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Adopt a Minefield
The Rotary Club of Cwmbran Vale with the Rotary
Club of Thorpe Bay
No More Landmines Christmas Pudding Appeal 2009
All Clubs will be aware of this RIBI approved appeal
that has been supported by clubs in District 1240 for the last three years. As
you know, the principal aims of No More Landmines are to provide support and
training for local de-mining teams and help for the victims of mines. No-one
who has heard of the widespread and gruesome nature of the minefield problem
has not shuddered to see the results of indiscriminate and un-charted
mine-laying upon innocent populations and has yearned to be able to do
something tangible to help.
We hope that Rotarian pudding-eaters and their friends
and families will buy at least one of the puddings and will then be able, while
munching away at Christmas, to reflect on the help they have thereby given to
the clearance of another 3.5sq m of a minefield. Full details are on the
attached flyer produced by No More Landmines.
 Most families buy a Christmas pudding. If
they buy the pudding from us, No More Landmines make the profit - but we are
not asking members to buy something that they wouldn't already probably buy.
Even if members don't want to buy the pudding for themselves, it is a
remarkably easy item to sell or give as a gift to friends and family.
You will be aware however that the minimum order is
normally one case of twelve puddings at £10 each - a total of £120
and we are aware that some Clubs may wish to order lesser quantities of
puddings.
The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay has therefore received
the permission of DG John Banks and the Rotary Club of Cwmbran Vale to once
again act as distributors of the Christmas puddings within District 1240 and to
accept minimum orders of just two puddings. The price will remain at £10
including shipping and all proceeds will be forwarded to the Rotary Club of
Cwmbran Vale for the No More Landmines Appeal.
Last year 23 clubs in District 1240 purchased 360
puddings and we received many compliments about the quality of the puddings -
even repeat orders! Please help us to do even better this year.
The puddings will be delivered direct to the address
as submitted on the Order Form below and Rotarians are encouraged to submit
their orders as soon as possible to ensure delivery without delay.
Download an order form from
 HERE .
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Cycling the Seine
Support for Rotary Wheelchair
Foundation
During the week ending 19th May 2007
Rosemary Sudlow and
Pam Watson-Jones will cycle
197 miles down the Seine to Paris and also walk from Pont de Chatou to The Arc
de Triomphe (7 miles) to raise funds for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Over 100 million children, teens and adults worldwide
are in need of a wheelchair but cannot afford one. Each £50.00 (70 euros)
donated to Rosemary and Pam will be combined with funds provided from Rotary
International specifically for the purpose of delivering a wheelchair to a
needy person child, teenager or adult without mobility, freedom and often hope.
The aim is to raise £14,000 for 280 wheelchairs to fill a container
destined for Africa.
The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay will cycle with the
Rotary Club of Colchester Forum as part of the worldwide Rotary International
service organisation.
For more information visit our fundraising page,
www.justgiving.com/rotaryride and
www.ribi.org.
Please dig deep and sponsor online. Donating through
the fundraising page is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most
efficient way to sponsor us.
The Rotary Club Of Thorpe Bay Charity Trust
will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in
tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you. So please sponsor now!
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Saturday 15th July 2006
Cressing Rock
On a beautiful sunny afternoon 20 Rotarians and
friends went to the Cressing Rock Open Air Rock Charity Concert at Cressing
Temple, Braintree in aid of The Teenage Cancer Trust and other rotary
charities.
The evening featured The Manfreds, The Jones Gang and
The Animals. Wonderful music, wonderful food, wonderful weather,
wonderful company and plenty of drink made for a perfect social time together,
this was the first social event of the year for President Rosemary.
A pictoral record of the evening can be found:
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2006 Foulness Bike Ride
Postponed but not Abandoned
Operational commitments at Foulness Island, which
QinetiQ operates on behalf of the MOD meant that the company could not this
year accommodate the Annual Bike Ride until September.
Unfortunately, because of the advent of the football
season, this timing precludes the use of essential external support facilities
such as Cupid's Country Club, which is used for parking, toilets, refreshments,
marshalling etc and so we have reluctantly taken the decision not to hold the
Bike Ride this year.
