One hundred and fifty peopled filled the Studio@TPS and were treated to the sight of more than thirty models treading the catwalk
in a wide variety of fashions, including something completely different from Clusons Country Wear.
During the evening
Champange and Canapes were provided to the audience and a very successful raffle was held. Our thanks to the sponsors for their
generosity.
There are several pictures of the evening here in a Picasa web album
Lawrence “Tris” Tristram from the Rotary Club of Petersfield has just returned from India having taken part in a National Immunisation Day on February 7 - when millions of children were protected from the crippling and paralysing polio disease, as part of the Thanks for Life - End Polio Now campaign.
Tris had been looking forward to going: “It’s only when you see for yourself the terrible suffering caused by this disease that you can fully understand the need for action. This vaccine costs less than a penny and saves thousands of young lives. Nobody should face a lifetime of being painfully and severely crippled.
“It’s heartbreaking seeing tiny children affected by the polio virus, especially when it could have been avoided. Instead of running and playing as children should, they are struggling to stand. At home, we take it for granted that this disease is gone but here, it is very much a reality.”
Seven thousand nine hundred vaccination stations were set up in the city of Delhi alone, and welcomed families and their children on the National Immunisation Day. These stations alone needed approximately 22,500 volunteers to man them. The Rotary volunteers also went on a “mop-up” day knocking on doors and immunising the children who had missed the visit to the stations with the special polio vaccine a s part of the service to the communities.
Once immunised, the children’s little fingers are dyed purple to keep track of who has already been given the protective medication, now known as the Purple Pinkie.
Find out more about the Rotary Thanks for Life campaign by visiting Thanks for Life
Hillhead 2009
On Thursday 17 September 2009, the Rotary Club of Petersfield organised its annual trip to Hill Head, Hampshire.
Thirty-nine guests were entertained to a coach trip from Petersfield to the Rotary-owned “Boathouse” beside the Solent at Hill Head.
A team of volunteers from the Club collected the guests from their homes and transported them to the coach pickup point.
Meanwhile another team of club members and their partners were busy at the Boathouse setting out the tables and chairs and preparing the food
for the tea-party.
Gone Digging
On Thursday five members of the Club lead by Jenny Broadhead spent part of the morning tending to the Rotary Garden at the Citizens Advice Bureau
near the Festival Hall.
The Bookstall
August Bank Holiday Monday saw members of the club manning a bookstall in the Petersfield Festivities.
We raised £235.88 for the End Polio Now campaign.
Recently we took around 40 children with special needs, and their carers from the Hollywell School, Bordon to enjoy a fun packed day out when
they took part in the annual “Rotary KidsOut” Day. We took them to the Paulton’s Park
Family Theme Park in the New Forest,where they joined many hundreds of other disadvantaged and young children from Hampshire and Dorset to
enjoy the 50 or so attractions. Each child enjoyed a packed lunch and was given a T-Shirt and a certificate. A total of 37 local
clubs and 450 Rotarians supported this event.
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