When: We meet Friday mornings from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM.
Where: Our next meeting is Friday (8/19) will be at the Mequon Public Market, 6300 W Mequon Rd, Mequon, WI 53092.
Our program this Friday will be Terrick Meinolf. In addition to being the son of Mike Meinolf, Terrick and is a junior at Homestead High School. Terrick's topic will be the World Affairs Seminar.
The greeter will provide either the thought, a Rotary minute, share a family moment or a cultural tradition ... anything they would like to start off the day positive.
Upcoming "It's your Rotary moment" assignees:
Lee Szymborski (8/19)
Steve Taylor (8/26)
Jo Ann Vetter (9/2)
Bill Wandsnider (9/11)
Note: If you are unable to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.
Club Assemblies have been scheduled for the following dates: 9/16, 10/21, 11/18 and 12/16.
Programs of Scale grant-winner Together for Healthy Families in Nigeria helps families by focusing on the fundamental needs of women
By Diana Schoberg Illustrations by Gwen Keraval
In March 1994, at the Anaheim Hilton and Towers, Emmanuel Adedolapo Lufadeju and Robert Zinser struck up a conversation. The two men were district governors-elect, and they had traveled to California — Lufadeju from Nigeria and Zinser from Germany — for Rotary’s annual International Assembly. As they spoke, the men discovered that their interests overlapped. Zinser listened intently as Lufadeju described a visit he’d recently made to a hospital maternity ward in Nigeria. At the time, five out of 100 babies in that country died in their first 28 days. Lufadeju had learned that the high rate of newborn fatalities resulted, in part, from poor prenatal and maternal care.
Zinser spoke up. “I can help.”
In 1995, Lufadeju and Zinser started a small maternal and child health-care project in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna. Today, their interventions have spread across the country and are changing the lives of millions of families — all because of that serendipitous encounter 28 years ago. “The story of our project is a story of Rotary friendship,” Lufadeju says. “I thought it was something I would do as governor and go away. But it has lasted the better part of my life.”
In June, The Rotary Foundation announced that the program, known as Together for Healthy Families in Nigeria, is receiving the Foundation's second $2 million Programs of Scale grant, an award that will build on the program's past success to accomplish even more in the future.
"This is really about changing the way societies and health systems address the fundamental needs of women," says John Townsend, chair of the Rotary Action Group for Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health, and chair of the ethical review board at the Population Council. "And that's important because women are the drivers of family and development. If a woman dies or is seriously disabled, the entire family is affected."
Thank you to everyone who has come out to support GloBall Giving this summer. For everyone who remembers all the color coded jerseys lining the hallway, they are now ALL gone - sent to Africa. Insane!
The last chance to do a group volunteer activity is Saturday 8/20. We can start at 8am ... Azara's hope is to get "every" bag touched and sorted by our 8/22 meeting so this will be the last push. Of course, she will be working there between now and then, but the last group push is scheduled for Sat 8/20. If we make it to noon, then lunch/drinks at Poco Loco (they open at 12p) is on me and Peter :).
Please save the date. I will ask for more firm RSVP as time draws near ... and if any of you are interested in stopping in before then, please let me know and I can connect you w/ a time Azara and/or I go in.
Thanks, All!
Azita
Editor's note: This last minute addition to our newsletter doesn't have a address for the event. The GolBall website shows an address of 4100 W. River Lane, Milwaukee, WI 53209. Perhaps Cori knows more.
Addressing needs caused by recent famine, clubs in District 9220 delivered 800 packages of rice, water, cooking oil, and other staples, as well as hygiene products, to the community of Ankiliabo in April.
“Lately, the kere [famine or hunger in the local parlance] has taken on a great magnitude because the climate conditions do not allow the population in this area to live properly through agriculture and livestock,” says Narindra Razafinimaro, immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Antananarivo-Anosy, which led the effort.
The Rotary Club of Saint-Denis-La Montagne, in the French department of Réunion, another island in the district, contributed about $2,700.
Perspectives On Angel Investing for Profit and Community Impact
Topic
Bob will share his experiences as an innovator and as an investor in Wisconsin based business start ups that have the promise of generating a direct economic return. As importantly, these investments create new jobs and build our communities in a sustainable manner. He will describe the angel and venture capital environment in Wisconsin and explain different pathways to engage in it as well as highlighting the many risks and rewards."
Bio
Bob is Founder and President of Xponential Ventures, a business and technology consulting firm and private investment vehicle. He was previously Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer at Sealed Air Corporation and Brady Corporation. Earlier he held research and technology executive leadership positions at GE Plastics and General Electric. Bob earned an MS and Phd in chemical engineering from University of Michigan and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Ohio State University. Bob lives in Mequon with his wife Kathy and two children and serves on several nonprofit boards and advisory councils. As a hands-on volunteer community leader, and former volunteer firefighter, he makes an impact through service to education, the environment, the arts and sciences. Bob is currently a candidate for Wisconsin's 24th Assembly District.
