After the first cases of Ebola reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia, last June, local Rotary members feared that the city's limited health care system wouldn't be able to contain the highly infectious, often-deadly disease.
Those fears were realized when infections quickly multiplied, underscoring the speed with which Ebola can spread in an urban center. It was the first time the hemorrhagic fever had threatened a major city since it erupted in West Africa last March.
Now, after months of crisis-level response, and with the number of new cases declining, club members are looking to the long...
Despite his longstanding interest in polio eradication, polio was not on Joe Pratt's mind as he prepared for a mid-April 2012 climb of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. But that changed in late 2011, when the resident of Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA, participated in a polio immunization project in Pakistan with fellow Rotary member Steve Puderbaugh.
Moved by the efforts of the Pakistanis to battle the crippling disease, and by the vulnerability of the young victims, Pratt reset the focus of his climbing adventure. Pakistan is one of three countries where polio has never been...
Members of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening meet at a wine bar after work, share a social outing, and promote all their activities on social media like Meetup and Facebook.
As the first evening club in the city, it has attracted many young professionals from Silicon Valley tech firms whose work schedules keep them from joining a more traditional club that meets for breakfast or lunch. But more than that, the evening format has helped the club grow by 30 percent since it received its charter in mid-2013.
Danielle Lallement, who was its charter president, says the club has been...
Blighted schools in the mountain city of Peja in western Kosovo are a reminder of the ethnic strife and war that ravaged this area in the 1990s.
To restore ruined sanitation facilities in some of those schools, local Rotary members recently partnered with their counterparts from Colorado, USA. Though residents have been slowly rebuilding the city's infrastructure after years of neglect under earlier governments, most resources are going to improve roads, rebuild homes, and create new businesses. Little money remains to restore the schools.
As a result, students have fallen ill, stayed home...
Rotary International released an additional $34.8 million in grants to support polio immunization activities in 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, the three countries where the disease has never been stopped.
The funds, whose release was announced 20 January, will be used by the World Health Organization and UNICEF for polio immunization and surveillance activities in the 10 countries, as well as to provide technical assistance in several other countries in Africa.
The grants include $8.1 million for Nigeria to support its final push to eradicate the disease. Nigeria...
With the assistance of our Interact coordinator, Eric Germain, we have added the members and school counselors in our 'Other Users List'. This enables us to include the Interactors in our communication loop, e.g. e-Strathconian, email notices, etc.
We are also in the process of building a site page off our ClubRunner website.
It is still in the construction stages, but when completed, it will enable dedicated Interact member(s) to post and maintain the page, including creating their own photo album(s) with slide shows, posting documents for general distribution to their members.
In 'My ClubRunner' box, click on Email Message Centre.
Click orange [Compose new message] button.
Step 1: Select recipient(s) by clicking ‘Active and Honorary Members’.
Click on Expand List on the ‘Active’ line.
If you are addressing all members, put a check mark in [Select All], otherwise check individual names.
Step 2: Type the Subject line.
Compose your message in the editor.
Ignore the other fields in Step 2.
Step 3 (Optional): Click blue [Select Files For Upload]
A box will open displaying the file folders on your computer. Select the file and click the [Open] box.
Maximum bytes to upload is 6 MB.
Step 4: Two boxes. Select ‘Send a list of recipients as an attachment’ will generate a small text file showing the recipients. Chose to avoid unnecessary forwarding.
Always select the ‘Copy me this email’ so you have a copy of the note on your personal email server.
Step 5: You can send right away, schedule the send or Save as Draft.
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How to look up club documents, board minutes, financial statements, club by-laws and constitution…
Forgot about some of the earlier tips? Open the Club Information site page HEREand open the file 'Weekly Tips -- Archive' in the bottom left column.
Our Club has secured Tuesday May 19 as a Community Project day and a good number of our members have signed up to work on a house construction in the 'Neufeld Landing' area of the city's south west.
For that reason, the regular lunch meeting has been canceled. For those of you who are physically unable to volunteer to work on the project, you will not be required to make up the meeting.
WANTED – Flag planters, sales & marketing personnel
This important club fund raising initiative needs your help! We currently generate close to $19,000 per year (less expenses) from our “Canadian Flag Program”. Your ideas about how to retain current clients and grow the business would be welcomed.
If all our “able bodied” members were to generate or continue to maintain a small manageable customer base close to home, it would enable us to continue this program. Existing large customer client routes also need to be maintained as best we can and your help would be appreciated for these accounts.
Maintenance of existing physical inventory is ongoing and new flags, poles & holders have been ordered. A reasonably accurate list of current clients has been produced. Your thoughts & offers of assistance, where needed, can be communicated via e-mail to our chairperson Dennis. email: freeman5@telus.net He is looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Congratulations are in order!! The Heartland Oklahoma Team (H.O.T.) is a local-area Kiva team of 340 members, with total lending near $900,000. Today H.O.T. reached an impressive and fairly rare Kiva benchmark of 100 loans per member!
There are some big lending teams on Kiva but the size of the teams and their impact can be deceiving, browsing through Kiva's stats the other day I was impressed to see some of the milestones some lending teams have achieved, teams like Paying It Forward with 60.1 loans per member, Wind Power Now with 30.1 per member, Team Australia with 30.4 per member and even Team Canada with 7500 members registering 22.1 loans per member.
The team that is disappointing is HP, with vastly more members than any other team (121,000!), but still only 1.6 loans per member. Almost all of the loans were given by the company, and it seems very few employees have carried on the idea, what a missed opportunity.
So I am thrilled with our little 21 member team that currently has made 21 loans per member, tiny but mighty, keep up the great work.
Our Rotary club's Kiva team continues to move our loan portfolio ahead. To date we have made 156 loans and to date we have 29 loans that have been successfully paid back.
Update
The average lender on Kiva has an outstanding loan portfolio of just $39.85 while we have a loan portfolio of $1987, the average lender on Kiva has a delinquency rate of 5.25% while we have a delinquency rate of just 1.50% and the average lender on Kiva experiences a default rate of 1.11% while we have a default rate of 0.00%.
Update
Our Kiva lending team now consists of 21 individual Kiva lenders, some are members of our Rotary club, some are members of other Rotary clubs and some are not Rotarians at all, this small group of committed lenders has now cumulatively made 439 loans totaling $12,175.
The ongoing good work by everyone involved in this positive, immediate solution helps us connect one on one with real people around the world.
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