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Written by Chalmers Cursley
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 The final 1% of the job of eradicating polio from the world will be the most difficult #rotaryendpolio. From having 125 plio-endemic countries to just 4 has been an amazing result, and Rotary International has been a key player in this task, having volunteered their time and personal resources to reach more than two billion children in 122 countries with the oral polio vaccine. www.rotary.org/EndPolio. It's important that the world gets behind World Polio Day on Monday 24th October, and commits to eradicating this vicious disease.
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Written by Dieter Shaw
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 On a recent trip to South Africa I was able to spend some time with Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Knysna where an outwardly wealthy town has pockets of abject poverty in a number of small townships nearby. The Rotary club is helping with a feeding programme for pre-school children. Youngsters, often from very poor backgrounds, are supplied with a morning meal made from ePap, a balanced mixture of nutritional ingredients that will set them up for the day.
Figures show that children who benefit from this programme are more attentive and achieve better academic results. These pre-school establishments are usually in some ones home, often a self-built shack with two rooms with as many as 20 or more children to be looked after. Most of the children looked well, laughing and singing. Every place was spotlessly clean.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 16 October 2011 )
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Written by Frank Taylor
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 In a joint announcement from representatives of Rotary Districts 1080, 1240 and 1260, the supporting districts for Sanitation First, it was stated that hopes of external funding for that project, through the Global Impact Fund of the UK Department for International Development (DfID) have been shattered. This follows a chance announcement by the DfID office in Zambia that funds, already secured from the UK government, will be used for an extensive programme of hygiene and sanitation in Zambia, including the remote area of Kalabo, which was to be the focus of Sanitation First.
This is despite Sanitation First having made the short listing procedure for grant aid selection in the UK, thanks to a great deal of frantic activity by Rotarians and our partners, Village Water, to meet deadlines for the submission of full details. In view of this announcement, the three lead Rotary districts have, in consultation with Village Water, decided to withdraw all proposals relating to Sanitation First.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 October 2011 )
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Written by Chalmers Cursley
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 Last October, 5,000 crocuses were planted on the lawns of Willen Hospice to celebrate the "Thanks For Life" campaign, a celebration of the charity - End Polio Now.
Volunteers from Milton Keynes Grand Union Rotary Club, Willen Hospice and the local community were involved in planting the crocus bulbs that have now blossomed into a beautiful purple swan, taking the form of Willen Hospice’s new logo, designed especially for Willen's 30th Anniversary 30th-Year and 30th year of caring.
The Purple Giant crocuses look spectacular in the grounds of Willen hospice and can be clearly seen by walkers on the lake-side path.
Paul Hinson Chief Executive of Willen Hospice said, “We are delighted to see that the 5,000 crocus bulbs we planted last year have bloomed so magnificently. They look stunning, when walking around the grounds of the hospice or Willen Lake, especially when the sun is shining. We have had many favourable comments and our patients really appreciate them too.” Images by Anton Faber
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Last Updated ( Friday, 01 April 2011 )
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Written by Stephen Sypula
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 Domestically we have seen the lowest prolonged winter temperatures on recent record. OK heating costs rose, but in the broader scheme of things, we suffered no long term consequence. Instead we witnessed and enjoyed our crocuses emerge into the unfolding spring world of light and colour here in the UK to belatedly celebrate Rotary Day 2011. What havoc the elements can bring! Spare a thought though, as many of you have done, for those affected by some of nature’s worst nightmares. In the autumn of 2010 the most un-imaginable floods affected 30 million people in Pakistan. Over Christmas and beyond, the lives and dreams of many Queenslanders in Australia and beyond were drowned in mud and despair. Two months later the picturesque bustling City and home to many in Christchurch, New Zealand, was shattered by their largest earthquake in their history. Now Japan is suffering the individual impact, as well as the social and economic aftershocks of its triple hammering from a huge undersea earthquake measuring upwards of 9 on the Richter scale (some 8,000 times that suffered in Christchurch, it’s reported). This was followed ten minutes later by a terrifying, death heralding tsunami that reached over 30 feet in height, travelling at 500 mph. It travelled many miles inland clearing whole fishing towns of thousands of people, their homes in one single pass. Try to imaging the human impact, and your emotions, if such a wave were to hit the east coast of England. Fortunately that is unlikely in our lifetime. To talk of lives lost, homes and livelihoods destroyed seems to have less impact these days. Consideration perhaps of the personal impact of loosing a child, a mother or a loved one is perhaps more poignant. If we multiply that by many perhaps, just perhaps we might appreciate the sorrow and long term mental impact each natural and human disaster brings. Here is a roundup of recent events........ |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 March 2011 )
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