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February 2018
Comment from The Chair
Greetings Fellow Rotarians,
We begin 2018 with a busy year for the Rotary
Foundation.
Humanitarian Projects:
• District Grants starting to be paid out in
full as projects are completed and
reported to David Dean, Grants Chair.
Some of these will be featured at the
District Conference at Leura
• Global Grants – 10 in draft, one awaiting
three authorisations from India, and five
submitted. Four approved in this
Rotary Year and 4 from previous years
closed (i.e. completed projects) DDF
available is now down to $45,000 after
$15000 of committed grants are paid.
This enables us to proceed with one
global grant scholarship for 2018. One
completed global grant is featured
below and I hope you enjoy reading the
report.
Scholarships:
1. We have now opened this year’s global
grant scholarship for applications and
have three interested parties already.
Applications close end March 2018.
Details on the D9685 website.
2. Peace Fellowship applications are open
too and applications close for these at
the end of May 2018. Application
details available on the RI website
3. Team members are encouraged to seek
applications from appropriately
qualified young people in their own
clubs and in their zone clubs.
Paul Harris Society Dinner
On Monday 5th March we will host a Paul Harris
Society dinner at which the Guest speaker will
be Past RI President John Germ who will be
here for our district conference. Rotarians who
become PHS members now or have become
members in the last few months will be
recognised by PRIP John at the dinner.
David Rands
D9685 Rotary Foundation Chair
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Polio Update
Finished 2017 with 21 new
cases of wild poliovirus
reported – 37 in 2016 and 74 in 2015. A long
and difficult process but heading in the right
direction. Financial support still critical as
immunisation must be continued now and for
three years after the last case is recorded. The
task is huge as immunisation levels are starting
to drop below the considered minimum safe
level of 91% in some countries where polio
ceased to be endemic many years ago. We
cannot afford to be complacent.
Poliovirus Weekly Update
31-Jan-2018, World Health Organization
Please scroll to the end for a summary of officially reported cases.
New wild poliovirus cases reported this week: 0
Total number of wild poliovirus cases in 2018: 1
Total number of wild poliovirus cases in 2017: 22
New cVDPV cases reported this week: 0
Total number of cVDPV cases in 2018: 0
Total number of cVDPV cases in 2017: 91
Headlines
New on www.polioeradication.org: As part of the GPEI’s plan to capture and
share lessons learnt since its inception, the programme has released
detailed best practice guides or active surveillance for polio eradication,
monitoring the quality of polio eradication campaign performance, and
microplanning.
Last week, member states and partners met to discuss polio transition and
keeping the world polio-free after eradication at the WHO Executive Board
Meeting.
Chris Maher, a long-time polio eradicator and a central part of the polio
programme, has been recognised in the Australia Day honours list named as
an Officer of the Order of Australia. His recognition comes for his
distinguished service to community and international public health through
technical, operational and management roles in the global eradication of
poliomyelitis.
Summary of newly-reported viruses this week:
Afghanistan: Advance notification has been received of two new cases of
wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Kandahar province. These will be
confirmed in next week’s data reporting.
Five new WPV1 positive environmental samples have been reported from
Hilmand and Kandahar provinces. Pakistan: Three new WPV1 positive
environmental samples have been reported, from Sindh and Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
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Scholar Contact details
Of our recent 5 global grant scholars, we now
have 3 back in Australia having completed their
studies. Alison and Michaela are based in
Canberra, but are in Sydney from time to time
and if it can be arranged would be delighted to
talk to your club. William is travelling a bit but
based in Sydney and so is more available. He
addressed Rotarians at Turramurra on the 6th
February and spoke of his studies in Milan and
his aspirations in the future.
Marshall and Caroline are still away on their
studies but will be pleased to hear from D9685
Rotarians.
Peace Fellows Sharon Edington and Patricia
Garcia are both in Sydney and have already
given wonderful talks to several clubs.
Their contact details are as follows:
Global Grant Scholars
William Chan Master of Science in Architecture
Studied at Polytecnico Di Milano
Area of Focus - Water and Sanitation
william.chan@sydney.eu.au 0491 024 008
Michaela Dolk Master of Water Science, Policy and Management
Studied at University of Oxford, School of Geography and Environment
Area of Focus - Water and Sanitation
Employment - CSIRO, Canberra
michaela.dolk@gmail.com 0466 080 671
Alison French Master of Public Policy
Studied at University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government
Area of Focus - Education
Employment - Federal Government, Canberra
ali.c.french@gmail.com 0450 092 587
Marshall Dunn Studying for a Master of Psychology in Education
Studying Columbia University Teachers’ College
Area of Focus - Peace and Conflict Resolution
marshall@marshalldunn.com 0411 721.843
Caroline English Studying for a Master of Public Policy
Studying London School of Economics
Area of Focus - Economic and Community Development
caroline.r.english@gmail.com 0423 713 953
Peace Fellows
Patricia Garcia patriciadianagarcia@@gmail.com 0409 890 777
Sharon Edington sharonedington84@gmail.com 0450 408 140
Sharon was a Rotary Peace Fellow at the
University of Bradford from 2013-2014. Since
then, she has been working in her ‘dream job’ at
Act for Peace in Sydney, coordinating
humanitarian aid and development programs in
Africa, the Middle East, and also in Australia
related to refugee resettlement. During her time
as a Peace Fellow, she volunteered as a
caseworker with the British Red Cross refugee
drop-in service, designed an ongoing design with
Syrian refugees in Lebanon over Christmas
2013/14 and interned with the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo
supporting resettlement of Syrian and Somali
refugees as well as policy change for stateless
Roma. She also co-authored a forthcoming book
chapter on Roma statelessness and refugee
resettlement, got her first peer-reviewed journal
article published, and joined Shelterbox as a
short-term response team member.
