This Week's Speaker
Joe Seconder, Retired US Army Reserve Major
Join us this Friday to welcome Joe Seconder, a retired US Army Reserve Major (Infantry) with 23 years of service, both volunteering for Operation Desert Storm and serving a year with his unit deployed to Kuwait and Iraq during the 2003 invasion. You can join us for this Veteran's Day presentation live at LeMeridien Hotel or via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89796844807
Today, Joe is a Senior Manager with Accenture Federal Services, with over 27 years’ experience specializing in Human Capital Management solutions and services delivery within both private and public sector markets in the USA and internationally. [read more]
Service Opportunity
Don't Miss Special Olympics This Friday, November 11
On Friday, November 11, from 9:30am to 12:30pm, Special Olympics is managing a Basketball Skills Clinic with Competition amongst the teams following. Past President Rick Woods calls it "the most rewarding service project for me." Join Rick and others this Friday to make a difference in the lives of 150+ DeKalb County special needs students and their families. Each of these takes an oath: “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.”
Here are the details:
- What: Special Olympics Basketball Skills Clinic and Competition
- When: Friday, November 11, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (1.5 hour shifts available)
- Where: Sequoyah Middle School, 3456 Aztec Rd, Doraville, GA 30340
To Volunteer, send your name, email and preferred shift(s) in an email to Rick Woods at sdoowrmgmail.com) or text (678-296-2295). Call today and join us Friday
RFHA and Polio
RFHA Receives Funding Support to Boost Polio Eradication Efforts
The Rotary Action Group for Family Health and AIDS Prevention (RFHA) is honored to announce the award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a two-year pilot program in the amount of $3 million. This will support the roll out of the Rotary Family Health Day Program in a number of countries and will include messaging, advocacy, education and surveillance on Polio as part of our integrated Disease Prevention program at Community level. The focus will be to integrate Polio specific activities and vaccination into the Rotary Family Health Days, and to support expanding the programs into countries where these have not been held previously.
Editor's Note: This is particularly special to the Rotary Club of Dunwoody because of our own Marion Bunch, who started the Rotary Fellowship for Fighting AIDS (RFFA) that has become RFHA and led its efforts for many years to provide healthcare prevention and treatment services around the world.
