Here is to Connecting the District as we Connect the World!
Rotary International President, Mark Maloney, Alabama, USA District 6330 Governor, Tony Sheard Club President, Allan Loiselle (2019-20)
District website: https://rotary6330.org/
DG Tony's February Message – Click here!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS ISSUE… Page No. District Governor`s February message Rotary Monthly Themes (Rotary calendar) Coming Events IMPORTANT ROTARY INFORMATION RI President Mark Maloney’s Message for February 2020 Rotary Peace Fellowship Moving Forward to 2021-22 Learn how to use Rotary Brand Logos Rotary’s Learning Center UPDATE ON POLIO ERADICATION Meet Anis UPDATE ON WASRAG – Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group Coming events Mark Balla Story
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CLUB NEWS Kurtis Lush Reid Eyre Central America update A Water Project Food for Thought – Balloons A little History District Vacancies D6330 Conference 2020 Object of Rotary and Four-Way Test Rotary’s Code of Conduct Rotary’s Vision Statement and Dates to Remember Support our Sponsors References
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FEBRUARY - FOCUS ON PEACE AND CONFLICT PREVENTION/ RESOLUTION
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The Calendar below shows Rotary’s monthly themes. ROTARY CALENDAR and THEMES Month July August September October November December January February March April May June
Theme Transition month/New beginnings Membership and New Club Development Basic Education and Literacy Economic and Community Development Rotary Foundation Disease Prevention and Treatment Vocational Service Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution Water and Sanitation Maternal and Child Health Youth Service Rotary Fellowships
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ROTARY’S FOCUS ON PEACE AND CONFLICT PREVENTION/RESOLUTION Month of February
MONTHLY MEETING ONLINE February 5, 2020
SERVICE PROJECTS COMMITTEE MEETING February 26, 2020
MONTHLY MEETING ONLINE GUEST –Brenda Cressey The Rotary Foundation (TRF) Trustee March 4, 2020
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IMPORTANT ROTARY INFORMATION 2019-20 RI PRESIDENTIAL THEME
International President, 2019-20 – Mark Maloney RC of Decatur, Alabama, USA February message 2020 Happy 115th birthday, fellow Rotarians and members of the family of Rotary! Much has changed in the world since 1905. Then, the global population was roughly 1.7 billion. Today, it is 7.7 billion. There were 5 telephones per 100 people in the United States 115 years ago. In 2020, it is estimated that 96 percent of the U.S. population has a cellphone — and both China and India have more than a billion cellphones in use. In the 115 years since Rotary was founded, seemingly everything has changed except Rotary values. We began, and remain, committed to fellowship, integrity, diversity, service, and leadership. While our Service Above Self motto dates to 1911, the ethos behind those words had already been ingrained by Rotary's founders. As the pace of change worldwide continues to accelerate, the need for Rotary service is greater than ever. It's one thing to read about service projects, quite another to see them in action and to see the grateful faces of people who have benefited from them. Rotary projects change lives and connect the world. And over the past year, I have seen some amazing Rotary projects in action. Gay and I visited Japan's Fukushima prefecture last year. Few places in the world have had to deal with the kind of devastation that visited Fukushima in March 2011, when a tsunami touched off by an earthquake led to disaster at a nuclear power plant. But the story of Fukushima today is not one of destruction; it is one of hope and renewal. Rotary grants have helped improve access to medical and mental health care for victims of the disaster and reduced the isolation of these communities by sharing the experiences of people from other parts of
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the world who have also recovered from disasters. Our grants have also helped to foster self-motivation and encourage sustainable long-term community recovery across the region. In Shanghai, I learned about the Careers in Care program. This helps migrant workers fill the need for skilled professionals in elder care facilities. After taking a course, trainees receive certification to boost their employment prospects, while the care industry benefits from an expanded talent pool. Rotary projects like this are successful because they address a local need, and they have the potential to attract local government funding to sustain their impact. And in Guatemala, Gay and I went to Sumpango. Global grants there provide mechanical cows to produce soy milk; an improved water distribution system; water filters; clean compost latrines; family gardens; support for income generation; and training in WASH and literacy programs. The food items sold there not only provide nutrition to women and children, but also create a source of income for local women. In every area of focus, and in every part of the world, Rotary projects are improving lives and helping communities adapt in a time of rapid change. As we celebrate another great year for Rotary, let us rededicate ourselves to strengthening the connections that make our service so impactful. We will make lives better as Rotary Connects the World.
