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We are now officially a Rotary Club in District 7020. Our charter date is August 12, 2013. We hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
September is Rotary Celebration of Youth Month!
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Our President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
PolioPlus
PolioPlus is Rotary's massive effort to eradicate poliomyelitis from the world by the year 2005 (revised since then, obviously). It is part of a global effort to protect the children from five other deadly diseases as well - the "plus" in PolioPlus.
The program was launched in 1985 with fund-raising as a primary focus. The original goal was to raise US$120 million. By 1988, Rotarians of the world had raised more than $219 million in cash and pledges. By 1994, the cash total exceeded $246 million!
These gifts have enabled The Rotary Foundation (TRF) to make grants to provide a five-year supply of vaccine for any developing country requesting it to protect its children. Grants have been made to nearly 100 countries - a commitment, thus far, of $181 million to buy vaccine and to improve vaccine quality.
An update from Wikipedia: PolioPlus: Rotarians have mobilized by the hundreds of thousands to ensure that children are immunized against this crippling disease and that surveillance is strong despite the poor infrastructure, extreme poverty and civil strife of many countries. Since the PolioPlus program’s inception in 1985 more than two billion children have received oral polio vaccine.
To date, 209 countries, territories and areas around the world are polio-free. As of January 2012, India was declared polio free for the first time in history, leaving just Pakistan, Nigeria and Aghanistan with endemic polio.
As of June 2011, Rotary has committed more than US$850 million to global polio eradication. Rotary has received $355 million in challenge grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Rotary committed to raising $200 million by June 30, 2012 and met that goal by January 2012. This represents another $555 million toward polio eradication.
In 1988, the World Health Organization adopted a goal of eradicating polio throughout the world by the year 2000, and Rotary endorsed that goal, hoping to celebrate a polio-free world in its own 100th anniversay year, 2005. (We know that goal was too optimistic!)
Achieving eradication will be difficult (only one other disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated) and expensive (estimated cost to the international community is over $2 billion). It will require continuing immunization of children worldwide, and it also must include systematic reporting of all suspected cases, community-wide vaccination to contain outbreaks of the disease, and establishment of laboratory networks.
Rotary will not be alone in all these efforts, but in paratnership with national governments, the World and Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF and others.
Rotary's "people power" gives us a special "hands-on" role. Rotarians in developing countries have given thousans of hours and countless in-kind gifts to help eradictaion happen in their countries.
No other non-governmental organization ever has made a commitment of the scale of PolioPlus. Truly it may be considered the greatest humanitarian service the world has ever seen. Every Rotarian cah share the pride of that achievement!
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POLIO VACCINE UPDATE
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NUTRITION FOR LEARNING
Charlene Peck, The North Star
Volunteer nutrition programs throughout West parry Sound elementary schools are helping to ensure all students are well fuelled for a day of learning.
Whether it's a hot full-course breakfast, a nutrition cart rolling down the halls, snack attack baskets, or a combination or everything in between, each school's program is customized according to bus schedules, serious student allergies, community donations, and other factors.
"That's because the breakfast club was missing some people," says Debbie Dudas, who volunteers to co-ordinate the snack program. "The people who show up late by bus. The people who feel there's a stigma attached to going to the breakfast club, and that happens particularly in the intermediate ages. But they're still hungry and cranky in class and they're still from families, for whatever reason, don't have enough food in their home."
Last year, a math class research study indicated that 382 people of the 400 to 450 students at William Beatty were accessing the snack basket on a regular basis, indicating that students from a variety of backgrounds are benefiting from this nutritional boost.
"Sometimes, for any number of reasons, they want more than what was packed that day." Dudas explains. "So it's become a way to show that - we look after our community, we care about our kids - which is the whole bottom line I've been promoting through breakfast club."
It's about school connectedness.
"When kids believe that adults care about them learning and care about them as individuals, they're more likely to succeed because they fell connected and valued," notes Dudas. "We know that if we foster that kind of connectedness, it's going to improve not only their schoolwork, but the school environment because the families will also be seeing us as compassionate. It's a catalyst for healthy growth."
An advocate of the adage that many hands make light work, Dudas invites people from all backgrounds to get involved in breakfast programs in their communities.
If everybody gave a little bit, it would be a big thing," she says. "That little act of kindness goes such a long way."
Question for our E-Club. Are the local breakfast clubs where you might be able to volunteer?
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HAITI - Want to know the difference one person can make?
...originally printed in the Toronto Star
Tell one to fetch Rea Dol, the school founder and director.
And when she comes out to greet you — big, gap-toothed smile, booming laugh — ask for a tour of the cracked classrooms, where the city’s poor learn to read and write for next to nothing, and the kitchen, where they are fed every day. If you can bear the smell of burning plastic from a nearby rubbish heap, get her to take you out back to see the little slide rising in a thin patch of corn.
Then ask her about Ryan Sawatzky, a 33-year-old from Orillia. Yes, Ontario.
“Oh,” she says, clapping her hands and looking into a cloudless sky. “Every day, I pray for him. Ryan is a bon bagay — a great man.”
