A special couple tie the knot!

Issue 5

October 2014

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Our club President Kanthan Pillay and

Dr Sarah Britten, tie the knot in the

beautiful Clarens setting.

Sarah is also a member of our club...but

they met long before that!

Sarah was very involved with the

communications programme for the

Rotary Family Health Days project in

2013.

Sue Paget (RFHDs Director) and PDG

Shirley Downie enjoyed chatting to her

during a number of meetings...and she

was introduced to us by Kanthan who

highly recommended her to the project.

Sarah is a remarkable artist! She does

artwork using lipsticks - which is so

unusual and extremely beautiful.

All the club members wish them both

many decades of happiness together

and for this Rotary year, Sarah is our

First Lady!

RI President Gary

Haung seen on the screen

during the discussion held by so

many folks worldwide.

RIP Gary’s mentioned that the

future of Rotary could be

through eClubs and also have

more women on board.

PE Annemarie and President

Kanthan were involved in the

discussions.

Read more about the

meeting on page 3.

It is planned that in November,

all our club members can

interact with the twinning club

to interact… once the date and

time is announced, please make

yourself available so that we

can have a wonderful

interaction between us all.

We toasted a few clubs and the 1st Club toasted (last month) was: The Rotary Club of Bishofhofen Aus-tria (D1920). Dr Mashadi Motlana, one of the newer members of the E Club was an exchange stu-dent some years ago before she started her medical

studies. https://www.rotary.at/clubs/178_rc_bischofshofen/clublokal The second club The Rotary Club of Vale Verde - Green Valley in Phoenix Arizona was toasted - following a proposal by club

member Sue Paget - Chairperson of International Service and Programme Director of the RFHA Rotary Family Health Days, Southern Africa.

24 October - World Water Day

There have been radio interviews, TV snippets and much to do about water being cut off in

some areas for over 2 weeks…. And many are saying that they would rather be without elec-

tricity than water!

Water is one of Rotary International’s main focus areas.

Perhaps we should consider a water-related project in ur club. Areas such as Nelspruit , rural

areas and Kenya need to be considered….so eClub members in those areas—and any other

area, please consider a water project. We can even apply for a grant as well.

Merci beaucoup, Muchas Gracias, Thank you so

much, Muito Obrigado, Aligato, 謝謝你 Dear Rotary Friends, dear Friends

MERCI BEAUCOUP ! THANK YOU SO MUCH to all of you who have

attended yesterday’s meeting of the Rotary E-Club 9920 Francophone with

Rotary President Gary Huang as Special Guest Speaker, in spite of the timetable!

133 Rotarians from 29 different countries, 52 Districts , 72 Rotary Clubs from all over the World , what an achievement ! This is the MAGIC of E-CLUBS !

Please forgive me for not giving to all of you the right to speak to President Gary, but I had been told that President Gary had a very tight schedule afterwards.

I would like to thank particularly our D9920 DG Iain who had to wake up so early to be able to attend this meeting , as well as our Friends from Australia.

I would like to thank all 13 of our “already” Twin Clubs , and our 5“future” Twin Clubs who have participated,

and maybe some other Clubs, E-Clubs or “traditional” Clubs , could now come and join us in our “Circle”of Twin

Clubs!

A very special THANKS to the 4 “special” Speakers who have done their “homework” so diligently , as I have

been asking them to do , so that we would be on schedule...!

The New Generation and the Rotaract world was present as well with members from Europe and Africa. Thank you so much for coming ; this is your future!

President Gary’s words of wisdom have most certainly “enlightened” all of us, as well as the whole Rotary World!

Dear Friends , we have been through such a great moment of FELLOWSHIP / AMITIE ROTARIENNE during that meeting , and I am sure that President Gary has had the same feeling.

September 30th , 2014 will most certainly be a“milestone”, not only for the Rotary E-Club 9920 Francophone, but

also for all of us!

So, let’s LIGHT UP ROTARY all together , in order to help more and more the people in need all over the World

Yours in Rotary Service, Amitiés Rotariennes,

Jean Louis Nguyen Qui : 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 President of the Rotary E-Club 9920 Francophone

Email : jl.nguyen1@orange.fr

Some of the

Rotarians

enjoying the

discussions

from all over

the world.

A little bit of wool goes a long, long way!

PDG Mark Doyle had a friend in Australia who came to Johannesburg to assist

with his cousin’s Estate. Amongst all the items that needed to be cleared, they

found bags and bags of wool. Shirley Downie asked for some of the wool. A few

weeks later, Shirley handed a crocheted blanket to PDG Sylvia Knoop to give

the a baby behind bars - a specific programme that is supported by many.

‘I was restrictive to the colours that I used but no matter the colours...it will

keep a baba very warm during the chilly nights’.

If you have any wool laying around, please let Shirley have it and she will do

another blanket!

Speech Competition in Schools — October is Vocational Month

Rotary International has a special monthly calendar and in October, we celebrate

Vocational Month.

It is proposed that we consider doing something special with the youth.

The proposal on the next page can be done in all the areas where you are a

member...be it Nelspruit or Kenya!

