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UKRAINE NEWS 15 John Hewko is “overwhelmed” 16
UNITED NATIONS’ DATES 18
POLIO NOW 19 Giving Tuesday, November 29 20
ROTARY ACTION GROUPS 21 ESRAG Environmental Sustainability
Action Group 21 Solar Water Heater 22 Earth Prize competition 22 Earth Day 2023 24
WASH Rotary Action Group 27
SHELTER BOX 28 Pakistan floods 29
ROTARY’S CORE VALUES 30
July Transition month/New beginnings
August Membership and New Club Development
September Basic Education and Literacy
October Economic and Community Development
November Rotary Foundation
December Disease Prevention and Treatment
January Vocational Service
February Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution
March Water and Sanitation
April Maternal and Child Health
May Youth Service
June Rotary Fellowships
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Being asked to Imagine Rotary can seem like a big, heady exercise, but the most important element of it is something quite small, even personal.
Not too long ago, Rotary members were expected to perform our acts of service quietly. I understood and appreciated the thought behind that humility is a wonderful trait, and we should continue to nurture it in other ways. But keeping Rotary to ourselves has a cost. And by sharing our rotary moments, we are being generous with others and giving them an opportunity to understand trhe impace of Rotary.
It brings to mind that wonderful aphorism that poet Maya Angelou was known for: “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.”
So how do we make people feel Rotary? The best way is to share our Rotary moments. We have all had them when the ordinaryh collides with intention to create something extraordinary.
Some people have those Rotary moments the first time they go to a meeting. For others, finding such a moment can take years, perhaps when seeing the joy in the eyes of someone we serve. Or in hearing from another member something that hits close to home.
As Nick and I share this journey, we are amazed at the work you are performing and the lives that are transforming. Throughout the year, I’m going to share with you the sights and the stories that made those tours meanigful for us.
I hope you can do the same in your corner of Rotrary. It can be something you share in meetings or on social media. For the most savvy and ambitious, it could be an event you publicize through local media. Even telling your stores to friends has impact.
We need ambassadors for Rotary’s message and our dreams for a better world. The best ambassadores are our members. The more you share stories and share them from the heart the more you encounrage others to partner with us, to join us, and to stay.
To give you just one small example, in the months ahead, I will be turning over this column to Rotary memers who will share their personal stories as they relate to idiversity, equity, and inclusion in our organization. It’s important that we hear these stories direectly from the people who experienced them as a way of feeling the imortance of DEI for the future of Rotary.
In everything we do, wehat people feel about Rotaryh will shape our future. I can onlhyimagine what you will inspire through the stories you’ll tell.
JENNIFER JONESPresident, Rotary International P.S. November marks the 60th anniversary of Interact! I want to express my fondest wishes to our Interact members and the people who support them. Thank you for everything you do.
“Imagine, a world that deserves our best where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference.”
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If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. The world needs more of that.
to donate today to The Rotary Foundation the engine that runs Rotary!
The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world.
Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life changing, sustainable projects.
With your help, we can make lives better in your community and around the world.
The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
• For as little as 60 cents, a child can be protected from polio.
• $50 can provide clean water to help fight waterborne illness.
• $500 can launch an antibullying campaign and create a safe environment for children.
As the charitable arm of Rotary, we tap into a global network of Rotarians who invest their time, money, and expertise into our priorities, such as eradicating polio and promoting peace. Foundation grants empower Rotarians to approach challenges such as poverty, illiteracy, and malnutrition with sustainable solutions that leave a lasting impact.
Strong financial oversight, a stellar charity rating, and a unique funding model mean that we make the very most of your contribution. Give and become a part of Rotary’s life changing work!
We concentrate our efforts in order to maximize our local and global impact. Our most successful and sustainable projects and activities tend to address these causes, and all humanitarian projects, scholars, and vocational training teams funded by The Rotary Foundation’s global grants work toward specific goals in these areas of focus:
Rotary encourages conversations to foster understanding within and across cultures. We train adults and young leaders to prevent and mediate conflict and help refugees who have fled dangerous areas.
We educate and equip communities to stop the spread of life threatening diseases like polio, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. We improve and expand access to low cost and free health care in developing areas.
We support local solutions to bring clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to more people. We share our expertise and work alongside community leaders and educators to make sure our projects succeed in the long term.
