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IN FOCUS | 1 Mid-Year Report By: President Dinesh Sharma December 30, 2020 | Volume 57 Issue No. 25 & 26 MARK YOUR DIARY | 11 What’s ahead? Don’t miss the forthcoming events and Birthday / Anniversary celebrants and more… MEETING REPORT | 5 Report on 22 nd Weekly / Annual General Meeting – 16.12.2020 From President Dinesh & Board of Directors LAST WEEK | 9 23 rd Fellowship Meeting – 23.12.20

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  • IN FOCUS | 1

    Mid-Year Report By: President Dinesh Sharma

    December 30, 2020 | Volume 57 Issue No. 25 & 26

    MARK YOUR DIARY | 11

    What’s ahead? Don’t miss

    the forthcoming events and

    Birthday / Anniversary

    celebrants and more…

    MEETING REPORT | 5

    Report on 22nd Weekly / Annual General Meeting – 16.12.2020

    From President Dinesh

    & Board of Directors

    LAST WEEK | 9

    23rd Fellowship Meeting – 23.12.20

  • 1 | Rotary Crossroads

    President Dinesh Sharma

    In Focus

    Mid-Year Report By: President Dinesh Sharma

    Following is an extract of President Dinesh Sharma’s report presented at the Annual

    General Meeting held on Wednesday, 16th December 2020

    “Fellow Rotarians, it is difficult to believe that current Board will be reaching mid-year mark in two weeks’ time and here I am presenting mid-year report while next year's Board has been introduced just a while ago by President Elect See Mee Lee.

    Going back , who would have imagined at least not me, that my installation as President of Rotary Club of Singapore will be virtual and club meetings will follow as well and likely to be up to end of the Rotary year. We took the challenge in our stride and started finding ways to make the best out of the situation being virtual. There are always opportunities out of this adversity. I am confident to say in most areas we have achieved much better than we could have done in pre Covid 19 environment, only exception being International Service as we are unable to travel. Although global grant projects in first six months of the Rotary year have far exceeded any previous time of six months. The skepticism turned into positive right from installation of the President which was customized to physical protocols using special software integrated with Zoom technology and we had great attendance.

    We are spot on our plans we presented on 1st of July 2020 during first Club Assembly. We have completed many of our projects and activities and elsewhere it is a work in progress. There have been interruptions on and off from the beginning, slowed down the process and affected the progress in achieving our targets. We remained focused on our mission keeping the interest of the Club on the top. I must give my heart felt and sincere thanks to many of the members, more so my seniors who have communicated their appreciation of our work we are doing under the circumstances. Thank you so much.

    Our mission as stated in the beginning of the year is to strengthen our Club to generate lasting impact from our work while creating inspiring experience for our members engaging them with a sense of purpose and fulfillment.

    Our focus remains #1 To strengthen our Club #2 Impactful community project #3 Inspiring experience #4 Engagement of the members. I will summarize how we have performed in each of these areas.

    To implement our plans and strategies we formed Club committees to carry out implementation.

    #1.Club Administration with our Honorary Secretary Brigitte Holtschneider as Chair. #2. Membership and TRF, With VP Suresh Keerthi as chair, #3 Public Image, Chair Director Sonali Sinha, #4 Club Rotary Foundation Committee (CRFC) with PP Tapan Rao as Chair.

    In Focus

  • 2 | Rotary Crossroads

    In Focus

    Mid-Year Report…contd.

    Finally our established Service Committees, CSC, VSC ISC, and YSC #6 Finance Committee, yet to be formed.

    Club administration - After 25 years of service to our Club we managed graceful exit of Ivy Yew our employee in Club secretariat, paving the way to planned digitalization of our secretarial work and accounts. We were lucky to find Linda Lim as Executive accounts and administration and decided to take over the accounting from outsourced company. It will allow us to produce audited accounts in time in t future.

    If last year's accounts are ready and transferred to us by previous Board, by end of January 2021, we will try to achieve first interim closing of accounts on 31st March and final on 30th June 2021. We should be able to transfer full accounts to new Board by end of July 2021 or earlier. I urge members to visit Rotary office and see the efficient team and the improvement in environment.

    We have separated Club and Service meetings which used to be combined on Wednesdays. The Service meetings are back on Thursdays and these are well attended, and Committee Chairs can use one hour focusing on service projects and activities, the Club meetings are for one and half hour from 7 to 8.30 pm including some fellowship. There is significant improvement in attendance even without having two meetings together.

    Week after week we have given you inspiring speakers, talking on current and relevant topics. It has been possible due to formation of speaker subcommittee from the beginning instead of just Rotarian Joseph Chia who handled this activity by himself and remains one of the key members and helps in finding good speakers. As a result, attendance in weekly meetings has increased between 52 and 67. On two occasions, the number of attendees exceeded 100 up to 124 due to the speakers.

    KYFR, Know Your Fellow Rotarians, new program introduced this year is gaining popularity. We are presenting you every week, one of our members who speak about himself, his vocation and Rotary life plus engagement in the social work. The successful program supersedes the classification talking in past which could not be sustained more than couple of weeks. The members find it engaging, getting to know fellow Rotarians, and finding the gems, and unsung heroes among fellow members.

    We still need to improve system and processes and re-engineer in some areas, and it is planned in the next half of the year.

    One of the most important areas to strengthen our Club is the membership. It is the members who make the Club. The membership growth which remains stagnant, renewal process with diverse membership, induction of youth and women are of paramount importance. I can say with pride what has already been achieved so far. Starting from 146 members on 1st July 2020, we have inducted 15 new members, two prospects are ready for induction on 6th of January 2021, and four were approved today by MC&D Committee to be inducted on 13th or 20th January 2021. Six more prospects are attending our meetings to pre- qualify for approval. We are maintaining diversity of professions, vocation, nationalities, race, and age. We have added two members at the age below 30 years and others are less than 50 years. The average age of club members has dropped from 58 years to 53. Most

  • 3 | Rotary Crossroads

    In Focus

    Mid-Year Report…contd.

    of the new members are attending weekly Club meetings and participating in respective service committees and other events like Jolly walks on Sundays.

    To attract members we are successfully creating pull factors rather than push, by good publicity, regular updates on website, prospecting through LinkedIn and Facebook and prompt and regular communication by our Membership chair and VP Suresh Keerthi, who meets them physically and keeps communicating after the induction.

    All is not well, we still have significant number of members not attending meetings, nor participating in activities now and even in previous years while a small group is keeping off from weekly meetings. Our team will work on this in second half of the year and we will try to get these inactive members to become active as far as possible.

    I wish to thank all members of MC&D which is now a Club committee with all Past Presidents, IPP and PE as members, for efficient handling of classification, approval, and Rotary information for new members.

    We have an active committee on Public Image with Director Sonali Sinha as Chair. We created E file on the Club which can be sent to new prospects or anyone who wants to know about our Club just by a click. The website and social media updates are regularly done, and several other initiatives are in progress.

    For the first time we established Club Rotary Foundation Committee with PP Tapan Rao as chair, which is open to members like any other committee. Global grants can be applied for local projects as well by all Service Committees.

    Since July 2020, 19 global grants have been approved valued at US dollars 1.3 million and six more projects have been submitted for approval. We have received 6 PHF commitments, two pledged and two Major Donors, one of them being a new member so far. We have targeted 100% EREY this year, and will put our best efforts to achieve it.

    Polio challenge was successful program in raising funds for End Polio by step up program and weekly walks attended by members. I would like to thank Rotarian Adnan Ansari for successful initiative in raising funds for end polio and starting weekly walks.

    We are continuing with weekly walks renamed as jolly walks where members are exploring new parks on Sundays unseen by many of us and enjoying fellowship with all safety measures being followed.

