A Business Meeting, the Art's Festival's Hidden Agenda and Rotary's Strategic Plan.

Last Week
 It was a Business Meeting and as we don't usually have photos of members on the blog I thought it would be a good idea to show how seriously they take these meetings.

James Croswell is updating us on the Cervical Cancer Project and announced the acquisition of a container to convert into offices etc for the Baragwanath Palliative Care Project.

Much time was also spent on the Arts Festival which opens on Thursday.

I include a video of the Four Way Test that was seen by our incoming DG.  It is rumoured that he would like this to be the way every club presents it each week.  The District 9400 Glee Club will be performing at Discon with the intention that everyone else will be able to join in and then take it back to their clubs.

This Week
It's a Social Meeting, partly because of the Arts Festival.
Obviously it is our major fundraiser but because of the changes to the nature of the festival we must see it as a Rotary Exhibition which gives us the opportunity to talk about Rotary in general and our own club and its projects in particular.

The Arts Expo Hanging Team

No, they are not preparing the the gallows.  They are helping they are allocating space for the artists and assisting in hanging the paintings.

Let's really make an effort to recruit members but not only for our club but for the club which suits the potential member such as New Dawn or Morningside for breakfast or one of the many evening clubs which maybe close to where the person lives.

Rotary's new Strategic Plan will give us some ideas.

Rotary's Strategic Plan
Rotary's strategic plan sets the framework for our future, ensuring that we continue to be known as a respected, dynamic organization that advances communities worldwide.

As we stand on the cusp of eliminating polio, it time for us to create a new path toward bringing more people together, increasing our impact and creating even more lasting change around the world.

Rotary leadership is developing a strategic plan that will help guide our organization from Rotary year 2020 and beyond. Our current plan guides our work through Rotary 30 June 2019.

Dr. Francis “Tusu” Tusubira, Rotary Club of Kampala-North, Uganda introduces the new Rotary Strategic Plan.

 In June Rotary's Board of Directors and Trustees approved four key priorities and objectives to serve as the foundation for the next strategic plan:

Increase our impact Rotary strives to change the lives of others for the better. Our members invest volunteer and financial resources in a broad range of service activities, but we will do a better job of measuring the results and outcomes of our work. So that Rotary can continue to attract members, partners, and donors, we'll focus our programs and produce evidence of lasting impact.

Related objectives:

• Eradicate polio and leverage the legacy
• Focus our programs and offerings
• Improve our ability to achieve and measure impact

Expand our reach People are seeking ways to make a difference in the world and connect with others. How do we help them find what they're looking for in Rotary? By creating unique opportunities for more people and organizations to get involved. Clubs will always be important. But to extend our global reach, we'll expand our current structure with innovative models that welcome more participants into Rotary and give them meaningful ways to unite and take action.

Related objectives:

• Grow and diversify our membership and participation
• Create new channels into Rotary
• Increase Rotary's openness and appeal
• Build awareness of our impact and brand

Enhance participant engagement Because we recognize the challenges our clubs face in today's changing world, Rotary will support our clubs' efforts to deliver an experience that engages and retains members. When we help clubs focus on the experience and value they give their members, we give Rotarians and other participants the opportunity to serve together, connect with one another, and have a more satisfying experience with Rotary.

Related objectives:

• Support clubs to better engage their members
• Develop a participant-centered approach to deliver value
• Offer new opportunities for personal and professional connection
• Provide leadership development and skills training

Increase our ability to adapt To achieve our vision and keep pace with changing global trends, our structure and culture must evolve. We'll ensure that our operating and governance structures are efficient, flexible, and effective in delivering services to all of our participants.

Related objectives

• Build a culture of research, innovation, and willingness to take risks
• Streamline governance, structure and processes
• Review governance to foster more diverse perspectives in decision-making

What's next

In the coming year, we will craft strategies and tactics for achieving these new priorities and objectives.

Resources and reference

• 2017 strategic plan survey results
• Research methodology and findings brief

Medical Ethics, a Business Meeting & RI President Nominee for 2020-21

Last Week

Professor Peter Cleaton-Jones spoke to us on the ethics of medical research and showed how it had developed subsequent to experiments on adults and children in the Nazi concentration camps creating a need for a code of conduct.  He took us through the development and changes in an ethical approach to medical research through the years and how new methodologies create a need for an extension to the original concept that followed the Nuremberg Trials.

