By Eduardo da Costa, Published in Rotary International
The question of how to measure development and human well-being has attracted the attention of economists, policy-makers, researchers, and other social scientists for decades. For example, the Human Development Index produced by the United Nations seeks to measures a country’s achievements in three specific areas: living standards, health, and education.
By Christopher Keizur, Published in Pamplinmedia.com
The Rockwood Boys & Girls Club celebrated the installation of a Peace Pole Wednesday afternoon, July 18, alongside members of the community. Philanthropist Al Jubitz sponsored the Peace Pole for the club as part of the Rotary Action Group for Peace efforts dedicated to raising these monuments throughout Oregon. Across the region, the group has placed almost 200 poles in the past two years.
By Alison Sutherland, Published in Rotary International
Quite often I drive along the stop-start Newport Road in Cardiff to visit my daughter. Two years ago, I remember noticing a fair-sized group of men sitting outside a fairly non-descript building. They were just chatting. When I got to work, I decided to find out what the building was used for and discovered it was a resettlement centre for refugees and asylum seekers. At the time I thought how sad it was to see these people just hanging around on a busy road-side, waiting for their cases to be researched and presented.
From mandeladay.com
By Ilkka Taipale, From Demokraatti.fi
Former MP, half a year as a activist of the international peace movement Iikka Taipale (SD), greeted the video with Russian and US presidents. According to the story, the video depicted on the balcony of the Old Student House is a salute of the Finnish Peace Movement to Trump and Putin. In his speech, Taipale tells President Trump that with his colorful speech he opened the Pandora magazine and let go of the ghost of nuclear disarmament. Watch The Speech
By Linda Krahn
During a Rotary Friendship Exchange in Southern India, several years ago, I experienced “My Rotary Moment.” We were travelling between Coimbatore and Tirupur when we stopped at the Sankara Eye Bank. We toured the hospital and visited the local Rotary project. Cataract surgery was being performed by 10 doctors in a large operating room with 10 patients lined up on operating tables all having their surgeries.
Published in UN.org
By Karen D. Kendrick-Hands, Published in Rotary International
How can you best celebrate World Environment Day, today June 5? The 2018 theme for this year’s United Nation Environmental Programme (UNEP) event is Beat Plastic Pollution. Celebrate in your home, your club and your community by reducing the role of single-use plastics in your life, like straws, and challenging others to join you.
Published in Rotary Club of Dhaka
Rotary Peace Art Competition for Children 2018 is an international art competition for children between the ages 3-years and 14-years old. It is organized by the Rotary Club of Dhaka in association with Bangladesh Marketers Alliance. It is supported by Rotarian Action Group For Peace and Rotary International. New Peace Art submissions are being accepted until June 20, 2018, in four separate age categories. Children may join the Rotary Club of Dhaka Peace Art Competition 2018 Facebook group and post their Peace Art here. Express your vision of world peace in art.
