“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
More than 2.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation facilities. At least 3,000 children die each day from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water. Our projects give communities the ability to develop and maintain sustainable water and sanitation systems and support studies related to water and sanitation.
Special Days:
8 International Women’s Day - (BEL/MCH)
13 Week of 13 March – Rotaract’s anniversary (NewGens)
21 World Down's Syndrome : (MCH)
22 World Water Day (UN) (WAS)
This year's Rotary International Convention is being held in Atlanta, Georgia, from June 10 to June 14. Rotarians from around the world will be convening to share stories, learn about youth programs, exchange ideas about peace and conflict resolution and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Rotary Foundation. I looks to be a very festive occasion.
In 2017-18, we’ll answer the question “What is Rotary?” with RI President-elect Ian H.S. Riseley’s theme, Rotary: Making a Difference. “Whether we’re building a new playground or a new school, improving medical care or sanitation, training conflict mediators or midwives, we know that the work we do will change people’s lives — in ways large and small — for the better.”
Promote continually the good work of your Rotary Club.
We must let the community know what Rotary is doing. Rotarians have to take on this task – the media will not do it for us. We have to write the messages, take the pictures, make the high quality videos, distribute the public service announcements and make it easy for the media to tell the stories about Rotary. We must promote, and then promote some more. If we want the message of our Rotary service told, we must first complete some interesting and worthwhile activities, than tell the story with professional style and attractiveness. Fifty years ago, you could never find a respectable attorney, doctor, dentist, hospital, university administrator or other professional who would “lower himself” to advertise publicly. But, today television and widespread media have made a difference. Today, advertising is a way of life. You promote yourself or you are left behind. The same is true of a Rotary Club. The old Rotary idea that we should never advertise or promote ourselves is long gone. It is absolutely essential that the public should know what Rotary is and what Rotary does, if we want to attract new members and gain the support a Rotary Club needs within our communities. An active public promotion program for our good work is essential if you want community leaders to think “I would really like to become a member of that kind of organization.” Good public relations, conducted on a regular organized basis, are critical in promoting club membership. And the reality is -- nobody is going to do it for us.
This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about Foundation programs.
"Never forget that charitable giving is an emotional response. Emotion is evident when we are telling the polio eradication story. Telling the Annual Programs Fund story can be equally emotional when we emphasize how lives have been changed through The Rotary Foundation‘s Ambassadorial Scholarships program, Matching Grants, District Simplified Grants, and Group Study Exchange. Real-life examples are critical to success." — Past RRFC Joe LaGuess
World Community Service (WCS) is the Rotary program by which a club or district in one country provides humanitarian assistance to a project of a club in another country. Typically, the aid goes to a developing community where the Rotary project will help raise the standard of living and the quality of life. The ultimate object of World Community Service is to build goodwill and understanding among peoples of the world.
One important way to find a club in some other part of the world that needs help on a worthy project is to use the WCS Projects Exchange, a list of hundreds of worthy activities in developing areas that is published semiannually. The exchange list is maintained at the RI Secretariat in Evanston and is readily available upon request. It outlines projects, provides estimated costs, and gives names of the appropriate contacts. The WCS Projects Exchange list and the database, which is updated monthly, are accessible via the RI Web site at www.rotary.org.
Clubs seeking help with a humanitarian project may register their needs, and clubs seeking to assist a World Community Service project may easily review the list of needs registered in the Projects Exchange. Thus, the exchange provides a practical way to link needs with resources.
Every Rotary club is urged to undertake a new World Community Service project each year. The WCS Projects Exchange list is an excellent tool to find a real need, a project description, and cooperating club in a developing area. The job then is to go to work” to complete the project, and at the same time build bridges of friend ship and world understanding.
Posted by Rotary Club of Twinsburg on Jan 30, 2017
The club has fundraisers and service events coming up!
Give our Club all the support you can to make it successful. We need all cylinders firing!!! Please do what you can to serve our club. If you not being asked to serve the club, ask where you can help!
Participate in Every Rotarian Every Year. Any amount you can contribute will help the success of Rotary International in your community and around the world. Let's try to become a 100% EREY club, where every member contributes something to the Rotary Foundation, either directly or through the club.
Think of another way in which you could serve our club, or help a committee chair with some of their responsibilities. Abby and Kathy are assembling the team for the next Rotary year. Help them in any way that you can, even if you have not been asked.
Posted by Rotary Club of Twinsburg on Jul 01, 2016
Things you can do to promote Rotary
1. Wear your Rotary pin daily.
2. Tell someone something about Rotary daily.
3. Invite a friend or co-worker to our next meeting or event.
4. Stay in touch with alumni.
5. Sponsor a new member to the club.
6. Give to the Rotary Foundation.
If you have any photographs or pictures of Rotary events both recent and in the past, please forward them to Philip Weiss or Laura Leonard for posting on the website. If you like we can also show you how to post them in the website yourself.
