Urgent Donations Needed for Disaster Response for Ukrainian Refugees
Dear fellow members of the Rotary Family and Guests,
We are all watching the events in Ukraine with shock, horror, and deep, deep sadness. The Rotary Foundation is responding to the unfolding humanitarian crisis with a new use of the Disaster Response Fund.
The Rotary Foundation has made the decision to temporarily use money given to the Disaster Response Fund up until April 30th 2022 to support disaster response grants for districts affected by those events. The disaster response grants will be expedited to help supply water, food, medicine, shelter and clothing.
As you know the Rotary Foundation is a great steward of the money Rotarians contribute It is a well-established charity which was founded 117 years ago. It has been rated a 4-stars which is the top rating by Chariy Navigator for the past 14 years.
You may make your donations online at Disaster Response Fund | My Rotary Your donation to our Disaster Response Fund, means we can support communities and help rebuild lives during this tragic time.
Thank you for your generous donation. In times of need, Rotary responds. We are people of action.
With Much Gratitude,
Asha Asokan and Julie Boswell
The Rotary Eclub of World Peace Rotary Foundation co-chairs
Our club is a Peace Maker Sponsor for
Our club is a $1000 sponsor of a Shelter Box.
Congratulations to our award-winning club!
Congratulations to Dinah Sandoval, District 5330’s Newest Rotary Peace Fellow!
We are excited to announce that the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation have selected Dinah Sandoval as a member of the 2021 Class of Peace Fellows. She will be studying for her Master’s degree at our Rotary Peace Center at the University of Bradford in Bradford, England.
Dinah received her Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University in International Relations (IR) and Italian. Her undergraduate studies introduced her to various conceptual and political frameworks that helped her understand the world and the different operating systems. Versed in theories and applications of international relations coupled with new language capabilities in French and Italian, she joined the Peace Corps and accepted a position as Capacity Building Volunteer in Botswana.
Botswana was life changing and cemented her commitment to peace and development. All volunteers were tasked with assisting the national mandate in combating HIV/AIDS. She worked beside her Botswana counterparts for two years in rural and resource limited areas. She stayed on for a third year to see a project through to completion.
She accepted a job with the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) as a Field Operations Manager in Perú managing two community health programs. Starting with community assessments and interviewing social change actors, she designed programs, hired teams, forged partnerships with local stakeholders and developed a five-year strategic plan.
Currently, Dinah is Technical Officer at Root Change, a non-profit based in Washington DC. She has learned new approaches that put communities at the center of their own development to achieve lasting change. Her work at Root Change supports innovative solutions that address systemic social issues across Latin America and East Asia. In her spare time, she is a Spanish Instructor, developing lesson plans for adult learners and training other teachers.
As you can see, Dinah Sandoval has accomplished much in her life, so far, and is excited to have the opportunity to learn more in the peacebuilding arena to share with the world. We are excited to have this Fontana resident representing Rotary District 5330. Dinah is one of only 50 applicants from around the world, who was selected to study for a Master’s degree in one of our Rotary Peace Centers for the 2021 year.
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Rebecca Crall, Area of Focus Manager for Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
PEGGY ASSEO COVID UPDATE
Although still working full time for Rotary, I’ve done what I can to assist the COVID-19 effort. In addition to picking up groceries for at-risk neighbors, I have purchased fabric and elastic for friends working on masks. My 92-year-old mother, Pat Froh, has spent the last few weeks sewing over 50 masks. I worked with a residential care nurse to distribute them to health care workers, and also shared them with colleagues, family and friends. Mom has been a wonder, spending her days mask making and attending Zoom gatherings, and working out online. I also coordinated a note writing effort to 150 people in an assisted living facility. We’re all in this together!
Photos: Pat Froh with Maisey and Candy, her COVID companions
Pat hard at work on Mask No. 51
Belinda Olvera: I have always prepared for catastrophic events, so I decided to share it with my clients that need help.
