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A Project with the potential to save the sight of hundreds of Australians. Rotary has joined with the Macular Degeneration Foundation to create a mass awareness campaign by handing out Amsler grids to the public during awareness week which is the last week in May. These grids are magnetised and sit on your fridge so that at any time a ten second test could save your sight. There will be an accompanying pamphlet which answers any questions the public might have regarding prevention or treatment.
Double Foundation recognition points for recurring contribution to the Annual Fund.
Trustee Chair Boyd and Chair-elect Wilkinson have approved The Rotary Foundation offering double Foundation recognition points for all recurring contributions to the Annual Fund between 1 April and 1 July 2012.
Donation in Kind
A Call for Arms Your assistance at the Donation in Kind (DIK) warehouse at Edinburgh Parks, will greatly help the running of DIK, one of Rotary Australia World Community Service’s most dynamic but unsung programmes. Your help, as a club or as an individual, will substantially complement the steadfast efforts of the DIK committee, regular volunteers and clubs that have had working bees at DIK in the past. As well as providing constructive help to, these working bees provide Rotarians and friends the opportunity for having fun while working together on a common cause and good fellowship.
District Governor’s
Newsletter No 10Rotary Magazine Month
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No 10 April 2012
DISTRICT GOVERNOR Eric Russell ( Julie )
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DISTRICT GOVERNOR ELECT Marie Dorrington ( Ken )
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DISTRICT GOVERNOR NOMINEE
Barbara Wheatcroft
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EDITOR Sally Melvaine
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DISTRICT WEB SITE www.rotary9500.org
R.I. PRESIDENT Kalyan Banerjee ( Binota )
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Inside this Issue
2pg : * The Rotary Foundation.
* Historic moment for ShelterBox. * Near Disaster at Goolwa North. * PolioPlus Challenge. * Foundation alumni award.
3pg : * Red Shield Appeal. * The Port Lincoln Surfing weekend.
* Rotarians Against Malaria. * Storage of the Billboard Trailer. 4pg: * Flooding in Fiji. * Selterbox Donations * How Peterborough are helping local Youths. * Rotary Club of Salisbury support of No Workshop No Jumpshot. * The Rotary Club of Roxby District -At Work in our Community.
The Rotary Foundation Districts Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund Let me begin by congratulating the following clubs for achieving the goal set for the clubs at the beginning of the year by our DG Eric of contributing $100 per club member to our Districts Annual Program Funds, as at 1st March. RC’s of Henley Beach, Two Wells, Maitland, Port Pirie, Prospect, Peterborough, Mawson Lakes, Makin Edge-Tea Tree Gully. Our total contribution to our Districts Humanitarian future projects stands at $49,415 this is well down on our target goal of $133,000. What makes the situation worse is the fact that personal giving by Rotarians via Centurion Club makes up over $14,600 of the $49,415 contributions to date. Rotarians if your club is not listed above I implore you to encourage your club board to consider making a donation to the Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund this month. The support of all clubs is essential if we as a District wish to engage in Group Study Exchanges (VTT,) Club and District Humanitarian Grants in the foreseeable future. John Rowe District Rotary Foundation Chair
ShelterBox and Rotary International sign project partnership'Historic moment for ShelterBox'ShelterBox and Rotary International (RI) have formed a project partner agreement this month, signed by John Hewko, Rotary International's General Secretary, and Tom Henderson OBE, ShelterBox Founder and CEO.
The formalisation of this partnership cements a 12-year relationship providing emergency shelter and life-saving humanitarian aid for hundreds of thousands of families around the world, who have been made homeless by disaster.
Near Disaster at Goolwa North The very last day of the trip and we got big winds. Started ok, but built and built. I recorded 20kn gusts. Although the wind was behind us it was still difficult paddling. Peter had the worst problem as his boat is just not designed for that sort of sea.
About a km down from the barrage in mid river Peter capsized. With the strength of the wind and waves I found it very difficult to even get alongside. Eventually managed and tied Peter's bow rope to my
kayak and started a tough tow, with Peter's boat full of water and him in the water alongside it. Fortunately, after about 50m Peter was able to touch bottom and start walking in thick sucking mud. I phoned our wives and got them to pick us up. No injuries thank goodness. We were about 3 km short of our destination. I had thoughts of finishing off tomorrow, however the forecast is for strong winds right through to Thursday at least. It will be completed. Russ & Pete.
PolioPlus ChallengeWe have this year as a district contributed over $40,600 to the PolioPlus Challenge. This takes our District, Club and personal contributions to the eradication of polio to in excess of $171,780 since the challenge started on 1st
December 2007 14 Clubs and their members have given a min of $1,000 this year. There are however many clubs who have not made a donation. Many of us are not in the position to directly assist as a volunteer to administer the polio vaccine but we can as clubs and individuals do our little bit by ensuring our club achieves the goal set last year at PETS & Assembly.
To raise awareness of Rotary’s contribution to the eradication of Polio by:
Running a club public activity that publicises our involvement, To use this activity e.g. BBQ, to raise funds from the community to support eradication project.