    We have planned many reforms as reported earlier; most of these are in progress. We are in process of adopting 2019 Club Constitution in coming week or two as it is delayed due to RI review of some clauses added in compliance with Registry of Societies (ROS). It will be followed by implementation of strategy report, changes in bylaws and SOP.

    Being the leading Club in the District, we need to set an example and work along with Rotary International with implementation of 2019 Constitution, which is mandatory.

  • 4 | Rotary Crossroads

    In Focus

    Mid-Year Report…contd.

    Finally, our interface with the community is with the Service Committees, I must say despite COVID-19 restrictions they have done remarkable work details of which will be presented at the Club Assembly.

    Our Community Service Committee, Director Dr Irina as chair and her team have clocked in substantial volunteering days in service of local communities. These include volunteer visits at Willing Hearts by 12 to 15 Rotarians for consecutive two weeks, monthly distribution of bags from Food from Hearts to the residents of assigned HDB blocks for the seniors in need. The latest project is Green Hub recycling where our Rotarian volunteers help in rehabilitation of Sungei Street vendors who were displaced during development of the area.

    Vocational Service Committee with Director Siew Luen as chair is working on two impactful projects. First is skill development for ex-offenders and the second is Career development for students with special needs at Singapore Polytechnic. The Artisan Award is progressing well except the EYA-The Entrepreneur of the Year Award which is not likely to happen due to COVID-19.

    International Service Committee with Director Varun as chair have restrictions on overseas project due to no overseas travel, but they have carried out several initiatives in raising funds and transferring to those who need most through sister clubs and other Rotary clubs in the region. Some of these are, S$ 3000.00 to Rizal West for Batang Batad matching challenge, RM project in Malaysia, contribution of MYR 10,000.00 , Lebanon disaster Relief Fund through local NGO, supply of 50 boxes each of US dollar 35 for medicine and essentials, Contribution of MYR 38,000.00 to RC LIkas Bay for Sabah COVID-19 response fund.

    Youth Service Committee with Dr Ganesh Ramalingam as chair, has many feathers in their cap, 1st ILTC 2020 in July, first ever online camp was successfully organized. Accendo mental health project transiting from phase two to phase three, Clean Hands ASEAN project is good expansion mode. We have almost finalized MOU with Rotaract Clubs to ensure Rotaractors decide carefully and remain with us in view of new RI regulations. A new project of mentoring Rotaractors in career choices is being piloted.

    We had several requests and opportunities to join various Rotary alliances. After careful thought and approval of the Board decided to join JWD, John Wheeler Davidson an international group of 13 Rotary clubs in 12 countries which were founded and chartered by John Davidson. We have joined Synergy Rotary friendship Alliance of 13 clubs from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. We are representing all the clubs from District 3110 in this synergy and friendship alliance. DG Rajamohan Munisamy introduced RC Singapore in the last meeting which was held on 13th December 2020, attended by 380 participants and RI President Holder Knaack as the keynote speaker.

    In closing, I am pleased to state that that we are on the right track and will present further reports on our progress in third club assembly on 27 January 2020. Thank you!”

  • 5 | Rotary Crossroads

    President Dinesh Sharma

    Rtn Peter Brock

    Rtn Brigitte Holtschneider

    Meeting Report

    22nd Club Meeting / Annual General Meeting (AGM) for

    Rotary Year 2020-2021 held on 16.12.20

    OPENING REMARKS Honorary Secretary Brigitte Holtschneider called the meeting to order and wished everyone a successful AGM before handing the Chair to to President Dinesh Sharma.

    President Dinesh warmly welcomed Honorary Members PP Bhagwan Melwani, PDG Dr Ivor Thevathasan, PP Chiang Shih Fang, Rtn Mohan Vaswani, Past Presidents, fellow Rotarians to the 22nd Club and Annual General Meeting. TOAST TO ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

    Toastmaster, Rtn Peter Brock raised the toast in two parts – to good food, good fellowship – we give thanks and the 2nd part to the people of Singapore and Rotary International – we give thanks!

