Bulletins

GSE Team from D1010

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“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.

 

Sasa Designs

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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

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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.

He profits most who serves best

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Arthur Sheldon

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

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Small Farmers

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

 

Rotary Bangkok Convention May 6-9 Thailand

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2012 RI Convention, VDO Promotion from Rotary Thailand on Vimeo.


Click on the convention logo!

 

 

The House of Friendship for this coming 2012 Rotary International Convention will be an utmost impressive atmosphere you ever experienced. You will be in the midst of blossom flower garden where we neatly decorate in exquisite style. A wide variety of well-known restaurants in Bangkok have been carefully selected to serve you with a mouth-watering food.

Dazzling to your eyes with Thai cultural performances throughout the day. Additionally, we also open for our fellow Rotarians to fully enjoy. Never missed your communication because we will prepare a hundred computers for you at the Internet Café, or you can bring your own communication device for a free WiFi here.

Enjoy your time with friends, exchange and share the experience of your social contribution in Project Exhibition booth.

Last but not least, don’t forget to enjoy shopping around House of Friendship where we gather the signature products from all around Thailand here.

Where is the House of Friendship?

The House of Friendship will be located at IMPACT Challenger Hall 3. It is interconnected hall with the main IMPACT Exhibition Centre.

International Service Competition Please Join In

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Would you all have a vote for this competition for a Rotary Club in the USA please? Go to the following web site and follow the instructions below. You can vote every hour, however one vote cast right now will help them over the line. The competition closes on the 9th March. Let us show them the power of Rotary on the Internet! You do not have to be in Rotary to vote.

VOTE HERE

Vote for the “1st ADA Accessible Swing Set in County” which is 2nd row, far right. After you click on green “Vote” button, a CAPTCHA screen comes up and you enter a code, then “Vote” again, then a little window pops up saying “you only get one vote, you’re sure this is correct?” Click “Yes” or whatever and you’re done.

You can vote once per hour – per machine and per browser. I’ve taken to voting from I.E., Firefox, and Chrome, then my Droid phone – as often as I can remember. So, I get 4 votes in 2-3 minutes.

Thanks
Todd

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Todd Lindley DDS FAGD
Rotary Foundation Alumni Coordinator, Zone 31
Past District Governor, District 6060, 2010-2011
9553 Lackland Road, Suite 4
Overland MO 63114-3640

“Hopefully this contest can help us finish raising the funds needed to build the 1st Handicap Accessible Swing Set in St. Francois County. The footage of the mouse race came from last years race.” St Francois County Rotary Club.