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Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
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We are now officially a fully-fledged chartered Rotary Club in District 7020. We celebrated our Charter Gala with the meeting posted the week of January 24. Our charter date is August 12, 2013. We hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
Each summer, thousands of young people are selected to attend Rotary-sponsored leadership camps or seminars in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, France, Argentina, Korea and numerous other countries.
In an informal out-of-doors atmosphere, 50 to 75 outstanding young men and women spend a week in a challenging program of discussions, inspirational addresses, leadership training and social activities designed to enhance personal development, leadership skills and good citizenship. The official name of this activity is the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program (RYLA), although the event is occasionally referred to as Camp Royal, Camp Enterprise, Youth Leaders Seminars, Youth Conferences, or other terms.
The RYLA program began in Australia in 1959, when young people throughout the state of Queensland were selected to meet with Princess Alexandra, the young counsin of Queen Elizabeth II. The Rotarians of Brisbane, who hosted the participants, were impressed with the quality of the young leaders. It was decided to bring youth leaders together each year for a week of social, cultural and educational activities. The RYLA program gradually grew throughout all the Rotary districts of Australia and New Zealand. In 971, the RI Board of Directors adopted RYLA as an official program of Rotary International.
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FIRST SPEAKER - BOYD VARTY - What I learned from Nelson Mandela
"In the cathedral of the wild, we get to see the best parts of
ourselves reflected back to us." Boyd Varty, a wildlife activist, shares
stories of animals, humans and their interrelatedness, or "ubuntu" --
defined as, "I am, because of you." And he dedicates the talk to South
African leader Nelson Mandela, the human embodiment of that same
great-hearted, generous spirit.
In his native South Africa, Boyd Varty builds wildlife corridors
to restore the environment and literacy centers to restore the human
spirit.Everyone has felt that connection with nature. Through the Good Work Foundation, Boyd Varty is building a movement around it. The fourth-generation custodian of the Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa calls it a psychology of restoration. “We would like to be pioneers of the age of restoration,” says Varty. “Restoration of land, people and the human spirit."
By providing environmental, English and computer education to the people who live and work in Londolozi, he’s also creating an economically and socially sustainable model for conservation.
"Boyd will help you transform the ideas and inspiration that are rising to the surface of your consciousness into a solid, workable life plan."
--Martha Beck, the African STAR
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OUR HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT SCHEDULE FOR JUNE
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AN OUTPOURING OF LOVE
Let's include a heartwarming story. It may just bring a tear to your eye.
"A Flash Mob for Amy!" from cnoellsch on Vimeo.
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ROTARY VILLAGE CORPS
Another program in Rotary's panoply of worldwide service activities and projects is the Rotary Village Corps. This form of grassroots self-help service was initiated by RI President M.A.T. Caparas in 1986 as a means of improving the quality of life in villages, neighbourhoods and communities. Frequently, there is an abundance of available labour, but no process to mobilize men and women to conduct useful projects of community improvement.
A Rotary illage Corps - or Rotary Community Corps as they are called in industrialized countries - is a Rotary club-sponsored group of non-Rotarians who desire to help ther own community by conducting a specific improvement projects. The Rotary members provide the guidance, encouragement, organizational structure and some of the material assistance for the Rotary Village Corps, which in turn contributes the manpower to help their own community. The, the Rotary Village Corps provides a tootlally new process for Rotarians to serve in communities of great need.
The Rotary Community Corps have been organized mainly in depressed ghetto areas of major cities where groups of individuals need the organizational and managerial skills of Rotarians to undertake valuable self-help community projects.
The Rotary Village Corps program offers a totally new dimension to the concept of service to improve the quality of life.
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A BRAVE YOUNG BOY
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A MUSICAL INTERLUDE
...for your enjoyment! You will love this!
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TEAM WORK AND FAMILY
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FROM THE ROTARIAN MAGAZINE - MAKING POLIO "THEIR" CAUSE
When Shiva and Aruna Koushik moved to Canada in 1982, polio was still a devastating force in their native India. “Growing up there, you could see polio survivors dragging themselves along the streets,” recalls Shiva, a retired engineer and member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario. “Every time you saw them, you felt helpless because you couldn’t do anything.”