    HONORARY SECRETARY’S ANNOUNCEMENTS Rtn Brigitte reminded members that there would not be the usual International Service Committee (ISC) Meeting, instead there would be a charity art auction at Maduro on the 17 December. Members who are interested to attend were requested to contact ISC Director Varun Gulati for details. CLUB’S CHALLENGE FOR POSITION OF DISTRICT GOVERNOR (RY 2023-2024) President Dinesh advised members of District Governor Rajamohan Munisamy’s announcement of the District

    Nominating Committee's selection of PP Dr John Chan from the Rotary Club of Kuching for the post of District

    Governor 2023-2024.

    He added that the Club would propose PP Dr Yap Lip Kee to be the challenging candidate for the post of District Governor 2023-2024. The Resolution in this respect to be adopted by members at the next weekly meeting on 23 December 2020.

    In Focus

  • 6 | Rotary Crossroads

    Meeting Report

    22nd Club Meeting / Annual General Meeting (AGM) for

    Rotary Year 2020-2021 held on 16.12.20

    ADOPTION OF THE MAJOR PROJECT FOR 2020/2021

    As announced in the weekly meeting of 9th December, President Dinesh spoke of the proposed Major Project for the year and the Club’s relationship with the beneficiary, Willing Hearts, which required a central kitchen to cope with the increased need for meals particularly during the Covid pandemic. He introduced the Major Project team – Rtn Dr Chan Siew Luen (Chair), Rtns Tom Wolf, Subhash Pritmani, PPs Stan Low and Tapan Rao. President Dinesh called upon Rtn Siew Luen who gave a summary of Willing Hearts background and charity status as well as an overview the Major Project requirements. Rtn Tom Wolf was also called upon to give more information about the kitchen facilities to meet the needs for a high safety quality and in respect of the diverse cultural differences. To end the presentation, President Dinesh showed a short video on Willing Hearts and the proposed Major Project. President Dinesh called on members to adopt the Major Project which was proposed by PP Perlita Tiro and seconded by Honorary Secretary Brigitte Holtschneider. The Major Project was accepted with no objections from members present. President Dinesh called on all members to contribute and make the Major Project successful. Members were informed that while Willing Hearts was a Charity it did not have IPC status as yet, so as not to have any future misunderstanding with regards to tax exemption.

    In Focus

  • 7 | Rotary Crossroads

    Meeting Report

    22nd Club Meeting / Annual General Meeting (AGM) for

    Rotary Year 2020-2021 held on 16.12.20

    ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) PROCEEDINGS President Dinesh started the AGM as follows: Formal adoption of President Nominee Rtn Louis Lim (President for RY 2022/2023): There were no nominations received and PN Louis Lim was formally adopted as President for Rotary year 2022/2023. President Dinesh invited PN Louis to address the Club. PN Louis thanked members for their endorsement and privilege to be the Club’s servant leader. He spoke of the many mentors from the Club as he served as President of Interact Club and Rotaract Club of Singapore City. He added that it was a rare privilege and enriching experience to serve the community as a united club.

