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Women In Rotary Webinar Rotary provides women the opportunity to do extraordinary things. Working together with like-minded women and men, they expand and build on existing strengths with the benefits of diversity to improve the lives of individuals and communities. Please join us as we hear from two extraordinary women who exemplify service above self. |
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Global Grant ScholarshipROTARY DISTRICT 6330 GLOBAL GRANT SCHOLARSHIP The primary consideration of the Global Grant Scholarship Grant is to forge a link between Rotary and future skilled professionals within one of seven areas of focus. The successful candidate will receive a Global Grant Scholarship, valued at $30 000 USD to fund one year graduate-level study at a university outside of Canada and the United States in 2023-24, leading to a career in one of Rotary’s seven areas of focus. Deadlines to receive 2023-24 Global Grant Scholarship applications:
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We're back! RYE YEO & YEC Training - August 2022 On August 10, YEOs (Youth Exchange Officers), YECs (Youth Exchange Counselors), Youth Exchange Committee members, and Youth Services Committee members from across D6330 gathered on Zoom for the first YEO & YEC Training session on the 2022-2023 Rotary year. There was lots of excitement as we talked about welcoming our first Inbound students to the District in 3 years! |
Only a Plane Ride Away Rotary leaders frequently say in their speeches that "Polio is only a plane ride away". We recently got proof that this omen could become a reality when in July, 2022 the US Center For Disease Control announced the confirmation of a polio case in the United States.An unvaccinated young adult in Rockland County, New York was verified with having polio, probably contracted from a family member or friend visiting from another country who may have had no symptoms and was totally unaware of possible infection. |
What Does cVDPV Mean?As we celebrate the near elimination of the polio virus throughout the world, the reports reflect another, often overlooked, number called the cVDPV which stands for “circulating Vaccine‐Derived Polio Virus”. In 2021, the year that only 4 new Type 1 cases were identified, 637 new cVDPV cases were found. So what are these cases and why are they not considered to be included when the World Health Organization certifies a country to be polio free? To understand this class of polio cases, we have to look at how polio immunization mechanism works. The original Salk vaccine, which is injected, uses killed virus cells to train the child’s immune system to recognize and destroy future polio virus cells. The Sabin oral vaccine, in contrast, uses live polio virus cells to achieve the same result through a much different mechanism. Once the drops are given to the child they grow and multiply in the gut for about 6 weeks (or longer if the child is malnourished) until the immune system learns how to overcome the invaders and proceeds to kill them. During this learning period, the child in effect becomes a walking polio factory and can spread polio via fecal eliminations. In areas where workers can immunize a large percentage of the kids, this is not a problem. Siblings and other kids coming in contact each other are also vaccinated and can ward off the virus. In areas where immunizations are spotty and some kids are getting their drops while others are not that the unwanted spread happens and cVDPV cases proliferate.
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In recent years Rotary has created a set of membership categories aimed at helping our clubs grow and, at the same time, meet the needs of the individual Rotarians we wish to attract.
Our district proudly joins The Rotary Foundation and fellow districts across the world to announce the new Polio Plus Society and invite all of our members to join. This simple act of generosity by our fellow Rotarians around the world will bring the life saving polio immunization to countless children until the day that the world has been rid of the virus. We are truly 