Rotarians in District 9700 were treated to a rare visit from the standing president of Rotary International when Kalyan Banerjee arrived in Wagga during the week of 21 May. The Rotary Club of Wagga Wagga, as the first Rotary Club in the district, served as host and organised a very nice reception at the Wagga Wagga Country Club. Over 300 Rotarians and guests, many traveling several hours to attend, enjoyed an evening of comraderie and speeches from President Banerjee, DG Ian Simpson, and award recipient Alok Sharma, an optician from Wagga who received a “service above self” award for his “Darkness to Light” program that brings eye surgery to needy patients in India. Representing the Coolamon Rotary Club were President Marg, Garth Perkin, John Burns (who, as a recent Rotary inductee was pinned by President Banerjee), Ian Durham and Paul Weston. Despite having to stand for the duration of the event, a good time was had by all.
Bulletins
Characters you meet at a Rotary Convention
One of the most amazing chaps we met in Bangkok was this Indian gentleman and here is a description of him and his work. He is a Rotarian from the RC of Madras Midtown.
Here are the web sites he is involved in:
http://exnora.org/
http://exnora.in/
His business card is something else.
I quote a couple of things that he has on his card.
“Guess who I am?”
“People think of me whenever they see Muck and Garbage”
“Strangely my name is opposite to what you saw! It is sad that people don’t remember me when the see cleanliness”
“When you have Muck you need a Broomstick with broomstick in your hand you automatically get NIRMAL (meaning cleanliness) Appreciate my parents for the foresight of naming me Nirmal.”
I am Muck Broomstick Nirmal.
Dr. M. B. Nirmal.
We said in 1996 “Waste is not Waste until it is Wasted” and further on to say in 1998:
“It is not Waste management but Wealth management”
Our quotes “It is not TRASH but CASH”. It is not MUCK but LUCK” and it is not FILTH but WEALTH” brought fortune to hundreds who took our advice.
Waste made us popular than anybody & anything else.
GSE Team from D1010
“District 1010 Scotland North covers some of the most beautiful and famous landmarks in the world such as Eilean Donan, the most photographed Castle in the world. We therefore hope that by navigating through this site you may be able to find a little bit about our District, our Rotarians and the work we do locally, nationally and internationally literally every day of the year.”
- Eilean Donan Castle
The GSE Team from D1010 only had a few days with us however we had a lot of fun with them and took them around our Shire culminating in a Mayoral reception at the Coolamon Shire Council Chambers.
Flower of Scotland
Please learn the words! In Honour of our Scottish GSE Team members.
Sasa Designs
Sasa Designs is a jewelry business employing and providing fair wages to Deaf artisans in Kenya.With an estimated unemployment rate of 85% among the Deaf in Kenya, few will have an opportunity to discover their potential, work in dignity and earn a fair wage. Employers are simply not willing to deal with the communication issues of working with the Deaf. After waiting for so long for an opportunity to appear, many Deaf people have lost hope.
Often Deaf mothers struggle to provide food for their family. Clean water and sanitary home conditions in the slums are often out of their reach. One way out of poverty is education, but Deaf families struggle to pay school fees, provide books or purchase the required school uniforms for their children. Sasa means “now” in Swahili. We believe that “Now is her time to shine.”
Sasa Designs gives Deaf artisans the chance they’ve been waiting for – the chance to learn new skills, to discover what she is capable of and to feel productive.The income these artisans earn gives them a way to support their families — to send their children to good schools, to provide better nutrition and healthcare for them. Instead of always feeling like a burden to the family, she moves to a position of respect as one who contributes to the household income.
As she comes to work each day, she also enjoys the fellowship of other Deaf artisans with whom she can easily communicate through Kenyan Sign Language. D.O.O.R. (Deaf Opportunity OutReach) International, in partnership with One Maker, has launched Sasa Designs in response to the overwhelming poverty and joblessness among Deaf people in Kenya. Creating opportunities for the Deaf through this business is a tangible expression of God’s love for them.
Contact Megan MacDonald or John Glassford: john at glassford.com.au
Dolly’s Imagination Library puts books into the hands of children – Rotary Voices
The wonderful partnership between Dolly Parton and Rotary International continues to flourish in communities both large and small all across the USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Although every community approaches the program in its own way, one thing impresses me much more than dollars raised or even time invested –and this is the enormous influence Rotarians exert in their communities..
Dolly Parton and Rotary International from Rotary International on Vimeo.
On many occasions, we have witnessed how Rotarians use their influence to leverage support from both the public and private sector. Rotarians bring instant credibility to the table and consequently, local, state and provincial governments are eager to join forces with Rotary and Dolly to bring the Imagination Library to their children. Likewise many Rotary clubs have been successful in teaming up with United Way to launch the program in their communities.
Influence is an earned commodity and we are fortunate that the decades of good will and great work of Rotary now benefits the children of the Imagination Library.
Bay Breezes March 6
Here are a few of the bulletins that we receive each week from other clubs enjoy:
Bay Breezes March 6
Crow About 5 March 2012
Keyway February 28 2012
Kooringal 29 February 2012
ROTI March 2012
Wollundry 28 February 2012
He profits most who serves best
He profits most who serves best
Arthur Frederick Sheldon, the Rotarian whose convention speech inspired Rotary’s secondary motto, One Profits Most Who Serves Best.
“I believe – –
That we are living in a scientific age, one in which all lines of useful effort are rapidly becoming reduced to a scientific basis.
That we are living in an age of the survival of the fittest.
That it means more to be fit today than it did ten years ago.
That it will mean more to be fit ten years from now than it does today.
That we are living in a commercial age, and that commerce or business is a science.
That a science is simply classified common sense based upon proper seeing, grasping, comparing and recording of facts,
That a profession is a Science practiced.
That the science of business is the science of service, he profits most who serves best.”
Rotarian Arthur Sheldon at the Chicago Convention in 1910.
Thank you to Past RI Director Dan Moores and Rtn Norm Winterbottom for the history. Dan and Norm are members of ROTI or Rotarians On The Internet.
Working Together for Small Farmers by BILL GATES
If you care about poor people, you need to care about agriculture.
The stakes could not be higher. The world’s ability to help small farmers be more sustainably productive will determine whether or not they remain in poverty or whether the hard work results in self-sufficiency for hundreds of millions of people.
By Bill Gates read the full story below:
Working Together for Small Farmers