Saturday, October 15th, our club sponsored the District 6000 Rotary Youth Exchange pumpkin event. The annual event provides the District Youth Exchange Counselors with their first opportunity to learn how our District's Inbound students are acclimating to life as an exchange student.
It also gives the students a chance to visit with one another, share stories and learn from so many others.
We host the event at the Warren County Historical Society's Facility at the Fairgrounds. Pumpkins are furnished and students allowed to, the first-time for many, the chance to carve a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern.
A significant milestone was realized this year with the attendance of Inbound Exchange students from several different countries, Outbound students for next year's school year, Interact Students from Indianola High School, Rotaract Students from Simpson College, District 6000 Leaders and Rotary Club of Indianola members, all working together for one cause.
Thank you for everyone's help and support to make this a success.
Click on the link below to view photos of this year's event.
District 6000's FifthRotary Foundation Dinner isSaturday, November 5!
With The Rotary Foundation celebrating 100 years in existence, make it a point to attend the event this year. It will be held at the Radisson Hotel Coralville-Iowa City, beginning with a social hour at 6 p.m. followed by the dinner at 7 and the program. Our keynote speaker will be Michael McGovern, Rotary International PolioPlus Chairman.We will join in Rotary fellowship and be "Rotary Serving Humanity" through the The Rotary Foundation! October 31 is the Deadline TO REGISTER.
Dictionaries have been distributed to all 3rd Grade Students again this year. Thanks to all who helped with the distribution, providing our children with a chance to learn.
In the picture on the left, immunization efforts continue in Africa, where recent setbacks underscore the need for vigilance everywhere until polio is eradicated worldwide. Photo- RI websute,
Where are we in the fight to eradicate polio?What's left to do? And why does it cost so much? Rotary's World Polio Day event on 24 October will answer these questions and more.
Health officials from our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative will join Rotary leaders and special guests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, to give a status update on the eradication campaign.
The wild poliovirus has caused fewer new cases of the disease so far this year than this time last year, but recent setbacks in Nigeria — which was re-classified as polio-endemic in September 2016 — underscore the need for vigilance.
Yet the detection of new cases in northern Nigeria also demonstrates that surveillance efforts are reaching children even in areas affected by conflict. The challenge now is to contain the outbreak and boost immunity in affected areas until the virus is eradicated worldwide.
This year also saw the largest and fastest vaccine rollout in history, as 155 countries and territories switched from the trivalent oral polio vaccine to the bivalent oral polio vaccine. The bivalent oral polio vaccine protects against the only two strains still in circulation and reduces the likelihood of vaccine-derived cases.
Share the live-stream and educate your social networks about the campaign to #endpolio.
3-Oct-2016
Locally
Join Rotary Club of Indianola, Interact, and Rotaract members as they raise funds for the eradication of polio at WalMart, HyVee and Fareway stores from 10:00-2:00 on Saturday Oct. 22nd.
State Public Defender Adam Gregg from our State's new Wrongful Conviction Division, has a 25 minute presentation titled “Under the Microscope: Identifying Wrongful Convictions in Iowa".
2016's World Polio Day is set for Monday October 24, 2016.
The chance to eliminate Polio is near and efforts to finish this once monumental task have been increased in an effort to eliminate the disease in the final three countries in our World.
If you are interested in finding an event near you, or scheduling an event to raise funds and awareness about Polio click here. You will be directed to the Rotary International webpage where help and the tools can be found to complete your task.
Rotary Club of Indianola, along with Interact Club and Rotaract Club Members will be available at HyVee, Fareway and WalMart in Indianola from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. to teach the public of our efforts in eradicating this crippling disease.
Stop to ask questions or provide financial support. All dollars raised will be matched by the Bill Gates Foundation.
In addition,join us on Monday 24 October, for the fourth annual World Polio Day event, co-hosted with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It will be streaming live from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, to bring together more than 50,000 viewers around the world. We’ll be joined by celebrities and experts to share the progress on the road to polio eradication.
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