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New HorizonsThe Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
Letter from the Club PresidentFind out what is happening around the club. Page 1
Board MeetingDetails of the next Board Meeting.Page 2
Rotary Foundation Thought of the WeekThis week’s thought is about Ambassadorial Scholar Alumni.Page 4
Email from PRIP ClemEmail from PRIP Clem to PRID Ken. Page 2
Social FunctionReport on the clubs latest social function.Page 3
Manna Industries LaunchDetails of this important project launch.Page 2
Volume 2, Issue 41! 12th - 18th April 2010
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9450! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Letter From the Club PresidentDear Fellow Rotarians,
Wednesday’s program was a presentation by the Outbound Group Study Exchange Team to D. 1640 in Normandy, France. Team Leader, PP Jim Benson from the RC of Hillarys, a former Rotaractor, has done a fine job in preparing his ‘Team’, Kylie West (our girl) sponsored by the RC of Freshwater Bay, Josclyn Sloan, sponsored by the RC of Matilda Bay, Devi Avani, sponsored by the RC of Heirisson and Luke
Hutchinson, a Rotaractor with the Rotaract Club of Perth is sponsored by the RC of Perth. Unfortunately, Luke took ill on Wednesday so was unable to be part of the presentation.
They are a great team of enthusiastic, capable young people who will do a wonderful job of representing D. 9450 during their four weeks in Normandy. A special day at Villers Bretonnoux has been organised, which, along with a visit to SNECMA, who make space rocket engines for Ariane V Larcher, will no doubt be highlights, along with their Vocational days and the rest of the itinerary
that has been arranged for them.
Warren Milner has g e n e r o u s l y o f f e r e d scholarships to his Milner International College of English for three young people from Normandy and if this can be brought to fruition, no doubt it can be arranged for these folk to come along to the club.
On 28th April we will hear the presentation of the Inbound GSE Team from Normandy. Over the past several weeks, Claire Forsdyke and others from the District GSE Committee have been working very hard at putting in place the vocational days for the team from D. 1640.
Thank you Claire for all you have done to contribute to the success of this year’s Group Study Exchange.
All the programs of the Rotary Foundation are about building ‘Good Will and Better Friendships around the World’. Commonly referred to by Ken as our ‘Foundation for Peace’, it is another fine example of how the programs of the Rotary Foundation benefit people in our own community as well as those from overseas. The Rotary Foundation really is worthy of our financial support and donations are Tax Deductible!
Very soon we’ll be seeking applicants for both a Rotarian Team Leader and team members for our next GSE Team which will be travelling to D. 1880 in Bavaria / Saxony in Germany in 2011. Please all be on the lookout for people between the ages of 25-40 whom you consider would make outstanding team members.
Another of the programs of the Rotary Foundation is PolioPlus. Ken and Simone forwarded to all members the link to the ABCs 7.30 Report from Tuesday evening where Sir Clem Renouf, the second Australian to be International President of Rotary (in 1978-79) and one of, if not our Outbound GSE Team (L-R): Luke, Kylie, Josclyn, Devi and Team Leader Jim
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greatest President ever, was interviewed along with Dr John Sever, the two men responsible for Rotary taking on the task of eradicating Polio. In the body of the bulletin will be printed an email just received by Ken from Clem for your added information.
Early information for all members (please mark it in your diary now) is the 13th Annual Dr. Ken Collins Address which is booked for Monday, 29th November. The RI President , Ray Klinginsmith will present the Address with Mayanne Takome agreeing to come to Perth from where she now lives in Queensland, to be the Alumni speaker. Maryanne is the nursing sister from a remote area of PNG whom Ken arranged for an Ambassadorial Scholarship back in the 1980 and her story is outstanding.
Yours in Rotary Service,
Di CollinsCharter President
Visitor From IndiaGSE Team member Devi Avani brought her sister Malliga Sekar along to the meeting. Malliga, from Tamil Nadu in India does not speak English so must have found
it difficult but added colour to our meeting.
Visitor to IndiaPeter Symons who is currently whirling around the globe attended a meeting of the Rotary Club of Bangalore. Peter reported that the club has 250 members, its own venue and he enjoyed joining them for a Tamil theme night. We look forward to Peter’s return later in the month.
Board meeting Wednesday 14th AprilThe next Board meeting will be held at the Cafe at B e t h e s d a H o s p i t a l immediately following our regular club meeting next Wednesday, 14th April.
The following Board meeting in May will be for both the incoming and outgoing Board and will be on a date to be arranged.
Manna Industries LaunchRotarians able to attend are invited to the launch of the project on Wednesday, 21st
April, 2010 at 2.30pm, Maddington Primary School, Albany Hwy, Maddington.
Director Rob RohrlachHas kindly offered to continue to look after Community, Vocational and Youth again next year if there is no volunteer to take on Community.
Thanks Rob, we are indebted to you for this and all you are and continue to do. It’s been a heavy year for you.
