Dear Rotarians of District 5170,

 

September is designated month for Basic Education and Literacy. Every club I visit does at least one project to support literacy in the community, both local and global. Our Rotarians have many interests and are happy to support the passions of club champions. Everyone is passionate about educating the next generation. As part of our effort to increase public awareness of who we are and what we do, our Community Service Chairs are collecting photographs from your “back-to-school” projects. The sooner you send photographs to them, the quicker they can create a beautiful collage and send it out through various media platforms. https://rotarydistrict5170.org/sitepage/community-service We are also highlighting the Seven Areas of Focus at our Avenues of Service event on October 15 at Mission College in Santa Clara. Please register to attend this very inspiring event to see all that is being accomplished by Rotarians and Interactors locally and globally. https://bit.ly/D5170AOS2022

 

The Membership trend continues with many clubs adding new members. Top honors go to Hayward and Fremont Bridge who added 7 and 4 Rotarians respectively. We have many small yet mighty clubs like Milpitas, Sunnyvale Sunrise, Silicon Valley San Jose, Fremont Morning, Almaden Valley-Willow Glen, Newark, Evergreen Valley, and Oakland Uptown. They build Little Libraries, hold “Chili Pepper” challenges, host Crab dinners and poker nights, distribute “Pies for purpose” or hold drive-by-BBQs to raise funds for their projects. Clubs like Fremont noon have very generous members who donate to their club foundation and to The Rotary Foundation. The eClub of Silicon Valley Smart Village has members all over the world and propose a Program of scale for greater impact. I wish to thank all the twelve clubs I visited in September for taking the time to explain their activities and sharing challenges and accomplishments. I am very humbled by their service to humanity. Click HERE or "Read More" at the end to see photos from my visits.

 

This newsletter takes a lot of time and effort on the part of all those who contribute to it. We aim to give you a quick overview of all that our District Rotarians do to make the world better for all. Please do read through and save the dates of the events you can attend. Here is what we feature this month:

 

1. Avenues of Service – in person on Oct 15

2. Vocational Service – virtual on Sep 29

3. Where do District Governors Come From – virtual on Oct 1

4. District Leadership Meeting – virtual on Oct 5

5. Membership Tables and cards – Pro-Active quick info card

6. Interact – Volunteers to help at FLC – in person on Oct 9

7. Livermore Valley – Fundraising – in person on Oct 1

8. Fremont noon – Fundraising – in person on Oct 16

9. Silicon Andhra – Vocational business mixer – in person on Oct 19

10. DGN Jill Duerig’s personal experience to End Polio Now

11. Neighboring District 5150 – End Polio Now – Oct 23

12. Area 4 - Fundraising - in person on Oct 27

13. Red Cross responds to Fiona and other disasters – Links to donate

14. Using Graphics for Rotary Awareness and Growth – virtual on Nov 10

 

Thank you all for what you do to make our world better!

 

Salud, Shubkamnayen, Slainte!

 

 

Interact District 5170's biggest event, Fall Leadership Conference (FLC) is just around the corner! For over a decade, this event has singularly inspired tens of thousands of Bay Area students to raise over $1 million dollars, and donate over 1 million hours of time in our local communities.

As our high school Interactors are working hard to make a difference in our community, we hope that you can help us make a difference in their lives by volunteering for this event! Volunteers are super vital to this event's success as your role ensures the safety of our students while the support provides the smoothness for our conference. 

 

District 5170's District Governor Nominee, Jill Duerig, joined a Rotary polio immunization day in India. After training by the World Health Organization, she was able to be part of a local team of health workers and gave many children the oral polio vaccine. Thank you DGN Jill for joining Rotary’s efforts to eradicate Polio!
 
The polio immunization process was in three parts. The first day, Rotarians worked with local health care workers to immunize those under five who came to various stations around the "village" and, when a child was immunized, we marked their left pinky fingertips with a purple marker so we'd know they had received the vaccine. Cute way of checking age - teeth and arm length (as kids grow, they can reach over their heads and scratch the opposite ear when they turn about five).
 

American Red Cross volunteers are working tirelessly to help people coping with the catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Fiona on Puerto Rico and the remnants of Typhoon Merbok on Alaska.
Ways to Help - a request from our very own District Membership Chair, Camilla Boolootian
We have set up a Rotary District 5170 microsite so members and/or clubs can give a financial gift to support the disaster relief efforts: https://www.redcross.org/donate/cm/rotarydistrict5170-pub.html/  This link will capture Rotary District 5170 cumulative giving and each donor will receive a tax donation receipt from the Red Cross.