June 2012

The Hatfield Times Rotary Club of Pretoria Hatfield

(Chartered March 1997)

District 9400

The Rotary Theme For 2011/2012

Some important dates for upcoming events :

? Aug tea-party

28/9-3/10 DG visit

13 Oct Dinners of Hope

Rotary Club of Pretoria Hatfield

Club meetings take place

over breakfast on Thursdays at

06.30 for 06.45 at the Sheraton Hotel

643 Wessels Street / Church Street, Arcadia

Tel: (012) 429 9999

For information

Contact Ingrid Fiedeldey Tel: 083 570 8671

IDEAS FOR MAKE-UPS

Pretoria East : Monday 18:30 – 19:00 Union Caterers,

Pretoria Capital : Tuesday 18:30 Pretoria Country Club Pretoria West : Tuesday 19.00 Pretoria High School Old Boys Club Waterkloof : Wednesday 19.00 St Albans College Pretoria Rotary Club : Thursday 17.30 Pretoria Country Club Centurion : Thursday 19.00 Irene Homes Pretoria Sunrise : Saturday 08.15 Willow Country Lodge

Remember, wherever you travel in the world, there will be a Rotary Club to visit!

FROM THE PRESIDENT Joerg U. Limper

PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2011/2012

Reflections of a year as the Rotary Club of Pretoria Hatfield’s President!

What is a dream?

A dream is a goal,

An inspiration,

A dream is where Hope lives,

A dream is something to chase when life drags us down,

A dream is a song in the wilderness,

"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."

Fellow Rotarians and friends, it is difficult to express my gratitude and appreciation to you all. I want to

say so much, but I can hardly find the words. So, I'll just say that you all are a great blessing in my life.

This evening is the culmination of a year of great teamwork and lots of hard work, but also it is the event

when I see all of you to bid farewell to my Presidency and induct my successor. Now you think you'll

have to listen to my long and boring confessions…Well, you are right. I'll try to make them shorter and

funnier, but they still remain long and boring. So, listen to me…Thank you! Thank you for being with

me thru thick and thin. You support and understanding gave me the strength to continue what started

many, many years ago. You are my world and I am sincerely grateful to God for giving me such caring

friends. Your support was crucial for me this year achieving much due to your help and perseverance: I

reached elementary level in the Rotary International and Rotary Club of Pretoria Hatfield school .

Gratitude -is what I feel standing now in front of you. Gratitude - is the best emotion one can imagine.

My first initiative was to enjoy the fruits of labour from Elzed’s presidency and open the Danville Day

care centre which was made possible via a large contribution from Mark and the Clubs fundraising

efforts. It unfortunately continued with retiring three longstanding members who I most certainly do not

need to mention, we all remember them with very fond memories.

Another member took a break in Canada and is taking the really slow boat back………

New members were inducted and added to the vitality, innovativeness, energy, collectiveness and

diversity of the club.

Fundraising efforts locally as well as internationally allowed for a healthy bank balance……

Tania & Bram worked their magic and achieved the Clubs Golf day’s highest collection to date…..

Instead of spending money in the mall we spent a weekend trying to support Rotary’s blanket drive….

Thru thick and thin and all of the previous mentioned efforts we were able to continue our efforts with

the Thlopane school water project. All of the above was and is made possible because of all of your

tireless efforts. Gratitude is what I feel and gratitude is the best emotion one can imagine.

I am grateful to all of you and without further ado it is my distinct privilege and honour to hand over the

leadership of the Rotary Club of Pretoria Hatfield to Tania.

Sincerely in Rotary

Joerg U. Limper

President

FROM PRESIDENT ELECT : Tania van der Reep

I am proud and humbled to be elected in my new role and will do my utmost to have together with you

the best year.

Joerg guided us through an interesting year and only got peace when there was success. He stood and

still stands for growth and bigger projects.

Our main goal for this year is the borehole and vegetable garden at Tholopane school and if possible

many more. Lets maintain our fellowship activities and growth of our club is priority. Furthermore

expand our fundraising activities in order to deliver more community aid. And on vocational site, lets

just maintain what we did. It was good.

For all this we need to be united and only when the chain is tied and strong we will book success. With

the devotion of the members of this club it is just a guarantee.

I would like to strengthen our goals with 3 lines :

- Communication in order to have everyone involved in all the things we do.