Traveling RotariansWe have a number of members overseas at present. Travel safely and we look forward to your return.
Email to PRID Ken from PRIP ClemFurther to the 7.30pm Report on the ABC last Tuesday, the man who conceived the eradication of Polio, Sir Clem Renouf sent Ken the following email on Thursday.
Clem, who will be 89 year of age in just over a week (born on the founder of Rotary, Paul Harris’s birthday, and just two days before Rotary came to Australia) has been involved with preserving the early history of Polio eradication. He copied his email to a Rotarian involved with this to Ken and the article he refers to is added to the bulletin as an attachment.
It was written in 2007 so is not right up to date. It came out of a request to Ken by the editor of RDU, Bob Aiken and was printed in the magazine in 2007. Paing Hechanova, who is referred to in the email by Clem was the District Governor of the day in 1978-79 (and now a PRID) in Manila when the first 3 H (Health Hunger and Humanity) Grant was carried out, the immunisation of 6 million children from Tetanus, and then when the first polio immunisation project, which was also in the Philippines, was carried out. “ P a i n g H e c h a n o v a ' s recollection of the events surrounding the launch of The Philippines polio immunization accords with what I recall of those events, apart from the fact (corrected by Ken Collins) that it was not the first 3-H Project; it was the second (tetanus, also
in The Philippines. was the first) But it was the first polio i m m u n i z a t i o n project undertaken by Rotary. It's a valuable piece of the history of a small but very significant segment of the total program.
The report by Ken Collins is, in my view, 100% accurate, and very comprehensive. He has done a masterly job in recording the history of the program. If you wanted just one authoritative account of the program to date, incorporating all the important elements, but uncluttered by the lesser details, this would be it. I'm pleased to have it for my records. RegardsClem PS. Thanks for this Ken. I learned some things about the program (several) of which I was ignorant. I hope your presentation can be preserved in the Rotary archives. It's long enough to incorporate all the essential facts in chronological order,
Shelving in the hospital in Sri Lanka - Project organised by Roh Siriwardena
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but not so long that people would be unlikely to read it. Have you done anything about doing that? If not, and if you need any support for it, I'd be happy to sponsor its inclusion. Clem”
Social FunctionMembers of the Club, together with John Wetherall and Colin and Sandy Garber dined at the Collins’ residence on Saturday evening. A relaxed, happy
evening was enjoyed by those able to attend. Unfortunately a number of members had work and long standing social commitments while others are traveling overseas.
It is a very important aspect of a Rotary club to have regular social activities to give everyone the opportunity to gradually get to know each other better, forming bonds thus enabling members to work closely and in harmony.
Thank you to members for their contribution of delicious dishes and drinks for the dinner.
RC Freshwater Bay Changeover Dinner
The first Changeover Dinner of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay. When: Thursday, 1st July, 2010. Venue: Nedlands Golf Club, Melvista Ave, Nedlands 6009. Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm. Cost: TBA
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BoardRotary Year 2009-10
Di Collins — President
Ken Collins — Vice President / Membership Director
[email protected]@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Simone Carot Collins — President Elect / Club Administration Director
[email protected] [email protected]
Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer
Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary
Rob Rohrlach — Projects Director
Claire Forsdyke — International Director
Toni James — PR & Marketing Committee Director
Club DetailsRotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909
MeetingsWednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pmCafe, Bethesda HospitalQueenslea DriveClaremont
Email [email protected] 08 9385 0471Fax 08 9385 0472
Website www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47737002646
Chartered 19 December 2008
Bulletin ContributionsContributions for the weekly bulletin are sought from members of the club.
Why not use the bulletin to update the club on the projects your committee is working on or promote the clubs next fundraising event.
Please forward articles and photos to [email protected]
Date Name
14th April Bronwen Tyson
21st April Clive Boddy
Welcoming Roster
Program for March/AprilDate Details
14th April Rod Styles - RYDABoard Meeting to follow Club Meeting
21st April Committee Meetings
28th April Inbound GSE
The Rotary FoundationWeek 41: This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about Ambassadorial Scholar Alumni.
Four alumni who traveled from the USA to study in Buenos Aires, Argentina have formed Project
Patagonia, which provides educational support for school children. The alumni are constructing a multi-media library to meet both short and long-term educational needs at two schools for low-income students in rural Argentina.
They are also providing school supplies and n u t r i t i o n a l s u p p o r t . Ambassadorial Scholars
represent the very best in intellect and character and they are future Rotarians. Every Rotarian, Every Year – imagine all we can accomplish today and tomorrow.
Consider inviting local Rotary Foundation alumni to become members of your Rotary club.
