DISTRICT 6330 GRANTS REPORT – from Myrna Inglis

ARE YOU PLANNING A PROJECT FOR 23-24?

Do you want to use an additional $2,000 USD from a District Grant to fund the project? $2000 is the maximum grant allocation per Club.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW –

• Does your Club support the Rotary Foundation Annual Fund

• Does your Club have 2 members qualified for District Grants? The Qualification Course is available online under both the Foundation and Learning Headings on the District 6330 Home page

• Have your President and President-Elect signed and sent in the MOU, also available in the same area

• Does the research on the project idea support an established need and has a preliminary budget been developed.

• The deadline for submitting a Project Proposal is May 31, 2023

The projects for 22-23 are demonstrating Rotarians at work in Kenya, Mexico, Eswatini, Tanzania, South Africa, as well as helping many homeless and refugees in our District. Literacy projects included Little Free Libraries, supplying children with a locally written book and scholarships to a new Nursing Degree program.

For other ideas, check out the information under the Foundation Banner of the District Home page. Then go to Club projects to find a complete listing of the projects in 2021-22 and 2020-21.

For those currently working on a project, please complete it as soon as you can and then fill in the Final Report or Individual Project Report in ClubRunner. Final Reports are dues May 31, 2023.

Should you have questions about District Grants, please contact me at minglis65@hotmail.com

Myrna Inglis Chair, District Grants

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Thank you to everyone in D6330 who has given to the Foundation, who has participated in a Foundation project, or has helped spread the word about the Foundation. Thank you!

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Summary of new polioviruses this week:

• Afghanistan: two WPV1 positive environmental samples

• Algeria: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample

• Cameroon: one cVDPV2 case

• Chad: two cVDPV2 cases

• DR Congo: 16 cVDPV1 cases and 19 cVDPV2 cases

• Nigeria: one cVDPV2 case

• Somalia: one cVDPV2 case

• Zambia: two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples For more information, click here - http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/

Click here to learn the difference between Wild Polio Virus (WPV) and Vaccine-derived Polio Virus. (VDPV)

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Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years! Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.

As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we’ve reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.

Rotary members have contributed ore than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decision by government to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.

Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries poli-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.