    Introduction of Board of Directors for RY 2021/2022 President Dinesh then invited PE See Mee Lee to introduce the Board of Directors for Rotary year 2021/2022. She noted that as the 87th Club President, she was honoured to serve and dedicate to the cause of Rotary. Prior to introducing the Board, PE Mee Lee highlighted the plans for the incoming year focusing on environment, sustainable membership, Club reserve funds, mental health projects, sustaining projects/service, implementation and review of strategic planning. PE Mee Lee introduced the following Club’s Board of Directors (RY 2021/2022) and their areas of responsibilities: Vice President Rtn Stuart Pearce – Strategic Planning Committee, Supporting ISC & VSC, overseeing Major Projects & Club PR Committee Vice President Ronald Wong - Strategic Planning Committee, Supporting YSC & CSC, overseeing Major Projects & Club PR Committee Honorary Secretary Jasbir Koh – Overseeing Secretariat & Club/Board Administration (RI Report), Membership Committee Chair, Club Publication Committee Honorary Treasurer Manish Tibrewal – Overseeing club funds & financial administration, Keeping proper custody of club finances, enforcing club’s financial policies and procedures, CFRC committee Club Rotary Foundation Committee (CRFC) Director & Chair Shamin Vaswani – Promote goals and objective of The Rotary Foundation, supervise Rotary Global Grant (GG) & DDF applications, Assist and advise on grant payments, PHF recognition and presentation, coordinate fund-raise for GG applications Rotary Spirit Director Rajkumar Perumal Suppiah – Promote & coordinate regular Club fellowship programmes, promote adoption of Club Rotary values, Membership Committee, manage fund raising & accounting, PR Committee member Community Service Committee (CSC) Chair Chong Zhi Cheng – Identify relevant service activities and projects that promote strong members’ engagement, sub-committee co-chair, maintain sustainable membership, manage fund-raising & accounting, PR Committee member Vocational Service Committee (VSC) Chair Michelle Pearce - Identify & engage vocational talents of Rotarians as an opportunity to serve, sub-committee co-chair, maintain sustainable membership, manage fund-raising & accounting, PR Committee member International Service Committee (ISC) Chair Mamta Shahani - Identify & promote service activities and project that foster international friendship & peace, sub-committee co-chair, maintain sustainable membership, manage fund-raising & accounting, PR Committee member Youth Service Committee (YSC) Chair Dr Chan Siew Luen - Identify sustainable & relevant service activities that develop the next generation of leaders, sub-committee co-chair, maintain sustainable membership, manage fund-raising & accounting, PR Committee member

    In Focus

  • 8 | Rotary Crossroads

    Meeting Report

    22nd Club Meeting / Annual General Meeting (AGM) for

    Rotary Year 2020-2021 held on 16.12.20

    Introduction of Board of Directors for RY 2021/2022 (continued) Sergeant-at-Arms Jean-Philippe Lionnet & Dr Claus Dusemund – Appointed discipline master of club meetings, CRFC & Sunshine Committees, PR Committee – club meetings, Almoner sub-committee, Membership committee Immediate Past President Dinesh Sharma – Resource adviser of current projects, member of Club Leadership Nominating Committee, Chair of Membership, Classifications and Development (MC&D) sub-committee President Elect Louis Lim – Oversee and coordinate Club Service committee, member of the Club Leadership Nominating Committee, Almoner sub-committee, Membership committee PE Mee announced the Installation date as 19th June 2021. Election of Board of Directors for RY 2021/2022 President Dinesh declared all members introduced as elected. Presentation of Accounts for RY 2019/2020 President Dinesh called on IPP Deepak Nagrani to present the Accounts for Rotary year 2019/2020. IPP Deepak advised that the financial statements for the year was still in progress and hoped to have the accounts available by the Club Assembly on 27 January 2021. IPP Deepak briefed members on the four Major Projects undertaken during RY 2019/2020: CSC – AIDHA for financial education course for foreign domestic works amounting to $20,000 VSC – HCSA goal to give 2 cohorts of ex-offenders a second chance at life with a 6-week course and job placements, amounting to 50,760 ISC – Access to water for 600 villages in Karangasem, Bali for $42,537 YSC – Illuminate issues around mental health, to spread awareness to Interact Clubs and collaborate with IMH on its pilot mental literacy programme. Funded by IshkTolaram Foundation. IPP Deepak gave an overview of the Major Project funding, advising that a total of $113,297 was distributed/pledged. He thanked the IshkTolaram Foundation, Rotarians, spouses, family and friends for their support and kindness. He further informed members that the Club received the Rotary International Platinum Citation for RY 2019-2020. President’s Mid-Year Report is reproduced in the “In Focus” section of this bulletin. Presentation of current Accounts for RY 2020/2021 President Dinesh called on Honorary Treasurer Manish Tibrewal to briefly present the current Accounts for the Rotary year 2020/2021. Rtn Manish reported as follows:

    Accounts were ready up to November.

