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Coming Events

WHAT'S AHEAD FOR OUR CLUB
Oct 16 Nepal Glacial Tragedy Relief Dinner - Nepal Dinner

Oct 19 Club Meeting - Project Kemabolo [Speaker Greg Ison, Chairman of Eumundi
Rotary Initiatives Ltd]

Oct 20 RYDA - RYDA Workshop

Oct 21 Equine Therapy - Equine Therapy

Oct 24 BBQ_Surf_for_Kids - Surf for Kids BBQ

Oct 26 Telling_Stories - Finalists in The Telling Stories Writing Competition [Speaker
The Children of The Sunshine Coast]

Oct 28 Equine Therapy - Equine Therapy

Nov 3 Melbourne Cup Function

Nov 4 Equine Therapy - Equine Therapy

Nov 9 Combined Interact Changeover Dinner - TBA

Nov 14 Nepalese Dinner - Nepalese Dinner

Dec 12 Breakup Lunch, The Loose Goose Restaurant

Rotary Information

Polio Plus Campaign Continues in Pakistan
23 September 2026, Islamabad, Pakistan - "When we are working, we don't see
whether it is winter, summer, autumn or spring. In every season and in all weather
conditions, we do our best to reach every child. This is why we go house to house to
give polio drops," says Fareeda.

Fareeda is one of the more than 400 000 frontline polio workers trained and mobilized
by the World Health Organization (WHO) multiple times a year in support of
Pakistan's Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) to protect millions of children against
paralytic polio. Under the leadership of the Government of Pakistan, and with support
from partners such as Rotary International, polio workers like Fareeda are running the
last mile to eradicate polio in Pakistan, the Eastern Mediterranean region and
worldwide.

In May, Fareeda was one of the frontline workers who supported a subnational
campaign to protect over 18.6 million children as part of the third large-scale door-to-
door campaign of 2026. On a hot summer day, she climbs all the way to the top floor
of a 5-storey building in the Gulshan-e-Elahi neighbourhood of Hyderabad district,
stopping to catch her breath on the landing. Using her phone as a torch, and with a
vaccine carrier hanging from her shoulder, she carefully navigates the staircase in
complete darkness during an electricity outage. The unexpected obstacle does not
prevent her from reaching 2 families on the top floor and vaccinating their 4 children.