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No. 1033 Sun 25-Dec-2011
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As a yearend holiday gift, United Airlines in America is offering a donation of 10 million miles to 45 of its charity partners. Your vote will help increase Rotary's percentage of the miles. Rotary has partnered with United over the years through "Rotary Miles" to provide free airfare for hundreds of children and adults in need of lifesaving surgery and other worthy causes. The miles will help Rotary provide airfare to even more families. You can vote once a day through 31 December. – An appeal by RI
Please click on the above link to vote for Rotary. Rotary is still at no 3 position with 9.5%
ROTARY PARTNERS WITH
WORLD'S LARGEST POSTGRADUATE WATER EDUCATION INSTITUTION
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UNESCO-IHE
The world's largest postgraduate water education facility, has since 1957 provided master of science degrees and promoted PhDs to more than 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries.
Rotary clubs will be helping train engineers and scientists to solve problems in water and sanitation, particularly in developing countries, through a new strategic partnership between The Rotary Foundation and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education.
Through the partnership, the Foundation will offer packaged grants that Rotary clubs may use to select and sponsor scholarships for professionals in the water sector. Up to eight students a year may be chosen for any of three master of science programs at the institute in Delft, the Netherlands.
Both the institute and Rotary share a vision of making water and sanitation more accessible and more sustainable for all people, particularly the poor. The partnership directly supports Rotary's water and sanitation area of focus.
"This strategic partnership with UNESCO-IHE enables Rotary to work with a globally recognized leader in the training of water professionals at a time when such experts are desperately needed in many parts of the world," said Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair William B. Boyd. "By identifying high-quality, high-potential candidates for these scholarships, Rotary clubs will play an important role in addressing a serious global problem.”
"Eighty percent of diseases in the developing world are caused by the lack of water and appropriate sanitation," said UNESCO-IHE rector András Szöllösi-Nagy. "The cooperation with Rotary is an important milestone in the large-scale, global capacity building required to tackle this crisis.”
Sustainability
By focusing on postgraduate degree programs, The Rotary Foundation is making a long-term investment in water and sanitation, helping equip students with the research, managerial, and technical skills they will need to solve domestic problems by thinking globally. Working with the institute is a particularly good investment for the Foundation: most of the institute's students are from developing and emerging countries where the need is the greatest, and 87 percent of the program's graduates are still active in the field a decade later.
Rotary Foundation packaged global grants support large, international projects with sustainable, high-impact outcomes in Rotary’s areas of focus. Because the initial work of finding a strategic partner and designing the general framework of the project has already been done, Rotarians can focus their talents and energies on the implementation.
One hundred Rotary districts are participating in the Future Vision pilot, a three-year test of the Foundation's streamlined grant structure, which began 1 July 2010. All districts will begin using the model on 1 July 2013.
The Foundation has previously approved strategic partnerships with Mercy Ships, Aga Khan University, and Oikocredit International. Pilot clubs and districts interested in packaged global grants with UNESCO-IHE can find more information, which will be posted online soon.
http://tinyurl.com/7rrnoxs
TRF - STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES
approved four strategic partnerships in 2011 under the Future Vision Plan. These partnerships will help Rotary broaden its impact in the areas of focus by offering service opportunities for Rotarians through packaged global grants.
Rotary clubs will be teaming up with UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education to train scientists and engineers to solve problems related to water and sanitation, particularly in developing countries. Grants will support scholarships for master's degree programs at the institute's campus in Delft, the Netherlands.
Through the partnership with AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY, vocational training teams will enhance the clinical and administrative skills of health educators at the university's campuses in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Rotarians will work with OIKOCREDIT INTERNATIONAL to advance community and economic development through the Netherlands-based cooperative's network of microfinance institutions.
And the partnership with MERCY SHIPS will enable clubs to get involved in improving health care services in West Africa.
More: http://tinyurl.com/7pk47oh
FIFTH-GENERATION ROTARIAN INDUCTED
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LAUREN SEEGERS ERWIN'S
induction into the Rotary Club of Shades Valley, Alabama, USA, on 21 November represents more than her first day as a Rotarian; it continues her family's long legacy of Rotary service.
Lauren, 26, is the fifth generation of the Seegers family to join Rotary. Her father, Douglas Seegers, and grandfather, Sidney A. Seegers, both members of the Rotary Club of Monroe, Louisiana, traveled to Birmingham to surprise Lauren at her induction ceremony.
"I was so happy to see them. It meant a lot to me to have their support and presence there," says Lauren, who was an Interactor and participated in Rotary Youth Leadership Awards events. "I know they're going to be behind me as I begin my own life as a Rotarian."
Douglas says Lauren has embraced Rotary's ideals of service since she was a young child.
"Seeing her mature as a young woman and become a fifth-generation Rotarian is one of the most exciting experiences I've had in Rotary," Douglas says. "As a Rotarian, it is my privilege to invite like-minded individuals to serve as I do. And to have my daughter want to follow in her family's footsteps is one of the highest honors that her grandfather and I could have asked for."
A Rotary family
Douglas joined the Monroe club in 1991, the year his father was club president. "In fact, he was the one who sponsored me," Douglas says.
Sidney, who joined in 1958 at age 29, says his own father, for whom he was named, was also a Rotarian, but that it was his grandfather, Wardwell C. Flanders, a member of clubs in New Orleans and Columbia, Mississippi, who was the primary Rotarian role model.
"He was the ultimate gentleman and very concerned about others," recalls Sidney, who served as governor of District 6190 in 1995-96 and has received the RI Service Above Self Award. "In general, our family has always embraced the concept of community and international service. In my case, I developed a very strong interest in helping others."
New Generations
Lauren would like to focus her Rotary work on New Generations initiatives. "Being one of the youngest members of my club, I want to set an example by actively promoting Rotary and community service to our youth," she says.
Douglas adds: "I know that people all over the world will benefit greatly from Lauren's service. I find it appropriate that, as a fifth-generation Rotarian, she has embraced Rotary's fifth Avenue of Service. She truly is part of a new generation of Rotarians.”
By Ryan Hyland and Wayne Hearn
Rotary International News – 22 December 2011
More: http://tinyurl.com/7rrnoxs
Regards
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Dr Dipak R Sarbadhikari Past President
RC Calcutta, RID 3291, Kolkata, India
P.S. My son Suman (President RC Renaissance RID 3291)
is now a fourth generation Rotarian of the family.
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