Pakistan has posed complex challenges for Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative: It’s the only polio-endemic country that had more cases of the disease in 2013 than it did in 2012, when Taliban militants began preventing immunizations in the country’s remote northern territories and targeting health workers. More than 40 people linked to immunization programs have been killed there since 2012. The country is also plagued with extreme heat, poor infrastructure, and tropical diseases.
“We can do nothing about the political situation or infrastructure problems in Pakistan,” says Aruna, a conflict resolution specialist and Windsor-Roseland club member. “But we can prevent malaria and dengue, and we can eradicate polio.”
Before they departed, the Koushiks led a fundraising campaign in District 6400, which covers parts of Ontario and Michigan, to purchase 1,600 bed nets for poor families in Karachi, the first stop on their six-day journey. When parents in the city’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal shantytown brought their children to get the polio vaccine, they went home with coveted bed nets they couldn’t have afforded otherwise.
In Karachi, the team members also worked on a Subnational Immunization Day at the historic Cantonment railway station. These supplementary campaigns seek to address the issue of population movement by targeting transportation hubs. They give health workers a better chance of reaching transient children who could miss out on the vaccine during regular NIDs, or who might carry the virus from one region to another. They also provide opportunities for education.Health workers confront misinformation and distrust in Pakistan, Aruna says. “The negative publicity surrounding the polio vaccine has an impact on the lives of the workers who are trying to do good,” she explains. “The Pakistan PolioPlus Committee has been fighting this battle a long time, and they work hard to go with each group and educate families.”
The team heard reports of Taliban violence while heading north to Rawalpindi and Lahore on the last days of the trip, but the Koushiks were not intimidated. They’d led a group in Afghanistan in 2012, and Shiva had visited Nigeria on another Rotary trip in 2010. They’ve traveled enough to know that success depends on careful planning, and they coordinated closely with the PolioPlus Committee in Pakistan. “We have a lot of faith in Rotarians, and they know that we take every precaution,” Aruna says. “We tell team members to carry all their papers on their bodies, so if there’s an emergency and we have to go straight to the airport, we can do that.”
One of the early obstacles was scheduling: The team had originally planned to make the journey in late August, but because tensions surrounding recent elections were still running high, they postponed the trip until early December on the advice of local Rotarians. “Before we left, a lot of people asked whether we were nervous,” Shiva recalls. “And maybe we were, but because we were so well prepared and the Rotarians there were so careful and vigilant, we were able to relax a bit.”
Shiva and Aruna were both born in southern India near Chennai and raised near Mumbai. They speak several local languages between them, including Urdu and Hindi, both widely spoken in Pakistan. India marked three years without polio in January.
“When I go back and I see polio victims in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, it makes me want to cry, because if only those two drops could have been given to them, they wouldn’t have suffered,” Aruna says. “For Shiva and me, this is our fight. We want to help Rotary eradicate polio, no matter what.” – Sallyann Price
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THE WORLD'S BIGGEST COMMERCIAL
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FROM THE ROTARIAN MAGAZINE - MR. TOILET
By age 40, Jack Sim was a successful entrepreneur running 16 businesses. He had enough money to retire, so he started thinking about the time he had left. He wanted to be able to look back on his life with satisfaction.
Jack Sim is Mr. Toilet! He wants to talk to you about toilets!
We sat down with Sim, also known as Mr. Toilet, at the action group’s World Water Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, in June.
THE ROTARIAN: You use humor as a way to break through the toilet taboo. How did you come up with that approach?
SIM: Once you make people laugh, they will listen to you. I saw another person who did it very well: Mr. Condom from Thailand. He promoted the condom by making people laugh, so I did the same with toilets.
Everybody has their personal toilet horror stories, whether they’re about their travels or about their children. You just have to let it flow naturally, and everybody will talk about toilets. In fact, once they feel it’s a legitimate topic, they can’t stop.
TR: What can Rotarians do to get people talking about sanitation?
