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Teens organize fundraiser for homeless shelter
By Diana Schoberg
This
event took "teens helping teens" to a new extreme.
Toronto-area teenagers who met at a
Rotary club-sponsored camp organized a fundraiser with
teen volunteers and participants, all to benefit the
largest homeless shelter for teens in
Canada.
They got help along the way from mentors in the Rotary
Club of Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.
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Prosthetics project a true labor of love
By
Jenny Llakmani
Bewley learned of the prosthetic device during
a 2005 trip to Vietnam.
Inspired by how quickly recipients learned to use it and by their
joy at regaining their independence, he joined with Fellows and
Michael Mendonca, of the Rotary Club of Pleasant Hill, California,
USA, to establish a foundation to provide the device at no cost to
people with below-elbow limb loss in developing countries.
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Afghanistan
Students Earn Money Through Carpet Weaving
By Vanessa N. Glavinskas
For centuries, experienced weavers
in Afghanistan have painstakingly
created a heritage of rugs, with many families passing
on their designs for generations. A new 3 x 5-foot rug
made by an amateur can sell for US$50 at a local bazaar
– and overseas, the decorative carpets sell for far
more. |
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Rotary International
Interact - Rotary International
Convention (Video)
(JUL)
Interact is Rotary International's service club for
young people ages 14 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored
by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and
guidance, but they are self-governing and
self-supporting. Interact clubs can be single gender or
mixed, large or small. They can draw from the student
body of a single school or from two or more schools in
the same community. Each year, Interact clubs complete
at least two community service projects, one of which
furthers international understanding and goodwill.
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Lost
in
Translation (and in transportation!)
(JUL)
By Rotarian Teri Safranek, Rotary Club
of Escondido
When traveling I try to visit a
local Rotary Club and complete a make-up.
It’s a great way to meet people and learn about
local customs.
I’ve had the pleasure of traveling to Japan
recruiting students for the community college where I
work in Southern California.
My first visit to Japan started out with the
unpleasant experience of starring at the baggage claim
conveyor, watching it spin around and not finding my
luggage.
After an 11+ hour flight this just isn’t fun.
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A
Five Year Plan to Energy Independence
by Asa Beck
Today we find
ourselves held to ransom by the combination of foreign oil suppliers
and the speculators who have pushed the cost of oil to punishing
levels. As of 6 June
2008 crude oil was US$138 per barrel, gasoline sells at US$4 per
gallon in the USA, diesel fuel sells at over US$4.70 per gallon in
the USA, and high fuel prices are causing the airlines to incur huge
financial losses. |
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PEACE IS POSSIBLE (THIS IS A VIDEO) (JUN)
The Rotary Foundation funds a network of centers for
international studies in peace and conflict resolution.
These Rotary Centers provide Rotary World Peace Fellows
with the opportunity to pursue a master's degree in
conflict resolution, peace studies, international
relations, and related areas. Each year, up to 60 Rotary
World Peace Fellowships are offered on a competitive
basis at the Rotary Centers, which operate in
partnership with seven leading universities around the
world.
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foundation senior leaders discuss future vision plan
(ri video) (MAY)
In anticipation of the Foundation’s 100-year
anniversary in 2017, the Trustees set out in 2005 to
develop a 10-year vision with a three-year plan to move
the Foundation toward its second century of service.
This vision and plan reflect input from a wide variety
of stakeholders through interviews, surveys, focus
groups, and input sessions and include a comprehensive
approach for setting goals and a roadmap for successful
execution. |
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By Joanne Sharpe
As visitors to Rotary E-Club
One website are well aware, the Internet provides great
opportunities for us to meet together virtually, and for small
business to reach new markets and more customers than ever before.
Unfortunately, with those
opportunities come some e-security risks.
This is the advice no small-business owner can afford to
miss.
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Advanced
RYLA – Preparing Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s
Challenges
(jun)
By Jason Griffith
Lots of people want to “change the world.” It’s what
gets us out of bed; it’s why we give money to charities;
it’s why we join Rotary. In fact, the investment in
making the world better has caught on so much that we
have a term for it. Our lives have been infused with a
“change-the-world” mentality. The Rotary world is
especially inspired by this emotion, and from every
corner of the world Rotarians are joining together to
eliminate malaria, provide drinking water, and deal with
hunger. |
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Rotary eClub One of District 5450 Leads District
In Per Capital Annual Giving
(jun)
President Tim Mowbray and the Board of Directors of
Rotary eClub One are very pleased to advise that through
the latest reporting period, our Club leads the District
in per capital giving to The Rotary Foundation for Annual
Programs Fund. This totals $403.85 per member. How has
this been accomplished in a Club of 40 members spread
around the world in 9 different countries and in
multiple time zones? |
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Message from RI President Wilf Wilkinson
(apr)
Rotary is uniquely privileged to be a well-established,
religiously and politically neutral organization with no
governmental ties or obligations. We are known and
respected as a group of men and women who simply come to
help – by bringing clean water and food, teaching
literacy and numeracy, providing assistance after a
disaster, ending polio.
