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U SEARCH The Rotary Foundation inducted into University of Oxford’s Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors The Rotary Foundation has been welcomed into the University of Oxford’s Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors for its continuous support of the university. Mr. Michael Webb, Trustee of The Rotary Foundation and CCB representative, with The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Photo by John Cairns Since 1949,  The Foundation  has provided scholarships to more than 200 Oxford scholars including a former American ambassador to the United Kingdom, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter with the New York Times, and a Director & Senior Fellow at the Ansari Africa Centre. “The university is enormously grateful to The Rotary Foundation for their support of graduate scholarships at Oxford,” said Professo...

Climb every mountain A Rotaractor ventures deep into her native Uganda with a polio vaccination team as part of Rotary’s newest virtual reality film, Two Drops of Patience By  Patience Asiimwe As told to Diana Schoberg SHARE: SHARE ON FACEBOOK TWEET THIS PAGE EMAIL THIS PAGE Health workers must have a lot of passion. They face so many challenges to reach every child with the polio vaccine.  I found that out when I traveled to a mountain community on the border of Uganda and Kenya, 200 miles from my home in Kampala, to join a vaccination team. Just getting to the homes was a challenge, let alone persuading the parents to let us in. We had to park the cars, carry our coolers with the polio vaccine safely tucked inside between ice packs, and move on our own two feet, just walking and walking. It’s a bit of a trick – using your hands to steady yourself while you climb, yet still having to carry this heavy cooler. There were lots of streams and rivers, and at t...

Rotary clubs in Canada invest in the PACT program, an urban peace initiative that aims to break the cycle of youth crime By  Ryan Hyland Produced by  Andrew Chudzinski SHARE ON FACEBO I EMAIL THIS PAG E Akeem Stephenson wanted to go to jail. He believed it was the only way he could free himself from a life of crime — a life he desperately wanted to change.  After being arrested for a fourth time more than 10 years ago, for aggravated robbery, the teenager in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was set to go to prison. But the judge saw something in Stephenson that suggested that he could redeem himself. So he gave Stephenson a choice: participate in an 18-month youth program, or serve the six-month sentence.  Akeem Stephenson used the PACT program to turn his life around and launch his music career.  For Stephenson, the choice was clear. He decided to transform his life through the PACT Urban Peace Program. PACT, which stands for Participati...