Date Name
14th April Toni James
Introduction
Date Name
14th April Andrea Hayward
Vote of Thanks
POLIOPLUS STORY
Important dates
1979 Health Hunger and Humanity Program initiated a. First project was to have been to immunize 6 million children in the
Philippines against Polio. While discussing this project in Manila a telex arrived offering 6 million doses of Tetanus Vaccine free of charge
b. Records show the first project under 3H to be the immunization of 6 million children in the Philippines against Tetanus and the second the immunization of the same 6 million children against Polio.
On his way to Evanston after that meeting then RI President Clem read in the Readers Digest that Smallpox has been eradicated. He contacted Rotarian Dr John Sever at the Center for Diseases Control in Atlanta asking whether there was a second disease that could be eradicated with the help of Rotary. Dr Sever wrote back advising there is only one other disease that can be eradicated – Polio. Clem set up a committee to discuss the possibility of Rotary immunizing all the children of the world against Polio, and despite a number of campaigns in other countries no worldwide efforts were carried out
1985 At the International Assembly in Nashville Dr Albert Sabin delivered a
keynote address and begged the Incoming District Governors to help him achieve his dream of a Polio free world. We were told there were still 500,000 cases occurring each year in 150 countries.
It had been agreed by the Board of RI that Rotary would pay for the vaccine for the estimated100 million children in the world being born each year who were currently not being immunized. The cost of immunizing a child was US24 cents so the amount required to be raised was US$120 million. We would be given three years to do this. The program was initially called Polio 2005 as it was hoped to make the world Polio free by Rotary’s 100th birthday in 2005. Later a decision was made to encourage immunization against other childhood diseases so the name was changed to PolioPlus to reflect this.
1985-88 Rotarians set out to raise US$120 million but in fact raised US$247 million.
Some countries began immunization programs e.g. in Brazil and Bolivia where Rotarians carried a door to door census and then went back and immunized all the children less than five years. Polio disappeared from those two countries and twenty three others so that in 1988 when the program began in earnest there were 135,000 cases that year in 125 countries.
1988-93 Rotary provided the vaccine for all countries who could not afford their
own. At the end of this time instead of immunizing 500 million children as anticipated we had in fact immunized 606 million children in 97
countries. We had been informed that to eradicate Polio in any particular country we had to immunize more than 90% of children under 5 years in that country.
In 1991 WHO declared “Universal Child Immunisation Day” as it was believed that more than 90% of children under 5 years in every country of the world were now being immunized. Despite this Polio continued in many countries so in 1991 National Immunisation Days were begun in the Philippines which still hand a handful of cases per year. Immediately Polio disappeared so the process was repeated in China where 100 million children were immunized over one weekend.
1995 The number of cases and the number of endemic countries slowly dwindled but Polio still flourished in India. National Immunisation Days
were begun in that country in 1995 where it was anticipated that there were 85 million children under 5 years. This was quickly proven to be incorrect when more than 150 million children under 5 years were identified and immunized. As the funds in the PolioPlus Fund were earmarked only for vaccine, the PolioPlus Partners Program was established to fund the requirements of the National Immunisation Days, e.g. vaccine carriers, ice, caps, vests and hand outs for the children.
2001 This was a momentous year as there were only 483 cases in the entire world and the number of endemic countries had been reduced to 10. Of particular note is the fact that India reported only 268 cases that year and Nigeria 56. Only 8 cases were reported in the 5 non endemic countries that had any cases.
2002 Unfortunately a number of blunders occurred this year resulting in a major blowout of cases to1918, 1600 of which occurred in India and 202 in Nigeria. Due to the PolioPlus Funds running down, National Immunisation Days were suspended from January to September 2002 and in India it was discovered that the routine immunization rate dropped to about 20%. On the positive side the number of countries reporting Polio was only 9, seven of which were still endemic and only 3 cases occurred in the non endemic countries.
2002-05 To supplement the funds in the PolioPlus Campaign Program the Rotarians were asked to raise another US$85 million. This followed the unsuccessful Private Sector initiative which had raised only something like US$3 million. Again the Rotarians rallied to the cause and raised US$130 million.
2003-06 The number of endemic countries was reduced to six but importations occurred in 9 other countries as many of them eased up on their immunization efforts believing the war had been won. The following figures show how various countries have had Polio reintroduced but also how social mobilsation efforts have brought most of these under control quite quickly:
Country 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 * India 268 1600 225 134 66 676 367 * Pakistan 119 90 103 53 28 40 17 * Nigeria 56 202 365 782 830 1122 226 * Afghanistan 11 10 8 4 9 31 12 Sudan 1 0 0 128 27 0 1 Somalia 7 3 0 0 185 35 8 Ethiopia 1 0 0 1 22 17 0 Indonesia 0 0 0 0 303 2 0 Yemen 0 0 0 0 478 1 0 Total cases worldwide 483 1918 784 1255 1979 1997 707 Tot in endemic countries 475 1915 732 999 943 1869 622 Tot in non-end countries 8 3 52 256 1036 128 85 No. of countries 15 9 15 18 16 17 11 No. of endemic countries 10 7 6 6 6 4 4
