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Reach Within to Embrace Humanity Kalyan Banerjee’s Agenda for 2011-12Presentation by Sunil K Zachariah, PDG, D 3201, India First Emphasis First emphasis for the year will be family. Good families lead to good neighbourhoods, and good neighbourhoods build good communities. Good communities make great nations. For there to be a strong family, there must first be a strong and safe home. Only then can there be health and hope and harmony within its walls. And then, we start looking at safe housing, at water and sanitation, at health care, at all the issues affecting mothers and children. Second Emphasis Our second emphasis is to build on what we do well, on continuity. There are so many things we are indeed good at: working for clean, safe water; spreading literacy; working in so many ways with the New Generations, our youth, in our newest Avenue of Service and assisting them to become the leaders of tomorrow. Of course, we stay focused on eradicating polio. We must continue to work with our strategic plan — expand on it, reinforce it, and take it to the next level. We must support The Rotary Foundation on its Future Vision Plan Third Emphasis Our third emphasis will be change, and we start by being the change we wish to see in the world ourselves. If we wish for peace, we start by living in peace ourselves, in our homes and in our communities. If we wish environmental degradation to stop, if we wish to reduce child mortality or to prevent hunger, we must be the instrument of that change — and recognize that it must start within us, with each of us. To Bring About Change To bring about the changes, we will need to think out of the box. We need to explore the possibilities of working together with others similarly engaged as we are. Rotary and the United Nations form a symbiotic relationship. We can take this forward by our engagement with the Millennium Development Goals, striving to meet the needs of our communities. The newly approved but well-test