ROTARY PRESIDENT TO VISIT EASTHAMPSTEAD ROTARY CLUB |
Date Monday October 12th
Time 8.00pm Location: John Nike Leisure Centre, Bracknell David Fowler, President of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland, will be visiting Thames Valley Rotary Clubs from 12th -14th October. On October 12th he will visit the Rotary Club of Easthampstead, a Club servicing Ascot, Bracknell, Crowthorne and Wokingham.. He will be accompanied by the Thames Valley Rotary District Governor Terry Kenyon. David Fowler is visiting clubs all over Great Britain and Ireland during his year of office and plans to plant trees to commemorate his visits as a means of improving the environment and enhancing local communities. He will plant one tree in the Thames Valley at Wallingford and will also visit the Rotary Avenue of Limes at Hughendon Manor which were planted by Rotary to commemorate HM The Queen’s Silver Jubilee. Terry Kenyon said “ I am delighted to welcome David to the Thames Valley to show him at first hand the variety of Rotary projects undertaken by local clubs. David will address the Easthampstead Club and outline this year’s priorities. The number one goal is the $200 Million Challenge for Polio Eradication. Rotary Clubs all over the world are trying to raise $200 million to match the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to Rotary announced in January this year.” PolioPlus, the most ambitious programme in Rotary's history, is the volunteer arm of the global partnership, The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, dedicated to eradicating polio. For more than 20 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease. Today, PolioPlus and its role in the initiative is recognized worldwide as a model of public-private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal. Today there are only four remaining polio endemic countries – Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan and less than 1,000 cases per annum – a 99.4% reduction. Rotary in the Thames Valley comprises about 2000 men and women in 60 clubs spanning the Counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and part Middlesex. More information |
