Dozens of youngsters helped Novus Rotary members hone its marketing skills by taking part in a hook a duck competition with no entry fee and no prizes.
While the youngsters entertained themselves, Sarita, Jason and president Jim talked to parents and visitors to the Friends of Knighton Park Show about the duck race that Novus — along with with the Rotary Clubs of Leicester De Montfort, Oadby and Blaby — will hold in Knighton Park on May 26 next year.
President Jim praised the organisers of the show, the Friends of Knighton Park, and the city council parks department team for putting on an event which was like a village show, even though it drew from city areas including Knighton and Evington and county areas Oadby and Wigston.
One of the more distant visitors was a Loughborough Beacon Rotarian who travelled from the north of the county and generously made a donation to one of the causes the duck race will benefit, End Polio Now. This is the charity which Rotary set up in 1985 when polio was infecting about 1,000 people across the world every day. By raising billions of pounds and immunising about 2.5 billion children, Rotary International and its partners have limited to Afghanistan and Pakistan the countries where polio is endemic. So far this year, there have been only seven cases in those two countries.
Jim said: “Rotary and its partners must press on until we have completely eradicated polio. Until we have, there is a danger that an infected person could visit a country where polio no longer exists and cause an outbreak, killing and disabling people. Polio is, at the moment, only a plane flight away.”
Last edited: 18:20 on Monday, September 4, 2023