He used as his benchmark the Oxford English Dictionary definition you see here.  I found that particularly interesting as I have always tended to follow Plato which is more positive in saying that Happiness or Well being is the highest form of moral thought and conduct and the Virtues are the skills used to attain it or acquire it.....enough of philosophy for today but I thought it an interesting juxtaposition to the picture.

This Week
It's a Business Meeting.  If you look at President Jean's column you will see the hard work that is being done towards making some of our new projects a reality.  We will obviously hear more about this as well as the ever closer Art Expo which will make them financially possible.

Holger Knaack, a member of the Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany, has been selected to serve as president of Rotary International in 2020-21.

The Nominating Committee’s decision follows the resignation last month of President-nominee Sushil Gupta due to health reasons. Knaack will officially become president-nominee if no other

candidates challenge him by 31 May.

To build a stronger membership, Knaack says Rotary must focus on increasing the number of female members and transitioning Rotaractors into Rotarians.

Knaack believes that the People of Action campaign offers new public awareness possibilities for Rotary. “This campaign conveys our global image while still respecting differences in regions and cultures,” he says.

A Rotary member since 1992, Knaack has served Rotary as treasurer, director, moderator, member and chair of several committees, representative for the Council on Legislation, zone coordinator, training leader, and district governor.

He is an endowment/major gifts adviser and co-chair of the Host Organization Committee for the 2019 Rotary International Convention in Hamburg.

Knaack is the CEO of Knaack KG, a real estate company. He was previously a partner and general manager of Knaack Enterprises, a 125-year-old family business.

He is a founding member of the Civic Foundation of the City of Ratzeburg and served as president of the Golf-Club Gut Grambek. Knaack is also the founder and chair of the Karl Adam Foundation.

Knaack and his wife, Susanne, are Major Donors to The Rotary Foundation and members of the Bequest Society.

The members of the Nominating Committee for the 2020-21 President of Rotary International are Kazuhiko Ozawa, Rotary Club of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan; Manoj D. Desai, Rotary Club of Baroda Metro, Gujarat, India; Shekhar Mehta, Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar, West Bengal, India; John G. Thorne, Rotary Club of North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Guiller E. Tumangan, Rotary Club of Makati West, Makati City, Philippines; Juin Park, Rotary Club of Suncheon, Jeonranam, Korea; Elio Cerini, Rotary Club of Milano Duomo, Italy; Gideon M. Peiper, Rotary Club of Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Per Høyen, Rotary Club of Aarup, Denmark; Paul Knijff, Rotary Club of Weesp (Vechtstreek-Noord), Netherlands; Sam Okudzeto, Rotary Club of Accra, Ghana; José Ubiracy Silva, Rotary Club of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; Bradford R. Howard, Rotary Club of Oakland Uptown, California, USA; Michael D. McCullough, Rotary Club of Trenton, Michigan, USA; Karen K. Wentz, Rotary Club of Maryville, Tennessee, USA; Michael K. McGovern, Rotary Club of South Portland-Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA; and John C. Smarge, Rotary Club of Naples, Florida, USA.

The Art Expo, Professor Peter Cleaton-Jones and a Fantastic Book Sale

Last Week
There was a swop of speakers  that ended up not being a swop so we had no speaker last week but we had a very pleasant meeting chatting away anyway!

It is good to see that James and Charlotte Croswell attended the Rotary Leadership Institute Course on Saturday.  I hope that more members of our club avail themselves of the opportunity.

Rotary Art Expo
These are actually a series of Rotary Days that give us the opportunity to promote Rotary and our club in particular.  We may pride ourselves on how successful our club is and how we have been able to maintain our membership which means that we are one of the larger clubs in District 9400 but just add 10 years to our ages and that's what we have to worry about.  It's important that our younger members really do there best to promote Rotary at the Art Expo.

This Week
I am going to repeat what I said last week.....

Our speaker is Peter Cleaton-Jones who will be talking to us on health issues. He is a qualified dentist, medical practitioner and scientist. 