Rotary is dedicated to causes that build international relationships, improve lives, and create a better world to support our peace efforts and end polio forever. In addition to the above, our other areas of focus are:
Nearly 6 million children under age five die each year because of malnutrition, poor health, care, and inadequate sanitation. We expand access to quality care, so mothers and their children can live and grow stronger.
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. Our goal is to strengthen the capaityu of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.
We work with communities to create opportunities for decent and productive work for young and old. We strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women.
We develop projecrts that conserve and protect natural resources, advance ecological sustainability, and foster harmony between commmunities and the environment. We empower communities and spur innovation to address the causes and effects of climate change and environmental degradationl
How do you want to get involved in the causes you’re most passionate about?
Imagine Rotary.
How do you imagine your club in five years’ time? What great service projects will be completed in your community or in the world? What new members will be attracted to join your efforts? What lives will be impacted and changed forever because of your work?
Having spent most of my working career in the non profit world membership organizations like ours place a high emphasis on growth. I believe it our responsibility as Rotarians to create club cultures and club experiences that are inviting, rewarding and fun for prospective members.
What barriers need to be addressed so everyone may have a great Rotary experience?
What assistance does your club need to grow?
I am fortunate after a two-year hiatus to be able to visit your clubs in person and to meet each of you. Please also invite me to your service projects and fundraisers.
Let’s have fun this year, do good things in the world and ask others to join us on this journey. Lots of questions here. Let’s find out the answers together!
We hereby present and invite you to the 4th edition of Incredible India Tour 2023, organized exclusively for Rotarians, Youth Exchange Officers, family, and friends by Rotary couple Rotarians Bhanu and Divya. You will be enjoying India as one big Rotary family with Rotary friends from Canada, USA, Germany, Brazil and Italy.
I am sharing the brief fact sheet of the tour. Also please visit www.experientialtravelling.in for full detail daily itinerary.
If India has been on your bucket list, then we promise you a trip full of memories and long term Rotary friendship. This is only for a group of max 24 participants only to keep a small friendly group, and we have only 4 slots left.
Feel free to let me know any questions or queries you may for the tour and we I'll try our best to answer them. In anticipation or your positive response to join the tour.
Regards
Rtn. Bhanu | Rtn. Divya
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RLI PART I
Monday evenings November 21 and 28, 2022 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ONLINE VIA ZOOM E-LEARNING
Many of you have been waiting so here it is!!!! RLI PART I ONLY !!!
SAME: The RLI Program comprises three parts to be taken progressively I, II and III
NEW: Maximum 20 participants on a first come first served basis. Registration with payment will confirm your spot.
NEW: Only two Monday evenings two equal sessions. There will be a short break between sessions each evening.
SAME: Each session will include Breakouts with white boards and some time allocated for fellowship/discussions with participants.
NEW: Your manual and Zoom link will be emailed one week prior to start date (once payment with registration is received.)
NEW: The cost is only $20.00 ($16 US). The price covers Zoom costs, materials, certificates, and miscellaneous costs. (Supply your own drinks and snacks as you learn about Rotary in your own home.)
Email to dianechantler@hotmail.com with (a) Your name (b) Club name and (c) your email address.
Payment - (a) By etransfer to email above is preferred or (b) “snail mail” to Diane at postal address below. Sending by post can be slow, so send it early.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 13, 2022
Courses are fun, topical, and interactive. They are geared towards members and leaders who wish to be knowledgeable about Rotary and be more effective in their businesses and their Rotary Club.
Rotary Clubs are encouraged to select at least two candidates for RLI. training annually and to pay the registration fee. Please pass along this registration information to all of your Club members to encourage and make sure no one is missed.
PDG Diane Chantler, RLI Chair D6330 Email dianechantler@hotmail.com
Phone - 519-207-7940
Mailing Address 18 Kensington Court, St Thomas, Ontario N5R 0A3
The District 6330 District Grant Qualification Course online has been in effect for 3 years.
Now is the time to evaluate it and the other resources available for District Grant qualified members before we commence the '23 '24 District Grant cycle in January.
Please click onto the link below to complete the survey by November 15, 2022 https://forms.gle/KigH6ZmQQj3Q9mmh7
This notice is being sent to all members who qualified for District Grants whether you worked on a grant or your Club has a grant. Everyone's feedback is important.
