July 2016 President John's
Message
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RI President's Message - July 2016
Dear Fellow Rotarians,
Today, we look ahead toward a Rotary year
that may one day be known as the greatest in our history: the year
that sees the world’s last case of polio. Wild poliovirus
caused only 74 cases of polio in 2015, all of them in Afghanistan
and Pakistan. As we continue to work tirelessly toward our goal
of eradication, we must also look beyond it: preparing to leverage
our success into even greater successes to come.
It is tremendously important to Rotary’s
future that our role in the eradication of polio be recognised.
The more we are known for what we’ve achieved, the more we’ll
be able to attract the partners, the funding, and, most important,
the members to achieve even more. We’re working hard at RI
headquarters to be sure that Rotary gets that recognition. But it
can’t all happen in Evanston. We need you to get the word
out through your clubs and in your communities about what Rotary
is and what we do. We need to be sure that our clubs are ready for
the moment when polio is finally eradicated — so that when
people who want to do good see that Rotary is a place where they
can change the world, every Rotary club is ready to give them that
opportunity.
We know that if we want to see Rotary Serving
Humanity even better in the years ahead, we’ll need more willing
hands, more caring hearts and more bright minds to move our work
forward. We’ll need clubs that are flexible, so that Rotary
service will be attractive to younger members, recent retirees and
working people. We’ll need to seek out new partnerships, opening
ourselves more to collaborative relationships with other organisations.
Looking ahead, we also see a clear need to
prioritise continuity in our leadership. We in Rotary are all playing
on the same team, working toward the same goals. If we want to reach
those goals together, we all have to move in the same direction
— together.
Every day that you serve in Rotary, you have
the opportunity to change lives. Everything you do matters; every
good work makes the world better for us all. In this new Rotary
year, we all have a new chance to change the world for the better,
through Rotary Serving Humanity.
John F Germ, President, Rotary International
.John
F. Germ, President, Rotary International 2016-17
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July, 2016 Trustee
Chair's Message
Kalyan Banerjee
Trustee Chair 2016-17
July 2016
