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In light of the uncertainties associated with the coronavirus epidemic and issuance of "Shelter in Place" orders, the Rotary Club of Orinda has cancelled all regular Wednesday meetings at the Orinda Community Center until further notice. We have also cancelled both the Spring (Easter) Egg Hunt scheduled for Saturday, April 11, as well as Rotary Field Day, scheduled for Saturday April 25.For our Club, the health and welfare of all Rotarians and the community is always the main concern in our community service projects. Given the extreme unpredictability of events surrounding the coronavirus epidemic, we prefer to be overcautious in cancelling/postponing our upcoming spring events, rather than risk that these gatherings become hot spots of infection.
Our decision is in line with Governor Newsom's state-wide orders a new advisory by the Contra Costa County Health Service Department to cancel all gatherings of 10 or more people. It also is in line with today's decision by our Rotary District 5160 to cancel the Spring Assembly and the District Conference.
In response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus and in recognition of RI's recommendations regarding large voluntary group gatherings, we've decided to postpone the annual Trivia Bee scheduled for March 13. An e-mail will be sent to all those currently registered and you will have the option of 
patients. Without a multifaceted power solution that includes solar panels, the eye clinic’s power supply is unreliable with an overreliance on diesel fuel that is expensive and time consuming to procure. 2)To upgrade medical equipment for the full time clinical staff at IVVto improve medical care for the patients of the IVV Zimba Eye Clinic. 3) Topurchase clinical reference materials for the IVV Rotary Libraryfor the IVV staff to help them stay current with newest methods to improve patient care. This clinical research space and subscriptions to the latest medical references available in the existing IVV RotaryLibrary will help improve care for the eye clinic patients. The container used to ship the medical equipment and the solar panels will be used in Zimba possibly as an additional structure to expand the IVV Rotary Library.
volunteer medical professionals from the US and Canada organize medical missions (“eye camps”) to care for patients who otherwise would go without vision services. Each year these volunteers evaluate and treat approximately 2000-3000 patients and perform 300-400 eye surgeries, the most common of which is cataract surgery. IVV also provides medical treatment of common eye diseases that can cause blindness, such as glaucoma, and eye trauma due to injuries and accidents.
