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Rotary International Theme 2022-2023
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THE
ROWEL
Rotary Club of
Durham |
Rotary International President:
Jennifer E. Jones Rotary District
5160 Governor:
Suzanne BragdonDurham Rotary President: Eric Hoiland
_____________ Editor: Phil Price Publisher: Jen Liu |
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March 7, 2023
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will be held on September 17,
2023 |
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| 2023 Calendar for Durham Rotary | |||||||
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M a r c h |
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7 Meeting Social Gathering at Mulberry Station |
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14 No Meeting |
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25 Dist. 5160 Assembly at Simpson College Redding |
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28 No Meeting |
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A p r i l |
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4 Meeting TBA (Mike Crump) |
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11 No Meeting |
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25 No Meeting |
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The
Meeting Opening
This meeting was at Mulberry
Station. It was more a social than a meeting. Particularly because we were seated at two
tables next to the string band that was playing, which made hearing
difficult. |
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FUTURE
MEETINGS: Meetings will
be at the location noted, at 6:00 pm. |
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March 21st: At BCCC.
District Governor will visit.
Board Meeting at 5:00 pm. April 4th: Mike Crump will present the program at the
BCCC April 18th. Steve Plume will present Heather Lowe,
Durham HS alumni teaching in Chico at the BCCC. May 2nd: John Bohannon will present a program at the
BCCC. May 16th: Daryle Polk will
present a program at the BCCC |
The band was String
Culture. See below.
When the band took a break,
the meeting was called to order by President Eric. We had one visitor, Forest Melton from the
Chico Sunrise Club. He was introduced by
Mike Crump. He was here to talk about
the Sunrise Club’s Saint Patrick’s Day Gala.
See announcements below.
Announcements
Chico Sunrise Club
The Chico Sunrise
Club will be having a dinner and auction on March 18th. They are calling it the St. Patrick Day
Gala. It will be at the Silver Dollar
Fairgrounds. Doors open at 5:30 pm. It will include Dinner, Local Craft Beer,
Wine and Dancing. And, a fabulous
auction.
District Grant
Jen and Steve
attended a District conference on District Grants. We need to determine what we need a grant for
this year. Suggestions include signage
at Durham High School and purchasing a Life Scan for the Durham Community.
Member’s Wife Needs Blood
Larry
Bradley reported that Dave Jessen’s wife has been diagnosed with leukemia. She is in need of blood donations. If you can donate, please do so.
Vitalant
Blood Donation is at 555 Rio Lindo Ave, Chico, CA 95926. Phone (877) 258-4825
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on
March 21st at the Butte Creek Country Club. The District Governor will be visiting us.
There will be a Board
Meeting before, at 5:00 pm.
Membership
Bring guests who you think you can
interest in becoming a member. Think of
business owners or managers to bring. Your
dinner and your guest’s dinner will be paid for by the Club. Also, bring a guest to one of our occasional
social gatherings in the Durham Park or a Pizza place (Monday Night Football).
Go to the following Rotary International web site
for information on membership development:
https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/learn-topic/membership
. From this website
there is access to membership development and other related information
The
Rotary Foundation Donations
You
can make a difference in this world by helping people in need. Your gift can do
some great things, from supplying filters that clean people’s drinking water to
empowering local entrepreneurs to grow through business development training.
The
Rotary Foundation will use your gift to fund the life-changing work of Rotary
members who provide sustainable solutions to their communities’ most pressing
needs. But we need help from people like you who will take action and give the
gift of Rotary to make these projects possible.
When
every Rotarian gives every year, no challenge is too great for us to make a
difference. The minimum gift to The Rotary Foundation is $25.00. An
annual $100.00 gift is a sustaining member. Once your donations
accumulate to $1,000 you become a Paul Harris Fellow.
It
is possible to learn more about The Rotary Foundation on the Rotary web
site.