However, QinetiQ, the MOD and the Rotary Club of
Thorpe Bay are in total accord in wishing this important and popular fixture in
the community and fundraising calendar to take place in future, and will work
towards agreeing a date for 2007.
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Polio Reaches All-Time Low
Countries with Indigenous Polio Drops to
Four
The eradication drive against polio has entered a new
phase with global roll-out of monovalent vaccines.
The number of countries with indigenous polio has
dropped to an all-time low of four, as polio eradication efforts enter a new
phase involving the use of next-generation vaccines targeted at the two
surviving strains of virus.
In 2006, monovalent vaccines, aimed at
individual virus strains, will be the primary platform for eradication in
all remaining polio-affected areas, announced the core partners in polio
eradication – the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF – enabling the
eradication drive to hone in on poliovirus types 1 and 3.
This new phase was announced alongside the
confirmation that indigenous poliovirus has not circulated in Egypt and Niger
for over 12 months. This is the first time in three years that the number of
polio-endemic countries has fallen, leaving Nigeria, India, Pakistan and
Afghanistan as the only countries that have never stopped indigenous polio
transmission.
"Polio has been endemic in our country for all of
recorded history,"
said Egyptian Minister of Health Dr. Hatem Mostafa
El-Gabaly.
"The best tools of our age finally defeated this enemy who
has been with us from pharaonic times."
Monovalent vaccine targeted at the type-1 poliovirus
circulating in Egypt was used during vaccination campaigns there in May
2005. Unlike Egypt – where the challenge to eradication was
highly efficient polio transmission in crowded cities – Niger faced a
sparse population, some of it nomadic, scattered over a vast country with a
heavily-travelled border with Nigeria, the world's largest reservoir of
poliovirus.
Multiple immunization campaigns in Niger were painstakingly
planned to ensure children were being vaccinated even in the remotest and
border areas. In 2005, the nine polio cases reported in Niger were all the
result of importations over this border.
The success in Niger and Egypt is the result of
intense efforts in 2004-05 to halt Africa’s polio epidemic and fast-track
the introduction of monovalent polio vaccines into selected areas. The number
of cases of polio in India and Pakistan in the last quarter of 2005 also fell
by more than half compared with the previous year, due to more effective
immunization strategies and the use of monovalent vaccine.
"To fully exploit these new tools, government
commitment in Nigeria must remain high at all levels to ensure that all
children are vaccinated,”
said Jonathan Majiyagbe of Kano, Nigeria
and past President of Rotary International, which has contributed more than US$
600 million and countless volunteer hours to a polio-free world.
Ninety per
cent of polio cases in Nigeria are concentrated in just eight of the country's
37 states.
In addition to mass immunization with monovalent
vaccines in the four endemic countries, large-scale campaigns with these
vaccines will need to take place in 2006 in eight countries –
including Somalia, Indonesia and Yemen – to stop recently imported
polioviruses. Critical to the success of these campaigns is a US$ 150 million
shortfall which must be filled as rapidly as possible. The
eradication effort requires a further US$ 425 million for the 2007-2008
period.
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Rotary Ebay Initiative
Help for the RIBI International Mercy Ship
Appeal
The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay has begun an initiative
to use the highly successful and popular Ebay auction system to sell members
donated items either gratefully accepting the purchase money or claiming a
percentage for the club's International Appeal.
RIBI is looking to raise a considerable sum of money
for the Mercy Ship
(link)programme and particularly for the refurbishment of the
Africa Mercy
(link).
The Ebay pages currently being run by the Rotary Club
of Thorpe Bay on behalf of Rotary District 1240 can be found at:
HERE
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Wednesday 14th September was a very special day in the diary for
our members because Rtn. Pam Watson-Jones was recognised for her outstanding
services to Rotary by her club. 
Between April 28th and May 1st an intensive weekend was
held in the Lake District, with various activities and tasks, gaining important
life skills, learning about Rotary. Following this highly successful RYLA trip
a presentation was made by Penny Popham, Thorpe Bay Rotary's RYLA Officer.