Act now in April and May for a positive outcome for your club.
Rotary volunteer administers vaccine to a child during a polio immunization drive in Chad John Rowe District Rotary Foundation Chair
Foundation alumni award John Skerritt, a research scientist who is deputy secretary of the Department of Primary Industries for the state of Victoria, Australia, has been chosen by The Rotary Foundation Trustees as the recipient of the 2011-12 Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award.
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Community Awareness through cooperation.
As part of our “win win” com-munity aware-ness program district 9500 & 9520 have agreed to assist the Red Shield Neighbourhood Appeal. The Salvation Army in South Australia has, in the past, enjoyed the on -going support of numerous Rotary Clubs. We are seeking to greatly expand this assistance from Rotarians with new clubs and individuals coming on board to collect for this important appeal.
Putting our Rotarian and friends “feet on the street” for this appeal is a tremendous opportunity to promote Rotary awareness in our community. To be seen in our Rotary clothing wearing our name plaques proudly beside the Salvos appeal ID badge is a strong demonstration of our dedication to service and willingness to form partnerships that will be of bene�t to those less fortunate than ourselves.
Please encourage your friends and most importantly your club to take an active part in this initiative to ensure that we maximise the “win win” bene�t to both our organisations. Register now and get organised for late May.
DG Eric
The Port Lincoln Sur�ng weekend for the D9500 Inbound students just was great.
Everyone enjoyed themselves immensely, including the hosts!
ROTARIANS AGAINST MALARIA (RAM) is a branch of Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd.
Australian Rotarians and their clubs are channelling anti malaria funds into a�ected areas in our designated Paci�c Region (Solomons, PNG & Timor Leste) via the Adopt a Village Program (AAV), where Long Lasting Impregnated Nets which cost only A$10 are being distributed to families in manner prescribed by formula for household ages and sex; to their villages which are often di�cult to reach, and via spraying huts, houses and mosquito breeding sites in a successful e�ort to reduce mortality. Funds and RAWCS Projects have also created warehouses and support for research and distribution of these nets.
Rotary District 9500 standard operational procedure for use and storage of the Rotary
District 9500 Bill board Trailer.
These Standard Operational Procedures are prepared in the interests of Rotarian personal safety, the protection of trailer users, the maintenance and protection of the
trailer, compliance with legal and insurance requirements and the integrity and reputation
of Rotary International and Rotary District 9500.
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Deadline for receipt of items for the May 2012 Newsletter is 1 st of the month. Please email to [email protected]
Rotary responds to new wave of flooding in Fiji.
Rotary New Zealand has once again been asked for support to assist the communities particularly on the
western side of the main island of Viti Levu who are feeling the effects of the second major flood in eight weeks.
SHELTERBOX DONATIONS: Westpac BSB: 032 189 Account: 230 147 Deposits to be marked clearly and/or email to advise to [email protected]
107470 Our goal is to help 500,000 people every year. So far we have sent out this many ShelterBoxes.
WEBSITE: www.shelterboxaustralia.com.au
DONATION HOTLINE: Phone: 1300 996 038
Here’s How Peterborough are doing it for local Youths …and how you can helpThe energetic youth of Peterborough want a skate park. With the help from The Peterborough Youth Advisory Board they began running a regular sausage sizzle at the local monthly market. They have received some donations to their cause and now have an incredible $15,000. The ambitious target is $30,000 so the District Council has now voted to help them reach this goal by subsidizing subsequent funds raised n a dollar for dollar basis – until June 30th.So have a think about this. Fundraising with the FREGIE SACK. The reusable Bags for your Fruit, Veg, Nuts and more. 6.9 billion disposable bags are used by Australians every year. So have a read and see how you can help to make money as a fundraiser and help our Environment with the FREGIE SACK
A flyer is attached. See also www.thefregiesack.com.au
Rotary Club of Salisbury support of No Workshop No Jumpshot – Midnight Basket-ball Salisbury Tournament with Rotary International Foundation District Grant The Rotary Club of Salisbury has with the aid of money received from a Foundation District grant been able to assist the organisers of the Midnight Basketball Tournament by providing financial assistance toward the cost of transport for get-ting the participants home safely, as well as catering for one of the tournaments. Midnight Basketball has changed Saturday nights in Salisbury. Young people are flocking to the local recreation centre to participate.
The Rotary Club of Roxby District - "At Work in our Community"
On Saturday 24th March 2012 members of the RC of Roxby District got to 'work in our community' - Curdimurka Park in fact - a local park in Roxby Downs which the club adopted back in 2010. The club has previously installed some bench seating, however this time the project was 12 sqm of paving.
The club has sold "Engraving on Pavers" to businesses and local individuals as a means of fund raising - with all money raised to go back into further development within the park.
The efforts on Saturday resulted in the start of the paving - with a large Rotary wheel and club
details in the centre, surrounded by other businesses and family bricks. We even acknowledged our 1st LTYE student Bodie Henderson who is currently in Sweden.
It just looks fantastic!
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