Studied at the University of Bradford
Currently working at Act for Peace in Sydney
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Update on the Bo Hospital in Sierra Leone
In 2015 Rotary Turramurra applied for a Global Grant to build a The project was completed in 2017 . .
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BO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CONTINUES TO GROW…..
The Hospital has treated over 21,000 children since it opened in June 2012
The Bo Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone
West Africa is now into its 6th year of
operations. Since its inception in June 2012,
the hospital has treated over 21,000 children
with only a few mortalities. This much needed
hospital has changed the lives of many people
in the community - as well as saving children’s
lives, it has educated many parents in better
ways of nutrition and hygiene, preventing
many unnecessary deaths. The hospital runs a
vaccination program twice a week for children
under the age of 5.
The Ebola outbreak was a devastating blow to
Sierra Leone and we had to close the hospital
for 3 weeks at one stage so the virus did not
contaminate the hospital. Thanks to our many
wonderful donors and a Grant from Rotary, we
have the much-needed Isolation Ward for the
containment of infectious diseases. The virus
also caused an economic disaster impacting on
businesses, food production and stifling
economic growth, it will take a long time for
the country to recover.
The Bo Children’s Hospital is operated by
qualified staff from the local community who
take full responsibility and ownership of
running the hospital. The hospital relies on our
ongoing support to help with running costs,
capital equipment and the expansion of its
services. It is because of our wonderful donors
that we have been able to make a lifesaving
difference to the children of Sierra Leone, West
Africa.
New Isolation Ward Hospital Superintendent Vandi Sombie with
child patients and mothers
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District 9685 Giving July – December 2017
To date in December our district has
contributed US$ 193,000 in total vs $188,000
to December last year. This increase comes
mainly from generous giving by clubs and
individuals to the Annual Fund which is up
from $110K to $138K over the comparable 6
months. This is very healthy as this figure
determines our DDF available for grants in
three years time. Polio giving is also up as little
on last year at this time.
As mentioned above we still need to keep
emphasis on this vital task. Endowment
income was higher last year by $15K but we
cannot control that, nor the giving associated
with funds input into global grant projects
which shows below under ‘other’. So overall
our clubs and our individuals continue to
recognise the vital part of the Rotary
Foundation to our Rotary mission in the world,
which is great!
Warmest thanks for the continued generosity
of our clubs and Rotarians in supporting this
vital work of Rotary.
AnnualFund Polio Endowment Other TotalContribu ons$192,928
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Paul Harris Society / Major Donor Dinner
A reminder to PHS members to register for the dinner with PRIP John Germ. The evening will be held at the Pennant Hills Golf Club,Copeland Road Beecroft
Monday March 5, 2018 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost $50 per headRSVP before 20/2/18 to David Rands
dbrands@bigpond.com
0408 255 015
THE 2017/18 TEAM
Scholarships PDG Pam Pritchard (pam.1@bigpond.net.au )
Polio PDG Bob Aitken AM, Bruce Nicholls
(bob@bobaitkenmedia.com.au)
(bruce@webcodes.com.au)
Grants Chair David Dean (djhdean@gmail.com)
Foundation Alumni Lindsay May, OAM (lindsaymay6000@gmail.com) _
Annual Giving PDG David Rands (dbrands@bigpond.com)
PHS / Major Donors David Cook (drcook@ozemail.com.au)
Centurions Gavin Ralston (gadr@bigpond.net.au)
Endowment Fund PDG Monica Saville (savillem@bigpond.net.au)
Audit/Review Comm. Chair Tony Durbin (antonden@bigpond.net.au)
ZONE CO_ORDINATORS
Beaches Peter Kindred (peter.kindred@bigpond.com)
Blue Mountains PDG Jennifer Scott (jennifer@scottadr.com)
Central Coast David Rivett (david.rivett@bigpond.com)
City North Neil Howie (neilhowie@bigpond.com)
Hawkesbury Bob Kaye-Smith (KayeSmithR@syntechtron.com)
Lower Central Coast Ross Pearse (ross@pearsespharmacy.com)
Nepean PDG David Cook (drcook@ozemail.com.au)
North Shore PDG Pam Pritchard (pam.1@bigpond.net.au)
Northwestern Haran Ramachandran (haran01@bigpond.com)
Riverside PDG Monica Saville (savillem@bigpond.net.au)
The Hills PDG Barry Philps (bphilps@bigpond.net.au)
Upper Central Coast Liz North (liz@advs.com.au)
Upper North Shore PDG John Cameron (dg2009@optusnet.com.au)