District Newsletter April 2017
RANZSE
Rotary Australia New Zealand Student Exchange.
Rotary gave me the best eye opening experience in life to travel as a young teenager.
Living in Australia for over 3 months of my life was one of the best things that could have happened to me.
Rotary has given me the best tastes of the world in 3 short months.
- PNG (both Mt Hagen and Madang)
- Yangon, Myanmar
- Fiji (both Labasa and Suva)
- Apia, Samoa.
More than 190 000 polio vaccinators in 13 countries across west and central Africa will immunize over 116 million children over the next week, to tackle the last remaining stronghold of polio on the continent.
The synchronized 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 – will be simultaneously immunized in a coordinated effort to raise childhood immunity to polio across the continent.
Our Rotary Australian - New Zealand Student Exchange participants fly off to Australia from Auckland on April 1st.
This morning I made the annual enviro presentation at Insoll Avenue School in the company of the Enviro Schools Facilitator, Adrienne Grant (left of Graeme in left photo)
The school enviro team, guided by teacher Nicky Meyer, ran a competition – Design an Environmental Sign.
Out of scores of entries, three were selected as the finalists. Adrienne made the final selection. The winner, Samuel MacKenzie in Year 6, transferred his drawing of “Butterfly Palace” on to a large sign to be hung beside the school’s sizeable collection of swan plants.
It was quite a task for him and took some time. Samuel’s mother was present at the presentation
Bill Gates will speak at this year's Rotary International Convention.
Often described as a “mini-United Nations”, Rotary’s third convention in Atlanta will transform the Georgia World Congress Center into a cultural kaleidoscope as the organization’s global network of volunteers gather to exchange ideas on how to improve lives and bring positive, lasting change to communities around the world.