    Ms Linda Lim joined as Accounts and Admin Executive from 1st October 2020.

    The external accountants were served notice of termination and accounting would be done in-house with effect from 1st February 2021.

    Members who have not settled their dues were urged to do so as soon as possible.

    The Profit and Loss statement was tabled. President Dinesh thanked members for their participation and closed the Meeting.

    In Focus

  • 9 | Rotary Crossroads

    President Dinesh Sharma

    Rtn Mukundan Appadurai Paramashivan

    PP Dr Yap Lip Kee

    Last Week 23rd Club Fellowship Meeting for Rotary Year 2020-2021

    held on 23.12.20 OPENING REMARKS The meeting was opened by Sergeant-at-Arms Rtn Jean-Philippe Lionnet who invited President Dinesh Sharma to take the chair. President Dinesh warmly welcomed all present to the 23rd and last weekly meeting of 2020, a year which we were unlikely to forget. TOAST TO ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

    Toastmaster, Rtn Mukund noted that the year has seen plans being taken back, eventhough Rotarians have not taken a step back. He called on members to raise a toast to Rotary International and continue to uphold the ideals of Rotary.

    CLUB’S RESOLUTION FOR CHALLENGE FOR POSITION OF DISTRICT GOVERNOR (RY 2023-2024) President Dinesh reminded members of the proposed Resolution which was announced at the last meeting in respect of the Club’s proposal of PP Dr Yap Lip Kee to be the challenging candidate for the post of District Governor 2023-2024. He called on members to raise their hands if there were any objections – none were received, and the Resolution was unanimously adopted. WHO’S WHO DIRECTORY (RY2020-21) / ROTARY CALENDAR 2021

    President Dinesh noted that last year’s directory was distributed in June, therefore it was decided to have this year’s directory to include the 15 new members’ as well as the new members from last year to be added. He also advised that the directory was printed on first name basis. He also took the opportunity to thank PP Lip Kee for the complimentary calendars which together with the directories would be couriered to members.

    However, President Dinesh requested members who were in the vicinity of the Secretariat to inform Ms. Linda for self-collection of these items.

    In Focus

  • 10 | Rotary Crossroads

    Mr Fakkah Fuzz

    President Corinna Chang

    Last Week 23rd Club Fellowship Meeting for Rotary Year 2020-2021

    held on 23.12.20 FELLOWSHIP TIME! President Dinesh announced that fellowship would start with two performances by pianist Rtn. Corinna Chang and comedian Mr Fakkah Fuzz, after which members would be invited to various break out rooms for further fellowship and to exchange greetings. Following is some information of the two performers: Corinna Chang , an award winning pianist , lecturer and adjudicator is a Singapore Government scholar that did her Honours in Piano Performance at Adelaide University. She subsequently furthered her music studies in the United States in music pedagogy with special emphasis on nurturing gifted children. In 2005, she was the founder of Klassique Musik that nurtured many prize winning musicians that have won in Hong Kong, Italy, Greece and the United States. Corinna has performed in Bali, Surabaya in May 2018- during the bombings, Thailand and at Carnegie Hall, New York City in 2015 and 2016. Most recent performances in December 2020 include the Rotary Singapore Institute, World Peace Musical Festival (Star Performer) and the Symposium for Human Excellence. She was appointed Asian Organiser of the Chicago International Music Competition in July 2019 which involved participants from Indonesia, Philippines , Thailand and Singapore. In August 2020 , Corinna became a host of Musicahan , a new music and education program in the Philippines which premiered on Channel E. Starting her Rotarian journey in August 1, 2016, Corinna is President of Rotary Club of Suntec City and firmly believes in serving others and feels that music will serve as a bridge to everyone to unite in the spirit of camaraderie and solidarity. She wishes everyone at Rotary Club of Singapore joyous tidings in the Holiday Season. Fakkah Fuzz is a Singapoe hottest, funny, hilarious upcoming standup comedian. He was the first Singaporean to be featured on Netflix Comedy Special.