When there is a need, a crisis, or an emergency, Rotary
is there. We know that, as Rotarians, part of our role
in any crisis is to bring people together, rather than
drive them apart. It is our role and also our
responsibility. |
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Do you confuse Activity with AccomplishmenT?
(apr)
By Michael Angier
Almost everyone I know is busy. Heck, even the RETIRED
people I know are busy. It doesn't matter whether you're
in business for yourself or work for someone else, you
no doubt find your day filled with activity. You may
even feel overwhelmed a lot of the time. But being
busy by itself doesn't really amount to much. You
can be busy being busy, but not be making much--or
any--progress. |
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Face to face with RI President-elect Dong Kurn Lee
(apr)
RI President-elect Dong Kurn Lee sat down with Vince
Aversano, editor in chief of The Rotarian, to talk about
how he plans to tackle his year in office as RI’s first
Korean president.
[Q] President-elect Lee, what would you hope to
accomplish next year as president?
I would like to see progress made in polio, both in
terms of meeting the Gates [Foundation] challenge grant
and in reducing the number of polio-endemic countries. I
would also like to see child mortality, the terrible
tragedy of preventable deaths of children, become
something that every Rotarian is aware of. |
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School Support and Access Project in East Timor (Timor
Leste)
(apr)
The Alola Foundation is dedicated to the well-being of
women and children in East Timor. The people at
the Alola Foundation are very excited with the launch of
a new Education Project in East Timor. Currently they
have three School Support Officers working within
Friendship Schools in a range of districts, working very
closely with the Ministry of Education at a District and
Central level. These activities are in line with the
newly developed National Curriculum for Primary Schools
in East Timor. |
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Water Harvesting PART ONE: Rotary International RVM part 1
*this is a video
(mar)
Because the foothills of India's west coast are too rocky to
retain rainwater year round, villagers must often walk for
miles to fetch water for their families. Since 2003, the
Rotary Club of Bombay Metropolitan, Maharashtra, partnering
with local and international groups and supported by Rotary
Foundation Matching Grants, has launched scores of water
harvesting projects that preserve this precious resource.
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Water Harvesting PART ONE: Rotary International RVM
part 2
*this is a video
(MAR)
Part two of this excellent video story about how
matching grants are making a difference in the efforts
for clean water around the Rotary world. |
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CYCLE
TO WALK
(mar)
Supported by Rotary clubs in Canada
The World Health Organization says “more than 10 million
children will be paralyzed in the next 40 years” if we fail
to eradicate polio. Polio is a viral infection that can
result in paralysis, respiratory problems or even death.
Global immunization is ongoing, but it remains endemic in
India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan
and
Nigeria. |
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What should all Rotary clubs know about clean water
projects?
(mar)
By Joseph Derr
Past District Governor Carolyn Crowley Meub, executive committee
member for the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group, and
executive director for Pure Water for the World stresses the
importance of clean water projects. She is a past governor of
District 7870 (Vermont and New Hampshire, USA).
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TWO LITERACY PROJECTS
(mar)
Rotary Club of
Grahamstown Sunset,
South Africa
(D9320)
Gwen Mvula-Jamela had
a dream for the school where she taught. She wanted children
at Makana Public Primary School
to develop a love of books and a culture of reading. She
also dreamed of children being able to take books home to
share with their families. MPPS had a library with empty
shelves and piles of old text books …nothing more! |
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EVERYTHING ABOUT COKE YOU WANTED TO KNOW
(mar)
Except the Secret Formula!
