A big month for the Lake Orion Sunrise Rotary Club was made a little bigger last week because of a major announcement at the world-level.
Over the next two weeks the club will welcome speakers Donne Marie and Terry Youlton.
Marie will present ‘Public Speaking with Confidence? at this week’s meeting (Thursday morning at 7:15 at CJ’s Village Caf?).
She offers a transformational approach for men and women speaking in front of groups, one that goes beyond the nuts-and-bolts taught in most training courses.
Next Thursday, Youlton will present ‘The Rotary Foundation and an India Trip Experience.?
Youlton is active in his hometown Rotary in Ridgetown, Canada and will provide insight into just how important the Rotary Foundation is based on his half dozen trips to India.
On top of that, last week, Rotary International announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will eventually add $200 million into the global campaign to eradicate polio, a crippling and sometimes fatal disease that still paralyzes children in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East and threatens children everywhere.
The Rotary Foundation has received a $100-million Gates Foundation grant, which the organization will raise funds to match, dollar-for-dollar, over three years.
The organization will spend the initial $100 million within one year in direct support of immunization activities carried out by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a partnership spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF.
‘The extraordinary dedication of Rotary members has played a critical role in bringing polio to the brink of eradication,? said Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ‘Eradicating polio will be one of the most significant public health accomplishments in history, and we are committed to helping reach that goal.?