Other Presidential messages for the 2019-20 year are posted at https://my.rotary.org/en/news-media/office-president/presidential-message
WHAT IS A ROTARY PEACE FELLOWSHIP? The Rotary Peace Fellowship is designed for professionals with work experience in international relations or peace and conflict prevention and resolution. Our fellows are committed to community and international service and the pursuit of peace. In just over a decade, the Rotary Peace Centers have trained more than 1,200 fellows. Many of them now serve as leaders at international organizations or have started their own foundations. FOCUS ON PEACE
ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL CURRICULA — ALL FREE NOW AND FOREVER. The Overcoming Obstacles life skills curriculum is organized into elementary, middle, and high school levels, each beginning with the three fundamental skills on which all other skills can be built: communication, decision making, and goal setting. Through lessons, activities, and role-playing, your students will learn valuable skills and discover how they are relevant to their lives. Because of its modular format, you can either choose to teach the curriculum from beginning to end or select specific lessons that best meet the needs of your students.
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In addition to the three levels of the curriculum, Overcoming Obstacles also provides additional resources including training guides, standards alignments, peer mentoring materials, pre and post surveys, and more. The entire curriculum is available in Spanish, French, and English, and the student activity sheets have been translated into 20 languages. All of these—the curricula, translations, and resources—are available free, now and forever. Join the 180,000 educators from 150 countries who have taught more than 40 million young people life skills through Overcoming Obstacles.
ROTARY MOVING FORWARD TO 2020-21
RI President-elect Holger Knaack
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LEARN HOW TO USE THE ROTARY LOGOS
Links: https://brandcenter.rotary.org/en-GB/Logos/Rotary-Logos At the Brand Center, click Logos and then Rotary Logos. https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/learn-topic/public-relations https://learn.rotary.org/members/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/669/BuildingRotary%E2%80%99sPublicI mage
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Check out the Rotary Learning Centre! Here’s the link - https://learn.rotary.org/members/learn/home All members – new and seasoned – should make an effort to get involved with the courses in Rotary’s Learning Centre on a regular basis. There is a great deal of valuable information there. https://learn.rotary.org/members/learn/catalog Here’s a sampling:
And because February is focused on Peace and Conflict Prevention and Resolution, you might like to learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships! Just enroll online and follow through! You’ll soon become a Rotary guru!
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UPDATE ON POLIO ERADICATION
Summary of new viruses this week (AFP cases and environmental samples): • • • • • • • •
Afghanistan: one WPV1 case and three WPV1-positive environmental samples Pakistan: two WPV1 cases, four WPV1-positive environmental samples and six cVDPV2 cases Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo): ten cVDPV2 cases Côte d’Ivoire: two cVDPV2-positive environmental samples Ghana: two cVDPV2 positive-environmental samples Malaysia: two cVDPV1 cases Philippines: two cVDPV2 cases and two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples Togo: one cVDPV2 case
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Amidst the extreme heat of Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan, Anis Faizy, a 24 year-old polio outreach worker, moves with confidence between houses. Her aim is to talk to families that refuse to vaccinate their children against polio. Her energy is endless and she tops that with a smile and a warm way of talking with women and men. For someone her age, Anis has an impressive range of skills. Initially a tailor, now she works as a skilled midwife with passion for her community. She is also a District Communications Officer for the polio programme, leading a team of 56 community outreach workers in her neighbourhood.
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“I want to help my people – polio is a danger to every child, and we should eradicate it”, says Anis. When Anis started her job her father told her “You do what is best for you”, but neighbours in her socially conservative community were not impressed. She was told by others that she “could be killed while working in the community, it is unsafe for women, and women must stay at home.” But social barriers didn’t deter Anis, who has now been working to eradicate polio in Kandahar for over three years. Anis recalls, “I faced tough refusal families who denied their children the polio vaccine. A woman refused to vaccinate her younger sister. After one year, the sister died of measles as she hadn’t been vaccinated against it. Now, the same woman has a baby girl and she frequently takes her baby to the health centre for vaccination. Sadly, she learnt her lesson the hard way.” Over the years, Anis progressed from the lower ranks of social mobiliser to become a supervisor. In September 2019, she applied for the position of District Communication Officer within the Immunization 24-year-old Anis manages a team of 56 community outreach workers in Kandahar. Communication Network ©UNICEF/Afghanistan supported by UNICEF. In Kandahar, a male dom2inant community, women friends wondered if she would be able to supervise male teams. Undeterred, Anis won the job competition. The interview panel commended her achievements, including reducing the number of vaccine-hesitant families in her area, and her ability to drive others to promote vaccines effectively. Reflecting on her work now, Anis emphasizes, “I don’t have a problem working with men. We help each other.” Anis leaves her house at 6:30 a.m. during immunization campaigns, just as the sun breaks over Kandahar. She checks the outreach plans with her teams before they disperse around the town. Through the day, she makes supervisory visits to her teams and obtains updates on vaccine uptake issues. When she receives reports on absent and missing children, she converses with families in order to encourage them to vaccinate their children. To eradicate polio from Afghanistan, Anis thinks there is a lot more to do. She says, “we need better health and sanitation services, more women to access homes and better relationships with the local authorities to ensure families accept vaccine.” “I will continue to work hard, for every child to be able to walk, attend school and grow healthy. It is the whole community cause for generations to come.”
