November is The Rotary Foundation (of Rotary International) Month  
The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.  The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.

There are as many reasons to support The Rotary Foundation as there are ways to do good in the world.  Through the Every Rotarian, Every Year (EREY) initiative, your contributions of any amount to the Annual Fund or the PolioPlus campaign are the primary source of funding for Foundation programs. Every Rotarian is encouraged to participate in a Foundation project and make a personal gift to the Annual Fund every year. 

To learn more about the Foundation go to www.rotary.org/foundation

Youth Exchange Recruitment
Youth Exchange provides thousands of young people, aged 16-18, with the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their cultures.

If you know of a student who would be interested in participating in this program please pass this information on to Randy Harden at randy.harden@gmail.com or Don Bork at don.bork@gmail.com

Eye Glasses for Mexico
As part of their Avoidable Blindness Project the Rotary Club of Burton, Michigan, who are in our District, have been taking 2-3,000 pairs of eye glasses (regular and sunglasses) to Mexico each year for many years. Under the leadership of Stu Eberhard, we are looking for used glasses which we will forward to the Burton club. Please bring your glasses to our next meeting and leave them at the registration table. 

We’re closer than ever to ending polio.
Just 22 polio cases were confirmed worldwide in 2017, which is a reduction of more than 99.9 %  since the 1980s, when the world saw about 1,000 cases per day. In 30 years, we’ve gone from 125 polio-endemic countries to 3.  Rotarians have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 125 countries.

It costs an average of US$3.00 (Cdn$3.93) to fully protest a child against polio, including the cost of the vaccine and activities to deliver the vaccine such as transportation costs, vaccinator stipends, vaccine carriers, chalk to make houses after each visit and dye to paint children’s fingers purple to indicate they have been vaccinated. A child must receive multiple doses of polio vaccine to be fully protected and therefore must be reached multiple times.

Thanks to the Gates Foundation matching grants of 2 to 1:
a $20 donation = $60 = 15 children being fully protected
a $50 donation = $150 = 38 children being fully protected
a $100 donation = $300 = 76 children being fully protected

We need your help! It is simple, just Login to Rotary.org and make a donation.

Check out this year's World Polio Day livestream on endpolio.org . Listen to the global health experts and celebrities as they share Rotary’s progress on the road to polio eradication.

The Rotary Foundation Contribution Information
Annual Fund: Your gift to the Annual Fund helps Rotary clubs take action today to create positive change in communities at home and around the world. Your contributions help to strengthen peace efforts, provide clean water and sanitation, support education, grow local economies, save mothers and children, and fight disease.

PolioPlus: The support of Rotary, donors, and governments remains critical in the final stages of polio eradication. Every $1 Rotary commits to direct support for polio immunization will be matched 2-to-1 (up to $35 million per year) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

There are two easy ways to make a contribution to The Rotary Foundation: 
a) give your cheque or credit card information to Sandy at Monday’s meeting and we will forward your payment to The Rotary Foundation (Canada).  As an FYI Cdn $1.31 = US$1 for the month of November.

b) make a donation through the RI website: login to Rotary.org
On the home page click on “GIVE” – upper right corner of the page
Go to “I WANT TO SUPPORT ROTARY’S CURRENT WORK” and/or
Go to “I WANT TO SUPPORT A POLIO-FREE WORLD” and click on “GIVE NOW”
Under Annual Fund click “Annual fund – SHARE”, click “Continue”,
Under Polio-Plus Fund click “PolioPlus”, click “Continue”,

For both scenarios enter your Amount, and Frequency (One time, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual), click “Continue”, And fill in the information requested and proceed to the payment page.