KNOW YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE
City of Cardiff Rotaract have received several awards for their Know Your Blood Pressure event. The event was conceived by one of the Ro- taractors, a medical student, Charles Pope. He negotiated with the University of Cardiff Medical School and the Stroke Association for a partnership to provide this service to members of the public. There are on average three or four events per year at the Capitol Centre, Cardiff (and an additional event at Tesco, Merthyr Tydfil). About forty first year medical students take their very first opportunity of working directly with the public by carrying out blood tests. Rotaractors (together with some of the medical students) approach the public persuading them to check their blood pressure. The event is overseen by Cardiff University Medical School Clinicians. Each event, on average, checks the pressure of some 250 mem- bers of the public.
Budding entrepeneurs join the polio campaign
ROTAKIDS raise funds to vaccinate 2718 children against polio. The RotaKids at Whitchurch Primary School in Cardiff have been learning about polio and how Rotary together with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is fighting to eradicate this crippling disease worldwide, and they understand how every £1 collected by Rotary is matched 2:1 by the Gates Foundation.
In December RotaKids sold books and toys at the PTA Christmas Fair and managed to raise a staggering £120 in three hours. All items not sold at the Christmas Fair were gratefully received by the Barnardo’s charity shop in Rhiwbina. RotaKids decided in consultation with the PTA that the money raised would be used to purchase three boxes of purple crocus lapel pins. Despite atrocious weather in January, the RotaKids sold the purple crocus lapel pins at the entrance to their school every morning and afternoon. They collected the splendid sum of £302. With the matched funding this generated £906 for the Rotary’s “End Polio Now” campaign, which is enough to vaccinate 2718 children for life and help to end polio. The Whitchurch RotaKids are sponsored by RC Cardiff Breakfast.
PRIMARY PUPILS PURPLE POLIO PROJECT PARTICIPATION
Narberth & Whitland members are promoting awareness of the “End Polio Now Campaign” by involving their local primary school.
In 1985 Rotary International launched its Polio Plus pro- gramme, the first initiative to tackle polio eradication through the mass vaccination of children. In 1988 it became the Global Polio Eradication Initiative with a public-private partnership that includes Rotary, World Health Organisation, UNICEF and more recently the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rotary President David Haward said: “We are grateful to the primary school Head teacher Mrs Nia Ward and four of her pupils who have helped to plant purple crocuses in the Charles Salmon Memorial Garden below the Town Hall in Narberth to start off Purple Polio week”.
The Rotary Club of Narberth & Whitland will also be donating hundreds of purple crocus bulbs to Mrs Ward at the primary school so that the pupils may plant them in the grass verge fronting the school carpark as a reminder to all who pass by that the aim is to eradicate polio worldwide.
The head teacher also commented that she will inform all of her pupils in a school assembly of the dire consequences of disability caused through the Polio virus thus emphasising worthwhile cause of the “End Polio Now Campaign”.
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