The Rotary Club of Nunawading congratulates Shia Smart from MASH on her selection as DGN for the 2019 - 20 year
Dear Presidents and Assistant Governors,
It gives me great pleasure to advise that Shia Smart from the Rotary Club of Mont Albert & Surrey Hills (MASH) was selected by the District Governor Nominating Committee yesterday to fill the role as District Governor for District 9810 during the Rotary year 2019-20. This appointment is subject to a fourteen day challenge period which expires on Monday 24th April, 2017.
I am sure that all Rotarians in District 9810 wish Shia and Duncan well as they begin this most rewarding journey of Rotary service.
I would appreciate you bringing this information to the attention of your members.
Bunnings BBQ shifts - need someone for 10 to 12pm shift on 20/04/2017
Rotary against Malaria Dinner is being held on 28 April 2017 at the Mulgrave Country Club
Make sure if you are rostered on to collect donations at the Farmers Market you turn up. Nunawading is one of the worst offenders for not turning up and there may be monetary penalties if this continues.
Men's Health Matters Forum on 28/04/2017 - Neil has flyers for distribution. He will also be speaking on radio to advertise the event. Make sure you register on trybooking if you want to attend.
RC of Croydon is running an event on 20 May 2017 called "Melinda does Doris" - it is in celebration of Doris Days 93rd Birthday. Tickets are $40.00.
Entertainment books are $70. See Russell if you want a copy or two
Sue W is in Queensland with Red Cross. She has been at Bowen and Airlie Beach.
Our first speakers were from Rotaract - they would like us to attend their Giant Monopoly night on 29 April 2017. Some of us went last year and it was a lot of fun apart from going to jail 3 times! - this year money raised is going to support "we can't wait" which is a RC of Box Hill Central project building toilets in Indian schools. Over the next couple of years they are hoping over 50,000 children will have access to toilets. Currently it is around 15,000.
As our speakers pointed out, Rotaract is for 18 to 30 year olds. They have been partnering with cluster clubs and organisations to spend their allocation of the Farmers Market money. One project they supported was for Eastern Emergency Relief Network to update their technology
Rotaract meet every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at Surrey Drive and would be happy for us to attend some of their meetings.
Our second speaker was Les Marton from the Rotary Club of Monash. Les gave us a very interesting talk on the history of the Concorde. There were only 20 built. 16 were in service and 2 aircraft ended up being used for spare parts. After the Concorde was withdrawn due to high running costs, they ended up in museums around the world.
One of the largest synchronised vaccination campaigns in Africa took place on 25-28 March, aiming to reach 116 million children with polio vaccines. Close to 200,000 health workers worked tirelessly over the four days to vaccinate children in 13 countries across Central and West Africa. The campaign is part of an urgent effort to stop polio on the continent following the outbreak in Nigeria in 2016.
The synchronised vaccination campaign, one of the largest of its kind ever implemented in Africa, is part of urgent measures to permanently stop polio on the continent. All children under five years of age in the 13 countries – Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Sierra Leone – were simultaneously immunised in a coordinated effort to raise childhood immunity to polio across the continent. In August 2016, four children were paralysed by the disease in security-compromised areas in Borno state, north-eastern Nigeria, widely considered to be the only place on the continent where the virus maintains its grip.
“Twenty years ago, Nelson Mandela launched the pan-African ‘Kick Polio Out of Africa’ campaign,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. “At that time, every single country on the continent was endemic to polio, and every year, more than 75,000 children were paralysed for life by this terrible disease. Thanks to the dedication of governments, communities, parents and health workers, this disease is now beaten back to this final reservoir.”
Dr Moeti cautioned, however, that progress was fragile, given the epidemic-prone nature of the virus. Although confined to a comparatively small region of the continent, experts warned that the virus could easily spread to under-protected areas of neighbouring countries. That is why regional public health ministers from five Lake Chad Basin countries – Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria – declared the outbreak a regional public health emergency and have committed to multiple synchronised immunisation campaigns.
UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Ms Marie-Pierre Poirier, stated that with the strong commitment of Africa’s leaders, there was confidence that this last remaining polio reservoir could be wiped out, hereby protecting all future generations of African children from the crippling effects of this disease once and for all. “Polio eradication will be an unparalleled victory, which will not only save all future generations of children from the grip of a disease that is entirely preventable – but will show the world what Africa can do when it unites behind a common goal.”
To stop the potentially dangerous spread of the disease as soon as possible, volunteers delivered bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) to every house across all cities, towns and villages of the 13 countries. This army of volunteers and health workers worked up to 12 hours per day, travelling on foot or bicycle, in often stifling humidity and temperatures in excess of 40°C. Each vaccination team carried the vaccine in special carrier bags, filled with ice packs to ensure the vaccine remains below the required 8°C.
“This extraordinary coordinated response is precisely what is needed to stop this polio outbreak,” said Michael K McGovern, Chair of Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee . “Every aspect of civil society in these African countries is coming together, every community, every parent and every community leader, to achieve one common goal: to protect their children from life-long paralysis caused by this deadly disease.”
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The synchronised vaccination campaign, one of the largest of its kind ever implemented in Africa, is part of urgent measures to permanently stop polio on the continent. All children under five years of age in the 13 countries – Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Sierra Leone – were simultaneously immunised in a coordinated effort to raise childhood immunity to polio across the continent. In August 2016, four children were paralysed by the disease in security-compromised areas in Borno state, north-eastern Nigeria, widely considered to be the only place on the continent where the virus maintains its grip.
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