Welcome to Rotary International District 1030Rotary North East
Located in the North East of England and comprising 68 Rotary Clubs,
serving their local, regional, national and international communities.
NEW! - See the Thanks For Life section for the latest news on this initiative.
District Monthly Mailing - January 2010 (online version).
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Self Publishing with Yudu
See what Rotary ShelterBox is doing in Haiti
WELCOME to the online version of RNE magazine - January 2010
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Something fishy has been going on - see the News Items section.
KEY ROTARY DATES - updated (November 2009)
List of Dates Years 2009, 2010, 2011, May 2012.
Latest information for RYLA 2010Presenter Konnie Huq joins Indian campaign to end polio
Uttar Pradesh in northern India has a population of more than 190 million and the world's highest concentration of polio infection.
This is one of the final frontiers where the war against polio is being fought.
This crippling disease is now endemic in just four countries - India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
In 1985 Rotary International spearheaded the campaign to eradicate polio and pledged to make sure all the world's children would be immunised against the disease.
This has meant cases have been cut by a staggering 99% since then.
But there is still 1% to go and so a huge army of volunteers have been mobilised to help and take part in the final push to rid the world of Polio.
I joined 86 British Rotarians on a trip to India to see Rotary's Thanks for Life/End Polio Now campaign in action as more than 65 million children in two northern Indian states under the age of five were to be targeted for immunisation against polio in just two days. .....read more about Konnie Huq visit to India and videos
(from BBC website)
An UPDATED report of the 2009 District Conference is here.
TALL SHIPS 2010 in Hartlepool - Rotary District 1030 will be there!
Aids-free Birthright for Children - ABC
Lead by Rotary Clubs in 1030 the project prevents the spread of HIV/AIDS from Mother to Child.
The first and only Rotary project in the world which delivers this humanitarian service to underprivileged countries.
Supporting Clubs from 1030:
Middlesbrough, Stokesley, Hartlepool, Darlington, Newton Aycliffe, Bishop Auckland, Barnard Castle, Newcastle-Gosforth, Teesside West, Guisborough-Great Ayton.
The Project needs your support to maintain this very worthwhile project.
http://www.aidsbirthrightforchildren.org/
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Polio needs to be eradicated.
Thanks to the creation of both live and injectable polio vaccines in the 1950s and '60s, polio was all but eliminated in the developed world. It was reduced to undetectable levels, but surveillance and screening continued in order to be sure that it wasn't reintroduced.In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) forged the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to eradicate polio as a global imperative. The goal was to remove it permanently so that surveillance, screening, and control measures, such as vaccines, would no longer be needed.
Since then, the number of cases has dropped dramatically, but the disease still exists in a handful of countries.
Although worldwide efforts to distribute a vaccine reduced polio by 99 percent, young people are still being infected.
Between 2003 and 2006, the polio virus spread from Nigeria and India to previously polio-free areas, again threatening children unprotected by the vaccine. We need new approaches to overcome the political, cultural, geographical, and financial obstacles that prevent this disease from being eradicated.
Polio eradication strategies have been effective in most areas of the globe.
Eradication requires commitment, political will, and coordinated efforts of all global, national, and local partners, as well as the governments of all affected countries. Current eradication efforts are focused in the four remaining countries where polio is endemic—Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan—but the strategy to monitor the disease and provide access to immunization is global.
We're working to eradicate polio.
We believe this goal is attainable, and reaching it will demonstrate that remarkable improvements in health can be achieved even in the most challenging settings in the world.
View the YouTube Video. To find out more visit - http://www.rotary.org/endpolio
District 1030: IT Officer & Webmasters:
Ian Hodgson, of the RC of Barnard Castle
Eric Colling, of the RC of Durham.
WebSite: http://www.rotary1030.org
Events around the district in the next 30 days:
09/02/2010 Stockton-on-TeesQuiz v Darlington RC B Team
Pot & Glass Eggglescliffe. Pie & Peas supper 6.30pm
10/02/2010
"Thanks For Life" Concert
A "Broadway Melodies" concert by the Ravenswood Singers at the Gala Theatre, Durham
20/02/2010
Purple Pinky Charity Evening
To mark the beginning of Rotary Week 2010, raising funds to "End Polio Now".
01/03/2010 Seaburn
Club Dinner
Our annual club dinner will be held at the Sea Hotel, South Shields, with the usual 3 course meal. The guest speaker will be Rodney Learmouth "Rod the Rock"
