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In the next 30 days...
Friday 29th October 2021 - Thursday 30th June 2022
RC Chestfield Our President has completed her challenge to swim the Channel (almost) to raise funds for her Charities this year.
moreThursday 27th January 2022 - Saturday 30th July 2022
RC Chestfield New President Aaron installed at Kent College Interact Club
moreThursday 3rd February 2022 - Friday 1st July 2022
RC Chestfield If you are looking after someone at home and need help or advice contact Carers UK at any time - they are there for you.
Wednesday 9th March 2022 - Saturday 31st December 2022
RC Chestfield Rotary Worldwide is supporting the people of Ukraine through various means and if you would like to help then please donate.
moreWednesday 16th March 2022 - Thursday 30th June 2022
RC Chestfield Inter Club and District co-operation to provide disability aids to those in need.
moreSaturday 30th April 2022 - Sunday 30th April 2023
RC Chestfield If you have any suitable items please let us know and bring along on our collection day, or we can collect from Whitstable, Chestfield, Herne Bay areas.
moreSunday 22nd May 2022
RC Rye & Winchelsea Short Walk of around 9 miles in around the Rye and Playden area.
moreWednesday 25th May 2022
RC Sittingbourne Invicta Teams of 4 for a Stapleford competition, evening dinner at Faversham Golf Club
Thursday 26th May 2022 - Sunday 29th May 2022
RC Minster On Sea This year Minster on Sea RC are hosting the four other clubs.
Wednesday 1st June 2022
RC Sheppey, The Isle of The Isle of Sheppey Jubilee Disabled Social Sheerness East Working Mans Club Halfway Sheerness
Thursday 2nd June 2022 - Friday 3rd June 2022
RC Heathfield & Waldron This year we are supporting Prostrate Cancer
moreFriday 3rd June 2022
RC Minster On Sea Being held at the Abbey Hotel
Saturday 4th June 2022
RC Minster On Sea Supported by Minster on Sea RC
Sunday 5th June 2022
RC Medway Sunlight Our popular, colourful and enjoyable Charity Dragon Boat Challenge is back on Sunday 5th June 2022! Entry forms and full details are now out - join us for a great fun day. Email dragonboat@medwaysunlightrotary.org.uk for details!
moreFriday 10th June 2022
RC Isle of Thanet Sunrise Another quiz night from the club raising money for local charities.
We have 72 great Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 1120; stretching from South East London, along the Kent and Sussex coasts and also including Gibraltar. We are 1,900 men and women; all having fun whilst serving our communities and making a difference worldwide.
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.
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 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.
My father is sick, and my mother asked me to bring my brother here at the mosque to be vaccinated. I know the way to the mosque, and I had no problem getting here,” says seven-year-old Amidah in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Read more.
Revised containment guidance (GAPIII) soon available for public consultation: On recommendation from the Containment Advisory Group (CAG), and through wide engagement of stakeholders, WHO’s Global Action Plan for Poliovirus Containment (GAPIII, 2015) has been revised. Following a period of critical review by the CAG, the document draft will be made available for public consultation 29 March – 1 May 2022. Revisions to the guidance have been made based on CAG recommendations, review of relevant biorisk management documents to determine alignment, scientific evidence and solicited stakeholder comments on various sections. WHO encourages feedback from containment stakeholders. Please check the GPEI website for information. For queries, please email: containment@who.int.
Updates as of 23rd March 2022
Summary of new WPV and cVDPV this week (AFP cases and ES positives):
– Côte d’Ivoire: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample
– Niger: two cVDPV2 cases
– Nigeria: two cVDPV2 cases
– Yemen: three cVDPV2 cases
Afghanistan
No new WPV1 or cVDPV2 viruses were reported this week. There is one WPV1 case reported in 2022 and four in 2021. The total number of cVDPV2 cases remains 43.
Pakistan
No new WPV1 or cVDPV2 viruses were reported this week. The total number of WPV1 cases in 2021 remains one. The total number of cVDPV2 cases remains eight.
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.