Rotary Club of West Liberty
Newsletter - October 23, 2024

Volume 2 | Issue 8

 
Upcoming Meetings:
 
~October 25th @ 11AM Board Meeting
at LPH
~ October 25th - La Chiva Loka 2
~ November 1st - Barb Calvin creation
~ November 8th - WL Business
Association Luncheon
~ November 15th - Chef D
~ November 22nd - La Chiva Loka 2
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Volunteer Opportunity:
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Come pass out candy & stickers at
the Heritage Foundation Walking Trail
on Halloween! !
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TICKETS ARE HERE! TO PURCHASE TICKETS CONTACT:
 
KRISTA LANIER: KLANIER@WELEADIOWA.ORG
KEN BROOKS: KBROOKS@WELEADIOWA.ORG
 
Celebrate the Season and 100 Years of the
Rotary Club of West Liberty!
 
Join us on Saturday, December 14th from 6-9 PM at the West Liberty Community Center for dinner, dancing, and a look back at the last 100 years of Rotary in West Liberty. This 1920's themed event is perfect for the whole family! Tickets are only $25 per person, see a Rotarian for Details. Space is limited! 
 
Break out your tuxedos, flapper dresses, and your Christmas Spirit, and Celebrate 100 years of Rotary in West Liberty!
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Join us for the West Liberty Business Association Luncheon
on Friday, November 8th!
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Rotary Foundation Minute: October 14, 2024

Welcome to Week THREE of RI’s Month of Economic & Community Development.
 
The month of October is dedicated to Polio Eradication by the World Health Organization. In respect of that, and because End Polio is a Rotary Foundation major project, Foundation Minute will devote much of the report the rest of the month to how Rotary Clubs all over the world continue to work toward a complete eradication of the once dreaded infectious disease. This week’s report is from Colombia, South America where the Rotary Club of Nuevo Medellin introduced a special fundraising project. In the current Rotary Magazine report, Brad Webber explains how “Sonia Uribe and her husband, Alberto Londoño, created a stuffed animal collection called El Zoo del Amor, or the Zoo of Love, to comfort seriously ill children and raise money for polio eradication. Sales of Anna the giraffe, Lucas the tiger, and other animals — each wearing a shirt with Rotary and End Polio Now logos — have raised about $550,000 since their introduction in 2018In addition to giving the animals to sick children, Rotarians carry them on their travels and snap photos of them at iconic landmarks. “All these animals have traveled, being ambassadors of the Rotary brand,” says Uribe, a member of the Rotary Club of Nuevo Medellín and, like Londoño, a past governor of District 4271. Londoño is a member of the Rotary Club of Medellín Nutibara.
The couple also manage the Fundación Monica Uribe Por Amor, which assists children with spina bifida.”
 
 
 
In Rotary,
Olabisi Gwamna, PhD
Editor, Foundation Minute
End Polio Update: October 21, 2024
Terry's Polio Eradication Update
For the week ending 10/19/24
 
Dear Polio Eradication Warriors,
 
Four new Wild Polio paralysis cases reported this week.  We are now 3 weeks since the most recent report of a child being paralyzed by the Wild Polio Virus in Pakistan.
 
World Polio Day - I hope all of you have World Polio Day events planned for your Club.  If not, please consider something small such as asking for a small (or large) cash donation to Polio from each of your members at your club meeting this week or next.  If possible, note who the donations came from and credit their member accounts so they receive their Rotary Foundation (Paul Harris) credit. 
 

Rice University (Houston, TX)  Bioengineers awarded $3.4M for project to End Polio - Grant supports Rice-developed time-release technology - Rice University bioengineer Kevin McHugh has been awarded $3.4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project to incorporate protection against poliomyelitis (polio) into the combination vaccine that protects against five common and dangerous childhood diseases. Incorporating polio VLPs into the pentavalent vaccine formulation would make it octavalent, i.e. capable of protecting children under 5 from eight different pathogens ⎯ diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, a type of bacteria that can give rise to pneumonia and meningitis and all three strains of poliovirus.  “Our hope is to make a polio-free world a reality,” McHugh said.

Monday, 10/14/24, Second Round of Gaza Polio Campaign Underway  

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had been able to start its polio campaign in central Gaza and vaccinate tens of thousands of children despite Israeli strikes in the designated protected zone hours before.
As part of an agreement between the Israeli military and Palestinian militant group Hamas, humanitarian pauses in the year-long Gaza war begin early on Monday to reach hundreds of thousands of children.  WHO spokesperson Tarik Jašarević told a Geneva press briefing that over 92,000 children, or around half of the children targeted for Polio vaccines in the central area, had been inoculated on Monday.
The first three days will focus on the central Gaza Strip, then after a two-day pause, the campaign will resume in southern Gaza, followed by pausing for one day, before resuming for three more days in northern Gaza. All vaccinations will be given between 6:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and all pauses will be used to reassess the needs of the population.
 
Total Wild Polio cases
Year-to-date 2024
 
Total
2023
Total
2022
 
Total
2021
Total
 2020
Globally
54
12
30
6
140
- in endemic countries:
54
12
22
5
140
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2024 Circulating Variant Polio Case Total - 187  Angola - 7, Benin - 2, Cameroon - 2, Chad - 8, DR Congo - 21, Ethiopia - 14, Guinea - 5, Indonesia - 7, Liberia - 1,Mali - 1, Mozambique - 1, Niger - 9, Nigeria - 62, Occupied Palestinian Territory - 1, Somalia - 3, South Sudan - 9, Yemen - 33
2024 Wild Polio Case Total 54 - Afghanistan 22 - Pakistan 32
2023 Wild Polio Case Total 12 - Afghanistan 8, Pakistan 6
 2022 Wild Polio Cases - Pakistan 20, Afghanistan 2, Mozambique 8
2022 Circulating Variant Polio Cases – 914 in 26 Countries
2023 Circulating Variant Polio Case Total - 524    Benin - 3, Burkina Faso - 3, Burundi - 1, Central African Republic - 14, Chad - 55, Cote d' Ivoire - 6, DR Congo - 223, Guinea - 47, Indonesia - 6, Israel - 1, Kenya - 8, Madagascar - 24, Mali - 15, Mauritania - 1, Mozambique - 5,Niger - 2, Nigeria - 87, Somalia - 8, South Sudan - 3, Tanzania - 3, Yemen - 8, Zambia - 1, Zimbabwe - 1.
New Polio Cases & Samples reported this week -
  • Pakistan: four WPV1 cases and 15 WPV1-positive environmental samples
  • Ethiopia: two cVDPV2 cases
  • Occupied Palestinian territory : five cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
Quote of the Day - "Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose - unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction."  Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries:
Pakistan Four new Wild Polio cases reported this weekThirty-two Wild Polio cases reported in 2024.  Six Wild Polio Cases reported in 2023.  The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 09/20/24.  Fifteen WPV1 Environmental Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan. 
Afghanistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week.  Twenty-two Wild Polio cases reported in 2024.  Six Wild Polio Cases reported in 2023.  The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 08/30/24.  No WPV1 Environmental Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Afghanistan. 
 

Advocate, Donate & Educate to END POLIO NOW & FOREVER!

 Over 3 Billion Children Immunized

                                        21,000,000 Children Saved from the Paralysis of Polio                                                                

   Our Goal is Global Polio Eradication!!
Terry Ziegler, Polio Update Newsletter Editor
Rotary Region 36 END POLIO NOW Coordinator
2024-27
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