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A monthly review of the environmental issues with Ideas how we can all play our part
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In the next 30 days...
Dover For The Delighted
Monday 23rd September 2024 - Monday 23rd December 2024
RC South Foreland Details of the Christmas Celebration at Dover's St Mary in Castro on Sunday 22nd December at 3.00pm. Organised by the Rotary Club of South Foreland.
moreTree of Light 2024
Friday 15th November 2024 - Friday 27th December 2024
RC Hastings Remembrance ‘Tree of Light’ Christmas Fundraising Appeal. It is now up and the lights switched on. The tree is now in place opposite the old Debenhams store and donations can be given in memory of departed loved ones.
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Christmas is coming!
Thursday 21st November 2024 - Saturday 14th December 2024
RC Margate SANTA is busy preparing the sleigh for the annual street and supermarket visits.
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A Successful Shuffleboard Evening
Monday 25th November 2024 - Friday 31st January 2025
RC South Foreland A Shuffleboard Evening proved to be an enjoyable event and raised money for Rotary's End Polio Now Campaign as well as for local charities.
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Santa Sleigh around Canterbury
Monday 2nd December 2024 - Friday 13th December 2024
RC Canterbury, Forest of Blean Street collection (money and food) around Canterbury with Santa's Sleigh - organised by RC Canterbury Sunrise
SANTA IS COMING
Monday 2nd December 2024 - Friday 20th December 2024
RC Sidcup Christmas is just around the corner. Santa will be visiting Sidcup on several evenings before Christmas. Go to the Christmas page for more details.
moreRotary South East (UK) & Gibraltar
68 Clubs Making A Difference
We have 68 great Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 1120; stretching from South East London, along the Kent and Sussex coasts and also including Gibraltar. We are 1,650 men and women; all having fun whilst serving our communities and making a difference worldwide.
What We Do
We like to meet people, socialise and have fun together whilst doing good in the world.
We apply our leadership and expertise to solve social issues. We raise funds and manage projects both locally in our own communities and also overseas to promote peace, alleviate poverty, support education, fight disease, provide clean water and address poor sanitation.
Since the mid eighties Rotary, together with the World Health Organisation and other partners, has also been at the forefront of the battle to eradicate polio from the world.
Looking for a new opportunity?
Rotary is not just a club that you join. It is an invitation to endless opportunities. Rotary opens opportunities for you to serve in a project as big and historic as End Polio Now or in a small community project where you plant a tree to help the environment. Everything we do opens another opportunity for someone, somewhere.
If you think Rotary could be for you we would love to hear from you soon. Just email membership@rotarysoutheast.org.
Supporting The Environment
Supporting the Environment has become Rotary's 7th Area of Focus.
More than $18 million in Foundation global grant funding has been allocated to environment-related projects over the past five years. Creating a distinct area of focus to support the environment will give Rotary members even more ways to bring about positive change in the world and increase our impact.
Polio Latest
Updated 28th May 2024
Our flagship project of Polio eradication continues with only two Polio endemic countries Pakistan and Afghanistan. The head line figurers year to date are:
Afghanistan 3 new cases in 2024 (6 cases in 2023)
Pakistan 2 new case in 2024 (6 cases in 2023)
Wild poliovirus is still circulating in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last year, the variant poliovirus was detected in a few previously polio-free countries — a stark reminder that if polio exists anywhere, it’s a threat everywhere.
The concern with natural disasters and ongoing conflicts in many parts of the world is that immunisation rates are dropping. Cases of Vaccine Derived Polio are quickly jumped on with targeted vaccinations but the only answer is total eradication and we are so close. The development of novel vaccines using the technology developed in COVID now stops the transmission of Vaccine derived cases. Please support End Polio Now Five Key Facts On Polio:
1. Polio mainly affects children under age 5.
2. There is no cure, but polio is preventable with a vaccine.
3. Only two countries continue to show new cases of wild polio virus
4. We’ve reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988.
5. Until we end polio forever, every child is at risk.