- Respect for all for all we do and for each of us

- Focus on our priorities

When I arrived here in South Africa 4 years ago I immediately felt impressed by the spirit of the club.

At the Dinners of Hope PJ made a speech and I said to Bram, this is the club I want to be.

First of all I would like you to introduce our board-members

And I will start with our secretary, Ingrid, she knows everything and keeps quiet until she wants to say

what she has to say. Always right, always the truth!

Dries is so full of passion and energy and manages to have perfection in all the things he does. He will

lead International.

Amanda, is our respected treasurer for years and without her consistent devotion we are lost.

Memos, he took me to district meetings and teached me lot of aspects of Rotary, which I still don’t

understand yet. Was it Memos’ language or me not understanding? He is Vice-President

Tracy was inducted just after me and I’m so glad that a young lady with her new visions joined our club.

She is responsible for New Generation.

Jean, always in a good mood and ready to take over Club Admin. At the moment she is enjoying the

States.

Gerrit, thanks to our IT specialist we have now a nice website and everyone gets a bit closer to that other

world. He will be in charge of vocational services.

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We have very qualified members and please let me say just a word about everyone :

Wise Carol took me several times to very interesting communities and while she was driving she

instructed me, like a good professor, about South Africa.

At my first breakfast meeting I sat next to Colleen and thanks to her I got to know the names of

everyone rather soon. Thanks for your patience Colleen.

Goran, my bodyguard …. Thanks for fulfilling your task as master-sergeant like a real pro!

Elzed, she made from our vocational services a trademark for Rotary.

Mike as well, I got to know him from the beginning when we visited projects. He teached me lots of

things.

Anneke, is our rock. Trustworthy and consistent. On the spot when you need her.

Mark, I remember you from the ‘let’s know more about Rotary’ session and you had so many questions.

Today, I guess you know everything.

Then we have Retha, she is rather new in the club but knows everyone and everyone knows her. Very

communicative.

Suzanne, the lady who brings the smile in our lives, but for the moment in Canada with her family.

Grant, thanks for all the Protea facilities. We wish we could see you a bit more.

Christophe, such a pity we don’t see him often. Has a job in the DRC. Always interesting to have a talk

with him. I even can unload some of my French with him.

Daniel, our social media specialist, he tries to turn older hearts into younger brains.

Just to say : ‘none of us is as smart as all of us’. Let us walk this way.

Thanks past Presidents, I will take care of your baby.

And with all these beautiful people we will make the difference. All together! Thanks for being here.

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE : report 2011/2012

New Generations is a new avenue of service only formally introduced at the start of the 2011/2012

Rotary year. The areas covered by New Generations are:

Youth Exchange (short term and long term)

RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards)

Rotaract, Interact and earlyact

Otter Trail

◦ YOUTH EXCHANGE

Last year we visited schools with posters but unfortunately we did not receive a response and are

looking at a new approach for the coming year.

◦ RYLA

Three RYLA camps organised by District 9400 and Warriors were meant to take place in August and

September 2011 but were unfortunately cancelled. This left a number of students disappointed. Our

committee is looking into our club hosting RYLA camps which will incorporate Gerrit's Ayeye

Leadership Lab. This will be a very exciting project for the new year!

◦ Rotaract, Interact and Earlyact

Again we spoke to scholars and teachers last year with no response. We will try a new approach in the

coming year.

◦ Otter Trail

The Otter trail is a five day hike in the Tsitsikamma National Park. As a project, it is intended for youth

and fellowship. We have had some obstacles in contacting youth exchange students, but a new approach

has been designed and implemented to ensure more youth participation in future.

March 2012 however saw a very successful Otter Trail – with six hikers taking part – who enjoyed

fellowship and an exciting challenge.

Yours in Rotary,

Tracy Lee Goldstone

CLUB SERVICES : report 2011/2012

Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the smooth functioning of the club,

which includes :

Organizing all aspects of club meetings including the program, venues, sergeant and facilities.

Promoting fellowship amongst the family of Rotary through regular events.

Providing Rotary information to the club and the public through inter alia the bulletin, website

and PRO interventions.

Fostering membership development.

Supporting the Board as the anchor point for finance, district activities and the like.

Essentially Club Service is closely related to all members and the efforts they put in may often be

thought to go unnoticed.

Members will recall a high level of activity and I am sure, events such as, Xmas at L&M, the DG’s visit,

What’s Cooking? at Tania’s place, the parking and linked to that the blanket drive to Lesotho will bring

back memories, to name but a few.

