Brenda Mudenda visited the club as her father is a Rotarian in Mexico and she presented us with their banner. I accepted it on behalf of our President, Amina Frense.
This Week
Our speaker is Professor Ashraf Coovadia who is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Children's Memorial Institute. It is the former Children's Hospital that is now totally populated by NGO's working with children,, from Autism SA to The Toy Library. It may be a project that would be worth a while exploring.
Prof Ashraf Hassen Coovadia
Adjunct Professor
MBChB, DCH (CMSA), Dip HIV Man (CMSA) FCP (Paed CMSA)
Principal Specialist , Dept of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of the Witwatersrand (Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg)
Head of Paediatric HIV Services at institution (Emilweni Services and Reseach Unit)
Completed Pleasis undergraduate training at the University of Zambia in 1990 and his paediatric postgraduate training at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1998.
Since 1998 has championed the cause of Paediatric HIV/AIDS and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT).
Children Sector representative on SANAC (South African National AIDS Council).
Expert on national Paediatric Antiretroviral Treatment Guidelines and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (of HIV) guidelines committees and
Actively involved with research projects involving women and children who are HIV-infected.
Member of the Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa and past representative on the Paediatric Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) 2001 -2010.
Current Area of Interest – clinical trials involving HIV-infected pregnant women and children, with a view to optimising the PMTCT programme and paediatric treatment regimens.
Family – married with two teenagers, son aged 17 and daughter 15.
Mandela Day
Please bring something for the 5 C's for Mandela Day. I suggested a bag of rice last week. Joan Donet brought one and I forgot! Linda Vink will collect them on Wednesday at Rotary.
It was decided last week that cooking breakfast for Children of Fire was not a possibility as the restrictions and regulations imposed have made it impossible.
Congratulations to Katinka Vreugdenhil on her engagement!
The Rotary Club of Mill Point’s BHP Billiton Ramble raised more than US$20,000 for the club’s projects, Australian Rotary Health, and a telethon trust.
It was decided last week that cooking breakfast for Children of Fire was not a possibility as the restrictions and regulations imposed have made it impossible.
Congratulations to Katinka Vreugdenhil on her engagement!
Rotary news in brief from around the globe
The Rotary Club of Mill Point’s BHP Billiton Ramble raised more than US$20,000 for the club’s projects, Australian Rotary Health, and a telethon trust.
Rotary clubs around the globe have many things in common, including a commitment to service. All year long, clubs are taking action to make a difference in their communities. Here’s a roundup of recent club activities worldwide:
Afghanistan
After 5,000 vaccine carriers from Rotary International were delivered to Afghanistan, a ceremony was held in January at which the deputy minister of public health thanked Rotary for its work to eradicate polio in the country – one of three where the disease remains endemic. Officials from the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and USAID attended, and Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee Chair Robert S. Scott, Pakistan PolioPlus Committee Chair Aziz Memon, and two members of the Rotary Club of Kabul received recognition.
Australia
In a cross between a treasure hunt and The Amazing Racereality competition, teams participating in the Rotary Club of Mill Point’s BHP Billiton Ramble in October set out with maps, clue sheets, and cell phones to figure out challenges at 40 locations across Perth. During the four-hour event, teams earned points by texting their answers to the problems, and some won prizes for their costumes, which included Smurfs, fairies, and cartoon characters. The 4,000 participants raised more than US$20,000 for the club’s projects, Australian Rotary Health, and the Channel 7 Telethon Trust.
Canada
The members of the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona are proud to be Canadian, and are making it easy for others in their Alberta town to show their patriotism too. Through the club’s flag project, residents can pay C$50 a year to have a maple-leaf flag flown on their front lawn for Canada Day, Victoria Day, and Labor Day. The flags remain up for each holiday weekend and are then removed. The program has 600 subscribers.
Malawi
Primary school is free in Malawi, but girls often don’t finish. Of those who do, few go on to secondary school, either because their families don’t think it’s necessary or because it’s too expensive. A girls’ school, Atsikana Pa Ulendo – which translates to “girls on the move” – is providing a secondary education to those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford it. Two volunteer teachers, one from Canada and one from Malawi, opened the school in 2006 with support from dozens of Canadian Rotary clubs. In its first two years of operation, 10th graders had a pass rate of 98 and 100 percent on national exams, far exceeding national averages. As of 2010, the school had an enrollment of 320 students and employed 17 Malawian teachers.
Philippines
The Rotary Club of Downtown Davao, which has an entirely female membership, opened its Center for Hope in 2006 to serve women and children in the city’s Agdao slum. Last year, 56 children were enrolled in the facility’s daycare and preschool program. The Rotarians also run vocational skills training courses for mothers, free medical clinics, and children’s nutrition and youth literacy programs out of the center.
Puerto Rico
As a fundraiser, the Rotary Club of San Juan sold copies of Fondeando: Fondas, restaurantes tipicos y chinchorros/Eating Local in Puerto Rico and donated 40 percent of the proceeds to PolioPlus. The coffee table book – a guide to restaurants and cuisine that includes traditional recipes – is written in English and Spanish and was a top 10 bestseller in Puerto Rico during the Christmas season. The Rotarians raised US$1,568 for the polio eradication campaign.
Turkey
Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease among women in Turkey, accounting for 24 percent of all cases. But diagnoses and survival rates differ in urban and rural areas; in less-developed regions, most cases are not diagnosed until the late stages, and more people die within five years of diagnosis than in developed regions. Rotarians in District 2440 are working with District 6780 (Tennessee, USA) on a Health, Hunger and Humanity Grant project to educate women about breast health and early detection of breast cancer. The effort focuses on areas of Izmir Province that the Turkish Ministry of Health has identified as medically underserved.
USA
After a gunman killed eight people, then himself, in an August 2010 workplace shooting in Manchester, Conn., the Rotary Club of Manchester raised $57,600 for a memorial garden to honor the victims and $7,500 for a fund for their families. The memorial, which was dedicated on the one-year anniversary of the tragedy, includes eight stainless steel pillars engraved with the victims’ names.
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