Rotary Clubs of District 5080 - which includes Rotary Club of Trail — are getting word out about a fantastic opportunity for individuals aged 18 to 25 to be part of an intensive leadership training program coming up at the end of June.
And time’s ticking to get an application in for the experience, which is free, through the sponsoring of local clubs like the Trail Rotary.
Running from June 29 to July 6, the program provides the chance for participants to discover and strengthen leadership skills in an encouraging environment.
Topics covered include: awareness of self/others; group dynamics; dealing with conflict/change; goal setting; effective communication; critical thinking; and much more.
The camp offers attendees a wide range of leadership and presentation styles and provides opportunities for attendees to discover more about themselves and others.
This year’s locale is the University of Idaho, Moscow, Id, USA.
Interested?
Visit: trailrotary.com.
Besides looking for a young person to sponsor with a Rotary Youth Leadership Award for camp, local Rotarians will be walking in the Silver City Days parade in the hopes of collecting change for the “Pennies to Polio” campaign.
Since 1979, Rotary’s goal has been to rid the world of poliomyelitis (polio) a life-threatening and disabling disease caused by the polio virus.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Rotary reports that polio cases have since been reduced by 99.9 per cent.
Rotarians have contributed more than $2.1 billion to immunize nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. If eradication efforts stopped today, the partnership notes that in 10 years, polio would paralyze as many as 200,000 children annually.
Since 2020, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation came into a long-term partnership with Rotary.
The current goal is to raise $450 million to support global polio eradication.
In this partnership, for every dollar Rotary raises, the Gates Foundation will chip in $2.
Polio typically affects children under five. The virus spreads from person-to-person or through contaminated water.
Up to 1988, polio was infecting 350,000 children worldwide.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments with six partners – the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the vaccine alliance. Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide.