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A new all Ireland cookery competition, which aims to enhance young people’s culinary skills while using a ‘buddy system’ to bring down barriers associated with disabilities, has been launched by Rotary Ireland and the Culinary Ability Awards (CAA).
moreRotaryGB&I has partnered with Treekly to develop a Rotary challenge league where individual members can compete in their clubs, clubs can compete in their Districts and Districts can compete against Districts!
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As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues there are a number of Rotary-specific ways in which we can donate to help.
The Palestine Aid Fund is hosted by Rotary District 2452, which includes Armenia, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates. The fund will provide humanitarian assistance to communities and families in Gaza, West Bank, and other countries in that District. Contributions will help bring desperately needed food, medicine, clothing, and shelter.
Click here to Donate to the Palestine Aid Fund
Our Rotary partner Shelterbox is active inside Gaza, delivering tents and emergency shelter supplies. To date, Clubs in Distrcit 1160 have donated over £20,000/€23,500 which has been matched by a generous donor. A further £10,000/€11,250 is available for match funding of donations.
Click here for an update and to Donate to Shelterbox
Gaza has seen it's first case of polio in 25 years. All of Gaza's wastewater treatment plants and 70 per cent of its sewage pumps have been destroyed, according to Oxfam, meaning many streets in Gaza are flooded with water contaminated with untreated sewage, making it a prime environment for diseases to spread.
To avert a widespread polio outbreak, aid groups are preparing to vaccinate more than 600,000 children in the coming weeks, as soon as a ceasefire is implemented.
Click here to Donate to End Polio Now
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We have 67 great Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 1160; encompassing the whole Island of Ireland, stretching from Mizenhead in the south to Malinhead in the north. We are 1,400 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.
"Rotarians are ordinary people who go that extra mile to help other people and in the process widen their circle of friends and enhance their social life"
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 and also in a small community project, where you just plant a tree. ... 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. learn more here & contact us
On 25th August the WHO declared the Africa Region Polio Free.
By raising funds for polio eradication, advocating with world governments and national and local leaders, holding events and fundraisers for World Polio Day, and raising awareness, Rotarians in the African region and around the world have made an indelible impact in the fight to eradicate polio.
The eradication of polio has been the number one project for Rotary over the past 30 years.
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.
Pakistan has resumed the polio drive after a four-month pause due to coronavirus outbreak.
On 19 September 2019, a polio outbreak was declared in the Philippines after a 3-year-old child and several environmental samples tested positive for polioviruses. Fifteen other children have been paralyzed by polio since the outbreak started. As we approach World Polio Day this year, we are celebrating the heroes who have been working tirelessly to combat polio in the Philippines.
• In Afghanistan - 1 WPV1 cases this week and 2 cVDPV2 positive environmental samples reported.
• In Pakistan - 2 WPV1 case were reported this week and 0 cVDPV2 cases were reported.
The fight continues ....