Phil
Mooney has been the Director of the Archives Department of
The Coca-Cola Company since 1977. Phil is a super-collector
of all things Coca-Cola. The position sends him to
conventions and private collections and keeps him in
frequent contact with collectors around the world. In fact,
one of his favorite things about the job is the people,
since Coca-Cola collectors make up a large family, sharing a
common and endlessly fascinating passion. |
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YALARI - Indigenous Education
Scholarship Program
(mar)
Mr Waverley
Stanley is an Australian indigenous aboriginal man who grew up in
Murgon and Cherbourg, situated 300 kilometers north-west of Brisbane
in Queensland, Australia. In 1979, Rosemary
Bishop his year 7 teacher, recognized great potential in Waverley
and she assisted him in securing a life changing secondary school
scholarship at Toowoomba Grammar School in Queensland. |
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HANDS ACROSS THE WATER – THAILAND
(mar)
Hands Across the Water is a joint enterprise between Peter
Baines, an Australian police officer, and Gill Williams, a
UK police colleague, who both worked as part of the
international team in Thailand during the response to the
Tsunami. As Peter had done, Gill was sent to Thailand on a
number of occasions and during one of her deployments she
become aware of the needs of a number of Thai children who
had been orphaned as a result of the Tsunami. |
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A
GIANT ROTARY WHEEL AND THE WORDS "END POLIO NOW"
(mar)
This image
and message was beamed onto the side of the House of Commons
to the left of Big Ben in London, UK, on Rotary
International's 103rd Birthday on Saturday, 23rd February,
to start a challenge to raise $100 million to help finally
to eradicate polio from the world.
Polio eradication has been Rotary's top priority since 1985
and working with WHO, UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Rotary International has managed to
cut the numbers of polio cases by 99 per cent.
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Google
Gives
Rotary US$3.5 Million
To
Help
End
Polio
(mar)
By Dan Nixon and Vivian Fiore
Rotary International has received a US$3.5 million challenge
grant from the Google Foundation, a nonprofit managed by
Google.org, in support of Rotary’s top goal to eradicate
polio worldwide. Rotary will raise funds to match the Google
Foundation grant dollar-for-dollar over one year.
The grant and matching funds will directly
support polio immunization activities carried out by the
Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a partnership
spearheaded by the World Health Organization, Rotary
International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. |
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Rotarians help fund pediatric unit in Vietnam
(mar)
By Peter Schmidtke
According
to the International Union Against Cancer, in developing
countries, children with cancer have a survival rate of less
than 50 percent, compared to 80 percent in developed
countries. Rotarian Forrest Lloyd spent three years trying
to help bridge that gap. Last year, Forrest Lloyd, of
the Rotary Club of China Lake, California, USA, and other
project volunteers unveiled a US$650,000, four-bed pediatric
intensive care unit at the Ho Chi Minh Cancer Hospital in
Vietnam. |
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Swiss Rotarian Leaves Behind Anti-land-mine Legacy
(mar)
In 1995, Stirnemann, along with Walter Limacher, then
governor of District 1990 (Germany), and fellow members of
the Rotary Club of Burgdorf, Switzerland, founded Mine-Ex to
address the threat and problems caused by these weapons.
Stirnemann drew many Rotarians and Rotary clubs to the
cause. Today, Mine-Ex carries out numerous service projects,
including providing medical and orthopedic care for land
mine victims, training local prosthesis technicians,
supporting a worldwide ban on the production and
distribution of mines, and helping with the removal of land
mines. |
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Top Ten Reasons to Live a Life of Integrity
(mar)
By Michael Angier
You might
think that it's a no-brainer why one should live an honest
life. But it's apparent to me that a life of integrity is
the exception rather than the rule. How many people do you
know who are honest all the time? We could make a case about
the morality and the "rightness" of living honestly.
Religious leaders have been advocating this for thousands of
years.
It's
doubtful that even they could provide a true model of
integrity. |
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Climate Change—A New Driver of Innovation?
