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On June 30, 2020 the Rotary Club of Staten Island conducted their first ever virtual Installation of the Directors & Officers for the 2020-2021 Year.

Special Thanks to Mary Jane O'Connell for her year of service as President of the club and John Amodio for conducting the Installation.

As the 2019 Rotary International Convention is underway in Germany, the announcement is made of the early registration for 2020 convention in  Honolulu, Hawaii. Excitement is building.

                                                                                Various Staten Island schools participated in ecology Day event organized by Staten Island Rotary Club.

Our Charter event was held on June 21, 2019 and was specially attended by our District Governor Kris Chittur and the Governor Elect Mahbub Ahmed and Bina Ahmad. Rob Meyers, our Past president was awarded Paul Harris Fellowship award. The event organized by our President-elect Mary Jane O'Connell was well attended. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the fellowship and the festivities. This is the event that is in celebration of our club birthday and the celebration it really was, thanks to the organizers and the energetic participants.

For years, Angalia Bianca had slept in abandoned buildings throughout Chicago. She stole. She did drugs. She spent time in and out of jail for forgery, theft, trespassing, and possession of narcotics. But after she landed in prison for the seventh time, something changed -- Bianca knew she wanted a better life. She just didn’t know how to make it happen.

 

After serving her time, Bianca sought help from a local homeless organization, A Safe Haven, and moved to its shelter in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Bianca followed the program closely -- she attended all the required meetings, passed drug tests, and volunteered at every opportunity.

What is it like taking a large team to Africa?  It has probably been one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. In mid February, I began leading Rotary members from all over the East Coast of the United States through Ghana. I’ve tried to give the team a warm Ghanaian welcome like I’ve received on my earlier trips. A large trip is a real blessing because each person sees Ghana and our work in a different way.

A highlight for the team was greeting the chief of Sagadugu. The team got excited about buying goats and food for children in the villages where I support eight churches. It was good to see the pastors of most of the eight churches, and I had to explain that we were just passing through on our way to Bolgatanga.

Throughout India and around the world, Rotary clubs are celebrating a major milestone: India has gone three years without a new case of polio. The last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal on 13 January 2011. To mark this historic triumph, Rotary clubs illuminated landmarks and iconic structures throughout the country with four simple but powerful words, "India is polio free."

 

The three-year achievement sets the stage for polio-free certification of the entire Southeast Asia region by the World Health Organization. The Indian government also plans to convene a polio summit in February to commemorate this victory in the global effort to eradicate polio.