Mission Goal: Increase awareness of critical issues related to world population growth and sustainable development and implement relevant
projects Working Goal: To encourage Rotary clubs and districts, working as appropriate with government agencies, non-governmental organizations and
local leadership, to increase awareness and undertake even more projects that directly impact population growth and sustainable development. Projects would include
those that promote education on the issue of population, access to family health care, adequate nutrition and enable individuals to make informed and responsible decisions
about issues such as child spacing in a way that is in keeping with their personal values and cultural and religious considerations. (The Rotarian: February 2000). Program of Action:1. Immediate
- A. To organize the Conference of Cooperation between Rotary and the United Nations Population Fund: World Population Growth and Sustainable Development
Concerns 28-30 July 2000 2000 in Zurich Switzerland
- B. To Organize a Rotary Population Summit in New Delhi, India to create awareness among Rotarians and promote cooperation between Rotary, local, private and
governmental agencies 22-24 September 2000
- C. To organize a Latin American Population Concerns Conference in Brasilia, Brazil to coordinate the efforts of Rotary and the local, state and national
governments of Brazil and other nations of Latin America regarding population and development on 16-18 March 2001
- D. To Support Presidential Conferences for Related Topics
Latin American Presidential Conference
- Date: 14-16 September 2000
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Chairman: Alfredo Aguilar Barrosa
- Topic: Population and its effect on urban violence
North American Presidential Conference
- Date: 10-12 November 2000
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Chairman: Robert Valentin, assisted by local host organization chairman
- Topic: Population challenges caused by adolescent pregnancies
African Presidential Conference
- Date: 26-28 April 2001
- Location: Capetown, South Africa
- Chairman: Antonio Seranno
- Topic: Population and its growing effect on providing education and health care
Asian Presidential Conference
- Date: 6-8 April 2001
- Locaton: Manila, The Philippines
- Chairman: Rafael Hechanova
- Topic: Youth and job opportunities for the future
European Presidential Conference
- Date: 11-13 May 2001
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Chairman: Carlo Monticelli
- Topic: Dealing with the elderly and a reduced number of the younger generation
E. To urge zone institutes, district assemblies, district conferences, inter-city meetings, multidistrict conferences and regional conferences to include
topics on population and development. F. To encourage presentations on population and develoopment at club meetings G. To write and distribute a
"Population and Development Handbook" with ideas to create awareness and with examples of projects for Rotary clubs and districts of all sizes to use to take action to
educate women and men about child spacing to put increased intervals between the births of their children to allow mothers to be healthy, to reduce infant death and to
allow greater economic development of their families. 2. Intermediate To motivate cooperation between districts and clubs to create 250 Matching Grants and
two 3-H Grants to take action on Population concerns. 3. Long Term
To educate women and men about child-spacing (which includes: 1. education, particularly of young
girls, adolescents and mothers, 2. access to health care, 3. saniation and hygiene, 4. nutrition, 5. at risk children, and 6. literacy) to put an increased interval
between the births of gtheir children to allow mothers to be healthy and reduce infant mortality.To increase opportunity for women for economc advancement
(by providing 1. skill development and employment and 2. the use of Micro-credit) To reduce the stress on our environment (water, air, the flora and fauna) as
a result of over population of cities, rural communities and mountainous regions To create swareness of the world's aging population To take
action using Rotary Programs for Community Service and the Grants of the Rotary Foundation to combat hunger, illiteracy and lack of economic development caused by child
birth at excessively young and too frequent intervals.
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