Thanks Myrna
Myrna Inglis District Grants Chair Minglis65@hotmail.com or 519 881 0586
Find out how Rotary districts can apply for a grant from the Disaster Response Fund.
Now through 31 December 2022, districts can apply for grants to provide relief such as water, food, shelter, medicine, and clothing to refugees or other people affected by the crisis. Districts should work closely with local officials and groups to ensure that the funding will meet a specific community need.
Ukraine has 62 Rotary clubs and six satellite clubs with about 1,100 members, and 24 Rotaract clubs with more than 300 members. District 2232 (Ukraine and Belarus) formed a committee to help people affected by the crisis.
One of Rotary’s vital focus areas peacebuilding and conflict resolution came into sharp focus at the Houston convention, in the background of the war raging in Ukraine. RI general secretary and CEO John Hewko’s address to the 11,000-plus participants on how Rotary had helped the oppressed Ukrainians under siege, gained even more poignancy as his parents originally hailed from Ukraine.
He said he was happy at the kind of help the people of Ukraine had got from across the world, especially the young. The Fortnite (an online video game) players decided to support Ukraine refugees by donating funds.
“Based on their normal sales (of their video games) they expected to raise somewhere between $15 to 20 million.
The average age of a Fortnite player is 19; these players blew those projected numbers out of the water and ended up donating $155 million to the Ukraine relief efforts. That is an astonishing number, and it all came from young people wanting to belong to just more than a video game community. They wanted to show they cared about something that is happening right now, something important and wanted to make a difference.”
This is exactly what Rotary and Rotarians plan and do, said Hewko. “When we were formulating our new Rotary Action Plan a few years ago, our research consistently found that young people are hungry for just these kind of engaging, meaningful connections. It also found that all generations want to connect and belong and take action that makes a meaningful difference in the lives of others. That’s why our vision statement says:
“Together we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our communities and in ourselves.”
Rotary does this “by taking action and through meaningful personal engagement, which improves personal wellbeing much more than getting financial rewards. Doing good makes people feel good and also improves physical health.”
Of course, the members also have to feel that the club they belong to is relevant and fun. “For the first time in seven years, Rotary will gain net members; this is good news, but it is up to us now to keep these new members,” he said.
When it came to “grow Rotary”, clubs could take a leaf out of the book of a club in Houston the Plano West Rotary Club.
Three years ago, the club had just 20 members who certainly did not represent the community they served. Their median age was 67 and it had only 5 women and one person of colour. “It hadn’t really positioned itself as a resource for community action.
So the club members adapted and changed their approach. They started with activities such as distributing after school meals to school children, forming close ties with teachers. They reached out to police officers and when the pandemic began, they handed out material about Covid-19 in underserved communities.”
Next, the members started delivering meals directly to the families in need during the pandemic in Afro American and Latino neighbourhoods. “Because of this effort, people from across the community started showing up to help. The club started drawing members from the Afro American, Latino and LGBTQ groups, and it also became younger. “Today it has tripled its size to 65 members, including 37 women and 28 men, and its median age has come down from 67 to 50,” Hewko said to thunderous applause.
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November 5
World Tsunami Awareness Day
November 9 to 15
International Week of Science and Peace
November 10
World Science Day for Peace and Developmenthttps://www.un.org/en/observances/world science day
November 14 World Diabetes Day
November 16
International Day for Tolerance (UNESCO)
November 19 World Toilet Day
November 20 World Children’s Day
November 25
International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
Click here to view a short video re Giving Tuesday.
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Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, has awarded its 2022 Grand Prize to Petra Wadström, founder and inventor of the Solvatten portable solar powered water treatment and heating system.
Kits last 7 10 years and are designed for off grid communities without other access to safe water. The Swedish award recognizes people who have made ground breaking discoveries.
“Clean water is crucial for people’s health, opportunities, and quality of life,” KTH wrote in its prize citation. “Petra Wadström is a unique problem solver with a large measure of stubbornness who, through her innovation Solvatten, has changed the lives of many people particularly women around the world.”
Through ESRAG's Solar Safe Water Challenge, led by Gunilla Ostberg and Ingrid Hesser of Sweden, Rotarians have provided Solvatten kits to 300 Kenyan households totaling about 1,500 people in just a year and a half, equipping these families to heat and purify water without fuel.
