KIAMA LIONS CLUB
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We had a very busy couple of days at the Kiama Show including a visit from WIN TV who filmed the BBQ. The weather was hot but our Lions Burgers proved a real hit. Next time the Kiama Show has camel races we will enter a team (although it might be that our grandchildren do the riding). This week’s Dinner Meeting will be at the Leagues Club and will feature the police dog squad. We will also be inducting two new members.
At the end of the month we will have one of our special Happy Hours at the Surf Club. This is always a great time for the new members to bring their partners to meet and mingle with everyone. On Sunday, February 17, we will be attending the Cupids Undie Run and doing a BBQ for the Children’s Tumour Foundation. Local Lions Clubs will be holding a Youth Camp at Berry on April 26-28. It will be open to boys and girls aged 13-17 and will cost nothing - all meals are provided. Call Lorna Gordon on 0402 760 213.
KIAMA ROTARY CLUB
Rotary is an international community that brings together leaders who step up to take on the world’s toughest challenges, locally and globally. End Polio Now, a project to eradicate polio, is one of Rotary’s longest standing and most significant efforts. Along with partners, Rotary has helped immunise more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. Polio cases have reduced by 99.9 percent worldwide and Rotary won't stop until we end the disease for good. Every dollar Rotary commits to end polio will be tripled thanks to a matching agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rotary is organised into a number of districts each with a District Governor. The current Governor for the district that includes Kiama is Sue Hayward. Sue is passionate about the End Polio Now project. Sue, along with 79 other Rotarians, recently participated in a Polio Immunisation weekend in Agra. She shared her experience as part of a delegation to India.
“It’s hard to put into words the feeling you get as you drop those lifesaving drops into the mouth of a small child and even more so a baby, only a few weeks old,” Sue said. “Polio is still very evident in India and that makes our work there all the more real and significant.”
India is such a land of contrasts from extreme wealth, to abject poverty. From modern technology, to sections of the cities where, if you took away the cars and motorbikes, you could be back in medieval times. The Rotarians were briefed on the first day and then dressed in ‘End Polio Now’ attire. They paraded through the streets of a very poor area of Agra accompanied by army cadets and lots of noise and balloons and handed leaflets out to let the parents know the immunisation drive would be the next day. Next day they were split into teams of four per booth, accompanied by a doctor or nurse and the precious cargo of temperature-controlled vaccine. Almost every booth ran out of vaccine and about 4300 children were given their life-saving drops.