His main academic career was in dental research and anaesthesia; from 1977 to 2006 he was Professor of Experimental Odontology Director of the Dental Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand which was a joint Medical Research Council / University research entity between 1977 and 2004. 
On retiring in 2006 he was appointed a Professor Emeritus for life. Peter has been active in training researchers shown by 95 successfully supervised master and doctoral degrees and as co-presenter (with Prof E Grossman) of a 50 hour research training course which was attended by 1834 participants between 1978 and 2010. 
He has spent time in research entities in Denmark, England and Switzerland; in England he was a visiting professor in the Department of Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Leeds 2004-2010. Since 1974 he has served continuously on the Wits’ Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical), on the Medical Research Council’s Ethics Committee (1990-2002, Chair 1998-2002) and the Human Sciences Research Council Ethics Committee (2003-present, on request from the HSRC he formed the committee in 2003 and was Chair until 2005). 
From 2006-2014 he was an Honorary Adjunct Professor in the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics; in 2015 his title was changed to Honorary Professor. 

Secondhand Treasures Book Sale raises $95,000

When five trucks arrived at a secondary school in the city of Venlo in the Netherlands, members of the Rotary Club of Venlo-Maas en Peel were ready.

The trucks were filled with items to be sold at the club’s 33rd annual book and record sale. The seven-day event in early January raised $95,000 that will go toward projects that improve the lives of children in Brazil, Malawi, Peru, and Sri Lanka.

In partnership with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the club mustered about 200 volunteers, including people who are not Rotary members, who made sure the event went off without a hitch. About 10,000 book and record aficionados from throughout the Netherlands, and from other countries including Germany and Belgium, attended the sale and took home 60,000 books and 15,000 records.

The club members work throughout the year to organize the fair. The club has drop-off points for book and record donations, and volunteers sort through them twice a week.

The items are categorized by genre, and a coordinator responsible for each category makes the final decision on what will be included in the sale. Most books sell for between 50 cents and $2.50, but those that are new or special can cost between $3 and $50.

Sometimes the club receives a donation of something unique. A few years ago, a dossier of documents related to the history of the city of Papendrecht brought in $8,000. The oldest of the documents, which the city bought, dated to 1328.

“The city of Papendrecht organized a special exhibition with these documents,” says club member Peter Elbers, noting that the documents contained previously unknown information about the city’s history.

After 33 years, Elbers has some tips on how to organize a successful book and record fair. Most important, he says, is to plan from the start to make it an annual event.

“Don’t try to organize such a fair only once,” he says. “When people recognize the quality of what you are selling, they will come back.”

A reliable volunteer workforce is also a must. Club member Jaap Verhofstad brought his children to help set up and break down the fair. “My children have had a few hours of fun helping out at the fair during the sale,” he says. “Our 11-year-old twins are too young for the heavy work — but in a few years we will have two more strong men.”

Lambano Paediatric Hospice, Rotary District 9400 Blanket Drive, Wheelchairs, Call Back the Past, Professor Peter Cleaton-Jones and Rotary in Action.

Last Week



 Stewart Mutokonya from Lambano came to talk to us about the new Paediatric Hospice that they building in Kensington to replace their current hospice.  I wrote a lot about it last week so I won't repeat what I had written previously.
Stewart is very articulate and his talk stimulated a lot of questions.  Unfortunately the Rotary Blanket Drive meant that a number of members were busy trying to raise money for blankets outside Pick 'n Pay on William Nicol Drive.

Our efforts for the Rotary District 9400 Blanket Drive took place from last Friday to Sunday this week......I don't know the results yet.

Cesare Vidulich organised a wheelchair for the local Lions Club
and they not only photographed it but also thanked us.  It's very good thing that we are able to assist another service organisation.

We have also provided two wheelchairs for Lambano Paediatric Hospice, specifically to assist with moving children from room to room.

Mark Franklin passed this photograph around for us to see...who is that distinguished looking Rotarian with dark hair I wonder?

This Week
Our speaker is Peter Cleaton-Jones who will be talking to us on health issues. He is a qualified dentist, medical practitioner and scientist. 

