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Rotary Service Award

Rotary Service Award for Professional Excellence
Dr. Robert Walley was awarded the Rotary Service Award for Professional Excellence. "In recognition of professional achievement, demonstrated high ethical standards, community and vocational service, and dedication to the concept of Service Above Self".

Dr. Walley has just returned to Newfoundland “for a while” after speaking engagements at the NB CWL convention and at various places in PEI and ON. He intends to “put his feet down” for a short time and avoid speaking engagements until some of the hard core MaterCare work is completed. Work is ongoing on a maternal health project in Isiolo, Kenya, as well as in Rwanda.

The next MaterCare conference is scheduled for Rome in October 2006. It will follow the format of previous years, with presentations covering several days. Although geared to health care personnel, it will again be open to interested people, it also covers ethical issues and provides current information on a wide variety of topics. However, the material is understandable in large part by all. Participants stay at convent which is an “extraterritorial area of the Vatican” just outside the famous Vatican posts, overlooking Vatican Square.

A workshop has been scheduled for May 2007 in Zagreb, Croatia for post-communist countries. Several participants that attended MCI's international workshops were from Poland, Croatia, Lithuania, and Hungary. They expressed interest in establishing MaterCare affiliates in their own countries stating that there is a need for an organization like MCI in each post-Communist country. MCI, as an organization, is committed to the Culture of Life and would serve as an alternate organization to other international organizations that promote anti-life policies.