World Diabetes Day.

“Diabetes education and prevention.”

World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes mellitus world and is held on November 14 of each year. It was introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to the alarming rise of diabetes around the world. World Diabetes Day is a campaign that features a new theme chosen by the International Diabetes Federation each year to address issues facing the global diabetes community. Each year, World Diabetes Day is centered on a theme related to diabetes. World Diabetes Day is a global observance and not a public holiday.

World Diabetes Day is celebrated worldwide by the over 200 member associations of the International Diabetes Federation in more than 160 countries and territories, all Member States of the United Nations, as well as by other associations and organizations, companies, healthcare professionals and people living with diabetes and their families.

Each year World Diabetes Day is centered on a theme related to diabetes. Topics covered in the past have included diabetes and human rights, diabetes and lifestyle, and the costs of diabetes. Recent themes include:

2005: Diabetes and Foot Care
2006: Diabetes in the Disadvantaged and the Vulnerable
2007-2008: Diabetes in Children and Adolescents
2009-2013: Diabetes Education and Prevention

The World Diabetes Day logo is the blue circle - the global symbol for diabetes which was developed as part of the Unite for Diabetes awareness campaign. The significance of the blue circle symbol is overwhelmingly positive. Across cultures, the circle symbolizes life and health. The color blue reflects the sky that unites all nations. The blue circle signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in response to the diabetes pandemic.

There are about 360 million people around the world are living with diabetes. Every year on November 14, World Diabetes Day has brought people together to raise awareness and bring the diabetes epidemic into the public spotlight. So lets working together to eliminate avoidable Diabetes.

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World Interact Day

 Interact club is a service club for youth ages 12 to 18 and is part of Rotary International, the world’s first service club organization. The parent international organization consists of over 30,000 clubs around the world and boasts more than million business and professional leaders as members. Individual Rotary clubs sponsor the youth component, Interact clubs, by providing guidance and support but they are self-governing and self-supporting. The first Interact club was founded in 1962.

Some Interact clubs are single gender; others are mixed gender. An Interact club may derive its membership from a single school or combine students from more than one school in a particular community, and students as young as 10 may join if the school where the club is based accepts students of that age. The size of Interact club memberships varies, as well. Members are known as Interactors.

Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of

• Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
• Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
• Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
• Advancing international understanding and goodwill

Each year during the week of November 5, Interact celebrates the founding of the club with World Interact Week. During this week, members of Interact and Rotary clubs often plan joint projects.

As one of the most significant and fastest-growing programs of Rotary service, with more than 14,700 clubs in 139 countries and geographical areas, Interact has become a worldwide phenomenon. Almost 340,000 young people are involved in Interact.

World Vegan Day

“vegetarians reported significantly less negative emotion than omnivores.”

World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated on 1 November, by vegans around the world. The Day was established in 1994 by Louise Wallis, the President & Chair of The Vegan Society UK. 2012 marks the 68th anniversary of the term 'vegan'. 

Veganism is a great alternative to eating meat, which we can only get by killing animals! Furthermore, vegan farming can help us to banish world hunger - it helps protect water reserves, fertile lands, and cuts out greenhouse gas emissions.

 Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, or        “weekday vegetarian," going veggie-friendly can be good for both your physical and mental health. Science Daily notes that a vegetarian diet is associated with low blood pressure and cholesterol, better heart health and even lower rates of cancer. But being vegetarian doesn't just make you physically fit; it might make you happier too. 

Staying away from bacon and steak can be a struggle, but if you choose to try, you aren't alone. 

On the Vegan day, please give your support to keep Animal Voices going. 

Halloween day

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31.  It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday "All Saints' Day", but is today largely a secular celebration.

                                                                                                                                                                     

There are various symbols associated with Halloween. These include the spooks, ghosts and walking skeletons   that represent the contact between the spiritual and physical world and between the living and the dead. Human   figures that are often represented on Halloween are witches and wizards, who are seen to have the power to contact the spirit world. Bats, black cats and spiders are often connected with this holiday. These animals are associated with the night and darkness and often accompany witches and wizards.                                            

There are also a range of objects associated with Halloween. These include blood, fire, gravestones, pumpkins, bones and skulls. They all have connections with death, the spirit world or protecting property from evil spirits. Many of these objects are now available in stores as decorations for the Halloween season.

 Halloween is not an official holiday. Government offices and businesses are open as usual and public transit services run on regular schedules. 