His main academic career was in dental research and anaesthesia; from 1977 to 2006 he was Professor of Experimental Odontology Director of the Dental Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand which was a joint Medical Research Council / University research entity between 1977 and 2004. 
On retiring in 2006 he was appointed a Professor Emeritus for life. Peter has been active in training researchers shown by 95 successfully supervised master and doctoral degrees and as co-presenter (with Prof E Grossman) of a 50 hour research training course which was attended by 1834 participants between 1978 and 2010. 
He has spent time in research entities in Denmark, England and Switzerland; in England he was a visiting professor in the Department of Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Leeds 2004-2010. Since 1974 he has served continuously on the Wits’ Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical), on the Medical Research Council’s Ethics Committee (1990-2002, Chair 1998-2002) and the Human Sciences Research Council Ethics Committee (2003-present, on request from the HSRC he formed the committee in 2003 and was Chair until 2005). 
From 2006-2014 he was an Honorary Adjunct Professor in the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics; in 2015 his title was changed to Honorary Professor. 

Rotary in Action

Art Expo, Blanket Drive, Lambano & Rotary Club of Geneve International

Last Week

It was a Business Meeting and quite a lot of time was spent discussing our up and coming Art Exhibition at the end of the month.

Roger Lloyd is chairing the committee and obviously he and the committee have been working very hard to put things together and Joan Sainsbury has, as usual, been working very hard with the artists.

The most important thing is that we, as club members, provide as much support as is required.  Because the nature of the exhibition has changed President Jean is effectively turning the exhibition into 10 Rotary Days.  We no longer have to concentrate on selling the paintings but rather on selling Rotary, not just for our own club but for others as well because not everyone who is interested in Rotary is able or even wants to come to a Friday lunch at Wanderers.

There has been some discussion on asking other clubs to participate for their own Rotary Days and I think that is a very good idea because we need to grow Rotary and not to be parochial about it.  I think it's an excellent idea that we showcase other clubs and what they do and when they meet because it does give the public more of an idea what Rotary stands for and gives them an idea as to how different clubs become involved.

The Rotary Blanket Drive
It starts on Friday until Sunday and the club, as usual, is supporting this extremely well.  We will be at Pick 'n Pay Centre on William Nicol.  We have always done extremely well in the past but we know we don't have the huge corporate input this year.




This Week

The Inner Wheel International President, who is Australian, visited South Africa recently and Bedfordview Inner Wheel Club took her to visit Lambano....which I had never heard of.

I just happened to pick up my wife's folder, she is a member and was astounded at who they were and what they had planned.  They started as a shelter for abandoned HIV/AIDS babies in 2001.  Of course most of them died so very quickly they established a paediatric hospice which currently can accommodate 18 children and is accredited by the Hospice Palliative Care Association of SA and is monitored and evaluated by them on an ongoing basis in every aspect from financial, governance and quality assurance.  They are looking to build a much bigger Hospice that will be able to take in children financed by Medical Aid who will then effectively subsidise the current children and their successors who are there at no cost to themselves.

They have the land already as well as funding from overseas to build the premises which will be in Kensington.  What they do need is the office equipment and medical equipment as well as the necessary beds, cots etc.

Stewart Mutokonya will be talking to us
 and I hope Evelyn Makanda as well

We are heavily involved with our Cervical Cancer Project so obviously I couldn't make the suggestion to our club but Northcliff have taken it under their wing and we do have some involvement because Richard Moloney will look at the requested medical equipment and the costings when that becomes available....it is currently being revised.  This is the way Rotary should work, to use the  expertise from other clubs where necessary.

Now-a-days HIV/AIDS babies do not die so Lambano has had to expand its activities into have houses with house mothers as they now have young people in matric...something they never anticipated!

Back to the Hospice.  This will be the first purpose built paediatric hospice in the country, possibly even on the continent and Lambano see it as just being the first because there is such a huge need and the long-term plan is to have one in every province.

Rotary Club of Genève International, Switzerland
Chartered: 2015
Original membership: 31
Membership: 53

Bucking conventions: In Geneva, a cosmopolitan city that is home to tens of thousands of expatriates, a club for English speakers was an apt idea. As the European seat of the United Nations, the city hosts 179 permanent missions, along with the offices of hundreds of nongovernmental organizations and multinational corporations. The Rotary Club of Genève International reflects this diversity, with members representing more than a dozen nationalities.

