Dialing In Dialing In Dialing In Greeter of the Week Greeter of the Week OFF THE ROTARY WHEEL Rotary Club of Altadena AN AWARD-WINNING NEWSLETTER April 05, 2018 This Week This Week April 05 Roger Fennell April 12 Freddy Figueroa April 19 John Frykenberg It’s Mom & Child Health Care Month Have You heard about these Programs? Please turn to Dialing p. 4 Emily Hopkins, Executive Director Sidestreet Projects Program Host: David Smith I By Steve Kerekes, President The following information has been taken from the internet, and the Sparks staff has no way of knowing if it is appli- cable to this week’s program. Emily Hopkins works to develop sus- tainable, community-based systems that connect working artists directly to com- munities. She is an advisor to PUSD and, the Vice President of her Neighborhood Association. Hopkins has a BFA & MA from CalArts. Side Street Projects is an entirely mo- bile artist run organization. Their mission is to give artists of all ages the ability and means to support their creative endeavors. All of our programs connect professional artists directly to communities to facilitate creative problem solving within a con- temporary arts context. It was founded in 1992 and is an entirely mobile artist-run organization that gives artists of all ages the ability and the means to support their creative endeavors. I n the Rotary Calendar, April is Mother and Child Health Care Month. Rotary’s goal is to improve access to essential medical services for mothers and their chil- dren. These efforts are aimed at reducing the number of children under age five who die each year because of malnutrition, inad- equate health care, and poor sanitation. That figure is currently estimated at seven million. According to another estimate, more than 80 percent of maternal deaths could be pre- vented with access to reproductive health services and trained health care workers. Rotarians provide education, immuniza- tions, birthing kits, and mobile health clinics to support these causes. Rotarians create projects that help teach mothers-to-be how to care for their newborn babies, prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease. Below are three of the recent projects conducted by Rotarians through-out the world: • Pre-natal health camp in Sri-Lanka - The Rotary Club of Newtown, Pennsyl- vania sponsored a pre-natal and post-na- tal health camp on a remote island off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka called Delft Island. This was the fourth out of a series of five health camps which the Newtown Pennsyl- vania Club had sponsored. With the assistance of the Sri Lankan Navy, they set up a makeshift pharmacy, arranged medicines, and prepared the patient registrations and doctor’s consultation areas. Mothers-to-be and mothers with infants and children registered and then met with one of five volunteer doctors from the Jaffna Province Government Hospital. Everyone who participated received multi-vitamins, folic acid, iron
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Dialing InDialing InDialing In
Greeter of the WeekGreeter of the Week
OFF THE ROTARY WHEEL
Rotary Club of Altadena
AN AWARD-WINNING NEWSLETTER
April 05, 2018
This WeekThis Week
April 05Roger Fennell
April 12Freddy Figueroa
April 19John Frykenberg
It’s Mom & Child Health Care MonthHave You heard about these Programs?
Please turn to Dialing p. 4
Emily Hopkins,Executive DirectorSidestreet ProjectsProgram Host: David Smith I
Sparks is published 48 weeks a year and is the offi cial publication of the Rotary Club of Altadena. The deadline for submission of articles is Friday at 6p to current editor email, fax, or delivery.
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