Brighton Rotary Service Wheel March 29 2023 (Apr 01, 2023)

Members: 11 including Honorary Rotarian Jeff B, R Chris is back from the sunny south but R Clay joined us from Mexico where he is two hours ahead of us. An early start for Clay.

Guests: Lynn Rae, Terri Lynn and Jack.

Sorry to all that we did not meet last week. A little confusion and lack of answers.

Correspondence: none reported

Notice:

Michael Koerber has applied for membership with the Classification as Engineer. Michael is a former Brighton Rotarian and also other clubs internationally. This notice will be posted for two weeks. If anyone has a concern with Michael as a Rotarian, you are to advise the Club Secretary within 10 days.

DG Iosif’s weekly report:

Please do not forget to fill out the Survey Bob sent out, it takes less than 4 minutes. Thank you!

This past Wednesday, Interactors from RCI together with Rotarians from Toronto West and Etobicoke with KAH packed meal packs for local communities. Each meal pack contains a full day’s nutrition for six people. The food ingredients include rice, fortified vegetable protein, dehydrated vegetables and a special blend of 21 vitamins & minerals.

These food packs are shipped to reliable feeding partners who provide our meals to Canadians and to people of developing and needy countries around the world.

Upcoming Happenings in our District!

Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup

Our 3rd Annual Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup Event (GLWC) is quickly approaching! Please mark your calendar for Saturday April 22 (Earth Day). More information to come from your District Environmental Action Committee. Thank you - Dan Coombes - Chair GLWC (dancoombes4@gmail.com)

Rotary Clubs in District 7070 -TAKE NOTE!!

The 2023 Rotary Youth Leadership Symposium (RYLS) is taking place, May 11-14, 2023 at the Ganaraska Forest Centre! The 3-night experience is geared toward youth between the ages of 17-23 and will offer an inspiring program including: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Reconciliation and Land Based Education, Hands-on Activities, Group Dynamics, Public Speaking, Outdoor Survival and GPS Geocache adventures along with campfires, friendship and tons of fun and learning!!! All this for only $375 per participant which covers all programs, accommodation, and meals. Rotary Clubs are encouraged to find and sponsor eligible participants within their community, as well as members of the Rotaract and Interact Clubs that they host. There are only 30 spots available! Applications and further information for RYLS 2023 can now be found at this link: https://rotary7070.org/stories/rotary-youth-leadership-symposium-(ryls)-is-may-11-14-2023-apply-today Due date for submission is March 31st , 2023. #rotary7070

Welcome Back!

Cheers,

DG Iosif

Final thought:

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you do not need it. Bob Hope.

Toronto St. Patrick's Day Parade. There 4 Rotary vehicles that took part in the parade.

DG Iosif

Final thought:

A good cook needs storage, a bad cook needs a dog. – IKEA in-store sign

Smile:

Three Little Pigs went out to dinner one night.The waiter came and took their drink order."I would like a Sprite," said the first little piggy."I would like a Coke," said the second little piggy."I want beer, lots and lots of beer," said the third little piggy.The drinks were brought out and the waiter took their orders for dinner."I want a nice big steak," said the first piggy."I want the salad plate," said the second piggy."I want beer, lots and lots of beer," said the third little piggy.The meals were brought out and a while later, the waiter approached thetable and asked if the piggies would like any dessert."I want a banana split," said the first piggy."I want a root beer float," said the second piggy."I want beer, lots and lots of beer," exclaimed the third little piggy."Pardon me for asking," said the waiter to the third little piggy, "but whyhave you only ordered beer all evening?"The third piggy says -"Well, somebody has to go 'Wee, wee, wee, all the way home!"

Announcements:

R Clay gave update regarding Elizabeth. Elizabeth is working with AURA to complete forms. St. Paul's setting up account for Elisabeth.
Outbound youth exchange student Nika will be going to Poland on exchange, her first choice. Next get together for students April 22.
Next board meeting will be held at R Steve S's home on Tuesday April 25th at 6:30pm
We are looking for speakers for May
Next bottle drive April 15. Sign up sheet circulated
No Frills raffle before May long weekend. .Tickets sales start April 21. Duty roster circulated.
Rotarian's have to update 'Smart Serve' certification by July 1.
Kiwanis Fishing Derby. No word from Kiwanis?
R Chris has Diners and Duffers books
Watershed Clean up April 22 T-shirts available
Spelling Bee - Brighton Public School participating. April 12th at 10:30 am. Opportunities for Rotarians to be judges here and in Belleville.
Loyalist College Spring Awards mixer March 30th at noon.
ENSS graduation June 28th at 1pm.
Signs to promote Campbellford Memorial Hospital to be put up.

Song: Danny Boy

Sharing Pot: $20 won by R Chris who donated it to Elizabeth campaign.

Happy Bucks: Presentation, playing in hockey tournament in Millbrook today, appreciate presentation, fun at Rotary, a good day, great board meeting, Empire theatre tonight, good to be back (not sure that was truth?), presentation most informative, BBQ in fall,

Rotary Minute:

Pakistan’s female vaccinators are doing more than helping end a disease

Women make up two-thirds of Pakistan’s polio workforce. It’s a startling statistic for a nation that ranks 145th out of 146 countries for gender parity in economic participation and opportunity, according to a World Economic Forum gender inequality index.

The role of female vaccinators is born of necessity. Because of cultural norms, men are not allowed into many people’s homes in Pakistan. Women who provide the health care are the key link. They can build mom-to-mom relationships and provide trusted advice on not only polio but other health issues.

“Women working with women on the front line is going to be what gets us across the finish line,” says Rotary President Jennifer Jones, who met last year with polio workers in Pakistan. The country and Afghanistan are the only two where wild poliovirus is still transmitted persistently.

Female health workers can enter homes where male health workers would not be allowed.

The female vaccinators’ work is neither safe nor easy. The women in Pakistan are sworn at, shoved, beaten, and some even killed. They’re fighting misinformation. But their work is crucial — and not just for the cause of polio eradication.

“They are supporting their education, they’re supporting their household, they’re supporting their men and giving a change in Pakistan,” says Sadia Shakeel, coordinator for a Rotary-supported polio resource center in Karachi. “This is bigger than polio.”

Shakeel calls them “little entrepreneurs.” Most of the women range in age from 21-38 and have their own children, she says. Yet they wake to say prayers before dawn, feed their children breakfast, and leave to start their work to end a disease.

Employing women is one key strategy of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. And that’s not just to deliver the vaccines at the front line; it’s also to hire women as supervisors, doctors, and decision-makers. “We cannot succeed without the women we have in the program at all levels,” says Hamid Jafari, a pediatric infectious disease doctor and director of polio eradication for the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean region.