Rotaractors are integrated into the life of the Rotary club

Club innovation: The club is committed to bringing young people into Rotary through Rotaract and Interact. As one of their first actions, members drafted a plan to establish an English-speaking Rotaract club, followed by an Interact club — a goal it met within two years. Rotarians and Rotaractors work together on projects, and mentoring is central to the club’s culture.

The Rotary Club of Genève International wasted no time in getting to work in 2015: Members including Walter Gyger, a retired diplomat and RI’s principal representative to the UN Office at Geneva, worked their connections to organize a fundraising gala to support Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The event was a joint effort with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

With a number of former Rotaractors among its members, the club decided to focus on young people. “We call it engaging the next generation instead of working the pipeline,” says Royston Flude, who led the youth outreach initiative. Thanks to that effort, the Rotaract Club at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies was chartered in 2016 and, the next year, an Interact club was established on the La Châtaigneraie campus of the International School of Geneva. 

“It is absolutely crucial to create a cascade into Rotary,” Flude says. When the club took on the ambitious task of running events for the 2017 Rotary Day at the United Nations in Geneva, the Rotaractors stepped up as active partners. The gathering drew 1,200 attendees representing more than 80 nationalities, Gyger says, adding that “because of the involvement of the Rotaractors, about one-third of participants were younger than 35.”

The Rotary club has a robust mentoring program for Rotaractors. “You have people going through large career jumps, especially those just coming from universities to their first management job,” Flude says. “We’ve held career fairs and events on interviewing techniques. Rotary is providing mentoring — not just in career enhancement, but in life.” 

The club encourages Rotaractors and Interactors to attend its meetings, always mindful of practical matters such as expenses. “The InterContinental isn’t the cheapest place,” Flude says of the luxury hotel where the club meets, so the Rotarians fund meals for Rotaract and Interact members. More important, the Rotarians never underestimate their younger cohort: “We park ego,” Flude says.

A case in point is the club’s involvement in the Classroom to Boardroom entrepreneurship program, offered through the International School of Geneva. “Students create a quasi-business and go to an international organization such as the World Bank or International Committee of the Red Cross, and over a week, they offer solutions,” Flude says. “The Interactors showed these organizations how they could digitize the marketing and appeal to young people.”

Rotary benefits when young people get involved in its programs, Flude says. “When you get someone who is an Interactor, immediately you’re connected to the parents, the grandparents, and a community in the classroom and the school. For every Interactor you get on board, you probably get a connection with four to 10 people. It’s a brilliant opportunity.”

Our Proposed Cervical Cancer Project Moves Forward, a Business Meeting and the Scourge of Loneliness.

Last Meeting

It was Good Friday last week ...no meeting.

Akin Sanya Kayode
Rotary Club of Asokoro Abuja, Nigeria

Our last meeting was a social meeting and we had a number of visitors.

Nigel Bellamy, one of our frequent visitors,
presented President Jean with his club banner.

Charles Mpefu from Alexander Township

Proposed Cervical Cancer Project

James Croswell and his team are making real progress with a meeting at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital just before Easter.

  The Rotary side'

Sybille Essman, Ann Hope-Bailie, John Symons and Richard Moloney...also Marianne Soal. 












The Medical Side

James Croswell (He's changed sides)
Dr Carla Chibwesa, Associate Professor Edrich Noth, Carolina University & Right to Care, Dr Mpho Ratshikana-Moloko (Head of Paliative Care).....
also Dr Will Aldridge, Head of Oncology Dept.



This Week
It's a Business Meeting so we will doubtless hear the latest on the Arts Festival...it's only a month away!

Rotary Great Britain and Ireland State of the Nation Survey.

Rotary’s survey found that nearly half of people (47%) in the UK and Ireland felt lonely, with a third (32%) feeling more alone than they did five years ago.

It appears that this epidemic is affecting the younger generation in particular with over one in ten (14%) in the 20-34 age group say they feel lonely all the time compared to just 3% of over 55’s.

This is despite more than a fifth (22%) of retired people only having face-to-face interactions with just one other person or no one at all during a typical day.

Loneliness and social isolation have a huge impact on our mental wellbeing and the report found it had the following effect on individuals:

1. Low self-esteem (30%)
2. Depression (27%)
3. Anxiety (26%)
4. Trouble sleeping (24%)
5. Irregular eating (16%)
6. Lack of appetite (12%)
7. Headaches (11%)
8. Brain fog, confusion or memory loss (10%)
9. Stomach pains / digestive issues (8%)

While social media has been a great tool for connecting people all over the world, it has done little to combat loneliness with a third of people saying it provides a “superficial” connection with people and more than a fifth (22%) claiming technology and social media has made them uncomfortable meeting others in real life.

