Rotary makes high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger. We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.
Special Days:
2 World Autism Awareness Day: (DPT) 4 UN International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action (PCPR) 7 UN World Health Day (DPT) 12 Anniversary of Salk polio vaccine - (DPT)
19 Birthday of Paul Harris. 22 Earth Day (ECD) 24-30 April – World Immunization Week (DPT) 25 World Malaria Day (DPT)
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.”
What this message is all about is that we have to do more than wring our hands about declining membership. Our approach to prospective members and even to new Clubs has got to change. . .. The ways we conducted business 75 years ago is not the way business works today. And those old Rotary procedures for membership and new club growth are certainly not the same. There are far more competitive activities in the lives of executives today to expect that Rotary will survive in the same old patterns. That doesn’t mean that the old ways were wrong – it means that the world of business and the demands of the communities in which we live have changed.
All of us can also think about the potential for a new club which will meet a special population in your community. It may be possible that new Rotary Club will meet with a sack lunch, rather than a sit-down served luncheon. There are new clubs meeting in early evening as members begin their commute to home. Perhaps a Rotary Club might just involve the stores in a huge shopping center or mall, or high rise building or on a large university campus, or in an airport complex. A Rotary Club may meet on a golf course on Saturday morning just before tee time. When we think about new growth, let’s not dream of just cloning our existing clubs – lets use the imagination and creativity which places Rotary wherever a group of men and women leaders exist who believe in fellowship and service.
There are no reasons that Rotary International has to settle for a slow decline in membership. We do not need consultants or outside advisors to help us expand Rotary membership. Within the creative minds of Rotarians, who are some of the world’s most successful business and professional people, we have those with the vision of Rotary’s future. Let’s use those creative ideas and new approaches in meeting new populations of busy young executives.
This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about Rotary Peace Fellows.
Former Rotary Peace Fellow Arik Gutler-Ofir, who studied at the University of Queensland, Australia, organized a War, Peace, and Social Justice Festival in Israel. Half of the plays were in Arabic, half in Hebrew. One of Gutler-Ofir‘s hopes is that audience members came away knowing they shared concerns other than conflict. About 700 people attended the festival, which showcased nine plays over five days.
Each summer, thousands of young people are selected to attend Rotary-sponsored leadership camps or seminars in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, France, Argentina, Korea, and numerous other countries. In an informal atmosphere, groups of outstanding young people in the 14-30 age range spend a week in a challenging program of leadership training, discussions, inspirational addresses, and social activities designed to enhance personal development, leadership skills, and good citizenship. The official name of this activity is the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program (RYLA), although these events are sometimes referred to by other names, such as Camp Royal, Camp Enterprise, youth leaders seminars, or youth conferences.
The RYLA program began in Australia in 1959, when young people throughout the state of Queensland were selected to meet with Princess Alexandra, the young cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. The Rotarians of Brisbane, who hosted the participants, were impressed with the quality of the young people. It was decided to bring youth leaders together each year for a week of social, cultural, and educational activities. The RYLA program gradually grew throughout all the Rotary districts of Australia and New Zealand. In 1971, the RI Board adopted RYLA as an official program of Rotary International. RYLA is generally conducted as a district activity.
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.