The World Peace Flame in Ashland is firing the imaginations of Peace Leaders from Middle School students, Ashland City Leaders to Oregon Legislators. Ashland is catching the attention of the global community. Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, and Founder of the Global Movement of the Culture of Peace, is coming to Ashland to learn first-hand how Ashland Culture of Peace Commission partners with the city, local non-profits and others to transform the city with the vision of a Culture of Peace. The Ashland Global Peace Conference will give local residents the opportunity to learn more about why Ashland is deserving of the global community’s attention by highlighting how our state and local leaders are inspired to work hard to create a culture of peace for their constituents. The views of creating a culture of Peace from the global, national, state, city, community, interpersonal and personal levels will be explored.
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
The United Nations Member States adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 because they understood that it would not be possible to build a peaceful world if steps were not taken to achieve economic and social development for all people everywhere, and ensure that their rights were protected. The Sustainable Goals cover a broad range of issues, including poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy, environment and social justice.
Sustainable Development Goal 16 “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions” calls for promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
A peaceful society is one where there is justice and equality for everyone. Peace will enable a sustainable environment to take shape and a sustainable environment will help promote peace.
The theme for the International Day of Peace in 2018 is “The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70”
The theme celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.
The Universal Declaration – the most translated document in the world, available in more than 500 languages – is as relevant today as it was on the day that it was adopted.
“It is time all nations and all people live up to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human race. This year marks the 70th anniversary of that landmark document.” — Secretary-General António Guterres
The Universal Declaration states in Article 3. “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” These elements build the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.
Yet, the Universal Declaration does not include a separate article on “Right to Peace”. This is why we ask you this year:
What does “The Right to Peace” mean to you? Share your ideas with us through #peaceday and #standup4humanright.
In the lead up to the International Day of Peace on 21 September, we call upon all to take action.
You can support SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions by seeking peaceful resolution of conflict when disagreements arise around you. You can be part of the solution by taking small steps. You can prevent an injustice at school or in your community by adopting a non-violent approach to problem solving and reporting potential crimes, including online bullying.
You can promote human rights by collecting and promoting videos of as many articles as possible in as many languages as possible. Record yourself reading one of the 30 articles of the Declaration in any of the 135 languages currently available and share your video with your friends.
You can engage by speaking up when others are at risk and stand with others’ human rights at work, in school and around the dinner table.
You can reflect how each of us can stand up for rights, every day.
Human rights are everyone’s rights.
We celebrated September 21 the International Peace Day with A 2018 UNA Santa Barbara Peace Prize to Rotary past district governor Deepa Willingham. DG Willingham shows how one peacemaker can change an entire village in India. She kept her dream alive to educate girls to give them a future and bring joy back into their young lives. Peace begins with each of us. Imagine our world at peace with all of us contributing our gifts as we remember together that Peace begins with me. As President of Your UNASB.org I invite you to Join our chapter and the be part of our future conversations.
Join Emmanuel Itier in San Bernardino on Saturday, January 27 at 230pm for a showing of Shamanic Trekker.
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WHAT DOES “PEACE” MEANS TO YOU?
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Member Stephanie Phillips arranges for Member Henry Oster to speak to the entire student body at Rim of the World High School in Lake Arrowhead on the Holocaust.
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“Is peace a state of mind? Or dream worth dreaming for?
In my belief peace is actually something you DO. Living peacefully means involving oneself into this world’s matters, inspiring others to spread peace by being a blueprint of peaceful behavior.”
Oliver Kyr
“Peace, Shalom, Paz, Paix is the notion of “being whole”, “being complete”. For me it’s about the thinking, being, doing of our “I” transforming itself into “We” to transcend our ego and separation and reach to a state of Oneness. Let’s Be Peace in Action!”.
