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News Click here to see our calendar of events Click here to see banners received from
other Rotary Clubs August 2011 Rotary Club Estoi
Palace International is holding a charity golf day on August 27th 2011 at the
Algarve’s Quinta do Vale course. This Seve
Ballesteros signature course is on the banks of the Guadiana River which
forms the border between Portugal and Spain. The event will raise funds in
support of Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign. Since 1988, Rotary International
and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) the World
Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and
Prevention have worked towards Polio’s worldwide eradication. Rotary began
arranging immunisation of children against polio in 1985 and became a
spearheading partner in the GPEI three years later. Thanks to Rotary and its partners,
the world has seen polio cases plummet by 99 per cent, preventing five
million instances of child paralysis and 250,000 deaths. When Rotary began
its eradication work, polio infected more than 350,000 children annually. In
2009, fewer than 1,700 cases were reported worldwide.
Rotary is determined to finish the job
and finally eliminate polio but the cases represented by that final 1 per
cent are the most difficult and expensive to prevent. Challenges include
geographic isolation, armed conflict, and cultural barriers. That’s why it’s so important to
generate the funding needed to End Polio Now. To fail is to invite a polio
resurgence that would potentially condemn millions of children to lifelong
paralysis in the years ahead. The bottom line is that as long as polio
threatens even one child anywhere in the world, all children, wherever they
live, remain at risk. Rotary Club Estoi
Palace International is already rising to the challenge with members having
individually contributed to End Polio Now. We are now reaching out to the
local community and others to help in this important programme. The golf event will be an 18 holes Stableford competition with lunch and Polo shirt for a
fee of €50 per person. There will be some excellent prizes including a
fantastic team prize and individual first prizes for men and women along with
longest drive and nearest pin competitions. It is also planned to have a hole
in one car prize! Groups of four will tee off and if
needed we can arrange for groups to be formed. Total numbers will be
necessarily limited to 20 teams. A shotgun start will be at 9.00am
and the play will be followed by lunch and prize presentation including a
winner’s trophy sponsored by Imperius Asset
Management, our main sponsor for the event. Further sponsorship is being
provided by Premier FX, Vila Gale Hotels, Wellness Longevity, Pestana Vila Sol and others. There are also plans for a separate
programme for wives / husbands / partners probably to Ayamonte
followed by a lunch in Vila Real de San Antonio before returning to Quinta do
Vale for the presentations. All support will be fully
acknowledged publicly and we will be arranging extensive media coverage of
the event. For more information, or to
register to play, please contact club member Barry Dawson at barry@rotaryestoipalace.org
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