Guy Frye (left photo), immediate past president of the EKU Circle K Chapter, enjoys visiting with some DZ friends at the breakfast. Circle K President Sarah Freese and Circle K member Lee Kuiper (right photo) also helped with the pancake breakfast and yard sale.
A retired English teacher and her husband, the former dean of men at EKU, are moving to a retirement home and held a yard sale on Saturday. There were many hundreds of books left over after the yard sale was completed and they wish to contribute these books to the Madison County Public Library ( http://www.madisonlibrary.org/ ) for use in the library or for resale by the Friends of the Madison County Public Library (http://www.madisonlibrary.org/Friends/friends.htm) with the money being used for children's activities in the library. Circle K assisted them in moving the books. Click here to see this project.
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Circle K has put out UNICEF boxes to collect for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to help kids caught in things like the tsunami and hurricanes - and in areas where there is sever hunger. This is a Key Club International project that we are supporting. You can give your support by putting coins in the box at your front desk at your dorms.
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Now: I would suggest doing this up to one week before Halloween. For more information: http://www.unicefusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=duLRI8O0H&b=25954 Get collection boxes (be sure to get the ones marked Key Club) and educational materials needed. I'd also reccommend scheduling a visit to your sponsoring Kiwanis' meeting all dressed up to Trick-or-Treat them as well as to educate them beforehand.  Please take pictures for articles! I'd love to feature them in my newsletter as well as the District Bulletin! |
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"Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is more than a fundraising program. For many children, it's their first introduction to philanthropy and the needs of their peers in places far away. It is wonderful to know that I can be a part of that moment." Clay Aiken, 2005 Spokesperson |
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Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, a 55-year Halloween tradition beloved by generations, is one of America's longest-running youth volunteer activities.
Kid-powered and mom-approved, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF enables kids to raise funds that help save and improve the lives of their most vulnerable peers around the globe. That's why UNICEF's youngest volunteers are true world heroes!
Penny by penny, millions of American kids, schools, parents and partner organizations involved in Trick-or-Treat have raised more than $127 million to support UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund. Not bad for a campaign that began with 15 Philadelphia kids collecting a grand total of $17 back in 1950.
Last Halloween season, Trick-or-Treaters collected nearly $5 million for UNICEF, a new record. But these kids know that UNICEF needs them for more than just one night or even one month each year. After the tsunami disaster struck South Asia on December 26, 2004, many children came together to collect another $10 million for UNICEF's tsunami relief efforts.
That's the heroic spirit that makes Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF an inspiration for kids of all ages. Please join us and become a real hero to kids all over the world who need your help.
Circle K is dedicated to helping the fight against Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD). This problem can be found throughout the world, but many people do not know what IDD is and what it can do to its victims. In an attempt to make peole more aware of the problem, these facts and statistics have been provided.
Iodine deficiency remains the single greatest cause of preventable brain damage and mental retardation worldwide. WHO estimated in 1990 that 1570 million people, or about 30% of the world's population, were at risk of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD). In 1995, WHO estimated that the number of people with goitre was 750 million.
Insufficient intakes of iodine during pregnancy and early childhood result in impaired mental development of young children. Even marginal deficiency may reduce a child's mental development by about 10%.
Forty-three million people were estimated to be affected by some degree of IDD-related brain damage, ranging from frank cretinism, spastic diplegia, milder mental retardation, and impaired educability.
The goal for the year 2000 is that at least 90% of edible salt consumed should be adequately iodized, including salt used for animals and salt used in preparation of commonly eaten staple foods such as bread.
A number of areas, particularly west and central Africa, will require additional support to achieve the year-2000 goal.
A mechanism should be established at all facilities producing iodized salt, and at all points of importation, for the quality of iodization to be effectively and routinely monitored and suitable corrective action to be taken.
An assessment of IDD prevalence has now been made in 106 developing countries with a population of over one million people where IDD is recognized to be a public health problem, or would be a public health problem if salt iodization programs ceased. Despite the magnitude of this global problem, there is a visible growing momentum and measurable success in reducing IDD in many countries.
Many industrialized countries introduced large-scale salt iodization prior to 1960. In Latin America, salt iodization started on a large scale in the 1960s and 1970s, but was not sustained in some countries. Many other countries had regulations or laws requiring salt to be iodized, but these were not enforced and there was little consumer demand for iodized salt. The full magnitude of the problem of marginal deficiency was not widely appreciated, and IDD was considered to be solely a problem of goitre, which occurred only in well-defined areas.
During the first half of the 1990s, 1500 million additional people started to consume iodized salt. Without such efforts, 750 million of these people would have continued to be at risk from IDD. This has been achieved at a cost of about four US cents per beneficiary in external funding assistance.
At the end of 1995, 19 out of 83 countries for which information is available were iodizing more than 90% of all salt produced for human consumption. A further 15 countries have more than 75% of all salt iodized. In these 34 countries, and in many of the remaining 49 countries, the infrastructure to produce iodized salt has already been established and the proportion of salt consumed which is iodized will reach or exceed 90% by the year 2000, provided awareness of the importance of the programme and national and international commitment to it are maintained.
As of February 1996, 57% of the population of 83 developing countries, about 2500 million people, were obtaining an adequate iodine intake through the consumption of iodized salt. Because salt iodization has not been targeted, it is not at present possible to estimate the percentage of people at highest risk of IDD who are consuming iodized salt.
Through the efforts of national governments, WHO, UNICEF, the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, and the salt industry, and with the support of bilateral development agencies, financial resources required to achieve universal salt iodization (USI) have been mobilized. An estimated US$ 30 million worth of investment in salt iodization has been made available to countries since 1990 from "external" sources, over and above national investments.
Some countries with an IDD public health problem that are unable to fully implement universal salt iodization have been using iodine supplements as a temporary measure. Currently, 38 countries report using iodized oil supplements, up from 21 countries in 1992.
No country has yet been identified in which universal salt iodization has been demonstrated to be impossible or less cost-effective than any feasible alternative.
Alternative or additional strategies may be required in countries or parts of countries where groups at risk of IDD do not purchase iodized salt distributed through normal commercial channels. These may include the free distribution of iodized salt to vulnerable population groups, particularly women of childbearing age, the use of oral, high-dose, iodized oil capsules or the iodization of drinking-water.
