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Building bridges through service
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n 23rd February, Rotary will celebrate its
105th anniversary. On that day, we also mark Glenn E Estess
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World Understanding and Peace Day, for in Sr, Foundation
Rotary, part of our mission is working for
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peace – not through military might, but through our
humanitarian work. Rotarians understand very well
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that the causes of war and strife are often the same:
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poverty, inequality, deprivation, and a lack of hope.
Rotary works to restore that hope by bringing
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health, education, and the promise of a better future.
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We do this through the locally based club and district
projects for which we are known, and through larger
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projects run internationally and with the support of
our Rotary Foundation – projects that support schools,
build wells, improve quality of life, and bring us ever
closer to our goal of a polio-free world.
The years that we have been working together
through PolioPlus have been years of steady
determination, of lessons learned, of confidence
built. Where government representatives and health
organisations have been refused entry, Rotary has
been allowed in, because our local service and our
international reputation have earned us the trust
of others. Through our work, we have helped build
bridges of cooperation between governments and
communities. With every one of those bridges, and
with every drop of polio vaccine, we come closer to the
better, healthier, and more peaceful world that we know
it is possible to build.
Glenn E Estess Sr.
Rotary International Foundation Trustee Chair
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