(mar)
PE
Angus M Robinson – Rotary eClub One
Evidence the recent gathering in Bali,
Indonesia, climate change has been very much in the minds of
our political leaders recently. But what does this mean for
Rotarians worldwide? Yes, climate change is occurring, and
irrespective of what is causing it (in other words, global
warming with or without human involvement), governments
around the world are responding by implementing measures to
lessen the amount of greenhouse gases (principally carbon
dioxide) which results from the combustion of our carbon
rich fuels such as coal through electricity generation. |
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In Praise of Gardens – the Bahá'í Perspective
(feb)
By President Elect Angus M Robinson – Rotary
eClub One
Whilst on
business recently in Israel, I had the opportunity to visit
the magnificently maintained and peaceful, terraced gardens
of the Bahá'í Faith located on the slopes of Mount Carmel at
Haifa in Northern Israel. Opened in 2001, this spiritual
attraction was constructed with funding of some US$260m
sourced from adherents to the Bahá'í Faith from all around
the world. In addition on any given day, it is not unusual
to around 100 disciples applying their skills to gardening
and general maintenance work. |
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ORPHANS & WIDOWS LIVELIHOOD PROJECT KABUL AFGHANISTAN
(feb)
By John Jedryk, International Service
Director, Rotary Club of Canberra East
Rotarians
have a reputation for undertaking worthwhile projects in the
most unlikely places around the world, so why not in
Afghanistan? After almost 30 years of war there are more
than one million destitute widows and many thousands of
orphans. The need for help is almost overwhelming so I
decided to undertake an international Rotary project. |
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Improving Communications
For People With Disabilities
(dec - pdf)
By Gunela Astbrink
Rotary
eClub One has partnered with Rotary Club of Canberra
East (District 9710, Australia) to support a feasibility
study for an advocate training program in improving
communications and information technology for people
with disabilities. Funding is now needed to put the
program into action. Imagine not being able to pick up a
phone to make a call, or to hear your child on the end
of a phone line or to be able to see the web pages on
the Internet. This is what happens every day to many
people who have a physical disability, a hearing
impairment or are blind. |
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If You Don't Change your
Mind, Your Mind Will Change You
(dec pdf)
By Chuck Gallozzi
Many
people are not entirely happy with their lives, and they
have felt that way for many years. Most realize that if
they want things to change, they will first have to
change themselves. But if that is so, why don't they
change? Well, some don't want to. Others don't try to
change because of a false belief. And those who do try,
often give up too soon. |
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Making the District
Training Cycle Work for you
(dec pdf)
By Maureen Vaught
The
numbers don’t lie. According to survey results, district
trainers and governors believe the amount of training
Rotary recommends is not too little and not too much,
but just right. A district training cycle survey
conducted in August by RI’s Leadership Education and
Training Division revealed that 72 percent of
respondents think the number of training meetings
offered at the district level is adequate. And when
asked which meeting should be discontinued, 73 percent
answered: None; keep all training seminars. |
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Are you a Spider or a
Lion?
(dec)
When
it comes to change, are you a spider or a lion? Do you
sit back like the spider and wait for things to come to
you or do you go out and hunt for your opportunities
like the lion? When it comes to workplace change we need
to have the attitude of the Lion. If we sit back and
wait to see what happens we will usually be
disappointed. There is an old saying that goes “good
things come to those who wait” but today we need to
remember that the only things left to those who wait are
the things left behind by those who hustle! |
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The Money Camp
(dec)
As director of workforce and community development for a
Community College in Southern California, I’m interested
in training and what’s going on in the business world.
Our programs provide training for our local community
and we do our best to help with workforce and economic
development. We have the proverbial “underwater basket
weaving” classes (which I am tempted to put in our class
schedule just to see if anyone would actually sign-up!)
and we have certificate programs that help prepare
workers for high paying jobs. We also work with our
local employers to provide training for their employees
in the workplace. |
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Success Story from
Limpopo South Africa
(dec)
Elsie Molelemane started out as a cleaner at the
University of Limpopo in the northernmost province of
South Africa. An intelligent young woman, with a desire
to succeed in life, Elsie was assisted by the Rotary
Club of Pietersburg 100 in Limpopo, and she received a
scholarship to go and study at the Department of
Blindness and Low vision at Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. The Rotary Club of Kalamazoo
provided her with support and assistance during her stay
in the United States. |
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10 Reasons We Should Care About Water
(OCT)
"In
the years since Rotary International has started
focusing on water as one of its annual service
emphases…We’ve learned just how much can be accomplished
with relatively little, how a single small water
project, perhaps a pump or a filter, can change the life
of a community," says RI President Wilfrid J. Wilkinson.
"However, our work has also included participation in
many other major water projects." |
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John Kenny is choice
for 2009-10 RI President
(OCT
)
John
Kenny, of the Rotary Club of Grangemouth, Central,
Scotland, District 1020, is the selection of the
Nominating Committee for President of Rotary
International in 2009-10. He will become the
president-nominee on 1 December if there are no
challenging candidates. John Kenny is a past dean of his
local law faculty, a judge, and a notary. He is active
in scouting and earned the Medal of Merit for helping
form new scout groups in Eastern Europe. |
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GIVING SERIES
by Enid Ablowitz
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of enid's past articles
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Enid Ablowitz is the Vice President for Advancement at the
University of Colorado Foundation,
Inc., and Director of Advancement for the Coleman Institute for Cognitive
Disabilities. She has been working as a donor advocate for more than a dozen
years. Her book, Making Money Matter: Eight Steps to Thoughtful Giving
contains many of the tips you will find in these
articles.
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