Your
gift can be made online or by sending Jessica Thorpe a check made out to The
Rotary Foundation to Durham Rotary, P.O. Box 383, Durham,
California 95958.
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From the District Governor
March
D5160’s Learning and Leadership Development Assembly - NORTH ID=77595776 (4)
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D5160’s
Learning and Leadership Development Assembly - NORTH
Attendance is free and the schedule will run from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Interactors and Rotaractors are welcome, too.
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| Location: |
Simpson College 2211 College View Drive Redding, CA 96003 |
| Date/Time: | Saturday Mar-25-2023 from 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM |
Mark your calendar: Spring Assembly North is March 25, 8:30-2, at Simpson College in Redding. Spring Assembly South is April 15, 9-2, site TBA
RI Convention: Join DG Suzanne in
Melbourne, May 27-31.
From Rotary International
Pakistan’s female
vaccinators are doing more than helping end a disease
Khaula
Jamil and Sana Ullah
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.
Meet five of the women working to end polio in Pakistan
Tayyaba Gul: Rotary Club of Islamabad (Metropolitan)
Tayyaba Gul joined Rotary in
2000 and has worked in public health for over two decades. She represents
Rotary at Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre, working with
partners and the national government to help address gaps. She also runs a
Rotary-supported polio resource center in Nowshera. “I work with Pashtun
communities and have faced a lot of hurdles,” she says. “I feel like after
spending such a long period of time here, they respect me a lot, and they
listen to me. I feel proud that in such a community, my voice — a woman’s voice
— is being heard.”
Tayyaba
Gul (right) of the Rotary Club of Islamabad (Metropolitan), and Parveen Ajmal,
another health worker, cross the Kabul River in Nowshera to reach embankment
communities.
Azra Fazal Pechuho: Minister of Health
and Population Welfare, Sindh province
There are about 1,500 vaccinators in Karachi, the capital of
Sindh province. Many are women who did not leave their houses previously.
Because they start earning money, “their voice within the household increases,
their decision-making powers increase,” Azra Fazal Pechuho
says. “Gender equity comes in because of the fact we have employed female
workers.” But polio can’t be eradicated without these women and their ability
to enter houses where men are not allowed. “They’ve been a great asset,” she
says. “They are a tremendous force, and I think their work is to be
acknowledged.”
Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho meets with RI
President Jennifer Jones at the Emergency Operation Centre in Karachi in
August.
Effat Naz: Polio supervisor, Torkham border crossing
Vaccination teams approach people at the busiest border crossing
between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It’s crucial to catch mobile populations to
stop the spread of poliovirus. As a supervisor, Effat Naz is responsible for
planning cold chain logistics to preserve vaccines and working with families
who refuse vaccination. “Women workers find it difficult to work here,” she
says. “Yet we do it because we love our country, Pakistan. We have joined the
frontline force to save our country from this virus.”
Effat Naz (right) and health workers prepare to provide polio
vaccinations.
Soofia Yunus:
Former director general of the Federal Directorate of Immunization
Soofia Yunus is the
first woman to have led Pakistan’s national immunization program since it began
in 1976. “In every strategy we make and in every activity that we conduct, we
ensure that females are a part of it,” she says. To help with security, the
program is recruiting couples such as husbands and wives or brothers and
sisters to be vaccinators together.
Dr. Soofia Yunus
speaks at a conference at the National Emergency Operations Centre in Islamabad
in August.
Mehr: Vaccinator and water plant manager
Mehr, who gave only one name, has worked as a vaccinator since
2012. “I am working to support my children so they can get educated,” she says.
“This is what I spend my salary on. I also want to help my community.” She
notes that the work has become more data-driven, and vaccinators visit homes
more frequently. “People used to push us out of their homes and curse us, but
now that we go regularly, our presence is normalized,” she says. “The awareness
level has increased that we are doing this to help them and their children.”
Mehr (left) meets with community health workers. “I want this
disease to end,” she says.
This story will also appear
in the April 2023 issue of Rotary magazine.