A Couple of our Projects and this week speakers from Trinity Health Services.

Last week was a very satisfactory Business Meeting as the year had got off to a good start with committees either having met or just about to.  You can see how serious everyone was!

Don't forget to let me know if you are prepared to go to Middelburg to help with The Greatest Train Race 19th/20th August.  So far I only know of our President going.

As far as Christ Church Christian Care Centre is concerned, this is from Linda Vink......

Mike and I handed over a huge donation from a

company called Food Creations - this is their third donation - to the 5 C's.
The donation consisted of frozen meat and vegetables, baking products and a
variety of other goodies such as ham, polony, hot dog sausages, tomato
sauce, mustard etc. We collected it yesterday and handed it over to Nancy
Mudau, their social worker. She is in the picture together with 4 little
boys from the home.






Similarly our Wheel chair Project under the guidance of Lucille Blumberg is ongoing!  Our thanks to Northcliff Rotary Club for their continuing support in supplying the chairs.

This is what Lucille has to say:



The wheel chairs were donated to members of the Hluvekani community , part

of the Bushbuckridge district which has been identified as a presidential
focal area for poverty alleviation.As one of the New Dawn Rotary
members..... I am planning on an infectious diseases project in the area
together with the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Pretoria and met
up with Mr Petrus Sibuyi, the occupational therapy technician for the area
who highlighted the desperate need for assistance for disadvantaged persons
in the community .The community is mainly agro-pastoral and accessing
clinics and paypoints for physically handicapped persons is very
difficult......... am sure you can add something one of the recipients
alreay phoned and said life is so much easier - can access the clinic, pay
points for grants etc etc.
I want to get more for this community. Petrus is so excited. .....

This collage shows what the provision of a wheel chair means to someone in Hluvekani.

Items like this that pertain to specific projects are also copied onto the page for that particular project.

This Week

Our speakers are Dr Zeenat Bikhoo & Natalie Prinsloo of Trinity Health Services.  Lucille has managed to find copies of the books that have to be kept by a pharmacy in terms of the law (R10 000's worth) so that they will now be able to open a proper pharmacy at Trinity Health Services.

Trinity Clinic – Trinity Health Services

During 2004, Holy Trinity, in conjunction with medical students at the University of the Witwatersrand, set up the Trinity Health Services Clinic to provide medical service to the many street people who come to Holy Trinity on a Monday evening. It has long been the task of the Braamfontein St Vincent de Paul conference (SVP) to provide supper for the local street people every Monday night. Students have always been a part of this enterprise: helping to make and distribute food, and washing up afterwards. But, in 2004, Bronwyn Weber, then a fourth year medical student, was instrumental in getting a Clinic off the ground, bringing in the help of her fellow students and, when necessary, that of a doctor.

This Clinic has arisen out of a definite need for medical attention for those with life threatening diseases, especially HIV/Aids. Although the students may not prescribe medicines, they are able to give to the people living on the streets a service to which they would not normally have access. However these things always work both ways, for the students gain valuable experience in the process.

In 2009/10 major alternation were made to the area under the Church so that the growing clinic would have the facilities they need – consulting rooms and a pharmacy.  This was made possible by many generous donations and the hard work of the medical students.

The SVP and the students could also do with your hands on Monday evenings so feel free and most welcome to join us at the parish at 18h00 every Monday evening to feed the five thousand – every Monday of the year.

Rotary Humanitarian Centre

Linda Vink & Paul Kasango were on duty last Saturday morning.  (Even before the Club was chartered we have opened the Humanitarian Centre on the First Saturday morning of the month)

This just shows how worthwhile Saturday mornings are!

Resourceful fundraisers fuel Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge

By Dan Nixon 
Rotary International News -- 5 August 2011 

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Past District Governor Jeff Coup and Eric McDowell, both members of the Rotary Club of Milton, Pennsylvania, USA, join Rotary Pedals Out Polio riders at a stop in Milton to receive a contribution for the polio eradication campaign. Photo courtesy of the Rotary Club of Milton

Rotary International on Facebook

Rotarians have raised US$185 million for Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge to help underwrite the cost of ending polio around the world. Although the challenge runs through 30 June, it is vital that fundraising efforts continue until the disease is finished. 

Many clubs are enlisting the support of their communities. Rotarians in Australia and New Zealand, in cooperation with 20th Century Fox, held a benefit screening of the movieConviction at 36 theaters in February, netting $54,000 for Rotary’s challenge. A fashion show sponsored by the Rotary Club of Fremont Warm Springs Sunrise, California, USA, garnered more than $52,000 in March. And in a weeklong project organized by the Rotary Club of Pondicherry-Cosmos, Pondicherry, India, 3,000 students at Petit Seminaire Higher Secondary School raised $25,000. 

Walking in Tanzania to end polio 

More than 320 Rotarians and friends of Rotary walked through Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in June, raising about $38,000 and boosting awareness of the disease. A marching band, polio surviors, and Rotarians wearing red End Polio Now T-shirts led the walk, organized by the Rotary Club of Moshi and several others. 

Reginald Mengi, founder and executive chair of IPP Group, one of the largest conglomerates in East Africa, called on businesses to help eradicate polio. Leading by example, Mengi contributed $32,000 to the event. 

"This is called corporate social responsibility," he said. "You must give back to the community."  

Both Mengi and Stephen Mwanje, 2010-11 governor of District 9200, encouraged parents to have their children immunized against polio. 

"We must be aware and take all measures, since the disease can spread here within a short period of time," Mwanje said. 

Rotarians ride in Pennsylvania

District 7370 (Pennsylvania, USA) sponsored a four-day, 330-mile bicycle tour of all 34 of its communities. Rotarians and friends donated at least $25 each to ride in the June event, called Rotary Pedals Out Polio.  

"Most people made donations online, as 'virtual' riders," said Past District Governor Jeff Coup, who came up with the idea for the tour and has served as the district's PolioPlus subcommittee chair since the program began in 1985. "We also had radio and a lot of newspaper coverage all through the district. Some clubs arranged for police escorts for us as we entered or left town. One arranged a PolioPlus billboard on our route."  

The fundraiser netted more than $21,000 for Rotary's challenge. Key to its success, said Coup, was "a great district committee that did the publicity, did a website with all the information, processed all the donations," and handled other tasks. "The event really reawakened awareness of the polio eradication cause in our district among Rotarians and the general public." 

Plan for World Polio Day

 

It’s not too early to plan for World Polio Day, 24 October, an excellent opportunity for your club and district to support the global effort to eradicate the disease.