Everyone should have recieved raffle tickets to sell. If you haven't received your tickets, please see Elke Friedman. Please get out and sell, sell, sell.
Sold tickets and payments can be turned in at our weekly meetings to Elke, Courtney or Gayle.
Other ways you can help: solicit live and silent auction items, donate wine for the cork pull, volunteer to help organize and/or work at the event.
Any way you can help is appreciated. We need everyone's participation to make this event a success.
If you have questions, contact Alan Karzen, Elke Friedman, Ed Gordon, Gary Moriello or Gayle Curcio.
Mark Your Calendar
September 29th: Blood Drive at Sunset Foods
October 10th: Club Board Meeting 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm in the Pollack Room A at the Northbrook Public Library.
October 20th: One Rotary Summit Fall Training Day. 7:30 am - 12:00 pm at Harper College Wojcik Center. Click here for more information.
October 24th: World Polio Day
October 26th: Rotary 800
November 10th: 2018 Youth Assembly. 9:00 am - 3:30 pm, Forest View Education Center, 2121 S. Goebbert Road, Arlington Heights. Click here for more information.
While many people would like to think that slavery was a tragedy of the past, the truth is that it still exists today, with up to 46 million people enslaved worldwide.
“It’s this Rotarian attitude – you give them a problem and instead of throwing their hands up in dismay, they start chipping away at it piece by piece,” says Carol Hart Metzker, a member of the action group. “Maybe slavery won’t be solved in my lifetime, but in two more years, we’re going to have a whole hamlet free.”
The students learn to use a computer, which is also used to document the project.
Voices4Freedom/Schools4Freedom
In a village in northeastern India, the action group is tackling the problem of debt bondage. With the help of 13 clubs, a district grant through the Rotary Club of Binghamton, New York, USA, and other sources, the action group is providing $36,000 toward the work of Schools4Freedom, a project of the organization Voices4Freedom. Schools4Freedom works with local partner organization Manav Sansadhan Evam Mahila Vikas Sansthan (MSEMVS) to battle debt bondage.
The RAGAS project will support the efforts in one of those villages for three years. The name of the village, which is in the Uttar Pradesh state, is kept secret to protect the villagers and aid workers.
Poverty, illiteracy, innumeracy, and natural disasters that destroy crops or homes can leave villagers vulnerable to debt bondage in rural villages.
“When people don’t have enough to eat, and they barely have the ability to keep a roof over their head and their family quite literally alive, they will often turn to whatever means are possible for survival,” Metzker says.
Families may seek an arrangement with a business owner, who asks them to sign a contract that they can’t read and therefore can’t understand, and they inadvertently trade their freedom for survival, she says.
Many Rotarians consider the Secretariat simply another name for the RI World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois. Actually, it is much more. While it does include the World Headquarters, the Secretariat encompasses nearly 500 individuals working to make Rotary International run smoothly and effectively. The term describes the entire operations of the general secretary and his staff. The Secretariat also includes eight Rotary Service Centres (formerly called Branch Offices) around the world, all of the staff serving in those centres, as well as all staff assigned to The Rotary Foundation. Its sole purpose is to serve the clubs, districts and administrative officers of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. RI World Headquarters, in a building called One Rotary Centre in Evanston, is the headquarters of the Secretariat.
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