Kakenya Ntaiya turned her dream of getting an education into a movement to empower vulnerable girls and bring an end to harmful traditional practices in Kenya. Meet two students at the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a school where girls can live [...]
As we end the 2020-21 Rotary year, here's Rotary International's outgoing President Holger Knaack's closing speech to the 2021 RI Virtual Convention.
As we celebrate Fathers Day in the U.S. I found this video on the importance of fathers. Single father of 3 children, Correctional Officer Calvin Williams of Ironwood State Prison speaks about the importance of being a father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu22Wgu98VE
Farming feeds all of us -- yet in rural communities, farmers are under pressure from mounting climate volatility and limited access to modern tools like the internet. How can agriculture stay resilient and grow with the times? Beth Ford, CEO of [...]
One of Rotary's causes is promoting peace. This week's program is about Rotarians in Canada putting that goal into practice by helping refugees of war settle in their new home. This week is the 77th anniversary of the Normandy invasion that [...]
In 1932, Rotarians played a large role in convincing the governments of Canada and the United States to join Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, forming Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The idea for the peace [...]
Why do people distrust vaccines? Anthropologist Heidi Larson explores how medical rumors originate, spread and fuel resistance to vaccines worldwide. While vaccines cannot escape the "political and social turbulence" that surrounds them, she says, the first step to stopping the spread [...]
Almost a billion people worldwide live in informal communities and slums, often without basic infrastructure like clean water, toilets or adequate roads. Urban planner Smruti Jukur Johari breaks down myths about these communities and shares examples of simple, common-sense solutions that [...]
This week's program was submitted by Bob Kuck. He wrote this with his video: "For many years Linda and I worked on Rotary sponsored projects in Mexico among the (Raramuri) Tarahumara people. Most of the projects were designed to support the [...]
Small businesses in the US are failing at an alarming rate. Nearly half close their doors by year 5, and 70% fail by year 10. The main reason? They run out of money. Compare that to small businesses in Ecuador and [...]
