District Governor

August 13, 2019 – Our District Governor Paddy Rooney updated us on the Rotary Foundation Polio Plus and other projects.  Polio Plus means that while Polio is our main target for elimination our PLUS means that while we are engaged in helping to vaccinate against others diseases as well…measles, rubella and maternal and neonatal tetanus. But the fight is not over. We know that there are currently some 2 to 3 million deaths a year worldwide from vaccine preventable diseases and that some 20 million children throughout the world are unvaccinated or under vaccinated and therefore subject to a whole array of diseases.  

 

For we have made this world of ours some promises. We have promised that we will defeat this insidious disease called Polio. We have promised to help communities throughout our world to have clean water or sanitation or economic development to help them in the future. We have promised to help resolve the many conflicts which plague our world and to bring reconciliation. We have promised to bring hope for the children of our world and for their future. This world is our world and together we see this world and promise that when we are done, this world of ours will be left in a just a little bit better shape than when we came into it.