Posted on Nov 01, 2019
Tim Bolhuis from Pellitteri Waste Systems on latest in waste management & recycling
 
Last Week’s Speaker: Joe Ruskey (our District Governor 2017-2018) on the importance of the Rotary International Foundation. Joe gave us an inspiration dose of how the RI Foundation (not to mention the District) can supercharge our efforts to support good causes. Rotary is the oldest and largest service club in the world, with 1,200,000 members in 200 countries. And that size gives us the ability to support many projects. 
 
Rotary helped with the Marshall Plan after WW2 and has established peace centers in six universities to help reduce violence between nations and peoples. PolioPlus started in 1979 in the Philippines, and it’s become the effort for which Rotary is best known. We’ve raised billions in our fight to eliminate polio, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and countries around the globe have contributed tens of billions more. We’re THIS close to ending polio on our planet.