    In Focus

  • 11 | Rotary Crossroads

    GIFT OF LIFE Children with cardiac problems

    to get help from Rotary’s District 3300 & 3310

    A full set of 3 editions - Book of Humour, Best of Humour & Bank of Humour, come in a beautifully designed box housing this set for only $25.00 Please order a few sets of books for the Gift of Life Project, and place your orders with: Hon. Member Rtn Rewa Mirpuri @ tel: 6241 9157 or email: [email protected]

    Coming Rotary

    Events

    RC sends best wishes to Wedding Anniversary celebrants: Matei & Sejin Iurascu PN Louis & Amabel Lim Sylvia Chung & Bronnie Tse Dr Don Chen & Yve Yuan

    RC sends best wishes to Birthday celebrants: Rajkumar Perumal Suppiah Tina Tang Fredrick Ee Xerxes Medora PP Bala Balachandran VP Suresh Keerthi HM PP Alfred Wong Debasree Chakrabarti Roland Jossi Dr Don Chen Dr Hoh Sek Tien PP Peter Tan Suresh Hathiramani Asheesh Khaneja Sudhir Tiku Elizabeth Chee

    Anniversary

    Celebrants

    Mark Your Diary

    Birthday Celebrants

    This Meeting

    Next Meeting

    Committee Meetings

    All Service Committee Meetings will be held on Thursdays from 7.00 to 8.00pm

    COMMUNITY SERVICE: Thursday, 7 January 2021

    VOCATIONAL SERVICE: Thursday, 14 January 2021

    INTERNATIONAL SERVICE: Thursday, 21 January 2021

    YOUTH SERVICE: Thursday, 28 January 2021

    December Disease Prevention & Treatment Month 30 Dec – Meeting Cancelled in view of the Holiday Season

    January Vocational Service Month 27 Jan – 3rd Club Assembly

    February Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution Month

    March Water and Sanitation Month

    April Maternal and Child Health Month

    May Youth Service Month

    June Rotary Fellowships Month 19 Jun – Installation of the 87th Board

    Pres Garry hands a Club banner to Rtn Rodrigo

    30 December 2020

    Meeting Cancelled in view of the

    Holiday Season

    6 January 2021 From 7.00 to 8.30pm

    Speaker: Mr James Dauman, Managing Director, South East Asia R.J. Flemming & Co, C0-Founder, The Nepal Initiative Topic: Supporting Education and Children’s Welfare in Nepal

  • 12 | Rotary Crossroads

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2020/2021

    President Dinesh Sharma

    Immediate Past President Deepak Nagrani

    President Elect See Mee Lee

    Vice President (Membership) Suresh Keerthi

    Vice President (Digital Technology) Colin Miles

    Hon. Secretary (Administration) Brigitte Holtschneider

    Hon. Treasurer (Finance) Manish Tibrewal

    Directors

    Chair, Community Service Dr Irina Francken

    Chair, Vocational Service Dr Chan Siew Luen

    Chair, International Service Varun Gulati

    Chair, New Generations Service Dr Ganesh Ramalingam

    Director (Public Image & PR) Sonali Sinha

    The Guide to Daily Living Before doing the things we want to do, consider first, the

    Precepts of the guide. Ask ourselves these 4 questions and

    act upon them:

    First: Have I spent some time in self-examination?

    Second: Have I spent quality time with my family?

    Third: Have I given my best to my work?

    Fourth: Have I given some time to someone near and far?

    The Guide, in fact, encompasses the 4 parts of the Object of Rotary.

    The Four-Way Test Of the things we think, say or do:

    Is it the truth?

    Is it fair to all concerned?

    Will it build goodwill and better friendship?

    Will it be beneficial to all concerned?