Our regular home at the Sheraton has provided exceptional fare on a number of special occasions. met a

high level of interest. We have had many top speakers on subjects as diverse as nature and conserving

elephants, personal finance, fraud, local government, statistics, e-learning, foreign affairs, Twitter, to

mention but a few. Our speakers are honored by planting a tree in their name in a disadvantaged

community and a tree planting ceremony has been held at Vuka School in Nelmapius.

Attendance has been strong and consistently exceeded 70%, whilst our membership remained to 20.

Although fundraising is an activity which touches all committees, Club Service was active in all events.

Financially, the club is ending the year in a strong position with regard to club funds, which are funded

by members for running expenses.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to the members of Club Service, Amanda, Ingrid, Jean,

Memos and Suzanne (abroad for a couple of months) as well as all those of you who have contributed in

any way. It has made our task such a pleasure.

Yours in Rotary

Tania van der Reep

Speakers

exchange of flags visitor from Rotarian Kayaiki from Kampala

Tree planting in honor of our guest speakers at Dr Mathole School

Paul Harris Award

Rotary Golfday – May 18, 2012

District Conference at Drakensberg

From 8 until 10 June we had a district conference and 10 people from our club were there. There were

interesting speakers and it was a nice fellowship activity.

Friday night everyone attended the special ‘stars’ theme evening. Some pictures below.

COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE : report 2011/2012

Projects undertaken by the committee during the past year:

1. Food Distribution

The committee receives and delivers, on average, 400kg of power food every 2 months. Max-a-Meal is a

highly nutritious legume-based supplement comprising of samp, dried beans, barley, green peas, herbs

and spices.

Beneficiaries

Areabogeng Old Age

Kome

General Steyn (Reddingsdaad & Huis

Ebenhaeser)

Itumeleng Shelter for

Boys

Thakadiile Day Care

Centre

Tshwane Home of Hope - Shelter for

Girls

Danville Feeding

Scheme

Circle of Life –

Eersterust

Missionaries of Charity - orphanage ABET learners -

Winterveld

Distribution has been suspended due to lack of funds but we hope to resume the supply to our

beneficiaries shortly.

2. Wheelchair Distribution

The club received 5 Wheelchairs to distribute in the community. All 5 wheelchairs will go to the African

Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Ga-Rankuwa. Distribution will take place on Sunday, July 8,

2012.

3. Community Service and International Service Collaboration.

The community service committee approached the International Committee with the view to distribute

blankets in another district. Past President Dries Velthuizen then approached the Rotary Club of Maloti

in Maseru and this lead to the start of an adventure combined with a humanitarian effort! During the

weekend of the 20th of April 2012, 6 Rotarians and 3 partners from the Hatfield club joined members of

the Maloti club in what can only be described as the most rewarding experience of my life. During the

weekend of superb fellowship and community service we distributed 200 blankets and helped the

community to plant more than100 fruit trees in the Rapo-Le-Boea Community

4. Blanket Distribution

District 9400 held a fundraising weekend on 5 & 6 May 2012 at several shopping malls in Gauteng. The

idea was to “sell” blankets to members of the public and then use the money collected to buy blankets

which each club then had to distribute amongst to the needy. All 8 clubs in Pretoria came together at the

Brooklyn Mall where each member had the opportunity to apply their best selling techniques in order to

raise funds! The Hatfield club collected enough money to distribute a whopping 177 blankets! Half of

the blankets will go to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Ga-Rankuwa and the other

half to St John, The Baptist Clinic, Madidi, Winterveld.

5. Tlhophane Primary School

The club has enjoyed a long and successful relationship with the school. After our last project – donating

sports equipment - the committee saw the need for a borehole. The committee proceeded to procure

funds to drill a borehole and to install a solar powered pump and water tank. The Sheraton Hotel

generously donated all the money from their fundraising golf day for this worthy project and in doing so

kick-started our fundraising effort. Rotarian Anna Corthout then contacted previous members of the

Hatfield club that have since relocated and pitched the project to them. Through her tireless effort and

formidable powers of persuasion the Rotary Club of Charlottesville in the US together with the

University of Virginia decided to collaborate with us and in March held a fundraising dinner. The money

raised will now be used to start the drilling and the project should be concluded by the end of June 2012.

We are deeply appreciate to all concerned for their assistance and generosity.

