Weekly Meeting of Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020: July 15, 2016

WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY MEETING

FRIDAY, July 15, 2016

In this meeting:

Welcome
President’s message
Rotary Minute
Rotary Calendar
ABCs of Rotary
Update on Polio - This week, a focus on polio.
What happened Wednesday
What happened last Saturday, July 9
Recent changes from the Council on Legislation (COL)
Notice re NID in India in 2016
Foundation Corner
Rotary Anthem
Four-way test to end

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President's Message

President Paul

Greetings fellow members, Visiting Rotarians, and Guests.

Welcome to the most excellent Rotary e-Club of the Caribbean, 7020!

This week in our posted meeting, as always, we have the Rotary Minute, the Rotary calendar, and some ABCs of Rotary. This week, we are focusing on Polio eradication, and will tell you more about progress on Polio Plus.

We will show you what we did at our HHH on Wednesday. Then, in case you missed it, we show you what happened last Saturday with the speech from Dr. Jason Lewis, who told us how to maintain our Cyber Security.

We are also going to give you some information about recent changes from the Council of Legislation (COL). The notice about the upcoming NID in India is posted once more.

We end our meeting with the Rotary Anthem and the Four-Way Test.

So sit back and enjoy our meeting. Remember to email us with feedback, or if you need a makeup.

Thanks for visiting.

YiR, Pabs Amoury, President

...contributed by Rotarian Lou

ROTARY MINUTE

QUOTATIONS REGARDING ROTARY

by Rotary International Presidents

1979-80 James L. Bomar Jr. (general law practice), Rotary Club of Shelbyville, Tennessee, USA. Rotary vision: To Let Service Light the Way to a better world.

“What is the value of the life of one child saved? No one will ever know, but if the child were our own, the price tag would be marked: Not for sale — this life is invaluable.”

— When Life Is Gone, That’s All There Is, THE ROTARIAN, January 1980

1980-81 Rolf J. Klärich (confectionary manufacturing), Rotary Club of Helsinki-Helsingfors, Finland. Rotary vision: That its members Take Time to Serve — any time, anywhere — and make the organization work.

“The time we take to serve those who need us can be the turning point, not only in their lives but also in our own.”

— Take Time to Serve, THE ROTARIAN, July 1980

ABCs OF ROTARY

RI President (1992-93) Cliff Dochterman

The Rotary Foundation's Beginning

Some magnificent projects grow from very small seeds. The Rotary Foundation had that sort of modest beginning.

In 1917 RI President Arch Klumph told the delegates to the Atlanta Convention that "it seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world."

The response was polite and favorable, but the fund was slow to materialize. A year later the "Rotary Endowment Fund," as it was first labeled, received its first contribution of US$26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, USA, which was the balance of the Kansas City Convention account following the 1918 annual meeting.

Additional small amounts were annually contributed, but after six years it is reported that the endowment fund had only reached US$700. A decade later, The Rotary Foundation was formally established at the 1928 Minneapolis Convention. In the next four years the Foundation fund grew to US$50,000. In 1937 a US$2 million goal was announced for The Rotary Foundation, but these plans were cut short and abandoned with the outbreak of World War II.

In 1947, upon the death of Paul Harris, a new era opened for The Rotary Foundation as memorial gifts poured in to honor the founder of Rotary. From that time, The Rotary Foundation has been achieving its noble objective of furthering "understanding and friendly relations between peoples of different nations." By 1954 the Foundation received for the first time a half million dollars in contributions in a single year, and in 1965 a million dollars was received.

It is staggering to imagine that from those humble beginnings, The Rotary Foundation is now receiving more than US$65 million each year for educational and humanitarian work around the world.

The Permanent Fund of The Rotary Foundation

It was Arch Klumph, father of The Rotary Foundation, who said, "We should look at the Foundation as being not something of today or tomorrow, but think of it in terms of the years and generations to come." That's why the Foundation's Permanent Fund is considered the most important way to assure the future of Rotary's educational and humanitarian programs.