One of the key findings in the report identifies the importance of groups and initiatives, such as organisations like Rotary and the projects it is involved in. Currently, only 16% get involved in groups or volunteering to help meet new people, whereas nearly one fifth (19%) said they would like to join a group but wouldn’t know how to or where to look.

Throughout the past year, Rotary clubs have held a whole host of events, projects and initiatives to help combat loneliness and social isolation in local areas. These include:

• Working with local colleges to support befriending services
• Facilitating dementia cafes
• Supporting young carers to have a break and meet people their own age
• Offering pick up services and putting on parties and events to get people out of the house

Rotary is present within most towns and cities, supporting community cohesion and underpinning the fabric of society. Working alongside other community groups, Rotary is often the facilitator bringing support teams together.

But it is our millennial generations that need to be brought into Rotary to ensure the 113-year legacy is maintained and importantly evolves to ensure relevance in the 21st century and beyond.

With data analysis from our State of the Nation report showing that people have devised tactics to distract from feeling lonely, it was sadly revealed that 62% put the television on while 27% have spoken to a pet. Results have also found women (49%) are more likely to feel lonelier than men but more men experience loneliness at work.

Worryingly, more people are finding excuses to have face-to-face conversations with people on a daily basis and revealed they have done the following just to see someone during the day:

• Gone to the doctor or GP
• Ordered post to have a conversation with the postman
• Answered or engaged with a spam or cold caller
• Gone to the shops

The question we want to raise is around how Rotary affects change within our communities to address the concerns that have been uncovered. Tackling loneliness and enhancing community spirit and cohesion is at the heart of what Rotary stands for.

Taking part in something meaningful, getting out of the house and meeting others, particularly in a family friendly environment gives a greater sense of intrinsic satisfaction, easing feelings of isolation and loneliness.

The global Rotary network is a great way to meet new people, make lasting friendships and have fun.

This is particularly pertinent given the feedback from the young adults who responded as they will be able to develop skills, share personal and vocational experience and take up leadership roles all whilst making a difference to the local or international community.

Ken Stonestreet, a Social Meeting, the Blanket Drive, Rotary Leadership Institute and Climate Change.

Last Week



We had PDG Ken Stonestreet talking about himself.  These talks are always such fun because you learn so much about someone who you see every week but really know so little about.
Maybe it's because as a club, generally, our members are more interested in the present and the future rather than the past.  Maybe that's why we have a constant flow of new members into the club.  There's nothing that puts people off more than endless talk on how wonderful the
club used to be.
Looking to the future certainly personifies Ken because he never dwells on the past and he never plays the 'Past District Governor' card.

This picture includes about half of us at the meeting and the question is 'Spot the DG.  Here's a clue, you can tell by the shirt.

This Week
It's a Social Meeting so it's a good time to come and see what we get up to and observe us talking to each other.....we might even talk to you!

Rotary Blanket Drive
Last week Dave Bradshaw sent round a roster for the Blanket Drive at the beginning of May and it was practically complete.  There are gaps.  If you can assist please contact him.

Rotary Leadership Institute
 Here are the next range of courses being offered:
11th May - Parts 1 and A
18th May - Parts 2 and B
1st June - Parts 3 and C

You have to start with Part 1.  Training isn't really the Club's strong point but it would be great if we could encourage new Rotarians in particular to start with Part 1.  These courses will be in Boksburg.  More details to follow.

Why climate change is Rotary’s business and what Rotarians are already doing about it

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Rotarians understand that the whole world is their backyard. They can see the effects of climate change in communities they care about, and they haven’t waited to take action. They’re tackling the problem the way they always do: coming up with projects, using their connections to change policy — and planning for the future.

Read our series to see:

• Why RI president says the environment is our ultimate mission
• What Rotarians are doing right now
• Rotary member gains ground with Citizens’ Climate Lobby
• Rotary scholars and peace fellows put expertise to work
• Is there hope for indigenous Alaskans?