We welcomed Major Carin Holmes of the Salvation Army as a member of our Club last week. Carin was a member of the Rotary Club of Cape Town Waterfront, also a breakfast club. She is one of the few former Rotarian to have joined us! Welcome, Carin.
The Business Meeting centred on the Blanket Drive and the Handbag Project as they are both immanent!
Our speaker this week is Ian Ross, CEO of the African Initiatives Group. He's going to be talking about Nutrition in Africa.
The Rotary Club of Orange Grove have sent us this invitation:
Dear Rotarians
The President of the Rotary Club of Orange Grove invites Rotarians
and friends to well known Economist Dr Azar Jammine’s visit to our club.
Dr Jammine’s topic will be “Global Economic Crisis and the effects on
South Africa’s Economy”
.
Venue : Old Edwardian Sports
Club, 4th Street, off 11th
Avenue,
Lower Houghton,
Johannesburg.
Date : Thursday 19th
April.
Time : 12h30 for 13h00.
Cost : R 100.00 including buffet lunch. (Pay at the Door).
Please confirm the number of persons attending from your Club
before the 12th
of April to the writer.
Yours in Rotary Service
Steven Anastopoulos
Communication Officer
Rotary Club of Orange Grove
T/Fx (011) 485 2512
And Rtn Peter Alexander of the Rotary Club of Johannesburg has sent me an email hoping that we will support the Wine Auction as mentioned in my previous post.
ROTARY CLUB OF JOHANNESBURG
ANNUAL WINE AUCTION
TUESDAY 24TH APRIL 2012
18.30 FOR 19.00 AT THE COUNTRY CLUB, AUCKLAND PARK
Below is something we are trying to do. Maybe someone on the Board should comment!
Sister clubs encourage international service connections
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Nancy Wright Beasley accepts a club banner from Arvydas Sabrinskas, past president of the Kaunas Rotary Club during a visit in 2009.Photo courtesy of Nancy Wright Beasley
A sister club partnership between two Rotary clubs in the United States and one in Lithuania is expanding the international reach and service of Rotarians in both countries.
Author and polio survivor Nancy Wright Beasley joined the Rotary Club of Brandermill (Midlothian), Virginia, USA, shortly after speaking to the club about her book on Lithuanian families during the Holocaust. Following visits to Lithuania in 2009 and 2010, she inspired the Virginia Rotarians to pursue service projects with the Rotary Club of Kaunas, Lithuania, which she had visited.
While in Kaunas, Beasley had also been introduced by telephone to the founding president of the Rotary Club of Chicagoland Lithuanians. The club’s members, all Lithuanians living in the Chicago area, expressed an interest in joining with the Brandermill club to carry out projects in Lithuania. So the clubs turned to Rotary Service Connections to facilitate that partnership.
“Rotary Service Connections helped us with some of the criteria, so we began discussing a feasible project,” says Don Vaught, president of the Brandermill club. “Our two boards approved the idea of the partnership, and the proposal was eventually accepted by the Kaunas club as well.” The arrangement was made official in November.
“The goal of forming a sister club relationship was to establish a long-term relationship with other clubs that would lead to ongoing projects -- both locally and internationally,” Vaught says. “It’s also a way to further international understanding and foster goodwill.”
Vaught says Beasley’s contacts with the Kaunas club were instrumental in getting the idea started, and adds that it seemed only natural to invite the Chicagoland Lithuanians club to participate.
“We see building a relationship through both leisure and business travel visits by members of each club,” Vaught says. “We will be working together on joint projects in Lithuania, but also supporting each other’s projects when possible."
The sister clubs are launching their first project in Lithuania soon, to help obtain medical equipment for an orphanage in Kaunas.
“This sister club relationship is bringing together three clubs that were never aware of each other’s existence,” Vaught says. “This reflects the far-reaching arm of Rotary, and shows how you can expand relationships around the globe. This project is proof positive that Rotary truly is international.”
For more information:
- Learn more about Rotary Service Connections
- Connect with partners to serve communities worldwide through ProjectLink
- Get information about hosting a project fair
4 Comments:
At 11:37AM on 9 April 2012, VICTORIA EWERT wrote:This is really a very good idea. Two or three heads are better than one. Our club have been trying to partner with other clubs outside of Canada so we can have an international project that will have a big impact to the recipient since we are a small, new club. Since our charter, 4 years ago, we have completed 4 International projects by partnering with another club in another country.
At 11:52AM on 31 January 2012, BONIFACE WAMAI KARIUKI wrote:am a teacher with diploma in special needs in education. interested in running a private school to help eradicate poverty in Tanzania. can you support me realize this dream. private schools perform better than government schools. advice what i can do.
At 11:51AM on 31 January 2012, Rtn Thufeall Ahmed wrote:we are looking for sister club.
At 1:10PM on 15 January 2012, Rtn. Anant Barve wrote:Sister clubs is a very good idea to increase understanding and doing projects more effectively.