Contributions to this fund, formerly called the Endowment for World Understanding and Peace, are invested for the future. Only earnings from their investment are used to support Foundation programs. Ultimately, it is intended that the Permanent Fund will provide a steady and secure supplement to Foundation support, always guaranteeing a minimum level of program activity and allowing for the possibility of new and expanded programs in the future.

The Foundation gives special recognition to anyone who includes a substantial gift to the Permanent Fund in his or her estate plan or gives outright a minimum cash gift of US$1, 000 to the fund. Such a donor is designated as a Rotary Foundation Benefactor. In 1998 there were more than 36,000 Benefactors worldwide.

AN UPDATE ON POLIO

This week - Focusing on the polio story...

The following article appeared in http://time.com/4300002/polio-vaccine-rollout/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook.

Written by Walter Orenstein, April 27

Walter Orenstein is Associate Director of the Emory Vaccine Center, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Global Health at Emory University and the former director of the United States' National Immunization Program.

HISTORIC GLOBAL VACCINE ROLLOUT

Could End Polio Forever

Never before in the history of vaccines have we collaborated on this scale, this quickly'

Let’s start simple: Imagine you need to vaccinate a child against a terrible disease. You acquire and administer the correct dosage to protect that child from a debilitating virus. Now, imagine doing that across a whole city. You train health workers, distribute the vaccine to every health facility, explain the process to parents and monitor closely to make sure all children in the city are being reached.

Noorullah Shirzada—AFP/Getty Images An Afghan health worker administers the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign on the outskirts of Jalalabad on Dec. 2, 2015.

Now, do it for a whole district. A whole country. 155 countries. Do all of that in just two weeks.

It’s happening right now, all around the world. Between April 17 and May 1, health workers, governments and communities are working together to execute the largest, fastest effort in history to rollout a vaccine in routine immunization systems, as one of the final steps to end polio forever.

Polio is a virus on the edge of extinction. Over the last 30 years, we’ve cases by 99.9% and saved 15 million children from paralysis or death. In the last year and a half, only two countries have recorded cases of polio caused by wild polioviruses: Pakistan and Afghanistan. But we’re not done yet—to eradicate the disease we need to keep working to reach every child with polio vaccine in all corners of the world.

One vaccine is almost entirely responsible for this incredible progress—the trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), which protects against all three strains of wild polio. But to finally finish off this disease, we’ve got to change our strategy and reach those children, and all the children born over the next few years, with a different vaccine.

The oral polio vaccine uses weakened, live strains of the virus so children can mount an immune response in their guts, stopping the wild virus from attacking their nervous systems and causing paralysis—and keeping them from passing it on to others. This kind of immunity has been hugely important in bringing us close to ending polio. The widespread use of tOPV has eliminated the disease in hundreds of countries and eradicated one of the three strains of wild poliovirus—type 2.

However, in populations that have low vaccination coverage, the live, weakened virus in the oral vaccine can mutate and spread from person to person. In rare cases, these vaccine-derived polioviruses can cause children to develop polio.

Over the last decade, most vaccine-derived polio cases have been caused by the type 2 strain (the one we’ve already eradicated). Since we no longer need to protect against wild type 2, we’re replacing the trivalent vaccine with a bivalent version that doesn’t include the type 2 strain and thus significantly reduces the risk of vaccine-derived polio. This is a massive effort as the current vaccine must be removed from all health facilities in 155 countries and replaced by the bivalent vaccine—all over a two week period. This switch is one of the final steps in the polio endgame plan to stop the disease once and for all.

Never before in the history of vaccines have we collaborated on this scale, this quickly. Getting here has required years of planning, from the laboratory to ministries of health to local health facilities, in countries from Mexico to Nigeria.

