Weekly Program - November 11 - November is Rotary Foundation Month

[Janie Carlisle]

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION helps Rotary clubs and districts work together to provide meaningful,
sustainable service. Foundation grants support projects that provide clean water, medical care, literacy classes, and other essentials to people in need all around the world. Since 1947, the Foundation has contributed more than US$2.4 billion to fund these vital efforts.

The Foundation also awards Rotary Peace Fellowships for study at Rotary Peace Centers around the globe. Since 2002-03, more than 480 fellows from 80 countries have participated at a cost of more than $31 million.

Our contributions to the Foundation ensure that we can bring sustainable change to communities in need.

Our top priority is ERADICATING POLIO. Thanks to Rotary and our international partners, the number of polio cases has dropped 99 percent worldwide since 1988. But as long as polio threatens even one child, children everywhere are at risk.

Rotary clubs are raising US$200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These funds support immunization campaigns in developing countries where polio remains a threat.

Rotary International is a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, along with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Ask your club’s Rotary Foundation committee chair how you can support our Foundation.

Taken from Rotary Basics - Publication No. 595-EN—(611)

[Kristin Kalar]

I love hearing about the programs that the Rotary Foundation supports!  It certainly gives me incentive to give money, knowing how the grants and programs that TRF supports, truly help the world!  Proud to be a Rotarian! - Kristin

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