Mike Vink charged us R50 for the breakfast that consisted of chocolate croissants, American muffins and a few other pastries. There was also Nescafe, tea and rooibos. Everyone who came seemed to enjoy the change. As you can see we had a more rural view!
Joanne Bender gave us a very interesting talk on how Junior Achievement SA tries to instill a spirit of entrepreneurship amongst, primarily, high school pupils though they do work in primary schools and with post school people.She gave some interesting statistics as well and her talk provided considerable food for thought and discussion afterwards.
It is obviously very difficult to instill a sense of entrepreneurship when there is a strong culture of entitlement
and the aim of the school leaver is to get a job when there will never be one.
We had a visitor from the Rotary Club of Emerald Coast, Florida, USA, Barry Kent. He was visiting South Africa to have a look at his new grandchild and visiting a few Rotary Clubs at
the same time. He chatted about the new Rotary Club that his club was sponsoring in Florida, the first new club in the District for about 50 years! He used to have a fly-tying business in South Africa. Here he's presenting a banner to President elect, Joan Donet.
The Blanket Drive
A lady from Krugersdorp who had just moved to Johannesburg brought us a bale of baby things that she had been wondering to whom she could donate them.
If you see this person with a white Jeep rush up to her and say "Your name is Isabel and I claim the R50."
Humanitarian Centre
Business Meeting
This week is a Business Meeting and it's an important one because it is the last Business Meeting of the current President and Board which means that we are really talking about next Rotary year.
Our usual venue is booked for a Conference so we will be meeting in the Coffee Bar the other side of our normal parking place, in the Arts Building.
Rotary news in brief from around the globe
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Rotary clubs in England and Bulgaria provided a van for children with special needs. Photo Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Howden, England
The Rotary clubs of Howden, England, and Varna-Euxinograd, Bulgaria, collaborated on a Rotary Foundation Matching Grant project to provide a van for the Saint Joan Zlatoust Day Care Center for children with special needs in the city of Varna, on the Black Sea coast. The center offers full-time care and a variety of health, education, and rehabilitation programs. The bright red van will transport the children to and from their homes each day.
Great Britain
Last year, District 1120 (England) launched a purple crocus fundraiser, selling 25,000 fabric flowers and raising US$40,000 for PolioPlus. This year, Rotary clubs in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Nigeria aim to raise $250,000. As of March, they had already sold 160,000 flowers. In the style of Remembrance Day poppies, the fabric flowers are designed to be worn on the lapel as a symbol of support for the fight against polio; crocuses were chosen because their purple color matches the dye used to mark the pinkie fingers of immunized children.
Guyana
Every year, the Rotary Club of Georgetown hosts a dinner in honor of World Understanding Month. In February, former prime minister of Jamaica Percival James Patterson spoke about the future of the Caribbean economic integration movement and the importance of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in promoting world understanding. CARICOM, headquartered in the Guyanese capital, promotes economic coordination and cooperation among member states.
Ghana
Members of the Rotaract Club of Ho spent time with residents of a village for people with Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, in the Volta region in February. Although the disease is treatable today, those who have been cured still face a stigma in many places. The Rotaractors brought rice, cooking oil, frozen foods, toiletries, and used clothing worth more than US$1,500 to the 80 villagers and their families. The club also plans to raise funds for improvements including painting, door lock and hinge repairs, mosquito net replacement, and septic tank maintenance.
Korea
Rotarians from District 3630 hosted a walkathon in February, raising about US$18,000 for PolioPlus. Koreans are also fighting polio in the digital realm: As of press time, they had uploaded 1,338 photos of people making the “This Close” gesture to the End Polio Now “World’s Biggest Commercial” project, second only to the United States and outpacing third-place Brazil.
Mexico
During the 2012 La Carrera Panamericana, an open-road race held in Mexico every October, 100 vintage race cars sported End Polio Now stickers as they sped nearly 2,000 miles over seven days, from Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico up to Zacatecas in the north-central part of the country. Each day, drivers took part in events highlighting the importance of polio eradication, and Rotarians from a dozen clubs across several states in Mexico helped out, sharing Rotary’s message with thousands of spectators and car enthusiasts.
Timor-Leste
For more than a decade, the Rotary clubs of Dili – the only club in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste – and Vila Real, Portugal, have worked together to foster the development of Timorese youth through vocational and education programs. The clubs have funded repairs for local primary schools, sponsored scholarships, and supported Movimento de Adolescentes e Crianças, a nonprofit that runs a center in Dili offering after-school programs. Today, the Dili club provides funding for the center through District 9550, which also covers parts of Australia.
United States
The Rotaract Club of Philadelphia held a “Philly Factor” talent contest in February. The University of Pennsylvania’s Simply Chaos Comedy Troupe emceed the night, which featured performances from seven finalists chosen from 19 audition videos submitted on YouTube. Inertia, a student dance group from Philadelphia’s University of the Sciences, took first place. The Rotaract Club of Beijing and the Penn chapter of Operation Smile, a nonprofit that provides free cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries in developing countries, partnered with the Philadelphia club on the event, which raised $600 for Operation Smile’s work in Yunnan, China.
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