For almost three years, the Sawatzkys — son and father Garry, 58 — have funded this little school, emptying their bank accounts of $50,000 to cover all 50 staff salaries and enough food to feed all 554 students every day.
After the Jan. 12 earthquake, hundreds of families around the city ate rice and beans bought with funds sent by the Sawatzkys and delivered by Dol from the back of a truck.
And now, while most schools around the devastated capital are struggling to reopen, SOPUDEP is moving into temporary classrooms created by Ryerson interior design students.
“In April, the teachers worked for free,” Dol says. “In May, Ryan paid. In June, Ryan paid. Now we are July, and I have to pay for July. I think Ryan will pay.
“Without Ryan, there would be no more school.”
Sawatzky seems an unlikely candidate for humanitarian work. He works for his father’s company, Adventure Design Ltd., creating amusement parks and aquatic centres. They plan to open a new family entertainment park in Wasaga next summer.
But a streak of social justice runs through him. He’s impulsive and he rides life like the back car on a roller coaster, hands raised — all crucial traits for an aid worker in the Western Hemisphere’s most destitute country.
It started with a self-improvement campaign three summers ago. Sawatzky tore through a list of books he would have read in university, if he had finished high school: The Biography of Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival. The chapter on America’s manipulation of Haiti sent Sawatzky to the Internet and the website of a Montreal photographer selling pictures to raise money for SOPUDEP.
They struck up an online conversation and, within a month, Sawatzky had booked a ticket to Port-au-Prince.
Other than a holiday in Cancun, it was his first trip to a Third World country.
“It was just one of those things in life. I was driven to go,” he says. “I was looking for a way to help where I’d see my money go directly to something.”
SOPUDEP is a rarity in Haiti, where 80 per cent of schools are run for profit and charge up to $500 a year. (Getting into a free public school is akin to breaking out of prison — next to impossible.) Dol charges only $10 a month. But more than half her students — the really poor ones — come for free. A social justice streak runs through her, too.
The house was once owned by a member of the dreaded Tontons Macoutes, the Duvaliers’ enforcers. There was a torture chamber under the ground where the little slide sits. When Jean-Bertrande Aristide came to power in 1991, he nationalized the home and the local mayor leased it to Dol — then a literacy teacher — to start a night school for adults who couldn’t read or write.
But when it opened, the classes were packed with children, too. So Dol opened a children’s school.
After Aristide’s exile following a 2004 coup, the school struggled. Dol couldn’t pay her teachers for three months. She contemplated closing.
Then the Sawatzkys appeared, lugging French books worth $2,000 and plans to outfit the school with computers.
On their second day, a 10-year-old girl walked into Dol’s office and fainted at Garry Sawatzky’s feet. Calmly, Dol picked her up and sent the janitor to buy a cookie and orange juice. The girl wasn’t sick; she was hungry.
“We saw there were more pressing issues than computers,” Sawatzky says. “At that moment, we decided we had to get a lunch program started.”
By the end of that week-long trip, they had committed to directing 10 per cent of their company profits to the school. Returning home, Ryan set up a foundation. He built a website and edited a film on the school.
“We didn’t really know what the heck we were doing. I have no background in this. I’ve never done fundraising before.”
Before the earthquake, donations trickled in. But since January 12, Sawatzkys have raised more than $60,000. Some third-year Ryerson interior design students spent months drafting plans for temporary classrooms that could be assembled easily with tarps and bamboo; Sawatzky shipped down the materials.
A New Brunswick teacher amassed 2,000 French textbooks. After finishing his day job and reading his 2-year-old son a bedtime story, Sawatzky set to work arranging the shipping container. He persuaded a Montreal hot sauce company to contribute $2 per jar sold.
“Now, I’m finding myself to be more and more a full-time humanitarian worker,” he says. “Never in a million years did I think I’d be doing this. It’s been one giant learning process.”
Sawatzky flew down in July, touring the cracked school and the new plot of land bought for SOPUDEP by a Californian couple. An architect from New Mexico will design the new school pro bono. The burden on Sawatzky has lessened.
The school is now smaller — Dol lost about 230 students and 15 teachers to the quake. Many died; others moved to refugee camps across town and can’t afford the tap-tap fare to commute.
One night, he and Dol walked up the hill past her house and stumbled upon a little school of only 100 students and four teachers. Dol agreed to help the principal draft his curriculum and Sawatzky and his father agreed to fund the teachers out of their own pocket. So, it all starts again.
The key to humanitarian work, Sawatzky says, is to focus on the things you can fix.
“It used to really stress me out — being responsible for all those kids,” says Sawatzky. “Now, I enjoy the challenge.”
Don't miss this excellent video story!
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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PUBLIC IMAGE - This could be one of our goals as an E-Club
You can see our Partner IPP Rachid in this video.
SPEAKER - Dan Pink
- autonomy
- mastery
- purpose
Bidding adieu to his last "real job" as Al Gore's speechwriter, Dan Pink went freelance to spark a right-brain revolution in the career marketplace.
