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July
2010 Speakers/Events
1 - Canada
Day - meeting cancelled
8 - Ross McKinnell - speaks about the Farm Equipment
business
15 - Michael Sean Walters - Travel Photo Journalist
22 - Ken Catteau - Sailing Down the Mississippi
29 - Larry Smith - Kiwanis website features
August
2010 Speakers/Events
5
- Ken Cotterill - The Big Picture, Kiwanis at the District and
International Levels
12 -
19 - Dan Waterston - The Hamilton Ty-Cats
and the CFL in 2010
26 -
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Kiwanis, UNICEF join forces
Having saved millions of lives through its
campaign to virtually eliminate iodine deficiency disorders,
Kiwanis is set to battle another scourge that kills 160
children every day: maternal and neonatal tetanus. The new
global campaign for children was announced this past June 24
during the Opening Session of the Kiwanis
International Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Joining forces with UNICEF, Kiwanis and its 600,000 family
members will raise US$110 million to eliminate this disease
that kills one baby every nine minutes. Tetanus spores are
found everywhere—in the air, soil and contaminated objects.
Bacteria can enter a mother’s body through an open wound and
pass through a newly cut umbilical cord. The effects are
excruciating—tiny newborns suffer repeated, painful
convulsions and become hypersensitive to light, sound and
touch. Even a mother’s soothing voice and comforting
caresses are unbearable.
Kiwanis will devote the 2010-11 administrative year to
educating its members about the disease and the Kiwanis
campaign, preparing for the campaign launch at the 2011
international convention in Geneva, Switzerland.
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