Emmanuel Itier
“ One of the biggest issues in finding a way for all the world peace organizations to stop competition and all teach humans about world peace. Humans learning how to deal with immigration,disasters, supporting each country…. how to deal with globalisation, political setbacks. teach decency,toleranceand good sence to every person and to learn from animals.. learn about social safety,values,and to remain reassuringingly level headed virtues spring fromhistory… make a way for the rich countries to create manufacturing jobs change the stagnant incomes and change the rising inequality and grow the middle class..show humans how to stop the fear rhetoric…Welcome newcomersand integrate them…teach countries to fuse diversity and national identity.
stephen Klein
“Peace is the a state in which it is acknowledged, understood and accepted that everything is exactly just as it should be. it is the blissful feeling found in the Now that allows the flow of Well-Being to run through us and that liberates us from our minds and its false preconceptions. It it a place of complete Trust. “
Dr. Henry Oster, Member and Holocaust Survivor speaks in April in Sweden
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Inhumanities — past and present
27 & 28 April 2017
The Program will provide a multi-dimensional perspective on genocide by: (a) a Holocaust survivor, who can provide a personal, first hand account of persecution under Nazi rule (b) a social anthropologist who has done extensive field research in the Middle East and Asia, interviewing Al-Qaeda and Islamic State and other combatants and thus can provide a contemporary perspective — he has “Talked with the Enemy” and (c) by an academic who has researched and written extensively about violence and genocide in The Balkans.
Speakers:
Scott Atran, French National Center for Scientific Research and Atris Director of Research.
Henry Oster (retired)
Tomislav Dulić, Director of the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University.
Venues:
Department of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Stockholm University
YBC gymnasium, Nacka
Program background
The term “genocide” did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. Human rights, as laid out in the US Bill of Rights or the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, concern the rights of individuals.
Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented? The panel will explain the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century–and show how and why it became so systematic and deadly.
The searing brutality of each genocide traces its origins back to those most powerful categories of the modern world: race and nation. The Program will explain how a strong state pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme national and racial ideologies. In moments of intense crisis, these states targeted certain national and racial groups, believing that only the annihilation of these “enemies” would enable the dominant group to flourish. And in each instance, large segments of the population were enticed to join in the often ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbors.
Violent Political Extremism — in modern times.
Violent political action, often involving attempts at mass murder of civilian noncombatants, continues to grow in many regions. Significant numbers of immigrant and native born youth from Western countries (including Sweden) volunteer to fight and die with The Islamic State, which is expanding beyond its base in Syria and Iraq to establish militant affiliates in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt and Libya.
At the root of this turbulent state of affairs is the interaction of sacred values and a brotherhood-like bonding that produces unconditional commitment to fight and die, which also provides moral virtue for otherwise marginalized youth and petty criminal elements, and is not well understood by the general public.
The Panel will also address whether contemporary violent political extremism can trace its roots back to genocides of the 20th century. Are there similarities in motivation, features, causation and method?
Up-rooted Persons.
This will focus on the human experience and the relationship between macro-level decision-making and individual experiences that are ”close to home” for a Swedish audience. In particular, about the 4,300 Yugoslav prisoners that were sent to Norway on slave labour during the Second World War.
This talk would begin with a police report from Jokkmokk by a local police officer about a group of ”foreigners” that had been found by members of a Sami community near the lake Tarrajaure. Their fate and the fate of so many others will then be traced back to the Balkans, where it will show that the make-up of the prisoners can be used to illustrate the difference between security-oriented and exterminatory violence. It will then trace the men from their capture and incarceration at Semlin concentration camp, over their transportation in northern Norway to their life their and flight.
Surviving the Holocaust — a personal testimony.
This program is timely. Most survivors of the Holocaust are dead and the few remaining are aged or infirm. Soon they all will have passed and we will loose the opportunity for personal testimony. Although will still be able to read accounts of the tragedy, a personal account is compelling and powerful, especially as for many (especially the youth) the Holocaust is in the distant past.
Fortunately, Henry Oster is healthy and vibrant. He also is intellectual and unique as he is a German Jew. His family was murdered by the Nazis and their bodies reduced to ash, resulting in him emerging from the concentration camps without a flicker of faith, as did many survivors.
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Rotary E Club of World Peace Officially Chartered on 24 June 2016.
FEMME: Women Healing the World
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