Author: Rebecca A Mendoza Twenty-three years and £1.2 million later, local Rotary and ShelterBox continue to rebuild lives after devastation On 8 September 2023, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit just south-west of Marrakesh, Morocco, causing violent tremors throughout the region. Just two days later, a storm in north-eastern Libya brought strong winds and severe rainfall. […]
Occupational therapist Rtn. Alicia Ridout of Aireborough Rotary (District 1040) is working on her Ph.D. dissertation looking at how occupational therapists can work with older people to use smart (AI) technology safely. The aim is to create new occupational therapy practice tools and to improve conversations about AI safety. She is conducting a survey and […]
"Please convey to all at your end our most sincere thanks and appreciation for your repeated generosity towards the poor in Sri Lanka." Shamil Parkes Kandy Rotary September 2023 Shamil goes on to say "...For all the very generous donations you have made, we have sent you completed project reports. There is no doubt at […]
The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards are definitely a win for the students. But the District wants to make RYLA more of a win: win for Rotary as a whole. Clubs go to great effort to recruit ,for RYLA, some of the finest young people in their age cohort. People who should be the Rotarians of […]
Birstall Luddites Rotary is one the latest club in the Rotary International District 1040 to try out one of Rotary’s several flexible membership related approaches - Friends of Rotary. “There are a lot of people who are willing to do their bit for charity or the local community as a one-off event but don't want […]
Thank you to Susan Rogers for sharing this Rotary story: I’ve been running the Young Writer competition for District for 5 years, and despite there being some excellent submissions, we unfortunately haven’t had any National placings … until this year, and we have two! Summer Jennings, sponsored by Skipton Craven came 3rd in the Junior group […]
The Rotary Club of Mirfield September 2023 Many congratulations to Mirfield Rotary. Paul Cusworth has just written to say that as a result of their work on the Rohingya School Project they have earned the right to use the logo of the UNESCO Chair for Global Health and Education.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wy6YAHWZ-GS2awYjGV-ERpv2ACST1XTH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105873332563876339993&rtpof=true&sd=true July 2023 Thank you to Paul […]
Shared by John Purvis, President Elect: For many years the Rotary Club of Denby Dale & District with the help of its Inner Wheel Club have, for KIDS OUT, taken a group of children from Castle Hill School in Huddersfield (a school for children with special needs) out for the day. Since I got involved […]
By the time this item is published in Sharing Rotary Stories, my year as DG will be very firmly closing. From Judith and me, thank you sincerely for allowing us the opportunity to have what has been a supremely enjoyable year. I never held any ambition to be a District Officer, let alone DG. I […]