SIM: More than 100 years ago, one of the first Rotary projects was to build a public toilet. Every Rotarian should know this story. When Rotarians do water and sanitation projects, at least 85 percent of them focus on water. When you bundle water with sanitation, water gets all the attention. But you cannot have clean water if people are still defecating into the river. You cannot improve quality of life for the poor if people are still getting sick because of lack of proper sanitation. Women cannot be safe if they are subjected to rape or molestation because they have to go to the toilet in the bush. You cannot achieve education for girls if they have no place to change their sanitary napkin, and because of embarrassment they drop out of school for a week every month, and eventually cannot catch up and drop out altogether.
TR: You and others, including Kamal Kar, talk about approaching sanitation from the angle of behavior change and getting people to want to use toilets. Do Rotarians have to change their behavior and mindset as well?
SIM: In my early days, I rallied a foundation to go with me to China to build toilets for a school in a poor area. The principal had the students sing songs of appreciation. We were so touched, and we went home thinking we’d done well. A year later, we visited the school. The principal had moved his office into the toilet, and the people were continuing to defecate outside. We asked the principal why he did such a thing. He said the toilet building was so beautiful, much better than his office. That is why the whole project failed. Giving people things based on our own aspirations is not suitable. It has to be their aspiration.
A lot of donated toilets end up as storerooms, kitchens, and prayer houses because people do not know how to maintain them, how to empty them, or how to clean them. They also don’t understand why there’s a toilet in the house, when for hundreds of years it has been a tradition to defecate in the open.
TR: What should we be doing differently?
SIM: The way to do it is to make toilets sexy, to make toilets a status symbol just like a cell phone. Even schoolchildren in the slums have cell phones, and yet they have no toilets. The best way to know that a person wants a toilet is when he buys it.
A market-based solution is the most sustainable model. Instead of putting toilets in the ground and hoping people use them, if you were to invest this money in training people to set up a factory to produce toilets and train local ladies to sell toilets on commission, then you create jobs, you create entrepreneurship, and you deliver proper sanitation. Even after your investment is used up, the business continues to grow.
TR: How does that work?
SIM: It costs $2,000 to start a SaniShop factory [a social franchise model developed by the World Toilet Organization] and train the salesladies. Everybody makes a profit, and you do not need to go back to that same region. In fact, if you go back five or six years later, you may be surprised to find that everybody in that area has a toilet.
TR: Any advice for celebrating World Toilet Day?
SIM: You could do a press conference, you could do a tweet, you can put it on your Facebook page, you can make music, you can write a letter to your representative, you can go to a school. It doesn’t need to cost any money. Spread the gospel about the importance of good sanitation, and make toilets a normal subject that everybody can talk about. People used to be unable to talk about sex, and now they talk too much about it. We can do the same with toilets. We spend three years of our life on the toilet. It is not a criminal offense to go to the toilet, so let’s get comfortable talking about it.
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- Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
- Water and SanitationIf yo
- Maternal and Child Health
- Basic Education and Literacy
- Economic and Community Development
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NEW - ROTARY BRANDING - A CONSISTENT IDENTITY THROUGH ROTARY
We have a powerful story to tell, and it’s up to all of us to protect, promote, and deliver our message in all of our interactions. By speaking, writing, and designing in a unified voice and look, we ensure that our communications are unmistakably Rotary.
Applying a consistent and clear Rotary style in all of our communications is vital to strengthening our image and enhancing our reputation as a world-class organization. These downloadable resources and guidelines allow each club and district to work independently while maintaining a consistent identity throughout the organization.
These materials are just the beginning of what we plan to offer. Check back often over the coming months to see what new resources are available to help you tell Rotary’s story.
Use these supporting resources to help you apply Rotary’s logo and graphics guidelines.
Click the links below - but remember to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
Rotary Brand FAQs
Voice and Visual Identity Guidelines
Messaging Guidelines
Identity at a Glance
Ideas Book: Our Identity in Action
Quick Start Guide for Club Websites
It is clear that we may have to make a few changes to comply with the new Rotary Branding Guidelines.
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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ROTARY AND THE PEACE CORPS
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2014 – Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet and Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko today signed a letter of collaboration strengthening the organizations’ cooperation in the United States and abroad to promote global development and volunteer service.
