Rotary International 2008-09 Theme

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.
A hallmark of Rotary service has always been Rotarians' commitment to doing what needs to be done. Every day, in tens of thousands of communities, we look around us to see how and where we can best help others.

The help we provider responds to many situations and takes many forms. On a club level, we might take books to a school, help a disabled person with errands ofr volunteer in a jobs program. Together with other clubs, we are capable of projects with greater reach. And the participation of our entire network of clubs, along with the support of The Rotary Foundation, has allowede us to commit to out primary and most ambitious goal: the global eradication of polio.

When choosing our service projects, we do our best to work in ways that will have the most positive and most lasting impact. But to ensure a better worls for many generations we must begin by taking care of our youngets generation. This why, in 2008-09, I will ask Rotarians everywhere to focus on the most precious resource of every generation: our children.

Every child deserves the chance at a healthy life. Unfortunately every day some 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. When I first learned this statistic I thought that, surely, there had been a mistake and the number vwas an error. Unfortunately it was not. Every day, around the world, children die needlessly from pneumonia, measles and malaria. Thousands die every day from the lack of a most basic resource: clean water. And many more die from a combination of factors in which poverty and malnutition play major roles.

I would like to see reducing the child mortality rate become a key goal of club and district projects in the year ahead.

This is why the RI theme for 2008-09 is Make Dreams Real. Food and water, health care and schooling, the chance at a fuull and long life - this is the unrealised dream of too many children. In 2008-09 I ask you to Make Dreams Realfor these children and their families and to work with me towards the Rotary dream of a happier, healthier and more peaceful world.