A vaccine rollout of this speed and size comes with challenges, particularly because preventing outbreaks of vaccine-derived type 2 polio requires that every country switch their vaccines within the same two-week window. A synchronized switch will ensure that children in a country that’s no longer vaccinating with an oral polio vaccine against type 2 aren’t at risk of being exposed to the strain, which could happen if the trivalent vaccine were still being used elsewhere. The commitment by all 155 countries to make this happen shows that, as a global community, we’re able to come together behind a single goal to improve the health of children everywhere.

This globally coordinated vaccine project will yield important lessons for strengthening immunization more broadly. Polio vaccines are one of a number of important immunizations children receive to protect against vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, rotavirus, and tetanus. As we embark on this global switch, we will learn more about how to deliver vaccines all over the world and protect children from other diseases that kill millions each year.

In the end, it’s that simple—every single child deserves a childhood free from the threat of diseases that we know how to prevent. Together we are proving that we can make that happen.

an interview (45 minutes)

...definitely worth your time...

Published on Jul 8, 2016

Host Omar Khalid Butt sat down with four delegates from Rotary International; Michael K. McGovern (Rotary Foundation Vice Chair, International PolioPlus Committee Chairman), Carol A. Pandak (Director PolioPlus, Rotary International), Judith Diment (Chairman Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Force, Rotary International), and Aziz Memon (National Chair, Pakistan PolioPlus Committee, Rotary International) to talk about what Rotary International is doing in different domains, as well as its work in Pakistan including for the eradication of Polio from the country.

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WHAT HAPPENED ON WEDNESDAY!

July 13

THE BEAUTY OF BEING A MISFIT

To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame and the slow process of self-acceptance. "Even at the moment of your failure, you are beautiful," she says. "You don't know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That's your beauty."

Biography

Yuknavitch grew up in a home where her father verbally, physically, and sexually abused her and her sister, while her alcoholic mother did not intervene. As a teen, she was noticed by a "caring and methodical coach" who helped her move towards her dream of becoming a competitive swimmer. The family moved to Florida for additional training, and Yuknavitch began abusing alcohol. Yuknavitch attended college in Texas on a swimming scholarship and had hopes of qualifying for the United States Olympic swimming team.

The boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, however, as well as her own drug and alcohol abuse, ended her competitive swimming career. Yuknavitch moved to Eugene, Oregon after losing her scholarship and enrolled in the University of Oregon. She was one of the editors of Two Girls Review, which later became 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts.

She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Oregon.

Yuknavitch teaches writing, literature, film, and women's studies and is on the MFA faculty at Eastern Oregon University. She has also taught at Mt. Hood Community College.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Mingo and their son, Miles. Mingo and Yuknavitch are the editors of Chiasmus Press, a "micro indie press".

Plan to join us on a Wednesday to continue to learn and to have fun!

WHAT HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY

JULY 9

Guest Speaker - Jason Lewis

Cybersecurity

RECENT CHANGES FROM THE

COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION

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NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION DAY IN INDIA

If you are interested in participating in an NID (National Immunization Day) in India, you may be interested in the following information:

Click these "hot links" below for more information:

http://www.calindiatours.com/rotary/login.aspx

Password - Poliotours

(Both username/password are case sensitive)

http://www.calindiatours.com/downloads/Polio_Tour_Itinerary_India_Trip.pdf

EVERY DOG SHOULD HAVE A KID

...submitted by Rotarian Lou

FOUNDATION CORNER

WHAT IS THE ANNUAL FUND

ANNUAL FUND is the primary source of funding for all Foundation activities. Our annual contributions help Rotary Clubs take action to create positive change in communities at home and around the world. Our gift helps strengthen peace efforts, provide clean water and sanitation, support education, grow local economies, save mothers and children and fight disease.

The EVERY ROTARIAN every year (EREY) initiative asks every Rotarian to support The Rotary Foundation every year.

Through our annual Sustaining Member contributions of $100 or more, the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 has been a 100% EREY contributor since we were chartered in 2013. Let us continue to support The Rotary Foundation (TRF) through our annual donations. We have been and continue to “Be a gift to the World."