MOST (Miles of Smiles Team) is a medical mission with 11 years of success repairing cleft lips and palates for the children of Guatemala.
This international project brings hope of a bright future to thousands of children whose lives would be very different without the help of our District 6000's Miles Of Smiles Team.
Saturday, October 15th, our club will sponsor the District 6000 Rotary Youth Exchange pumpkin event. It will be held at the Warren County Historical Society's Facility at the Fairgrounds.
Our club will serve lunch to the attendees, who will RYE youth, host families and District Counselors. The goal is to allow the students to meet each other, provide counselors with a chance to determine how well the students are adapting during their first two or three months in this county, and help the student and/or host family adjust.
Volunteers are needed beginning at 10:00 a.m. to help fix the meal, serve the meal and clean up. Contact Ron if you can help out.
In 1979, James Bomar Jr., the president of Rotary at the time, traveled to the Philippines as part of Rotary’s earliest work to immunize children against polio. After he had put drops of vaccine into one baby’s mouth, he felt a child’s hand tugging on his trouser leg to get his attention. Bomar looked down and saw the baby’s brother looking up at him, saying earnestly, “Thank you, thank you, Rotary.”
Before Rotary took on the task of polio eradication, 350,000 people – nearly all of them children – were paralyzed by polio every year. That child in the Philippines knew exactly what polio was and understood exactly what Rotary had just done for his baby brother. Today, 31 years after the launch of PolioPlus, the children of the Philippines – and of nearly every other country in the world – are growing up without that knowledge, and that fear, of polio. Instead of 1,000 new cases of polio every day, we are averaging less than one per week. But as the fear of polio wanes, so does awareness of the disease. Now more than ever, it is vitally important to keep that awareness high and to push polio eradication to the top of the public agenda and our governments’ priorities. We need to make sure the world knows that our work to eradicate polio isn’t over yet, but that Rotary is in it to end it.
On 24 October, Rotary will mark World Polio Day to help raise the awareness and the funding we need to reach full eradication. I ask all of you to take part by holding an event in your club, in your community, or online. Ideas and materials are available for download in all Rotary languages at endpolio.org/worldpolioday, and you can register your event with Rotary at the same link. You can also join me and tens of thousands of your fellow Rotarians for a live-streamed global status update at 6 p.m. Eastern time at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. I’ll be there along with CDC Director Tom Frieden, other experts, and inspirational presenters, sharing an inside look at the science, partnerships, and human stories of polio eradication.
It is an incredibly exciting time to be a Rotarian. We are gathering momentum for the final race to the finish: to the end of PolioPlus and the beginning of a polio-free world. It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime chance to End Polio Now, throughRotary Serving Humanity.
The committee discussed how to promote PolioPlus. We would like five minutes to promote Polio at our Rotary meeting on October 21. We’ll send the document “Rotary and Polio” and information about other District 6000 activities to all members that week.
On Saturday, October 22 we would like volunteers from 10:00 to 2:00 to publicize World Polio Day and collect donations (wear a Rotary shirt). We’ll ask for permission to set up at WalMart, HyVee, and Fareway. We would like to have fliers available and Rotary stickers for kids. We’ll ask Rotarct and Interact to help. This could be Interact’s international project.
We’re asking PR to help promote World Polio Day through a press release, mayor’s proclamation, information on electronic signs, and information on social media. We also recommend fliers at local businesses.
We request a campaign budget of $200 for fliers, stickers, and collection containers.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, November 1, 6:30, Brickhouse
The Club's October Board meeting was held October 6th at Crouse Cafe. Items of discussion included:
1. Interact updates included: a) average attendance is 30 students per meeting; b) the Club has reached out to the Roosevelt High School Interact Club and are planning a 'can food' drive together.
2. Rotary Foundation minutes were reviewed. A request for $200 to fund publicity for World Polio Day was approved.
3. Service Committee minutes were reviewed.
4. Our club will participate in "Rotary Ring Day" helping the Salvation Army ring in contributions. Saturday, December 10th has been scheduled, with a location(s) to be announced.
5. Multi-club Water Breakfast is October 13, with four members committed to attend.
6. January 28th is the day the Iowa Energy will hold a PolioPlus BBQ Cook-off prior to the start of the game. Ticket sales will begin soon.
7. Three new members were approved.
8. Terry requested authorization to create a fitting memorial for Steve Pfeifer, utilizing the funds received from the sale of the old shed at the balloon field. ($250) The Board approved, but requested final approval before any expenditures were committed..
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