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POLIO PARTNERS
For more information, click here - http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/
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UPDATE FROM WASRAG Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group
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COMING WATER EVENTS March 22, 2020 - WORLD WATER DAY http://www.worldwaterday.org/ May 28, 2020 - MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY http://menstrualhygieneday.org/ Oct 15, 2020 - GLOBAL HANDWASHING DAY https://globalhandwashing.org Oct 24, 2020 - WORLD POLIO DAY https://www.endpolio.org/world-polio-day Nov 19, 2019 - WORLD TOILET DAY https://www.un.org/en/events/toiletday/
ROTARIAN MARK BALLA SHARES HIS TOILET STORY Recently, Mark (a presenter at WWS7 in Sao Paulo in May 2015) presented at TEDx, New Zealand. In the talk you will hear about his organization and their first project in India completed very recently. This project is to build 15 toilets in a school of 500 kids. The Rotary Club of Box Hill Central in Australia (district 9810) and the Rotary Club of Nasik Road in India (district 3030) were partners. They are now developing a more ambitious project, this time involving seven or eight schools and as many as 5000 children. Beyond that, over the next few years they intend to reach tens of thousands of children. Listen to the TEDx talk or visit the facebook page to learn more!
Click here for the TEDTalk video.
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Passport Clubs differ from e-clubs in that members live within a defined geographical region- in this case, District 6330. If you think this new style of Rotary club might be a good fit for you- reach out!
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A Submission from Kurtis Lush Some of you may know that I'm a member of Rotary, including the young-adult version Rotaract, in Sarnia. About a year ago a few Rotaract members and I began discussing an idea to shovel driveways for seniors after snowfalls. Our original plan for winter 2020 was to go out after a snowstorm and go door-to-door to shovel the driveways of seniors for free. Nothing formal or official, it was just the idea of neighbours helping neighbours. The idea began to spread over the winter, and eventually got the attention of some local agencies. After a summer of planning with Age-Friendly Sarnia, Lambton Elderly Outreach, the City of Sarnia and Lambton Public Health, our idea became a program: The Sarnia-Lambton Adopt-a-Driveway. The goal was to, with our limited resources, pilot a program which offered free snow removal services for 20 senior households in need throughout Sarnia. We aimed to have volunteers adopt 20 driveways for a winter. We wanted to see if a program like this could work and, potentially down the road, grow into something bigger. Fast forward to last week, and I can honestly say, within a year, I never thought one small idea would garner enough attention and endorsement to turn into a community funded program. Last week the pilot received $15,000.00 to assist in its maintenance and growth! Thank you to The RBC Foundation and The Sarnia Community Foundation for believing in our idea to start bringing back the community spirit of neighbours helping neighbours after snow storms! This weekend was our first snowfall out shoveling, and it was quite a memorable experience. We covered the driveways we aimed to cover and learned some valuable lessons to help grow the initiative. Our biggest need though is volunteers. The demand for snow removal is high in Sarnia and the more volunteers that we can have commit to leading/helping driveways the more households we can assist. For anyone interest in helping or learning more, feel free to reach out at info@rotaractsarnialambton.org.
Many seniors will have their driveways shoveled for them this winter through Adopt-A-Driveway. Age Friendly Sarnia, Lambton Elderly Outreach and Rotaract have come together to make this program a reality. The Sarnia Community Foundation and RBC Foundation are very proud to provide a grant of $15,000 to this program. This is what it looks like when a community comes together!
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A Submission from Reid Eyre A handful of Canucks fleeing the snow to sunny San Diego, and changing the world in the process! Three Rotaractors from Canada were selected to attend the Rotary International International Assembly this year, and caught up with RI Director-Elect Valarie Wafer at the Rotaract Welcome Reception!
From left: District Rotaract Representative Justine Wild D5360, Rotary International Director-Elect Valarie Wafer, Rotaract Canada Provisional General Secretary Reid William Eyre, and District Rotaract Representative Riley Weymann D7040
An Update from Central America Past President, Tanya, makes good use of her camera phone when she’s away. A trip to Guatemala to participate in a Rotary Project Fair. On the next pages, she shares highlights of her trip!