500,000 people around the world now use Solvatten water kits.
Each one can heat and treat up to 40 liters of water a day, saving 6 8 trees and 1 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions a year.
Click here to see how this project liberates families from significant burdens on their time and budget, and advances all seven of Rotary's Areas of Focus. (Source: ESRAG Newsletter for October 2022)
The Earth Prize is an annual global $200,000 environmental sustainability competition for students between the ages of 13 and 19, which rewards the teams whose projects have the most potential to address environmental issues. The winning team receives $100,000 to be split between the team members and their school. Three runner up schools will be rewarded with $25,000 each. Additionally, the teacher selected as The Earth Prize 2023 Educator of the Year will receive a $10,000 prize! You can watch the competition's trailer here
The contest is a learning adventure created by the Earth Foundation, which was founded in Geneva in 2020 to inspire, mentor, and empower students and young entrepreneurs to tackle environmental challenges. As part of the competition, participants have access to 40 Mentors from top universities who will guide them with their projects, and to exclusive learning content covering key environmental sustainability concepts and featuring young environmental change makers from around the world.
The Earth Prize is a great opportunity for students to learn more about environmental sustainability and entrepreneurship, and to make an impact. Over 700 teams from 144 countries and territories took part last year.
The Net Zer0 Heroes of Our Lady of the Snows School in Canmore, Alberta, who wrote in ESRAG's September 2022 newsletter about their success in persuading 300 Rotarians to donate $2,500 to offset their travel home from the D5360 District Conference, placed in the top 34 and were honored as a Scholar Team on the Earth Prize website.
Their advisor, Rotarian Luc Arvisais, sent ESRAG this information on the 2023 Earth Prize, encouraging ESRAG members to invite schools to compete this year.
Participation is free! Students and teachers can register on the Earth Prize website until November 30.
The 2022 winning team, from Summit Education in Vietnam, designed biodegradable sanitary pads made from dragon fruit peels. Photo used by permission from Earth Prize.
For the first time in its history, EARTHDAY.ORG continues an important theme for a second year!
EARTHDAY.ORG, the global organizer of Earth Day and the largest recruiter of environmental movements worldwide, announced today the theme for Earth Day 2023: Invest In Our Planet.
Acting as a continuation of this year’s well-received campaign, the theme is focused on engaging governments, institutions, businesses, and the more than 1 billion citizens who participate annually in Earth Day to do their part everyone accounted for, everyone accountable.
“In 2023 we must come together again in partnership for the planet. Businesses, governments, and civil society are equally responsible for taking action against the climate crisis and lighting the spark to accelerate change towards a green, prosperous, and equitable future. We must join together in our fight for the green revolution, and for the health of future generations. The time is now to Invest In Our Planet,” said Kathleen Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG.
Investing in a green economy is the only path to a healthy, prosperous, and equitable future. Human influence is unequivocally to blame for the warming of the planet and the sad truth is some forms of climate disruption will be felt for centuries to come. However, we must collectively push towards away from the dirty fossil fuel economy and old technologies of centuries past and redirect attention to creating a 21st century economy that restores the health of our planet, protects our species, and provides opportunities for all.
Governments around the globe enacted many significant green policy initiatives in 2022. Yet, nearly every country in the world is not on track to meet Greenhouse gas (GHG) neutrality by 2050. It is possible keep global warming below 1.5C, but immediate and significant action is needed now, and governments can’t do it alone.
Unlike previous economic revolutions, this time there are two additional imperatives: saving humanity from the climate crisis and building green economies in every country so that everyone benefits from this green revolution. This can only be done if we invest in our planet’s future together.
Governments, businesses, and citizens are essential in harnessing the revolutionary progress needed to save humanity from the climate crisis. Overcoming climate change is within reach if we work together to commit to action and invest in our planet and our collective future.
• Businesses, inventors, investors, and financial markets must drive value for their institutions and our society through green innovation and practices. Like other economic revolutions, the private sector has the power to drive the most significant change with both the necessary scale and speed.
• Governments must incentivize their citizens, businesses, and institutions to create and innovate, advancing the public’s interests and creating the framework for an equitable and sustainable global economic system. Ambitious action on green energy generates increased energy security at a time where that has never been more important, while also simultaneously creating the positive environmental outcomes needed to tackle the climate crisis.