Now that we have cemented relationships with other clubs Internationally and

we are twinning soon, we could involve them in this project as well.

Soon a small committee will be formed to kick-start the programme.

You are all welcome to contribute to suggestions/improvements—send them to

shirley@phomella.co.za.

The “Y” in YFM

stands for Youth

and when we

inducted a new

member a few

weeks ago at the

YFM offices in

Hyde Park, the

young group

working at the office joined us.

They took such an interest in what

Rotary as about, they thought of joining!

So, we may have a Rotaract club soon…. They will manage their own projects; raise funds

and become leaders in a very different way.

Seen above are some of the YFM members at Pres. Kanthan Pillay’s induction in July.

topic remarks action

Schools Identify the number of primary and

high schools within a 20 klms radius of

Hyde Park.

Obtain a list from the internet

Competition

criteria

Prepare a criteria and instruction

sheet for the competition agree an entry

fee – possibly R 20

Criteria forms part of the

registration form and needs to be signed

by all entrants

Registration

form

Needs to be completed by the stu-

dent and the parent/guardian

needs to sign it too.

The English class teacher should al-

so sign the form.

Completed forms are to be emailed to a

member of the organising committee

School

competition

The students then do their speech in

front of their fellow students and

teachers and the school

nominates the first, second and

third place.

The winner will then go to the

semi-finals.

This event will be hosted by our

club.

Timelines will be included and Rotarians

could also be present when the speeches

are made.

Winner

submissions

Full names and reg details etc of the

winners are to be submitted by the

school to one Rotary representative.

Deadline applies

Finals This should be held inviting the

parents, teachers and Rotarians

to listen to the speeches.

A panel of three speech

specialists (non-Rtns) should be

sourced.

A specific measuring/weighting form

should be designed by the judges.

Once all is planned then the schools,

students and everyone involved will

receive the programme of events.

Prizes We need to source prizes for the first

three positions. Possibly even a

trip overseas to a Rotary club

and treat this as an

exchange student type of pro-

gramme. So a flight and some

spending money will be required:

Say R 8500 to Europe/UK and

then spending money.

The 2nd and 3rd prizes can be

sourced locally in the form of

vouchers etc.

Sponsorships/donation to be

recognised at the events and on all the

forms etc.

We can design a website for this

programme as well…and showcase all the

sponsors/donors.

PR &

membership

drive

Promote the awareness of Rotary.

Attract new members via the teachers

and parents

Local media exposure

Interviews on YFM.

During the last club Board meeting, we

Toasted the RC of Valle

Verde-Green Valley in

Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Past RFHA

Board Member and friend of South Africa,

Dr Phil Silvers (PRID), is a member of

this club.

http://valleverderotary.org/...more about

the club we toasted.

“Our club is the RC of Valle

Verde-Green Valley (which means

Green Valley-Green Valley :)). It is a club

of 57 members founded 27 years ago as a

breakfast club alternative to the Green

Valley RC--to attract younger members.

We do have about 10 professionals who

are under the age of 45. We sponsor a

very active Interact club from the two

area high schools, and we also sponsor an

orphanage for abused/abandoned girls in

nearby Sonora, Mexico.

We host a youth exchange student

every other year--last year from

Latvia. Our major fundraiser is "Jazz for

Fun"--a jazz festival of five high school

bands.

We share the proceeds with the music

programs of the participating schools. We

sponsor a micro-credit credit

program in Mexico, a VTT to Uganda, and

this year we are sponsoring (with a

district grant) a Healthcare Summit in

Uganda--to set priorities for Rotary

Family Health Days and a new VTT.

We have done Rotary Friendship

Exchanges with Thailand, Latvia,

Turkey, Uganda, and India.

We have sponsored a Global Grant

scholar from Israel/Brazil and a Peace

Fellow who will be going to

Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Lastly, we do an annual clean-up/fix-up

day for house-bound elderly people, and

on major holidays we put out American

flags on the major roadways.”

Gift to Covenant Garden Estate in Mathibestad.

Rotarian Judith Chinkumbi, PE Annemarie Mostert and

Tara Ison, also board members of Sesego Cares delivered this wonderful gift to start their sewing project.

Shortly, linen will be collected from the Humanitarian

Centre in Bedfodview and the double sheets will be turned into single sheets… all 32 beds will enjoy the linen in

comfort.

World Hand Washing Day was on 15

October and we need to encourage as many

people, especially the children how important

it is to wash their hands - as many times a day

as possible.

Perhaps your local school can receive hygiene

lessons from the teachers… you can get free

soap from the Humanitarian Centre in

Bedfordview...and do this as an ongoing project.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS….

The 1st Go to Meeting webinar of The Rotary E Club SA 9400 will be held on Wednesday

12 November 2014 at 7pm SA time. We will send this invitation to all during the next

week. Please download the link and be ready at 7pm. This session will be for 30

minutes.

Twinning of Rotary E Club 9920 Francophone: Our Twinning is booked for Monday,

November 17th , 7pm SA = 6pm France. Log in details to participate on webinar – Go

to Meeting, will be mailed to you by Annemarie Mostert during the 1st week of Novem-

ber. Please join us!