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Excited to meet so many Rotarians at Uniendo - a conference for projects in Central America. This hotel is something else built from a Monastery from 1538.
In Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepequez.
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Above - Surprise meeting with Elly Contreras-Vermeulen!! I met Elly when I was the Rotary International President’s Rep to District 5370 many years ago. We kicked in the several members that I had recruited from 6330 to help her charter the first E-Club in Canada. .
At left – Yet another surprise in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepequez - Chris and I were both Top 100 FTD florists (in all of North America) and haven’t seen each other in over 12 years. She is from Victoria, BC. . At right - Jean-Michel and Barbara Crepin from Calgary and the E-Club of Canada One.... great to see them after our visit in August. They hosted us for a special visit and for the presentation of a PHF to our future son-in-law Rodrigo.
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More Rotarian pictures – from Rotarian Jim Sillers
With Tanya F Wolff, James Sillers and Dorothy Higgs at Ciudad Cayalá.
At left - the ladies having fun, — Joan Fisher and Tanya with Fay Morris Campbell at Santa Catalina Hotel Cartagena. At right – enjoying the pool. Below – Market wares
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Jim Sillers, Ligia Ines Corredor and Tanya Wolff at Centro Historico Cartagena De India Calle Larga - Colombia
Walking in the hotel museum. — at Museo Santo Domingo.
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Community and Economic Growth Grant Possibility.
Left - While we were handing out backpacks filled with supplies at the orphanage on our first day in El Salvador, we were entertained by these 4 violins. The nuns mentioned they needed 6 more violins for their music class. The Rotary Club of District 6330 Passport donated the funds to purchase one of the six. Right – Children the same the world over.
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A Water Project – In desperate need of Water and Sanitation
Finished project on next page
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Below - another project being set up for display
Manos a la obra Project at Hotel Casa Santo Domingo .
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Above - Local Rotary Fundraiser - At Hotel Casa, Santo Domingo. Below – a great lunch with Tanya and Jim.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT - BALLOONS
BY KRISTEN WARFIELD - PUBLISHED ON 05/04/2018 On Thursday morning, Justin Williams, a patrol member with the Turtle Island Restoration Network, was walking on the shores of Surfside, Texas, when he noticed something lying still right at the ocean’s edge. Williams moved closer, and realized it was a young Kemp’s ridley sea turtle — with a thick clump of tangled balloon strings wrapped around her neck. A deflated red balloon was still attached. “[She was] pretty wore out,” Williams told The Dodo. “Sadly, there were quite a few balloons out there on the beach ... I also found a dead pelican wrapped in them.”
Click here to read more.
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A LITTLE ROTARY HISTORY – RGHF
1910-12 Paul P. Harris (Founder of Rotary) (law), Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Rotary vision: To harness the great power of friendship to help do the world’s work. “Man has affinity for his fellowman, regardless of race, creed, or politics, and the greater the variety, the more the zest. All friendliness needs is a sporting chance; it will take care of itself in any company.” — A Road I Have Travelled, THE ROTARIAN, February 1934 “Friendship is a natural and willing servant…There is no reason…why the great power of friendship should not be harnessed to do its part in the world’s work.” — Report of the President, 1912 Rotary Convention, Duluth, Minnesota, USA “The best antidote for international fear is international understanding; the best way to cultivate international understanding is through business and social intercourse.” — Message to 1928 Pacific Rotary Conference, Tokyo, Japan
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Mark the date! Conference Registration opens in January 2020!
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See our Passport Club Facebook page for more up-to-the-minute Passport news! https://www.facebook.com/rotary6330passport/
DATES TO REMEMBER March 22, 2020 - WORLD WATER DAY http://www.worldwaterday.org/
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SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!
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********* REFERENCES
Adams, Randal. Speaking of Rotary. E.J. Press, U.S.A. 2007. Chapman, Mary. Growing Rotary. A Personal Collection of Ideas That Worked. Dochterman, Cliff. The ABCs of Rotary. Evanston, Illinois: Rotary International. (363-EN) Forward, David C. A Century of Service. The Story of Rotary International. (912-EN) Rotary History Fellowship - http://www.rotaryhistoryfellowship.org Rotary International. Honoring Our Past: The Words and Wisdom of Paul Harris. Evanston, Illinois: 1996. (925-EN) Rotary International. Rotary Basics. Evanston, Illinois. (595-EN) Rotary International News. Online. Rotary Gallery of Past Presidents <https://www.rotary.org/en/aboutus/history/galleryofpastpresidents/pages/timelineofpresidents.aspx>
Submissions from Club members Please send Club News and photos (with appropriate IDs) to Kitty at ladykitt@gmail.com
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