With a trio of influential bestsellers, Dan Pink has changed the way companies view the modern workplace. In the pivotal A Whole New Mind, Pink identifies a sea change in the global workforce -- the shift of an information-based corporate culture to a conceptual base, where creativity and big-picture design dominates the landscape.
His latest book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, is an evolutionary transformation of the familiar career guide. Replacing linear text with a manga-inspired comic, Pink outlines six career laws vastly differing from the ones you've been taught. Members of the Johnny Bunko online forum participated in an online contest to create the seventh law -- "stay hungry."
A contributing editor for Wired, Pink is working on a new book on the science and economics of motivation for release in late 2009.
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A SPEECH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Click this link to view the video. Click your browser`s BACK button to return to the video.
(A video of 4 minutes.)
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RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS??
A short feel-good video...
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ROTARY CLUB OF KYIV PROJECT - mends children with broken hearts
The way Olena Ichnatenko tells it, her daughter has two fathers – her birth father and the doctor who gave her a second chance at life at the Ukrainian Children’s Cardiac Center.
Dr. Illya Yemets, a charter member of the Rotary Club of Kyiv, founded the center in 2003, but its beginnings trace back to the 1990s, starting with a visit from Australian Rotarians led by Past District Governor Jack Olsson. They had stopped in Kyiv on a trip to develop exchanges in non-Rotary countries and learned of the need to train surgeons specializing in pediatric heart conditions. In 1991, Olsson arranged for Yemets to train at a children’s hospital in Sydney.
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| Dr. Yemets (rear) does rounds each day. |
In 1992, he performed Ukraine’s first successful neonatal open heart surgery, on a 21-day-old baby. The Kyiv club was chartered that same year and took on Yemets’ cause as its first service project.
Yemets pursued further training abroad between 1993 and 1998, working in Australia, Canada, and France. Back in Kyiv, he became chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at the Amosov Institute. In 2000, doctors performed 244 surgeries. By 2010, the number had increased to 1,231. “We operate on 10 to 11 patients a day,” says Vladimir Zhovnir, the center’s director. “The average age of a patient with heart disease who needs surgery is one year old.”
The Kyiv club continues its close partnership with the center, providing equipment and donations of used furniture and other necessities, including 100 sets of sheets to outfit the beds in a new building. The club also sponsors opportunities for the specialists to receive further medical training.
“I’m very emotional about this,” says Alexei Kozhenkin, a charter member and past club president. “It was the first project of the first Rotary club in Ukraine. It also turned out to be the most successful project.”
Proof of that success is on display at the annual Chestnut Run in May. Former patients, their families, medical staff, and the community participate in a race that promotes the center and helps provide funding for supplies and equipment. The children run 300 meters and the adults run a 5K through the streets of Kyiv. In 2012, more than 300 former patients took part, along with 7,000 others.
Tania Stukalyanko, whose son Sergei underwent heart surgery at six months old, also comes out for the race. “We had been told that with such a diagnosis, people do not live,” she says. “But we do live.”
Among many happy stories from the center, Yemets heard some great news last summer: “One girl, who was the third patient 20 years ago, during our period of establishing neonatal cardiac surgery, invited me to her wedding. That was exciting.”
by Susie Ma
The Rotarian -- July 2013
Photos by Alyce Henson/Rotary International
Other points of interest
- Children with congenital heart defects receive treatment from doctors at the Ukrainian Children’s Cardiac Center in Kyiv.
- The average age of patients who receive surgery is one year old, but sometimes doctors operate on infants in the first days of life.
- The facility was founded by Dr. Illya Yemets, a charter member of the Rotary Club of Kyiv. It was the first project the club undertook, in 1992.
A SMILE
Stumpy and his wife Martha went to the State Fair every year. Every year Stumpy would say, "Martha, I'd like to ride in that airplane." And every year Martha would say, "I know, Stumpy, but that airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."
This one year Stumpy and Martha went to the fair and Stumpy said, "Martha, I'm 71 years old. If I don't ride that airplane this year I may never get another chance."
Martha replied, "Stumpy, that airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."
The pilot overheard them and said, "Folks, I'll make you a deal. I'll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say one word, I won't charge you, but if you say one word it's ten dollars."
Stumpy and Martha agreed and up they go. The pilot does all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word is heard. He does all his tricks over again, but still not a word.
They land and the pilot turns to Stumpy, " I did everything I could think of to get you to yell out, but you didn't."
Stumpy replied, "Well, I was gonna say something when Martha fell out, but ten dollars is ten dollars."
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SPEAKER - DISTRICT 7020 ROTARACT REPRESENTATIVE
Special presentation - Saturday, September 7
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TO END OUR MEETING
To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do.
Felix Stubbs, who will be our District Governor in 2015-16, leads us.
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
...and official close of meeting
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Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.
This week, our guest speaker is our District 7020 Governor-elect,
Paul Brown.
- 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time
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Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout. Our guest speaker will be Eric (Busha) Clarke from Jamaica.
- 8:00 p.m. Atlantic Time
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