| Posted by Sylvie Gaskin on Mar 08, 2021 |
At last week's meeting our very own Louise Bergeron helped Rotarians give examples of how their vocation allowed them to give back to the community through Service work during this past year. Each table showcased the opportunities Rotarians took to connect with and support others. The concept of vocational service in Rotary is rooted in the Second Object, which calls on Rotarians to “encourage and foster”: Those objectives are: - To encourage and foster high ethical standards in business and professions, to recognise the worthiness of all useful occupations, to dignify the Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
- To apply the ideal of service in personal, business and community life.
- To advance international understanding and goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of businessmen and professional men and women united in the ideal of service.
Paul Harris wrote: "Each Rotarian is a connecting link between the idealism of Rotary and their trade or profession". Vocational Service is the way Rotary fosters and supports the application of the Ideal of Service to the pursuit of all vocations. Louise Bergeron, Vocational Service Director | Vocational Service calls on every Rotarian to work with integrity and contribute their expertise to the problems and needs of society |
Program Updates  | The Plasma Drive needs your help to reach the donation goal! Please contact Brandi Braithwaite to sign up for a time to donate. |  | Backpack Basics is once again providing much needed personal items for people in our community. Go to https://backpackbasicsrotary.ca/ to donate to make these backpacks available. | Rotary News | |  | Teaching to save babies Two Rotarian pediatricians – one in Ethiopia and the other in California – connected to save babies’ lives with the help of a vocational training team “We saw the power of vocational training right before our eyes,” recalls Karen Davies, a retired pediatrician who led four vocational training team trips to Gondar, Ethiopia, between February 2015 and June 2017. The team, funded by a $107,000 Rotary Foundation global grant, trained 73 health care providers who now teach classes for midwives, nurses, and medical students on resuscitation techniques and post-recitation care for newborns. Partnering in Ethiopia with Zemene Tigabu, then chair of pediatrics and now clinical director at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, the project surpassed all of its goals. The team trained 73 instructors, more than double the initial goal of 32 – and those newly trained instructors, instead of teaching the planned 12 classes over the course of the project, ended up teaching 30, in which more than 800 nurses and midwives learned the lifesaving techniques. |
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