We welcomed Juanette McRindle, formerly of Orange Grove Club and Nicole Nsegbe, formerly of Johannesburg North Central Club. We are delighted that you have joined us and I'm sure you will have many happy years at Rosebank (Johannesburg).
It is to your credit that you opted continue with Rotary when current circumstances changed as that would have been our, and Rotary International's loss. Thank you.
We also welcomed Bill Kosar of the Rotary Club of Watamu in Kenya. He is the East African Regional Commodore, International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians. He made an interesting point, that the Yachting Fellowship is the oldest Rotary Fellowship and South Africa was a founding member but there is currently no membership in South Africa which is extraordinary!He gave a staggering statistic, that more than 5 000 people drown in Lake Victoria every year and spoke of the efforts of the Fellowship to supply lifejackets to local fishermen. Many thanks, Bill, for your visit and we hope to see you again soon.
Appeal
Jean Bernado has appealed for plastic bottle tops and those little plastic closures that are used to seal bread bags. The Interact Club at Centurion College is hoping to collect 100 000 for a wheelchair and we must help them. Deluge Jean with plastic bottle tops!
So that you don't forget. There is a permanent reminder in the sidebar.
This Week
Our speaker is Dr Mark Potterton, the Principal of Holy Family College who has happily provided the venue for our Careers Day, the second of which will be on the 28th February, 2016. Mark taught at Sacred Heart College and then joined the Catholic Institute of Education. He left to join Umalusi, the national quality assurance body for education but returned to the CIE as Director until he became Principal of Holy Family College in 2012. Since then he has been very successful in raising the standard of the school and upgrading many of the facilities to 21st century requirements.
He has written numerous books on such topics as School Evaluation and is particularly interested in providing a good education for children with disabilities or learning problems.
His doctoral thesis at Wits was on the topic of violence in schools and that is what he will be talking to us about on Friday.
From the RI President
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Dear fellow Rotarians:
It is our pleasure to announce Rotary’s annual World Polio Day kickoff event on 23 October in New York City. We'll use this occasion to shine a light on Rotary’s leadership in the fight that has brought us This Close to ending polio.
The Livestream event, co-sponsored by UNICEF, will bring together our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, government officials, and global health leaders from nongovernmental organizations and will mobilize more than 30,000 supporters.
July and August brought great milestones in the polio eradication effort. For the first time in history, Nigeria -- then all of Africa -- marked one year with no new polio cases caused by the wild virus.
We are closer to making good on our promise to end polio forever, but there's still work to be done. As we protect the progress made in Africa, we focus even more sharply on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Our World Polio Day kickoff event is our opportunity to update participants around the world on our progress and next steps and inspire them to share their voices, donate, or advocate for eradication as we near the finish line.
We invite you to join us and watch the event live, starting at 18:30 New York time (UTC-4) or later -- a recording will be made available. We also ask you to raise awareness of our polio eradication effort in your own community and build a local audience for our World Polio Day event. Visit the End Polio Now website to download resources that can help you raise awareness and funds. Share this information with your Rotary clubs, districts, communities, and elected officials.
Thirty years ago, we told the world what Rotary believes: that we can achieve the eradication of polio. Our dream is becoming reality. For every child, on World Polio Day, let’s push ahead to the reality of a polio-free world.
Warm regards,
Rotary International President K.R. Ravindran and Rotary Foundation Chair Ray Klinginsmith | ||||
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