If you are unable to attend a meeting please let Suzanne M know. She will let Ivan know approximate numbers attending so he knows for catering purposes.
Make sure you let Suzanne know if you are not attending meetings - you can phone, text or email
Please give Ian A $45.00 if you are wanting coverage under Paraplegic Benefits Fund
Russell gave Pres. David a cheque for $650 for profit from Entertainment Books sold - if you want books please let Russell know
John L reminded members to donate to the Rotary Foundation - continued focus on Polio Eradication
Peter S advised he and Karen now have 13 grandchildren with a new granddaughter arriving on Monday night. Congratulations to Peter, Karen and their family
Pres. David outlined some information for the new Rotary year.
will be carrying over from Bruce's year
the meeting will retain current format including a rotating chair and sergeant sessions
RI focus is Marketing/Membership and Humanitarian projects
The marketing plan for 2016/2017 will include aggressively promoting the Rotary brand/club activities
Conducting SWOT analysis/improving the product
Identify club edge/appeal/differentiation
Enhance visibility
Utilise avenues of communication/means of communication
The membership plan is to increase member base to 50
Each member could bring one guest to try the club out
review and update website
membership think-tank/club survey
Create benefit statement
retention strategy
Youth and diversification strategy
Vocational/social media/online
Membership and Marketing need to work closely
on 22 July there is a membership day
There will be no fundraising committee - it will be the whole Leadership group
Hank G volunteered to be welfare officer -will contact people who are not well
The knowledge, skills and infrastructure built to end polio are helping to make dramatic progress on improving children’s health more broadly.
For over 25 years, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has mobilized and trained millions of volunteers and health workers; reached remote and underserved households; mapped and brought health interventions to chronically neglected communities; and established standardized, real-time global surveillance and response capacity.
Going further
The knowledge, skills and infrastructure built to end polio are already helping to make dramatic progress on improving children’s health – not only reducing the number of children paralyzed by polio by over 99%, but also decreasing the number dying from other preventable diseases in countries with strong polio eradication infrastructure.
To find out more about how the polio eradication infrastructure is expanding the reach of health services, improving disease surveillance and building health worker capacity, read this factsheet which highlights just some of the broader health benefits enabled by the investments made to end this disease.
Securing these broader benefits for the future
Polio eradication will be one of the greatest public health victories of our lifetime. We need to plan now to ensure that the world will stay polio-free and that the lessons, resources and infrastructure, which are already benefitting children beyond this one disease, continue to help children for generations to come.
To make the most of this opportunity, it is crucial that governments, civil society, Ministries of Health, and donors transition some of the polio infrastructure to sustain a polio-free world and to help meet other health needs, particularly in places with weak health infrastructure. By identifying the overlap between what the polio program has to offer and country-level priorities for strengthening health systems, we can make a lasting difference to health beyond polio. We can strengthen the foundations of health by reusing the building blocks of polio eradication.
By beginning to plan now, we can keep the world polio-free and ensure that the investments made in ending polio have a broad and lasting impact on children’s health and development, long after polio is gone.
Members should have received the email below from District Governor David Tolstrup over the weekend.
A Most Exciting Opportunity
I have taken the rare step of contacting every Rotarian in District 9810 about something that I think will generate a lot of tantalising travel thoughts.
In 2017-18 Ian Riseley, supported by Juliet, will be the Rotary International President. We are all so excited and proud about this fantastic achievement. Aligned with Ian being the World President of Rotary is the opportunity for a huge contingent of Aussies, and in particular District 9810 Rotarians to attend the 2018 Rotary International Convention in Toronto, Canada. Our plan is to recruit a large support group called "TEAM RISELEY" to be present in Toronto.
This idea therefore presents a fantastic opportunity to travel as a group and spend some time prior to the convention exploring the wonderful scenery and highlights that exist in Canada. Accordingly, we have come up with a 2018 PRE CONVENTION TOUR OF CANADA. We have included all the special aspects of Canada: Rocky Mountaineer Train travel; Lake Louise; Banff and Niagara Falls; and much more.
The attached brochure outlines the basics of the tour that has been organised. At this preliminary stage we are seeking EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST to identify what level of support will exist for this concept. The potential size of the group will determine ultimate pricing issues.
I have asked President Helen Wragg, Rotary Club of Hampton, proprietor of Global Wise Travel, to manage this project. Helen is happy to answer any questions on this project. Her contact details are:
Club visit to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Wednesday 27th July
6.00pm sharp, start
1G Royal Parade Parkville, which is north of the Grattan St intersection and on the west side of Royal Parade.
Tours normally last about 1 hour One of their immunology researchers will give us a lab tour and talk about their research.
The club is required to provide a listing of all names for those attending by am 21st July. If you are not able to attend our meetings of 13th or 20th July to record your name, please email Roger Wilson (roger.wilson7@bigpond.com) and provide names and also confirmation whether you are dining at Naughtons Parkville Hotel after the visit. Only people whose names are recorded on the list will be admitted on the night, due to the Institute’s security requirements.
Parking: There is only limited parking at the Institute (10 spaces in their forecourt). To get to their forecourt you will need to turn at the traffic lights from Royal Parade into the street that leads to the Royal Melbourne Hospital car park. You do not enter the hospital car park, but instead should go left just before the car park entrance- towards the Institute. At the boom gate to the forecourt you will need to press the button, let reception know you are here for the tour and reception will give you access to park on the forecourt.
Alternatively park in Royal Parade or at Naughtons Parkville Hotel, 43 Royal Parade and walk down to the Institute.
Dinner: After the tour it is suggested that we have dinner at Naughtons Parkville Hotel, 43 Royal Parade. www.parkvillehoptel.com.au. Their website contains menu plus they have a two courses for $38.50 offer. If we have more than 20 they will give us a private area to dine in. On the night they will seat us, take your order table by table and take individual payments for what we order.
Ian Armstrong and Bob Davis have checked out the food and given it a tick. It is also recommended by the Institute.
Roger Wilson will be collecting names at our meetings on 13th and 20th July.
Please save the motel soaps or similar size for the 'Days for Girls' program which is a program for sending sanitation products in a wash bag for teenage girls overseas. Give them to Judith who will pass them onto RC of Monash.
Save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight! - proceeds go to ROMAC
DISTRICT STAMP FUND
Why not visit your City Council/Hospital/ School or big business and request their envelopes?
$100k is our aim and with $94,000.00 already achieved we haven't far to go.
UNICEF NEEDS YOUR FOREIGN COINS
More and more of us are heading overseas and we always seem to return with useless foreign coins!
Ron Brooks, RC of Forest Hill, coordinates this successful D9810 project. Ron will coordinate at District level but needs help from all clubs. In the last 18 months 120kgs of coins and notes sent to UNICEF were valued by them at $4,700.64
Eammon Bryant, UNICEF Partnerships Manager emailed “We see Rotary and UNICEF as a perfect match. Our history working with, and converting foreign coin to help children in need matched with your unparalleled reach across Australian communities, we think, makes it a dream fit”. UNICEF works in over 190 countries to support children’s health needs, clean water and sanitation, quality basic education, and protection from violence, exploitation, and HIV.
So, far more than 15 clubs in the district have joined enthusiastically into this initiative. We are 12.1kgs into the next collection.
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• $2 will provide a severely malnourished child enough therapeutic super food for one day
• $6 will provide 20 doses of potentially life-saving measles vaccine
UNICEF will also take old European coins that are no longer in circulation.
Please leave your foreign coins and notes in the jar on the desk
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