6. Emily Hobhouse Old Age Home – Christmas Party

On Thursday 24 November 2011 the committee held its fourth Christmas Party for the residents of the

old age home. A total of a 170 gift packs were handed over while the residents of the old age home

tucked into the refreshments on offer. The gift packs included a variety of toiletries and some treats. We

also had 4 lucky draw prizes which President Joerg Limper and Rotarian Suzanne Oberholzer handed

over to the very excited winners. Dianne Chapman and her brother Francois entertained the senior

citizens with Christmas carols.

7. Wen Saam Kindersorg (Elandspoort)& Missionary Sisters of Charity (Klipgat) - Christmas

Party

On Sunday 27 November 2012 the committee held a Christmas party at African Island Beach Resort,

Hartbeespoort Dam for 90 underprivileged children from the Elandspoort area and 18 orphans from

Missionary Sisters of Charity in Klipgat. Transport was provided by Robbert Busdienste BK. Sponsored

cool drinks, boerewors rolls, lucky packets, chips and sandwiches were some of the treats the children

could feast on during the day while enjoying the facilities at the resort. Nine parents and caregivers

accompanied Rotarians Amanda van Biljon, Colleen van Reenen and Retha du Randt. Rotary volunteers

Adriana Baratelli and her husband had their hands full making sure that all 108 hungry stomachs were

filled and Rheta occasionally had to attend to a boo boo or two.

8. Sponsored Items

A number of items were sponsored or donated during the year, thanks to the generosity of individual

club members and other sponsors. This enabled us to donate

Bed linen & bath towels to Wen Saam Kindersorg in Elandspoort

Toiletries like soap and little bottles of shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, toilet rolls and

hand cream to needy communities in Pretoria West.

Ladies, baby and men’s clothing to Elandspoort

Weekly donations of food to shelters for street children in Sunnyside and Hatfield.

9. Club Fundraisers

Our annual parking fundraiser in February at the Phobians race held at Pretoria Old Boys Club and our

Golf day on 18 May 2012 at Zwartkops Country Club both proved to be highly successful. We also had

a well-supported Fundraising Tea Party on 27 August 2011 at Laerskool Monumentpark.

10. Dinners of Hope

Last but not least - our annual fundraising event on the 15th of October 2011 was attended by 90 guests

and proved to be a huge success. The Sheraton Hotel contributed largely to the success and prestige of

this event.

I would like to thank my fellow committee members for their commitment, dedication and especially

their support this past year.

Yours in Rotary,

Amanda van Biljon

INTERNATIONAL SERVICES : report 2011/2012 In accordance with the stated objective ‘To participate in Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the world’ the Rotary Club of

Pretoria Hatfield decided to reach out to people in need beyond the borders of South Africa. Subsequently from Friday 21

April 2012 a team of ten Rotarians from our Club met members of the Rotary Club of Maseru Maloti in Lesotho to deliver

blankets to the a village community Mountain area of Ha Ramabanta, before the snow comes to the Maloti Mountains. The

blankets were purchased with funds raised by the Club by managing the parking of a PHSOB marathon in February 2012.

On Friday, after a painful crossing of customs at the border between the Free State and Maseru, the convoy (including Dries

towing the trailer with the blankets) proceeded to Ramabanta . After a great Rotarian dinner and fellowship with the Maseru

Rotarians the group spent the night in a picturesque value in the Maloti mountains.

On the morning of Saturday 2 April the convoy proceeded on a difficult swirling road with some challenging slopes to meet

the community members at the community school. The day turned out to be very special with cattle herders, community

leaders, schoolchildren, foresters and even Basotho ponies joining us for the event. After the normal speeches, traditional

dances by the school children and the planting of more than 100 apple and peach trees (donated by the Lesotho government)

the blankets were distributed to the most needy.

On return, our Rotarians had great fellowship in the historical town of Roma, visited the heritage site at Thaba Bosciu, and

had Sunday brunch in the town of Clarens in the Free State before returning home very happy Rotarians, knowing that we

reached out to where it really matters.

This project not only brought Club members in close contact with the autumn beauty of our country and neighbouring

Lesotho, but also reminded us again of the harsh realities of people in need.

It is envisaged that the Rotary Club of Pretoria Hatfield go into a twinning agreement with the Rotary Club of Maseru Moloti

to do joint projects and cement relations across borders.

Yours in Rotary,

Dries Velthuizen