Kennedy Brooks, right, and two other members of her small group, give the thumbs up during an activity at the a multi-district Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Academy in Missouri in July 2022. By Kennedy K. Brooks, a participant in Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Academy in Missouri, USA. Photos by Monika Lozinska/Rotary International Last July, I…
Bernard Vonn Sia, left, carries corrugated iron sheeting as part of ShelterBox’s response to Super Typhoon Rai in Cebu in 2021. Editor’s Note: In December 2021, Super Typhoon Rai hit the Philippines with gusts of up to 240 kilometers per hour, the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane. ShelterBox worked closely with Rotary contacts, local…
Gary Bren during a previous year’s Ride to End Polio in El Tour de Tucson. By Gary Bren, past governor of District 5650 (Iowa, Nebraska, USA) For more than two decades, my wife and I have been committed to Rotary’s effort to eradicate polio. The roots of my involvement go back to events before I…
Dr. John Philip with some of the medical supplies the International Fellowship of Healthcare Professionals has collected for Ukraine. By Dr. John Philip, a member of the Rotary Club of Newbury, Berkshire, England, and Chair of the International Fellowship of Healthcare Professionals I recently traveled 1,350 miles from my home in Newbury, South England, through…
A team from HelpingUkraine.us, including Rotary members from Georgia, USA, deliver supplies and generators to communities in Ukraine. Photo courtesy HelpingUkraine.us By Emory Morsberger, Rotary Club of Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA In August I wrote about my June 2022 trip to Ukraine, where I saw firsthand the devastation families were facing as they struggled to…
By John Hewko, General Secretary and CEO of Rotary International Today is the one-year anniversary of the tragic war in Ukraine. It’s a war that never should have started. And it’s a conflict that has evolved into a non-stop humanitarian catastrophe because the Russia strategy is now to inflict as much pain on the civilian…
The Miracle Field has a rubberized, barrier-free turf that allows children with disabilities to play baseball safely. Editor’s Note: In 2010, the Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Foundation, which is supported by five Rotary clubs in the Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, USA, area, raised 100 percent of the funds needed to build a Miracle Field in…
Project AIDS Aware helps people living with HIV in Nigeria Members of the Rotaract Club of Medilag Golden, Lagos State, Nigeria distribute HIV self-testing kits and information. By Princewill Onyekah, Rotaract Club of Medilag Golden, Lagos State, Nigeria As a member of Rotaract, I’ve had the opportunity to make meaningful impacts in my community. I…
ARES provides education materials for rural schools in Kenya Two teachers in Kenya look at educational content on one of the laptops set up by the ARES project. By Sean Hogan, past governor of District 5050 (British Columbia, Canada; Washington, USA) and member of the Rotary Club of Pacific Northwest Passport I lost my wife,…
Natallia Melnik and Sviatlana Baranava and their children in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. By Dan Parks, Rotary Club of Wilmington East, North Carolina, USA At the end of December, two Ukrainian families arrived in North Carolina, USA, after a whirlwind departure from Kyiv on Christmas day. They traveled through Warsaw and Chicago enroute to North…