Ocean Grove Voice
Ocean Grove Rotary is moving forward in its bid to raise awareness, funds, and support to end polio. World Polio Day, on 24 October, is dedicated to eradicating polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today. Rotarians have long worked to end the paralysing
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In February 2025, a polio vaccination campaign took place in Pakistan, where over 400,000 frontline health workers visited homes to vaccinate 45.4 million children under 5. This film follows the campaign in Muree, a mountainous area, and Mithi, a vast desert, showcasing the time and effort it takes to be
Martin Cohn
By Martin Cohn, Rotary Club of Springfield, Vermont, USA — Last year, I read about a project conducted by the Capital City Sunrise Rotary Club in New Hampshire, USA. The club collected plastic film and received a recycled bench. Since I enjoy learning about successful club projects and figuring out
Suhana Rahman Shukonna
By Suhana Rahman Shukonna, past president of the Interact Club of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and coordinator of Project Talk Hope — My journey in Rotary began when I became the charter president of the Interact Club of Dhaka. I was introduced to the power of service at a young age, leading projects
Jason Browne
By Jason Browne — In September 2024, I found myself in an unexpected situation: I was “held hostage” by an entity whimsically named Mr. Privilege. He forced me into a disaster simulator where my water was scarce, my light extinguished, and my shelter stripped away. It wasn’t a physical abduction
Tom Gump
Much has been written about RI President Stephanie Urchick’s initiative of using the Rotary Action Plan to grow Rotary. Recently, I witnessed her living another of her major initiatives – “Healing in a Divided World,” which focuses on Rotary’s peace efforts. Interesting trivia about our president – by the end of her term,
Melissa Klaric, The Herald
The giant blue bins around Mercer are part of a charity drive, “Crutches for Africa,” sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mercer (Pennsylvania, US – RID 7280). The drive is part of an ongoing Rotary International programme that takes donated crutches, walkers and prosthetic limbs, cleans them and sends
Hannah Swayze, Orange Observer
As its fiscal year comes to a close, the Rotary Club of Winter Garden (Flordia, US – RID 6980) has been handing out some big cheques. In July, the local Rotary club donated $45,500 to local community organisations in an effort to support its neighbours. In the last fiscal year
Nono Shen, Richmond News
Thirteen years ago, Magdalen Leung made a promise to a little orphan boy living in a village in South Africa. Leung, foundation chair of the Rotary Club of Richmond Sunset (Vancouver, Canada – RID 5040) and a long-term Richmond resident, had been working in the village as a volunteer, helping
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The Dennison Rotary Club (Ohio, US – RID 6650) is moving across the street from the Dennison Depot and into a more than 100-year-old building. Rotarian Bob Michels says the service club recently paid $65,000 to purchase the former Dreamsville Ice Cream shop at 431 Center Street from the Dennison
Corey Levitan, La Jolla Light
Torrey Pines Rotary Club (San Diego, US – RID 5340) celebrated both its 55th anniversary, and its president, Henri Migala, with a Saturday-night dinner, June 30 at La Jolla’s Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery. Migala, most recently director of the UC San Diego International House, has a profound history of
