Rotary Foundation Presentation

Posted by Dhanni Ramdeen 
on May 07, 2014
 

Rota-Teller

May 7, 2014

Anthem: Peter Masson

Grace: Arthur Retnakaran

Toast: Rocco Colangelo

Attendance: 15, including 1 guest: Prospecting member – Mandy Nwobu

Announcements:

President Rocco read out a “Thank You” note from Belleview Rotary Club on our participation in the Amarok Society project in Bangladesh, thanking us for our financial contribution.

President Rocco:  - SPO concert and the Fireside events were a success.

Jack Holman – made a Vote of Thanks to Rocco and Lillian for hosting the Fireside. Such a great evening as some members left the event early morning of the next day.

Basil Dias – Our Incoming President is having much trouble finding an incoming vice president. Basil announced that he will be stepping in to take up this position. Thank you Basil.

President Rocco: - In the absence of our incoming president who is currently recuperating from a throat surgery, announced some of the members of the new Board as follows:

Group 1           - Gordon Brown

Group 2/3       - Carolyn Nicholson

Group 4          -  Dhanni Ramdeen

Foundation     -  David Seemungal

Basil passed a note to announce the “Celebration of life of Sarsi Retnakaran, beloved wife of our club member Arthur Retnakaran, who passed away on March 26th, 2014 at the North York General Hospital. Our deepest Condolences go out the Arthur and his family.

Marbelous Draw: Alan Meridith was awarded the consolation prize of $5.

Sargeant at Arms – Alan Meridith

Fines were passed out to members who did not attend the Fireside and the concert.

Happy Bucks

  • Emmanuel and his family just came back from a lovely vacation to Jamaica.
  • Dhanni and her hubby, John just came back from their vacation in the Bahamas, celebrating a milestone anniversary.
  • Roland List is still enjoying his spa treatment body massage on his trip to Sweden but aah - that Thailand massage from a previous trip, what a treat!.

The speaker this week was David Seemungal. The topic – Rotary Foundation.

The mission of the Rotary Foundation is to promote goodwill and peace by engaging the service of Rotarians around the world.

There are six key areas of focus:

  • Peace and Conflict Prevention.
  • Water and Sanitation. Our club was involved in water projects in Nigeria, Peru and this year, in Laos.
  • Basic Education.  We are currently participating in a global grant with the Belleville club in the Amarok Society project in Bangladesh to bring education to women there.
  • Economic and Community development  - Our club was involved in providing funding to the people in Nunavut.
  • Maternal & Child health – Last year, our club completed a District grant supporting a maternal clinic in Uganda where pregnant mothers were provided with ultra sound testing to determine whether they are affected by the AIDS virus and treated.
  • Disease prevention and treatment – Our club continuous annual Polio Plus financial support.

The Foundation is asking every Rotarian to contribute $100.US every year to support the above mission. The money is distributed as follows:

  • 50% goes to the District Designated Fund.
  • 50% goes to the  World Fund

 

Thanks David for an informative presentation.

 
 
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