are not tangible but the impact is

phenomenal. Such is our long standing Kenya

Rural Blindness Eradication Project which

coincidentally began in 1985 at the same time

Rotary International End Polio campaign

began. We can only imagine what it means to

live in total darkness and all of a sudden, you

can see. The gift of sight and all that comes

with it. Join us this weekend as we reach out

to more rural communities starting with the

Western region this Rotary year.

I am also pleased to inform you that the

Sleeping Children Around (SCAW) project

2017 distribution has been confirmed and

4000 more children will benefit this year! To

understand how this project impacts the

mental development of children is to under-

stand why our Canadian friends do this.

I look forward to seeing all of us at our

Family of Rotary luncheon this week as we

also plan to participate in our fundraising

dinner on Friday, 18th November 2016. it a

wonderful learning opportunity.

As always, I count on your support!

David Githanga

CLUB PRESIDENT, 2016/17

My Fellow Rotarians,

What would the world look like with the

Polio pandemic untamed? We can only

imagine. Thanks to the efforts of Rotary

since 1985, as at 24th October 2016 on

World Polio Day, there were only 27 cases

of Polio World Wide!

As we beam with hope and look forward to

the last mile towards a Polio-Free World,

we celebrate all our Polio Heroes, more

especially the survivors of the paralyzing

disease such as Paralympian Dennis Ogbe

who told his personal story at this year’s

World Polio Day international celebrations,

our Paralympians back here at home being

supported by Rotary Club of Nairobi Gigiri

and other survivors across the globe.

We celebrate the everyday Rotary heroes

who have taken part in immunization

campaigns, resource mobilization among

others. Closer home, we celebrate some of

our members who have been part of the

End Polio country and district teams includ-

ing Past Presidents Darsi Lotay, David Has-

tie and Kamal Sanghani.

And such is the nature of Rotary.

Sometimes, we have no monuments to

show for our work. Sometimes the results

OCT. 2016 Issue 15. 2016-17

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FAMILY OF ROTARY

LUNCHEON

Thur, 27th Oct 2016

Furusato Japanese

Restaurant

12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

KENYA RURAL

BLINDNESS

ERADICATION

EYE CAMP

27th - 29th Oct 2016 Jaramogi Oginga Odinga

Referral Hospital, Kisumu

FUNDRAISING DINNER

Fri, 18th Nov 2016

Muthaiga Country Club

5.30 - 9.00 p.m.

Kshs. 5,000.00

92ND DISTRICT CONFERENCE AND AS-

SEMBLY

20th - 23rd April 2017

Kisumu, Kenya

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“Hope is the expectation of better things

— a polio-free world, a world without

hunger, universal peace. It is the spark

that keeps a man going, whatever his

station. Without it, life is nothing more

than existence in despair.”

— Rotary Brings Hope, 1986-87 Presi-

dential Citation Program

EXTRA-

ORDINARY

GENERAL

MEETING

15/10/2016

Moments in History

Jonas Salk was born October 28, 1914, in New York City. In 1947,

Salk took a position at University of Pittsburgh, where he began con-

ducting research on polio, also known as infantile paralysis. By 1951,

Salk had determined that there were three distinct types of polio vi-

ruses and was able to develop a "killed virus" vaccine for the disease.

The vaccine used polio viruses that had been grown in a laboratory

and then destroyed.

Preliminary testing of the polio vaccine began in 1952 - the shot given

mostly to children. National testing expanded over the next two years,

making it one of the largest clinical trials in medical history. Roughly

1.8 million children were given the vaccine during the test phase. In

1953, Salk administered the experimental vaccine to himself, his wife

and sons. Salk's efforts were supported and promoted by the National

Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its president Basil O'Connor.

When the vaccine was approved for general use in 1955, Salk became

a national hero. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave him a special

citation at a ceremony held in the Rose Garden at the White House.

Salk would have been richer by $7 billion

if his vaccine were patented!

Jonas Salk

Scientist, Doctor

(1914–1995)

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