Mick S opened the meeting at the Pyramid Event Venue at 12:15pm and led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance followed with the Four-Way Test.
Guests
Cheryl P - Badger Chevrolet
Mari Heimstreet - Ed's sister in law
Student Rotarians
Happy Bucks
- Greg - Featured speaker at the Fox Cities book festival tomorrow. It is a virtual event and you can watch
- Steve W - Attended ground breaking for Topels. Very happy to help the Topels with their new building process. Soccer victory last night. Prayers for Dean Sanders.
- Ed H - Weekly happy buck for his neighbor watching his mom
- Jenny M - Bittersweet. Her 18 yo has moved in with her older sister in Oshkosh
- Mick S - Dean S is back in the hospital. Thoughts and prayers
- Denny - Became a great grandpa last week
Fines
None
Birthdays
None
CLUB BUSINESS - Announcements and committee reports
- Thank you note from Teagan Williams for rotary scholarship
- Thank you note from Julia Neuberger for participating as the Sept Junior Rotarian
- October 24th - World Polio Day - Africa was declared polio free this year
- Introductions from Madeline, Everett, and Brendan.
- Car Raffle Tickets - Get more or turn in to Janine. 8 tickets were sold at Lake Mills Market over the weekend from the rotary table. They need more sign ups. If you need more tickets during the week, you can get them from Mitch. Send him an email.
- Paul Harris Award - Jim Wishau 2+
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PROGRAM
Brent - Skygen International Foundation
Has worked in the vision industry for the last 20 years.
Skygen is a vision and dental insurance company that works as a third party administrator working behind the scenes with large insurers like United Health Care
The international foundation was created to address a vision need in the country of Tanzania. School age kids in Tanzania are unable to get corrective glasses in that region, so the skygen international foundation was created to help get eye glasses to people who need them. There are 4 eye doctors to every 2 million people in Tanzania, and most are in the major city centers. The rural population cannot get to the doctors or cannot afford the glasses.
They travel across tough terrain to get to remote schools in Tanzania. Once there, they offer visual acuity testing to assess vision. They then go through auto refraction test to get an objective measurement of their vision. It gets a very close prescription so the doctors have something to start with. It also screens out people who have good vision. Patients who need glasses have a consultation with an optometrist. This is the typical subjective testing where they swap through lens and ask which looks better. They then go through frame selection, assembly, and delivery. They have given out over 29,043 pairs of glasses in the last two years.
Donations: skygenfoundation.org
$5 buys a pair of glasses
Meeting adjourned 1:00pm
