlamek Rzeznik) is one of the youngest Survivors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Born in 1935 in Deblin, Poland, he was just four years old when the Nazis occupied Poland.
Sam, his seven siblings, and parents were forced to move into the ghetto. They lived there for almost three years before the ghetto was liquidated in 1942. Sam’s entire family, with the exception of his sisters (Sara and Rosa), were deported to Treblinka and murdered. Rosa, Sam’s older sister, worked as slave laborer in the concentration camp outside of Deblin, and was able to hide both Sam and his sister Sara in the camp. In 1944, Sam, Rosa, and Sara were all deported to Czestochowa, where Rosa was again able to hide her two siblings.
The three of them were liberated by the Soviet army in 1945. In 1946, Rosa smuggled both Sam and Sara to Austria and arranged for them to move to New York City. The two siblings moved to the United States in 1947, and were adopted by two different families. Sam was adopted by the Harris Family, and he moved to Chicago. After, Sam experienced college, a career, marriage and fatherhood.
Eventually, in 1981, he reconnected with his past at the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Jerusalem. Sam was an instrumental force behind the building of the 65,000 square-foot Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, of which he is President Emeritus. In 2014, Sam was the proud recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
We’re working with a consulting group to help guide our strategic planning process, and we want to hear from as many people from the community as possible to learn what is important to them.
Please help us do this by sharing our community survey.
Help shape Northbrook Public Library's future by taking an important community survey that will help guide their strategic planning efforts for the next 3-5 years. The survey is open until November 6 and is available in English, Korean, Russian, and Spanish atwww.northbrook.info/survey.
Thank you for your support from Rotarian Kate Hall.
DONATION BINS EXPANDED
Donation bins for the Rotary Clubs’ “Coat Off Your Back” drive can be found throughout the Village of Northbrook,Glenview and Deerfield at the following locations through December 15th:
Northbrook Drops at: American Weathermakers, Ancient Tree, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Life Time Northbrook, North Suburban YMCA, Northbrook Chamber of Commerce, Northbrook Library, Northbrook United Methodist Church, Northbrook Village Hall, Orange Theory, St. Giles Episcopal Church, Sanders Cleaners, School District 28 (Northbrook Junior High, Greenbriar, Meadowbrook, Westmoor), School District 30 (Maple, Wescott), Sunset Foods, Waterways
Glenview Drops at: Glenbrook South High School, Glenview Ice Center, Glenview Public Library, Glenview Tennis Club, Weiss Ace Hardware
Deerfield Drops at: Deerfield Bank & Trust, Deerfield High School, Deerfield Public Library, Jewel Osco (Lake Cook/Waukegan) Patty Turner Senior Center, Sachs Recreation Center, Whole Foods
Special Events:
Illuminate Northbrook -Village Green Park (Nov. 17th )
Deerfield’s Winter Celebrations - Villlage Hall (12/1) and Winter Market (12/2)
All sizes and genders from adult to children will help. We can accept hats, gloves, scarves new OR in new condition. For additional locations, log on to RotaryNorthbrook.org.
Coat Off Your Back Illuminate Northbrook will take place on Friday, November 17th where we will collect coats and give out free hot chocolate. Volunteers are needed.
Food Insecurity Northbrook Rotary will sponsor two tables at Feed Six (Allstate Arena) on Nov. 11th where we will pack meals for food insecure populations including Veterans.
Operation Santa Claus will benefit the Green Bay Early Childhood Center and students in the Study Buddies Program at Youth Services Glenview/Northbrook. Members will be sent details in the next couple of weeks.
Sarah Cotter is the new DECA Advisor with Glenbrook North High School this year along with - Mindy Ingersoll, Rebecca Rosenblum, and Michael Rast. She is trying to secure judges for their mini competition.
Each year, GBN DECA, a business competition club, hosts a small competition. This year the competition will include Glenbrook North, Highland Park, New Trier, and Loyola. Competition categories include marketing, hospitality/tourism, finance, management, and entrepreneurship. During the competition, students prepare a pitch and role-play a case study scenario to a judge demonstrating their business knowledge for 10-minutes.
DECA is reaching out to business professionals, who would be interested in judging on Thursday, December 7th. The time commitment would be from 3:15pm-6:00pm. Sarah - would recommend arriving early because school ends at 3:15 and the parking lot can be chaotic. Also, the end time would be 6pm at the latest, if your event ends earlier, you would be free to leave.
The mini-competition helps the first-year members practice role plays before the regional competition in February. This is a great opportunity for our students to get competition exposure. If you are interested in judging, please fill out this Google Form and we will reach out with more information.
If you have a conflict with the time and date of our mini-competition or would like to judge another competition, we are always looking for judges for our regional and state competitions. The regional competition takes place on Friday, January 26, 2023 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont from 7:30 am - noon and the state competition is March 1st from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
If you are interested in judging the regional competition, please CLICK HERE.
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