ROTARY DISTRICT 9800 FUTURE VISION PILOT
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District 9800 Chosen as a Future Vision Pilot District.
Chris Don, District Foundation Director announced om 31/05/09 that District 9800 had been included as a pilot district for the Future Vision Pilot. Future Vision will test a new, streamlined Rotary Foundation Grant Structure. Chris states in his report to the District Leadership team, “Our District has been advised that we have been successful in our application to become a Future Vision District, one of only 100 worldwide. This is a wonderful result, vindicating all our long term & short term efforts to ensure selection”.
Learn more about the Future Vision Pilot Project
http://www.rotary.org/EN/MEMBER/RUNNINGADISTRICT/FUTUREVISIONPILOTPROGRAM/Pages/ridefault.aspx
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First place. Steve Baroch, Rotary Club of Castle Rock High Noon, Colorado, USA. "The writing on the wall has everything to do with what makes this photo. And each of the kids has a different emotion going on. A lot of the kids in this school are orphans, and some came from an orphanage that was burned to the ground in the postelection violence in 2008. Our club is supporting the school with books through a nonprofit called Transafrika Cultural Institutes." Giboux: "I like the composition, the way the children are in it. 'Peace wanted alive' is very dramatic, yet the picture is very peaceful."
See more finalist photos
http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/TheRotarian/Pages/photocontest09.aspx
Bill Gates Announces further $US255 Million Donation towards the Elimination of Polio
Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced at International Assembly earlier this year that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would increase their donation to the Rotary Foundation by US $255 Million. This donation is in addition to the Gates Foundation’s original US$100 Million donation. The Rotary Foundation will donate US$200 Million dollars as a challenge set by Mr. Gates.
Watch Bill Gates announce the additional support for Polio eradication
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Overview of Rotary International’s Beginnings
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Rotary was founded by Paul Harris in 1905. A lawyer in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Harris was raised in a rural village in Vermont. He envisaged a new kind of club for professionals that would rekindle the fellowship he had known in his youth. After meeting with three friends, a coal dealer, a merchant tailor and a mining engineer, it was decided that business leaders should meet periodically to enjoy camaraderie and to enlarge their circle of business and professional acquaintances. Meetings were rotated among their places of business and so the name “Rotary” emerged and so too did the commitment to improve the lives of the less fortunate.
When this first Rotary Club of Chicago donated a horse to a preacher in 1907, the Rotary commitment to service was born and Rotary became the world’s first Service Club organisation. By 1910, the International Association of Rotary Clubs was established (later renamed Rotary International).
In 1916, witnessing the growing popularity of the Clubs in various regions worldwide, Rotary set up a District system. The organisation became truly global — transcending national boundaries, race, language, and religion — as Clubs mushroomed throughout Europe, South and Central America, Australia, Africa, and Asia. Rotary was represented on six continents by 1921. To reflect this worldwide presence, the name Rotary International was adopted one year later.
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Rotary in Australia and District 9800
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In February 1921 the Board of the International Association of Rotary Clubs authorised the establishment of Rotary Clubs in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne became the first club in Australia to be chartered and Sydney soon followed. Brisbane and Adelaide were formed in 1923, Hobart a year later and Perth in 1926. Meanwhile, Rotary was being extended to provincial cities and large towns and by 1928 there were 17 Clubs in Australia.
For the purposes of administration, Rotary Clubs throughout the world are allocated into Districts. A Rotary District covers a number of clubs within a defined geographical area. Australia became District 65 in 1928. By the 75th anniversary of Rotary’s arrival in Australia, there were 23 Districts with 1178 Clubs and some 42,000 Members. District 9800 was defined in 1990.
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