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Growing Local Economies

29/11/2017

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Nearly 800 million people live on less than $1.90 a day. Rotary members are passionate about providing sustainable solutions to poverty.

Our members and our foundation work to strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.

We provide training and access to well-paying jobs and financial management institutions.

HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
We create opportunities to help individuals and communities thrive financially and socially.

​OUR IMPACT ON LOCAL ECONOMIES
Rotary members train people to become resources for their community, offering networking activities, advice on new business development, and mathematics and financial management training.

Rotarians make amazing things happen, like:
  • Breaking the cycle of poverty for women: Most of the women living in rural Guatemala do not have the collateral to get loans from regulated financial institutions. The Rotary Club of Guatemala de la Ermita helped 400 local women complete financial literacy courses so they could pool their money and fund their own microlending program.
  • Skills development, business training: In Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Rotary members helped grant more than 250 microloans and train more than 270 community members in sewing, baking, plumbing, microcredit, business management, and leadership. 
  • Sustainable farming: In west Cameroon, soil erosion and loss of soil fertility have significantly reduced farmers’ harvests. Rotary members gave farmers the skills they needed to improve soil fertility, control soil erosion, and market their produce. The results: increased crop yields and profits.
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Supporting Eduction

27/11/2017

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More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population. 

​Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
We take action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages. 

OUR IMPACT ON EDUCATION
The Rotary Foundation supports education through scholarships, donations, and service projects around the world. 

Rotary members make amazing things happen, like:
  • Opening schools: In Afghanistan, Rotary members opened a girls’ school to break the cycle of poverty and social imbalance.
  • Teaching adults to read: Rotary members in the United States partnered with ProLiteracy Detroit to recruit and train tutors after a study showed that more than half of the local adult population was functionally illiterate.
  • New teaching methods: The SOUNS program in South Africa, Puerto Rico and the United States teaches educators how to improve literacy by teaching children to recognize letters by sounds instead of names.
  • Making schools healthy: Rotarians are providing clean, fresh water to every public school in Lebanon so students can be healthier and get a better education.
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We're celebrating 5 years!

23/11/2017

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It’s been an amazing 12 months at Maidenhead Bridge Rotary Club with numerous charity challenges, reindeer and health checks being just some of the many activities the club has been involved with.
 
Today (23rd November) the club celebrates their fifth birthday, and there’s lots to celebrate as the group of young professionals and volunteers have somehow managed to fit in 198 events over the last 12 months ranging from hands-on volunteering such as supporting FoodShare, to socials including walks in the countryside and plenty of pub visits, to fundraising for local and international charities, to networking!
 
In addition, the club also welcomed six new members to their fold, Debbie Ingledew, Mesude Ipek, Catherine Young, Matthew Loughman, Nas Parkes and Karen Faul, taking their total membership to 45!
 
Club President Michael Atherton commented “we’ve certainly lived up to what we set out to achieve 5 years ago having donated over 7,526 volunteer hours in that time and an incredible 1,145 hours so far this year.  We have supported a wide variety of charities close to members hearts…and we’ve all had so much fun doing it.”
 
The club organises several key events each year including the Easter Family Fun Day in Grenfell Park which now attracts over 800 local families each year, as well as the annual Health Awareness Day in the New Year which gives advice to Maidonians about blood pressure, healthy hearts, diabetes etc with the support of professional organisations. 
 
The biggest event organised by the club in the last year was their 24 Challenges event, which saw members take on 24 different challenges including swimming, Zumba, trampolining, mental challenges and Tai Chi over a 24-hour period, all in aid of The Rotary Foundation and End Polio Now.  This single event raised over £2,800 and brought members closer together at the same time.
 
Michael continued “the members of our club are an amazing group of people; they have inspired me and motivated me.  I could not have asked for a better group of friends and I am very much enjoying leading the group this Rotary year.”
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Saving Mothers and Children

20/11/2017

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Rotary makes high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger.

We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.

HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
Rotary provides education, immunisations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.

OUR IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
The Rotary Foundation reaches mothers and children in need by giving communities the help and training they need to take control of their own maternal and infant health care.

Rotary makes amazing things happen, like:
  • Mobile prenatal clinicsHaiti has the highest maternal and infant mortality rate of any country in the western hemisphere. Rotary provided a fully equipped medical Jeep to volunteers and midwives to reach mothers and children in remote areas.
  • Cancer screeningRotarians provided a mobile cancer screening unit and awareness trainings around Chennai, India, where there is a high mortality rate of women with breast and cervical cancer due to late diagnosis.
  • Preventing injuries and deathsRotary members launched a $3 million, five-year pilot to save lives of mothers and childrenduring home deliveries in Nigeria. Since 2005, they’ve also repaired 1,500 obstetric fistulas — 500 more than their initial goal — restoring dignity and hope to vulnerable mothers.
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Providing Clean Water

16/11/2017

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Clean water and sanitation is a human right. When people, especially children, have access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, they lead healthier and more successful lives.

We don’t just build wells and walk away. Rotary members integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene into education projects. When children learn about disease transmission and practice good hygiene, they miss less school. And they can take those lessons home to their families, expanding our impact.

HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
Rotary has issued a global challenge to its members, asking them to work collectively to improve education quality and access — particularly for girls — by working with communities to improve teacher training, curriculum, and water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities.

​THE POWER OF CLEAN WATER
The Rotary Foundation is changing the world by providing grants for projects and activities around the globe and in your own backyard:
  • Strengthen the ability of communities to develop, fund, and maintain sustainable water and sanitation systems.
  • Provide equitable community access to safe water, improved sanitation, and hygiene.
  • Support programs that enhance communities’ awareness of the benefits of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.
  • Support career-minded professionals’ studies related to water and sanitation.
  • Create tools and resources that facilitate, measure, and enhance high-quality water and sanitation projects worldwide.

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Peace Fellows

13/11/2017

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Each year, Rotary selects up to 100 professionals from around the world to receive fellowships to study at one of our peace centers.

Through academic training, practice, and global networking opportunities, the Rotary Peace Centers program develops leaders who become catalysts for peace and conflict prevention and resolution. These fellowships cover tuition and fees, room and board, round-trip transportation, and all internship and field-study expenses.

In just over a decade, the Rotary Peace Centers have trained more than 1,000 fellows for careers in peacebuilding. Many of them are serving as leaders at international organizations or have started their own foundations.

Check out the Rotary Peace Map to see where our alumni are creating positive change.

Our fellowshipsEach year, the Rotary Foundation awards up to 50 fellowships for master’s degrees and 50 for certificate studies at premier universities around the world.
  • Master’s degree programs: Last 15 to 24 months and require a practical internship of two to three months during the academic break.
  • Professional development certificate program: For experienced professionals and lasts three months with two to three weeks of field study.

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Can your business help the Community?

11/11/2017

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Maidenhead Bridge Rotary Club is pleased to launch a new Rotary Business Partner scheme to enable members of the local business community to help the club meet the many needs that exist locally and to give member businesses publicity.
 
Most people are aware of the worldwide organisation of Rotary and its remarkable success in service to the community and fundraising for good causes, but few realise what Maidenhead Bridge Rotary Club does for the local and international community.
 
The Rotary Business Partners Scheme has been instigated to develop closer contacts with, and support from local businesses and really is a fantastic opportunity to make our town a better place to live and work.
 
Lisa Hunter, Rotary member and lead for this project, explained “Members of our Rotary Business Partners Scheme assist us by helping to cover the costs of our fundraising events and publicity, allowing us to maximise funds raised.  Working together can bring great benefits to both partners, providing volunteer opportunities for member businesses and a collaboration of ideas.”
 
The scheme formally helps Business Partners and their staff to meet their personal and corporate social responsibility aims and objectives.  For a nominal annual contribution of £150, which is tax deductible, Maidenhead Bridge Rotary Club welcomes you and your business as a Rotary Business Partner and will provide:
 
  • Logo and link to Business Partner from Rotary Club of Maidenhead Bridge’s website.
  • An invitation to a Rotary Club of Maidenhead Bridge meeting.
  • A credit in press releases where appropriate.
  • Featured on our Facebook Page and Twitter account for a month.
  • An advert in our club newsletter
  • An approved strapline in your advertising i.e. “supporting Maidenhead Bridge Rotary” and the use of the business partner’s logo.
  • An opportunity to help with an event which may be close to your heart
  • The opportunity to promote a local cause which requires charity support.
  • A certificate to show that the business supports the community through the Rotary Club of Maidenhead Bridge and Rotary Partners Scheme.
 
Want to Join?
If you would like more information about becoming a Rotary Business Partner, please visit our website at www.maidenheadbridgerotary.org.uk/businesspartners, call Lisa on 07876 341334 or email
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Fighting Disease

9/11/2017

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Our health is everything. Yet 400 million people in the world can’t afford or don’t have access to basic health care. We believe good health care is everyone’s right.

​Disease results in misery, pain, and poverty for millions of people worldwide. That’s why treating and preventing disease is so important to us. We lead efforts both large and small. We set up temporary clinics, blood donation centers, and training facilities in underserved communities struggling with outbreaks and health care access. We design and build infrastructure that allows doctors, patients, and governments to work together.

Our members combat diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and polio. Prevention is important, which is why we also focus on health education and bringing people routine hearing, vision, and dental care.

HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
Disease does not prevent itself. We educate and equip communities to stop the spread of life-threatening diseases. Rotary members have hundreds of health projects underway around the world at any given time. 

OUR IMPACT ON DISEASE
The Rotary Foundation is changing the world by providing grants for projects and activities around the globe and in your own backyard.  Rotary makes amazing things happen, like:
  • Providing clean water: Rotary has worked with partners to provide more than 80 percent of Ghana’s people with clean water to fight Guinea worm disease.
  • Reducing HIV infection: In Liberia, Rotary members are helping women get tested for HIV early in their pregnancies. They used prenatal care to reduce new HIV infections in children by 95 percent over two years.
  • Ending polio: Rotary members have played a key role in bringing the world to the brink of polio eradication. Their efforts have not only ended polio in 122 countries but also created a system for tackling myriad other health priorities, such as Ebola.

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