I would like to share extracts from articles I read in recent Rotary publications.
Rotary like many other organisations have recognised education as a pathway out of poverty and significant gains have been made in increasing access to learning in communities around the world.
Covid-19 is threatening to erase much of those gains.
According to the UN, more than 91% of students worldwide have been impacted by temporary school closures- close to 1.6 billion students affected. There is now concern that the pandemic’s impact on education will continue long after the development of a vaccine posing significant challenges in education.
We should be thankful that in Aotearoa New Zealand we have not been affected as badly as other countries around the world. Containing Covid-19 is paramount and we all have a part to play in that effort to ensure that our children continue to go to school every week.
DG Gillian Jones wrote in her latest report to the District:
Many Clubs have a meeting focus rather than a service / project focus. Meetings need to be seen as the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in terms of Club experience. It’s what goes on beneath that that is the heart of the Club.
At Rotary Port Nicholson we subscribe to that mantra. Whilst we enjoy our fellowship and social encounters at our breakfast meetings, it’s the service we offer to the community, charities and other worthwhile causes that keeps our hearts pumping! We manifested that last week with the foodbank collection and this weekend with the waterfront clean-up and last minute opportunity to man the car parks at the Harbourside market. Thank you to Steve and John for organising.
Remember our meeting on 7 October is an informal one at Leuven Belgium Beer Café in Featherston St, commencing at 7am - they are opening early specially for us!. If you have not yet registered on the email sent out by Peter Whittington please do so. It should be an enjoyable morning
Stay safe
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