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New York club honors heroes in 9/11 anniversary remembrance
The Rotary Club of New York will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a remembrance ceremony on 12 September, honoring the victims as well as the first responders who heroically spent days afterward looking for survivors.
The tribute luncheon at 11:30 a.m. at the Harvard Club will feature speeches by a New York firefighter, individuals who lost loved ones, and a representative of New York Downtown Hospital, which received a new ambulance funded by club contributions in the aftermath of the attacks.
It also will include readings of condolence and support letters from Rotarians worldwide, a screening of two tribute videos, and a harp and piano rendition of “Amazing Grace.”
In the video below, members of the Rotary Club of New York recall how the club took action after the attacks on the World Trade Center ten years ago.
How “America’s Host Club” Responded to 9-11 from Rotary International on Vimeo.
How “America’s Host Club” Responded to 9-11 from Rotary International on Vimeo.
September is Rotary’s New Generations Month
Every year, thousands of talented and dedicated young people, ages 12-30, have an incredible experience in a New Generations program.
As Rotaractors and Interactors, they serve in communities at home and abroad. Through Rotary Youth Exchange, they explore new cultures. And as Rotary Youth Leadership Awards participants, they learn skills that will help them succeed as future community leaders.
New Generations is Rotary’s fifth Avenue of Service.
Turn New Generations into the Next Generation of Rotarians from Rotary International on Vimeo.
Air Swimmers
Just love thnis good idea for a fund raising party.
Breathtaking
Watch this right to the end, there are some good messages there, sent to us via ROTI or Rotarians On The Internet member John Challender. ENJOY!
More Than a Goal. End Polio | Featuring FC Barcelona | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Shelter Box Needed in Kenya
Peter Pearce of Shelter Box Australia has just returned from Kenya and the Northern Borders where the infamous Dadaa camp is located. Some of you met Peter at the D9700 conference in Bathurst and they are looking for more ShelterBoxes to help provide much needed shelter for these famine ravaged Somalis. (click on the logo below)
Thursday 11 August 2011
ShelterBox tents providing shelter for families in need in Kenya
ShelterBox Response Team members Ben Spurway and Joe Cannon in Kenya
Thousands of Somali families fleeing famine and drought are receiving ShelterBox tents at a refugee camp in Kenya.
ShelterBox is working in partnership with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and IOM (International Organization for Migration) to provide shelter for up to 20,000 Somali refugees at the camp in Dadaab.
Tens of thousands of refugees are still waiting to be registered and relocated from transition shelters outside of the camps, which mostly consist of sticks covered by clothes, blankets, tarpaulins and any other materials the families can lay their hands on. ShelterBox Response Team member, Julia Schaper (DE), said: ‘The situation is desperate for thousands of families living in very bad conditions. Driving through the transit areas it became immediately obvious that there is a huge need and we now want to get our tents up and families moved into them as quickly as possible.’