During World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, join us in advocating for polio eradication and the importance of vaccines.
As one of the greatest advances of modern medicine, vaccines are safe, effective, and save millions of lives each year. Our progress in the fight to end polio is proof that vaccines work.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative estimates that the polio vaccine has saved more than 20 million children around the world from paralysis. However, approximately 12.5 million children are totally unvaccinated. They are known as zero-dose children, and vaccinating them is critical to stopping polio for good.
We need to continue vaccinating the world’s children against polio, because polio anywhere is a threat everywhere.
Here’s how you can support Rotary’s efforts during World Immunization Week:
Use the World Immunization Week Toolkit for graphics and sample posts to share on social media with the hashtags #EndPolio and #VaccinesWork.
Donate to PolioPlus to help Rotary and our partners deliver polio vaccines to vulnerable children. Or start an online fundraiser to help us end polio using Raise for Rotary and share it with your network. Contributions will be matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rotary districts can give District Designated Funds (DDF)to PolioPlus to help meet our goal of raising US$50 million each year to eradicate polio.
Join us during World Immunization Week and remind the world that together, we end polio.
World Immunization Week messages are sent to a broad range of polio eradication advocates, including: • The RI Board of Directors and directors-elect • The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees and incoming trustees • Past RI presidents • District governors, assistant governors, and governors-elect • Rotary and Rotaract club presidents • Regional leaders (RRFCs, RCs, RPICs, E/MGAs, and End Polio Now coordinators) • District Rotary Foundation chairs • The Communications Committee • End Polio Now newsletter subscribers • PolioPlus committees (the International PolioPlus Committee, End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee, Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Forces, PolioPlus national advocacy advisers, national PolioPlus chairs, district PolioPlus subcommittee chairs)
The photo above is part of the family that received the home we built.
The sign above reads:
The Rotary club of Antigua Guatemala delivers the Cayetana Echeverría nursery school to the children of Antigua for their benefit and as a permanent desire for their improvement.
February 1987
It was nice to see evidence of the "home grown" Rotary club as well as evidence of involvement from other Rotary clubs from the U.S.
This is a photo of some of the teens I traveled with; several "Interacts" from the high school and a "Rotaract" who is in college.
There is an active volcano near to where we stayed; an eruption in 2018 killed more than 100 people.
The photo of me on the hillside was taken on visits with the social worker. It shows some of the housing and how bags of dirt are used to create steps.
A few construction photos. We also spent time organizing donations to the library and much more time organizing clothing donations by gender and size so they were more readily available to staff members.
Capping a 30 year career in global event marketing & strategic planning (VP Production - GMR Marketing) & music instrument retail (multiple stores) combined with a 50 year run as a guitarist with 4 WAMIs and a Hall of Fame award, Jason now leads the WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) Board as President. The organization’s new website speaks clearly to the direction WAMI has taken. https://wami.org/. In addition, Jason is a Partner with Independent Studios (MKE premier post-production house) and Nariadyme Studios (recording studio) and a guitarist with the Elephonic, Semi-Twang, Bill Camplin, Plumb Loco, Sawyer Road & Post Turtles bands.
Jesse was born & Raised in Boise, Idaho and moved to MKE to attend MSOE. He started the CORE Consulting - Engineering Services Firm specializing in Recruitment, Product Design & Rapid Prototyping located in downtown Thiensville. He started the Thiensville Farmers Market in 2012, "the cheel" in 2014, "the baaree" in 2017 and the "Daily Taco & Cantina" in 2020. He is also a Board Member of WAMI & the Thiensville Business Association; Founder/Director/Volunteer – Thiensville Village Market and Founder/Director/Volunteer – Best Dam Blues Festival. Above all, he is a Proud Father & Husband!
Congratulations to our most recent student of the month, Alexa Bremmer. We honored Alexa at our Tuesday meeting and she was accompanied by her parents, Patrick and Debbie Bremmer of Mequon.
Volunteering has been an important part of Alexa’s high school career. She donates her time to Gigi’s Playhouse (a down syndrome achievement center), tutors and helps with the Turkey Trot and Christmas tree lot. Alexa has also spent the last 2 years volunteering weekly at the Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Mequon, prepping patients for various procedures. She has also had the opportunity to shadow physicians in the operating room, which has further sparked her interest and passion to one day become a surgeon.
Alexa will be studying bio-medical engineering this fall at either the University of Wisconsin-Madison or Georgia Tech. Alexa, we thank you for your service above self!
Alexa is pictured above with her parents:
Patrick, Alexa (Student of the Month) and Debbie Bremmer
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