Archive for August, 2024
9/3/24 Rotary Meeting: Hunter Bradley hosting Brian Stefanich – Boy Scouts High School Explorer Programs
Friends and Guests are welcome!
#ServiceAboveSelf #rotary #boyscouts
Thank you to our guest speaker, Kim Schmitke, for your presentation regarding the Salvation Army on Tuesday!
We appreciate the hard work you put into helping others and the time you took to share with us.
Things you can do to help Kim and the Salvation Army assist our community include:
– your time helping people budget their money.
– financial donations
– donate gently used household items you no longer use. Sometimes helping change other people’s lives is as simple as gifting a chair, mattress, and/or a winter coat
Donations can be made to the Care Closet at the Free Church or Salvation Army before 3pm Monday-Friday. If that time frame doesn’t work for you, please coordinate a time with Kim to have your donations picked up or dropped off.
Thanks for helping others and we hope you enjoy your weekend!
#ServiceAboveSelf#Rotary#trf#SalvationArmy#donate
Jordan Kofstad will be hosting Retired US Army Colonel, Robert Rowe.
Rotarians and guests are welcome!
#ServiceAboveSelf #TRF #Rotary #usarmy
8/20/24 Rotary Meeting: Alecia Hunt hosting Kim Schmitke – Salvation Army and Cares Closet at Noon at The Legion.
Rotarians and their guests are welcome!
“Welcome to Week TWO of RI’s Month of Membership & Extension.
This week’s report is culled from Etelka Lehoczky’s online publication, “Health workers trained through a Rotary project resuscitate infants struggling for air.”
“Birth asphyxia, or the failure to breathe at birth, kills an estimated 900,000 infants globally each year. Although it accounts for less than 0.1% of newborn deaths in industrialized countries, it’s the leading cause of neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries, like Sierra Leone. Many newborns who aren’t breathing can be saved if rural health care workers learn how to operate the self-inflating resuscitator. A self-inflating resuscitator sells for about US$11. Since 2022, Rotary members in Sierra Leone and North America have collaborated to offer the Helping Babies Breathe protocol to more than 650 nurses, midwives, and other health workers from all over Sierra Leone. The program was funded through a global grant co-sponsored by the Rotary Club of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Sybil Bailor, the club’s 2023-24 president, was committed to the program in part because of her own experience. She once had a difficult delivery, during which her baby struggled to get oxygen. Bailor collaborated on the grant application with Charlotte Israel, 2023-24 president of the Rotary Club of Palm Harbor, Florida, USA. Israel and Bailor’s clubs used The Rotary Foundation grant to purchase 160 NeoNatalies and other supplies. The trainees practiced with self-inflating resuscitation devices and used plastic bottles (known as “penguins” because of their shape) to learn to suction fluid from infants’ noses and mouths.”
Source: https://www.rotary.org/en/fighting-their-first-breath”
Submitted by: Christopher W Knapp, District 6000 Foundation Chair
#ServiceAboveSelf #Rotary #Membership #infants