“The missions of our two organizations reflect and reinforce each other,” Hessler-Radelet said. “In our increasingly interconnected world, bringing the Peace Corps and Rotary together in common cause provides more opportunity than ever to leave a greater impact.”
At Rotary International World Headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the two organizations committed to explore initial collaboration in the Philippines, Thailand and Togo. Across these three countries, Peace Corps and Rotary volunteers will be encouraged to share resources and expertise, and Peace Corps volunteers and Rotary clubs in the U.S. can connect to boost the impact of development projects. Through the Peace Corps Partnership Program, Rotary clubs can provide small grants to support volunteers and their communities.
“It makes perfect sense to leverage the strengths of both organizations to achieve maximum impact, efficiency and sustainability in the projects we carry out,” Hewko said. “Together we will work to improve lives and build stronger communities, and – in doing so – address many of the root causes of violence and conflict, such as poverty, illiteracy, disease, and lack of access to clean water and sanitation.”
The Peace Corps and Rotary will also work together to recruit more Americans into Peace Corps service and share their knowledge and understanding of the world with fellow Americans. Both organizations have rich histories of promoting peace and friendship between cultures and undertaking sustainable development activities to help communities in need throughout the world. They also have networks of volunteers and members dedicated to making the world a better place.
Peace Corps and Rotary programs overlap in more than 60 countries, and many returned Peace Corps volunteers join Rotary clubs. The organizations have previously partnered on projects in literacy, water sanitation, and health, and Rotary funds have helped to purchase everything from construction materials to library books.
About the Peace Corps: As the preeminent international service organization of the United States, the Peace Corps sends Americans abroad to tackle the most pressing needs of people around the world. Peace Corps volunteers work at the grassroots level with local governments, schools, communities, small businesses and entrepreneurs to develop sustainable solutions that address challenges in education, health, economic development, agriculture, environment and youth development. When they return home, volunteers bring their knowledge and experiences – and a global outlook – back to the United States that enriches the lives of those around them. President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961 to foster a better understanding among Americans and people of other countries. Since then, more than 215,000 Americans of all ages have served in 139 countries worldwide. Visit www.peacecorps.gov to learn more.
About Rotary: Rotary brings together a global network of volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. Rotary connects 1.2 million members of more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. Their work improves lives at both the local and international levels, from helping families in need in their own communities to working toward a polio-free world. For more information, visit Rotary.org.
In the photo - John Osterlund (far left) and Ron Burton watch as Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet and Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko sign a letter of collaboration on a one-year pilot program in the Philippines, Thailand, and Togo.
Photo Credit: Rotary International/Alyce Henson
In an effort to promote global development and volunteer service, Rotary and Peace Corps have agreed to participate in a one-year pilot program in the Philippines, Thailand, and Togo.
Under the agreement, Rotary clubs and Peace Corps volunteers are encouraged to share their resources and knowledge to boost the impact of development projects in these three countries.
Opportunities for collaboration include supporting community projects, training, networking, and community education. Through the Peace Corps Partnership Program, Rotary clubs can continue to provide small grants to support volunteers and their communities.
Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet and Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko signed the letter of collaboration on Monday, 5 May, at Rotary's headquarters during a ceremony that was attended by RI President Ron Burton and RPCV Rotary staff. In his remarks to the audience, Burton applauded the collaboration and both organizations' commitments to service.
"Today's announcement is particularly meaningful for me because I come from a family of Rotarians," said Hessler-Radelet, referring to her father, grandfather, and aunt. "We are eager to join together in common efforts to inspire volunteerism across the country and around the world."
Hewko noted how both organizations are committed to improving lives and building stronger communities by addressing the root causes of violence and conflict, such as poverty, illiteracy, disease, and lack of access to clean water and sanitation.
The two organizations also agreed to explore expanding the collaboration to more countries based on the results of the pilot. Rotary will enlist the support of its members in recruiting Peace Corps volunteers and involving returned Peace Corps volunteers in service projects at home.
Rotary members made collaboration possible
Hessler-Radelet credited Rotary members in the Denver area, particularly returned Peace Corps volunteers Sue Fox, Valerie Hopkins, and Steve Werner, with helping to make the collaboration possible.
The three Rotarians, who attended the signing, are members of the District 5450 Rotary-Peace Corps Alliance Committee, which has sought a formal agreement between the two organizations since 2010.
Werner said they wanted to create an official relationship to make it easier for Rotary clubs and Peace Corps volunteers to connect. "[The letter] ensures compatibility and a shared value system," he added.
Jesse Davis, one of more than a dozen Rotary employees who are returned Peace Corps volunteers, said he hopes the partnership inspires more like it around the world.
"While serving as a Peace Corps response volunteer in Panama, I found myself working with the local Rotary club on countless occasions. They were an integral partner in my work," he said.
Strengthening connections
The letter of collaboration not only officially recognizes the partnership between the two organizations, but also encourages Rotary clubs and Peace Corps volunteers to expand the connections already in place.
In Togo, Peace Corps volunteers Daniel Brown and David Gooze have teamed up with Rotary and other partners in the United States and Togo to distribute more than 5,000 soccer balls to disadvantaged youth. They are organizing 'More Than Just a Game' sessions, which use soccer as a medium to teach children about malaria prevention.
"It's just one example of how Rotary and Peace Corps can collaborate on the ground to achieve lasting impact in the communities where we work," Hessler-Radelet said.
Within the Philippines, Thailand, and Togo, Peace Corps posts and Rotary districts will coordinate at the country level with support from the headquarters of both organizations. Local Rotary clubs interested in working with Peace Corps volunteers should contact their district governors. Clubs located elsewhere should work through their Rotary counterparts in the pilot countries.
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"THIS CLOSE" - We are ...
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AMAZING GRACE
Marlana Vanhoose was born blind and with cerebral palsy. At 18, she is an accomplished singer and musician.
EARLY GIFT
Marlana was born with Cytomegalovirus, a relatively common – and rarely serious – infection. But Marlana’s infection rendered her blind at birth, and doctors worried about her development.
After a year, though, her body healed from the virus. Then her parents saw a glimpse of her gift.
Before she could talk, she would hum “Jesus Loves Me.” It would calm her down,” Teresa recalled.
By 2 ½, Marlana started listening to gospel music and playing the keyboard. “When she was 3, she would lay on the floor and sing,” Teresa said, and you could tell she could really sing.”
Marlana’s parents, Teresa and David, both worked jobs that required a high-degree of patience and grace. Teresa is a special needs teacher in Kentucky, while David worked in a federal prison.
Marlana, for instance, has to deal with a little brother who, as Teresa said, “aggravates her.” “It’s been a challenge,” Teresa said. “It’s been rough. But I thought, ‘I’m going to treat her like anyone else.’
“Of course, you can’t do it completely like everybody else.”
But what she loves most about her daughter is her optimism, her refusal to ever feel sorry for herself. “But she has a very good attitude,” Teresa said. “She doesn’t feel she has a disability.”
INSPIRING OTHERS
She’s performed at college basketball games and the Kentucky Speedway, and she always moves people. In 2013, she was featured in a CBS News series called, “Young Innovators.”
“The standing ovation that she got was the longest I could ever remember,” Wildcats coach Matthew Mitchell reportedly said, after Marlana sang the national anthem before Kentucky played Ole Miss in 2012.
Marlana receives a lot of messages on Facebook, including one her mother remembered well.
“The person was having trouble in their life, and they watched her sing, and it made it all better,” Teresa recalled. “That was really touching.”
She sings an impressive version of At Last, but she also likes “Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey and hits from contemporary artists like Adele.
So it’s not surprising that Marlana aspires to sing for a living.
Her dream?
“I want to travel around the world and sing and also get together a Dream Team,” she said. “Every single gospel singer, southern contemporary (artist), and we’re going to make a Dream Team choir, and I’m going to conduct it.”
Who is going to tell her that’s not possible?
(from http://thrivesports.com/2014/03/25/marlana-vanhoose-blind-sings-flawless-national-anthem/)
And a rendition of the U.S. National Anthem before a basketball game...
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TO END OUR MEETING
To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do.
Sheila Bethel, Lindsey Cancino, and Karen Pinder lead us. An excellent trio!
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
...and official close of meeting
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday morning, May 24
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Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout on Saturday morning, May 24.
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