• Individual citizens must push for sustainable solutions across the board as voters and consumers. Climate change mitigation, restoration, and adaption require the collective will and voice of the people to make the change the planet needs.
Like the industrial, space, and information revolutions of the past, all sectors of society can and must play major roles in the green revolution this time with existential responsibilities to get it right.
To learn more about the 2023 theme, visit https://www.earthday.org/earth day 2023/
Every learner in every school in the world should receive fully integrated, assessed, climate and environmental education.
As little as $1 plants a tree. Donate to the Canopy Project today.
The Great Global Cleanup is a worldwide campaign to clean up our communities, beaches, rivers, lakes, trails, and parks.
Plastic pollution is one of the most important environmental problems facing us. Break free from single use plastics.
Use your voting power to protect our environment.
Behind every piece of clothing in the store, there is a destructive industry stripping the Earth of its resources. Fight fast fashion.
Click here to view a 10 minute video about Fast Fashion (Gabriella Smith presents how she broke up with Fast Fashion and suggests that we all should do it too.)
Here are some important take aways from our experience with COVID 19 Click here to read more
• Our individual actions do make a difference.
• That work trip can be a video conference call.
• Those errands can be a single car trip.
• You can use that item again.
• We should be designing resilient, healthy cities.
• If we step down, the environment steps up.
• We are more connected than we realize.
• Your leaders matter. Vote wisely.
• We consume more resources than we need.
• Local farmers can and should support local communities.
• You don’t need to go to the office to get the job done.
• Scientists should e taken seriously.
• Sustainable technology can support full business operations.
• We are too loud.
• There’s power in looking out for each other.
• We don’t own the Earth. We need to do a better job borrowing it.
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Torrential monsoon rains triggered the most severe flooding in Pakistan’s recent history, washing away villages and leaving almost 10 million children in need of immediate, lifesaving support. in need of assistance and at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition.
As floodwaters recede, the sheer scale of damage is being revealed. Hundreds of thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed, while many public health facilities, water systems and schools have been destroyed or damaged. Young children are living out in the open with their families, with no drinking water, no food, and no livelihood, exposed to a wide range of new flood-related risks and hazards, including from damaged buildings and drowning in floodwaters.
UNICEF is responding with the Government and partners, helping to deliver safe drinking water; lifesaving medical supplies; therapeutic food supplies; and hygiene kits to children and families. We are also establishing temporary learning centres and supporting the protection and psychosocial wellbeing of children affected by these devastating floods.
But much more is needed to ensure we can reach all families displaced by floods and help them overcome this climate disaster.
We need your urgent support to help save lives. Click here to read more.
Shelterbox is also on the ground in Pakistan to help the communities.
The sheer scale of the flooding is disastrous people’s homes have sunk in flood water or been swept away. Around 1 million houses have been damaged or destroyed, leaving behind millions in need of urgent shelter.
A ShelterBox response team is in Pakistan working to support thousands of people left with nowhere to live.
Our team is working to provide tents, water filters and carriers, mosquito nets, and solar lights. As winter approaches, we are also looking to provide blankets and sleeping mats.
Please donate today. Your support will provide lifesaving aid for families affected by flooding in Pakistan.
Any additional money raised will help ShelterBox provide emergency shelter to families affected by disaster around the world.\
Click here to view a short video on Shelterbox and the Pakistan floods.
We can’t predict disasters, but with your support, we can be ready to respond providing displaced families with the lifesaving aid they need right when they need it most.
When disaster strikes, families lose their homes, possessions and livelihoods.
Help ShelterBox be ready with lifesaving shelter and supplies when disaster strikes by donating a ShelterBox of critical aid items to help a family who has lost everything.
You can help ShelterBox Canada raise funds to restock our warehouses and prepare to respond to disasters around the world by fundraising for or donating to our annual Stock the Box fundraiser.
We urgently need support to prepare, respond and restock, helping families who have lost everything.
Rotary is a global network of 1.4 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. For more than 115 years, Rotary's people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end.
Learn more about our structure and our foundation and our strategic vision.
The Passport Club members are encouraged to join local (and other) clubs to learn more about Rotary, get to know other Rotarians, gain a new perspective and appreciation for Rotary and Rotarians. Here is a list of online clubs where you can earn a make up along with learning a whole lot more about Rotary! Why not visit them all?
• Rotary E Club of Canada One Rotary On Demand, Where you want, When you want!
• Rotary Club of One World
• Rotary E Club of World Peace
Click here to attend this week’s posted meeting of E Club of Canada One. These meetings are posted online and available 24/7!
Stay tuned, engaged, and plan to participate!
When Susanne Rea became polio chair of Rotary District 9550 in Queensland, Australia, she was living a quiet retirement of reading books and gardening. But as she brainstormed ways to engage her fellow Rotarians in the campaign to end polio, she had an idea, and her life changed completely.
At left Susanne Rea, Rotary Club of Cairns Sunrise, Australia, has raised more than $7 million to fight polio.
In 2014, Rea founded World’s Greatest Meal, a program in which Rotarians host meals, anything from two people having lunch to elaborate gourmet dinners, and ask for donations.
WGM started small but has grown enormously, and, with matching funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WGM has raised over $7 million to date. To keep the momentum alive, Rea reverse mortgaged her house and embarked on a world tour, speaking, vaccinating, and motivating across 32 countries.
She pays her own way, and local Rotary members host her whenever possible. “We raise awareness as well as funds,” she says. “I spend a lot of time explaining what goes on in Pakistan with the training of the polio workers.”
Rea is a childhood polio survivor herself, but she doesn’t focus on that. Instead, her motivation is to make an impact during her retirement. Some meals bring in a lot of money, but Rea says the number of participants is more important.
“A big donation is wonderful,” she says. “But my idea is that it’s giving back polio eradication to the ordinary Rotarian, or grassroots Rotarian as I like to call them, because no Rotarian is ordinary.”
Jacob Meschke By Dave KingShe is a 77 year old Australian grandmother with the energy and dynamism of a woman a third of her age, and Susanne Rea shows no signs of stopping.
A survivor of polio as a child, Susanne is a restless soul with a drive to do just as it says on the tin End Polio Now!
Susanne has flown over to London for the month to spend time with her family here, while husband Nauman is back home in Cairns. She plans to fly to Pakistan next month.
She was last there in December 2017, when Susanne and Nauman travelled to a small rural school close to the capital Islamabad as part of a polio immunisation visit.
“We were guests of Past President Nosherwan Khalil Khan and the Rotary Club of Rawalpindi, and we met at the corner of the GT Road at Rawat,” she recalled.
“The countryside is rural and peaceful with the occasional dwelling and mosque, until we came to a sprawling complex entered through a metal gate which revealed a school for 200 students.
“This was the former home of the head teacher, which now contains a collection of classrooms. It was mid winter, and the children were sitting on the floor. Even some of the classes were held in the open air, with the children and teachers rugged up against the elements. One rather basic washroom services the complex.”
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Our Rotarian Lynn Coates has been working to create 50 bags for the homeless in our district.
She has put together (has sewn) 50 individual bags and has, with the help of donations, filled those bags with personal items that will be a great help to those who need them. She’s included a variety of items, including toothpaste, a bar of soap, toothbrush, tissues, and even gloves!
Half will be donated to the Chatham/Kent Hope Haven, and half to the London Cares Homeless Response Service
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Happy Chats are online now only on Wednesdays.
Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Join your Rotary friends for an informal 30 minute get together.
Chat about “stuff” and what’s important to you. Let’s get to know our members!
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North Bruce Peninsula from Wiarton to Paisley, including Southampton, Port Elgin Sonja Glass
2 Western northern Bruce Peninsula, including Kincardine, Walkerton, Hanover, Goderich Rosemary Davis
3 Mid-southwestern Ontario, including Listowel, St. Mary’s, Stratford, and Stratford Festival City
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World Kindness Day is an international holiday that was formed in 1998, to promote kindness throughout the world and is observed annually on November 13 as part of the World Kindness Movement. It is observed in many countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and the U.A.E.
World Kindness Day presents us with the opportunity to reflect upon one of the most important and unifying human principles. On a day devoted to the positive potential of both large and small acts of kindness, try to promote and diffuse this crucial quality that brings people of every kind together.
Adams, Randal. Speaking of Rotary. USA: E.J. Press
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 Club of Hobart. The Rotary Book of Readings. Inspiration to Change the World.
Rotary International. Honoring Our Past: The Words and Wisdom of Paul Harris. Evanston, Illinois: 1996. (925 EN)
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