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 Rotary International World President  Ron and Jetta Burton in Busselton

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Jeff Raikes, CEO of the BIll & Melinda Gates Foundation

 announces a new fundraising agreement between 

Rotary International and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

An announcement at the Rotary International Convention in Lisbon, Portugal, 

set the stage for a bold new chapter in the partnership

 between Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

in the campaign for polio eradication.  

“Going forward, the Gates Foundation will match two-to-one, 

up to US$35 million per year, every dollar Rotary commits

 to reduce the funding shortfall for polio eradication through 2018,” said Jeff Raikes, the foundation’s chief executive officer,

 in a prerecorded video address shown during the convention’s 

plenary session on 25 June. 

“If fully realized, the value of this new partnership with Rotary

 is more than $500 million.

 In this way, your contributions to polio will work twice as hard.”  

The joint effort, called End Polio Now – Make History Today,

 comes during a critical phase for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative .

The estimated cost of the initiative’s 

2013-18 Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan is $5.5 billion.

Funding commitments , announced at the Global Vaccine Summit in April,

 total $4 billion.

 Unless the $1.5 billion funding gap is met, 

immunization levels in polio-affected countries will decrease

. And if polio is allowed to rebound, within a decade,

 more than 200,000 children worldwide could be paralyzed every year. 

Rotary Club of Geraldton Greenough

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Rotary Club of Cunderdin

 Past President Malcolm Fullwood [right] with President Michael Barker

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Rotary Club of Southern Districts

 President John Rechichi managed his first club meeting tonight.

All went very well and the new board got together and had its first meeting as well.

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Rotary Club of Como

 President  John Garmony

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Rotary Club of Applecross

 Past President Dean Lawrence with Incoming President Murray McKay

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Rotary Club of Willetton

 New President Marcus Carot

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Rotary Club of Collie

 President Robyn Yates

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Rotary Club of Palm Beach

 Induction of President Kelvin Robinson

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Rotary Club of Pinjarra

 Changeover Karon Austin to Andrew McCormack

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Rotary Club of Kalgoorlie

 New President Esther Roadnight with Past President Ross Collins

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Rotary Club of Ascot

 Incoming President Julia Temby with Past President Michael Evans [right] 

and Assistant Governor Joe Byl

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Rotary Club of Manjimup

 District Governor Erwin Biemel with President  Jacki Edwards

Rotary Club of Southern Districts

 New Rotarian Ben Forest and partner Natalie Cussell

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Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay

Rotary Club of Geraldton Greenough

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Rotary Club of Rockingham

Trevor Ridley

 Wayne Milnes

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Rotary Club of Como

 Kim Larsen

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Rotary Club of Pinjarra

 Ian Cullen

 Laurie Galloway

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Rotary Club of Ascot

 Ron Alexander

 Gerry McLernon

Max Morrell

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Rotary Club of Fremantle Port

 Lysbeth Shepherd

Rotary Club of Geraldton Greenough

Presidential Citation

Outgoing President Peter Svensson with PHF & PP Dan Crisp

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Rotary Club of Ascot

Max Morrell

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Rotary Club of Geraldton Greenough

Golden Goose multiple winner, Ian 'Doc' Taylor took out the award again this year! 

Sergeant-at-Arms Dave Clare presented the award

enjoy this International video from St Petersburg ...Russia

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Rotary Club of Busselton Geographe Bay

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Rotary Club of Geraldton

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Rotary Club of Margaret River

Short Term Exchange student Camilla Barberi from Italy

  arrived to stat with Rose Matthews and her family

AROUND THE CLUBS

Rotary Club of Karrinyup

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Rotary Club of Geraldton

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 Rotary Club of Fremantle Port

Last Meeting

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Funny Picture

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For members of D9465

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CLUB FLYERS

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Rotary Club of Matilda Bay

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Rotary Club of Kenwick

Climb for a Smile October 2013

I am trying to trace the Rotarian who attended one of our Climb For A Smiles

 and was armed with a large Video camera and obviously took  footage of the day.

We are now organising  Climb for a Smile 2013 and our  web site can now  take video footage

 so we are keen to locate him and his footage, but no one knows who he was. 

I would appreciate it if you would circulate this request 

This year Climb for a Smile will be climbing for Cord Blood Polio....Eradication and Interplast

but a clubs  can also climb for there own cause,

atever that maybe

Steve Weychan

President Kenwick Rotary

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 The Typewriter

A magician accidentally turned his wife

 into a couch and his two kids into armchairs.

 He started to panic and thought to himself, 

"What the heck have I done?"

 He began to ponder,

 "How am I going to bring back my beloved family?"

 So, he thought for a while and decided a good idea

 was to take them to a hospital and see if the surgeon 

could operate and bring them back. 

He loads them into his van and off he rushes

 to the local hospital.

 He walked up and down the hospital

 and after some serious surgery, he asks the doctor,

 "Doc, how are they doing?" 

The doctor replies, 

"Comfortable, sir!

An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German 

are walking down the street together. 

A juggler is performing on the street but there are so many people

 that the four men can’t see the juggler.

 So the juggler goes on top of a platform and asks:

“Can you see me now?”

The four men answer:

 “Yes.” “Oui.” “Si.” “Ja.”

The Mouse

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