enero 2017

Since the website launched at the end of August, more than 27,000 people created an account on My Rotary. We have been working to correct several issues you may have encountered while using the new website. If you still have problems, please send us an email. And as always, thank you for your patience and support.
Member access denied
To access the tools and applications previously available through the Member Access Portal (MAP), you’ll be asked to sign in again if it has been four hours since you last signed in. If after signing in a second time, you still receive an «Access Denied» error…

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How will you make room for the next generation of young professionals and volunteers in your clubs? We asked Rotaractors and young Rotarians to weigh in on how it should work and what it will take to turn today’s young leaders into tomorrow’s Rotary members.
Here’s an excerpt from the roundtable discussion.
What should older Rotary members understand about young people?
Alyssa Gapske, 22, Rotaract Club of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA: A major difference is the way we connect. The greatest advantage of social media is that it allows us not only to share meeting and project details but also to…

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The most effective and least expensive way to reduce disease and save lives is easier than you think. Simply washing your hands with soap and water can do more to prevent diarrhea, death by malnutrition, and dehydration than any single vaccine or medical intervention, according to scientific studies.
On 15 October, Global Handwashing Day, millions of people in more than 100 countries will take part in activities promoting this practice. Rotary brings its own expertise and diverse perspectives to such efforts by providing access to clean water and sanitation.
Rotary members in Argentina and…

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It’s been more than two years since the last polio case was reported in Côte d’lvoire. Time enough for people to become complacent about immunizations. But that would be a mistake – a potentially deadly mistake.
“The public sometimes doesn’t understand why, after so many rounds of polio immunization, they are still being asked to bring their children to the immunization post,” says Marie-Irène Richmond-Ahoua, chair of Rotary’s National PolioPlus Committee in Côte d’lvoire.
As a long-time advocate for polio eradication, Richmond-Ahoua knows you can’t let up against this tenacious and crippling…

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Hunger touches every community, nation, and region of the world. It is a problem without a simple solution. At Rotary, we are committed to using the vast resources of our diverse membership and our partnership with organizations like the Global FoodBanking Network to seek fresh insights and pursue innovative answers. In the following letter for the official World Food Day website, Rotary’s General Secretary John Hewko explains why Rotary is so motivated to help:
Hunger. Famine. Starvation. Malnutrition. Indeed, as World Food Day (16 October) reminds us, there is no easy way to describe the…

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It’s been nearly 75 years, but Renata Laxova remembers with heartbreaking clarity the night her mother put her on the kindertransport train to England with 100 other children.
«My mother said, ‘We love you and we want you to be happy and go to school and play,’ » says Laxova, who was just eight years old at the time. «She said ‘You know’ — and I did — ‘everything that is going on.’ »
That «everything» was the advance of Hitler’s armies. They would invade Laxova’s homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1939. Laxova was one of nearly 700 children — most of them Jewish — who fled Prague between 13…

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Register online to take part in Rotary-UN Day on 2 November. The daylong event offers a unique opportunity to learn how Rotary works with the United Nations to advance peace and improve the lives of those most in need.
This year’s event at UN Headquarters in New York City will feature presentations from senior UN staff and Rotary leaders as well as panel discussions on health, water, literacy, and youth.
Speakers will include Peter Kyle, Rotary’srepresentative to the World Bank; Jan Eliasson, UN deputy secretary-general; and Andrei Abramov, chief of the nongovernmental organizations branch of…

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RI President Ron Burton officially declared K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran Rotary International’s president-nominee on 1 October. There were no challenging candidates.
The Nominating Committee for President of RI in 2015-16 selected Ravindran, a member of the Rotary Club of Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka, in August. He will be formally elected at the 2014 RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, and will become president on 1 July 2015.
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Rotary’s new visual identity has everyone talking. Some Rotarians like it and are already using it, as you can see in the examples above. Others aren’t so sure. Even RI President Ron Burton admits to being skeptical during the early stages of the Strengthening Rotary initiative. But after asking many tough questions, he’s become a believer.
“At the end of the day, we’re going to be way ahead on our public image and what people think and know about Rotary,” says Burton.
As you begin incorporating the new guidelines into your communications, keep the following in mind:
Clubs do not need to…

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Emmy Award-winning actor Archie Panjabi is a celebrity ambassador in Rotary’s This Close public awareness campaign to end polio, and this year she visited New Delhi to immunize children with the oral polio vaccine. Panjabi, who co-stars on the U.S. television series «The Good Wife» and has acted in films including «Bend It Like Beckham,» «A Mighty Heart,» and «The Constant Gardener,» shared her story with Rotary members during the 2013 RI Convention in Lisbon, Portugal. That’s where we caught up with her.
The Rotarian: How do you choose the causes you support?
Archie Panjabi: It has to…

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