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Sir Emeka Offor commits US$5 million to Rotary’s maternal and child health program in Nigeria

EVANSTON, Ill., USA (10 Apr. 2025) — Nigerian Rotary member and philanthropist Sir Emeka Offor has committed US$5 million through the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) to The Rotary Foundation to expand and strengthen its initiative aimed at reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in high-need areas of Nigeria.

“Helping mothers and babies survive and thrive is among the greatest investments we can make in Nigeria’s future,” said Sir Emeka Offor, founder of the SEOF and a member of the Rotary Club of Oraifite, District 9142, Nigeria. “We have seen a unique opportunity to build upon a Rotary-led program to further turn the tide on maternal and child mortality by working together. This partnership marks a powerful step forward for the health and wellbeing of families across Nigeria.”

 

President Tim chaired this week's very informal club breakfast meeting at Aila Cafe in Highett - during this first week of school holidays.    It was a lovely breakfast enjoyed by all who attended that included guests Bronwyn, Gary, and Jules.  Thank you Linda for arranging the booking, and tending to the registration and breakfast orders.  As always, everything went very smoothly. 
 
President Tim chaired this week's very informal club breakfast meeting at Aila Cafe in Highett - during this first week of school holidays.    It was a lovely breakfast enjoyed by all who attended that included guests Bronwyn, Gary, and Jules.  Thank you Linda for arranging the booking, and tending to the registration and breakfast orders.  As always, everything went very smoothly. 
Members will recall that two weeks ago we had a joint Zoom meeting with the St Marylebone Rotary Club in the UK.
Joint President Carole Harris has kindly sent through their latest Club Bulletin which includes reference to this meeting.
This can be viewed here.
Note that included within the newsletter is the poem which co-President Steve Rhodes read out.
 
The original story of the meeting is here.
This story is taken from the Rotary International website here.

One of Rotary’s earliest service projects helped to bring public toilets to Chicago, the quickly growing industrial city in the Midwest of the United States where Rotary began in 1905. Club members didn’t construct the restrooms themselves, as they sometimes do today. But just as they do today, they worked with other local groups to raise awareness of the need for sanitation in this urban area and advocated to get the project funded.

These public toilets, then known as “comfort stations,” were typically underground structures at busy sites such as parks and public squares. Civic leaders and reformers in several American cities were noting a need for them, and Rotary members in Chicago were part of the movement.

At right -  Entrances to public toilets at LaSalle and Washington Streets in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Before February 1955. These entrances no longer exist.

Our own PDG Ian Ballanine was chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro.  Charles joined the meeting via Zoom.
Ian received feedback from Co-President Carole Harris at the R.C. of St Marylebone following our joint meeting in the week prior - and who was delighted with the story in our bulletin. She and her club were pleased with the joint meeting and having connected with a club in this manner, and they look forward to more joint meetings in the future.
(refer story here - Ed)
Before the Club membership is a motion to support INTERPLAST to the tune of AUD$10,000. Our Club has a fine record of supporting INTERPLAST .
I thought it would be timely to summarise a little of what INTERPLAST does. For more information, please refer their website here.
 
Interplast, a not-for-profit organization, provides free reconstructive surgery and medical training to people in the Asia-Pacific region who otherwise lack access to these services.
 
Their mission is to 'repair bodies and rebuild lives' and they do this through providing surgical services to those who could not otherwise afford or access these, and by building the capacity of local medical systems through our training and mentoring programs.
 
Interplast was founded in 1969 by Dr. Donald R. Laub of Stanford University, who believed that reconstructive plastic surgery could transform lives.
Rotary Connection: Interplast was founded through the partnership of Rotary and The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1983.
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We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
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