     

World Polio Day

October 24 is a day that will come and go without notice to most people in the world. You will not see thousands of people wearing pink. You will not see the ribbons on peoples clothing. You will not see hundreds of races dedicated to raising money or awareness. But October 24 is a very special day. This day is World Polio Day.

What is polio? World Polio Day describes the virus as:

“Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50% of all cases). The virus enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine. Initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and pain in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). Amongst those paralyzed, 5%-10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.

Many people still do not realize the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a polio victim who required a wheelchair to be mobile. Few pictures of him with his wheelchair exist and his illness was hidden from the public eye.

Most of us are too young to remember the horrible and crimpling polio virus. Most of us are even more luck to live in countries where polio has already been eradicated. We would not be this lucky if it was not for a world wide group called Rotary International (RI).

Rotary International is a world wide charitable organization with over 1.2 million members and 34,000 clubs. “Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.”

Rotary International does thousands of charitable services but their main goal is the worldwide eradication of the Polio virus and so far they are doing a great job. There program to eradicate polio is called “Polio Plus.”

After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease. Its a great effort and contribution by the Rotarians worldwide to initiate the movement of global Polio eradication programme.

As a Rotaractor, I am proud to be a part of Rotary International Family. This is absolutely amazing and we must not drop the ball on this mission.

Today in World - IU Project

International understanding is very vital for the growth and the well being of a Rotaract club as from each piece of detail we could add something to our lives or help someone in need.

"Today in world", Our latest international understanding project is hosted from October 1st to widen the knowledge of many through a variety of aspects.

In this project we share a article full of information on special international days symbolized to celebrate or reminisce a certain person, event or a movement.These articles are publicized through our blog (Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya) and we shared them to our Official FB fan page also. Currently up until now we have posted articles on, 

                                       World children's day

                                       World sight day

                                       World standards day

                                       International day for the eradication of poverty 

                                       World Food day

                                       International day of rural women

                                       Global hand-washing day

                                       World white cane day

                                       World post day  etc.  

  

So far this project had been utterly successful and our objective of widening international understanding is fulfilled. We hope this will continue to be a success!

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya shared a link.

October 9

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya: World Post Day

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    Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya shared a link.

    October 12

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya: World Sight Day

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Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya shared a link.

October 2

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya: World Children's Day

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Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya shared a link.

October 15

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya: "Today in World"

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Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya shared a link.

October 14

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya: World Standards Day

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Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya shared a link.

October 16

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya: World Food Day

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Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya shared a link.

October 17

Rotaract Club of Kuliyapitiya: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

                                       

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world. It was officially recognized by the United Nations,but the first commemoration of the event took place in Paris, France, in 1987 when 100,000 people gathered on the Human Rights and Liberties Plaza at the Trocadéro to honour victims of poverty, hunger, violence and fear.It promotes people’s awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution worldwide, particularly in developing countries.

At the Millennium Summit, world leaders committed themselves to cutting by half by the year 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty - people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

The theme for this year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty -- “Working together out of poverty” -- highlights the need for a truly global anti-poverty alliance, one in which both developed and developing countries participate actively.

World Food Day

16th October has been declared as World Food Day which is observed in remembrance of launching of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. It is also the Food Engineer day.

The World Food Day theme for 2012 is "Agricultural cooperatives – key to feeding the world".The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), gives focus to World Food Day observances and raises awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hunger.

The aim of the Day is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty. 

Cooperatives are an important piece of achieving food security for all. 70 percent of those who face hunger live in rural areas where agriculture serves as the economic mainstay. Smallholder farmers are central to addressing hunger, yet many face barriers such as a lack of infrastructure, outdated farming practices, and a lack of access to financial services.  Cooperatives improve farmers’ agricultural productivity and equip them with access to marketing, savings, credit, insurance, and technology. Farmer cooperatives serve both to connect farmers to markets and to increase food production.

Supporting smallholder farmers enhances global food security and reduces poverty. Cooperatives link smallholder farmers to markets by aggregating their product, facilitating the adoption of new technologies and inputs, encouraging greater productivity and crop diversification, and providing a platform for smallholder producers in decisions that affect their livelihoods.

Good things happen when people believe in themselves and get organized. On World Food Day 2012, let us resolve to give cooperatives a helping hand, enabling them to overcome constraints and to play their full role in the drive to end hunger and poverty.