Seeing an elderly Tibetan woman weep with joy when cataract surgery restored her vision after 10 years is the kind of moment Dave Razo will never tire of.
For several summers Razo, a member of the Rotary Club of Warner Robins, Georgia, USA, traveled to rural northwest China with a team from Georgia-based nonprofit Gansu Inc., to provide free sight-restoring cataract surgery to some of the country's poorest residents. In 2012, after 22 years and 6,000 successful procedures, Gansu's founder, ophthalmologist William Conrad, retired and discontinued the organization's operations.
But Razo didn't...
After a year of shrinking polio cases worldwide, the crippling disease is now on the cusp of being eradicated, said top health officials at Rotary's second annual World Polio Day event on 24 October.
At a special Livestream program -- World Polio Day: Make History Today -- Rotary leaders joined global health experts and celebrity singers to hail the progress of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. After nearly 30 years, the GPEI, which includes Rotary, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is on...
Erin Mills had just finished teaching for the day in Montevideo, Uruguay, when her smartphone buzzed with a message.
An impromptu gathering to watch Uruguay's World Cup soccer match was being organized. Through the power of a mobile messaging app, a majority of the Rotary Club of Plaza Matriz had soon assembled at a member's home to munch on baked goods and chips while rooting for their national team.
That enthusiasm and ability to draw a crowd has made the club, which just received its charter in July, a success in the country's capital city. Made up almost entirely of young professionals,...
Rotary celebrates World Polio Day on 24 October with a Livestream event featuring expert speakers and celebrity performers. Hosted by Time magazine science and technology editor Jeffrey Kluger, the Chicago event also includes a global status update on the fight to end polio and the challenges that remain, as well as information about joining Rotary's historic campaign.
The program, being held before a live audience at 18:30 Chicago time (UTC-5), includes a performance from Tessanne Chin, 2013 winner of the TV show "The Voice," an introductory message and videotaped performance by reggae star...
When asked to describe his future, a refugee child from Iraq draws a picture of himself as a doctor. Another child uses colorful paints to depict happy memories of his former life in Iraq. Both children are among the 200,000 displaced Iraqis who now live in Jordan, a country that has become a safe haven for those fleeing oppression and war in neighboring Palestine, Syria, and Iraq.
Alexandra Dawley, a former volunteer with the Collateral Repair Project in Jordan, emphasizes how something as simple as an art project can help young refugees adjust to their new lives in a foreign country. With...
Club Member Meeting Responsibilities
Duty Roster
Setup & Greeter
Nov 4, 2013
Larry Sales
Nov 4, 2014
Bruce Flesher
Nov 11, 2014 [REMEMBRANCE DAY, NO MEETING]
Nov 18, 2014
Bernd Reuscher
Nov 18, 2014
Ray Merhej
Nov 25, 2014
David Rayner
Nov 25, 2014
Len Gierach
Dec 2, 2014
Hal Quilliam
Dec 2, 2014
Ken Germain
Dec 9, 2014 [Christmas Party]
Hugo Lehmann
Dec 9, 2014 [Christmas Party]
Don Henry
Dec 16, 2014
Dimitri Papanicolas
Dec 16, 2014
Lloyd Hilderman
Dec 23, 2014
Doug Milne
Dec 23, 2014
Eric Germain
Dec 30, 2014
Bill Mouris
Dec 30, 2014
Ken Germain
Door Duty
Nov 4, 2014
Morley MacCalder
Nv 4, 2014
Rose Marie Basaraba
Nov 11, 2014 [REMEMBRANCE DAY, NO MEETING]
Nov 18, 2014
Carin Jansen van Vuuren
Nov 18, 2014
Hans Granholm
Nov 25, 2014
Eric Solash
Nov 25, 2014
Hans Pilz
Dec 2, 2014
Morley MacCalder
Dec 2, 2014
Rose Marie Basaraba
Dec 9, 2014 [Christmas Party]
Hans Granholm
Dec 9, 2014 [Christmas Party]
Carin Jansen van Vuuren
Dec 16, 2014
Hans Pilz
Dec 16, 2014
Rose Marie Basaraba
Dec 23, 2013
Rob Morley
Dec 30, 2014
Carin Jansen van Vuuren
Dec 30, 2014
Hans Granholm
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a social program of the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona. It is designed to provide an opportunity for Club members and spouses/companions to meet other Club members in an informal, social, small group setting.
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Monica Blanko, Rotary exchange student, with Eric Germain at her first hockey game. Now that she has an Oilers sweater she's ready for another game anytime!
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