Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4876 in the Club’s 100^th year

FROM OUR PRESIDENT'S DESK

I hope you all enjoyed the Australia Day event that our DG Philip Archer put on. It was extremely well done and profiled many of our R100 projects. If you missed the event live, you can see it at the following link:   vimeo.com/499557993/c7f57dc663.

THIS WEEK'S MEETING

10 February:  Evening Meeting @ 6.00 PM Online Only

Speaker: Mark Balla, Vice Chair at Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group, President Rotary Box Hill Central, Philanthropist, TED Speaker, Author.

Topic: "The Journey to the Toilet: How Mark Balla is getting girls to school by solving a problem no one else saw."

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-weekly-meeting-10thfeb 

LAST WEEK'S MEETING

Dr Tania Militec kept us absorbed with her outstanding presentation at last week's meeting. Attached here is the direct link to rewatch or view for the first time: https://youtu.be/TKtHSK8u0XI  Thanks to PE Reg Smith and Ari Talantis for downloading the meeting links. 

For the last four years, Rotary Melbourne through the hard work of David Hayes, has been supporting Empowering Youth Cambodia's (EYC) work on educating children from one of the poorest areas of Phnom Penh. Watch this short video to see how EYC is helping to change lives. https://youtu.be/REr6CZyS47g

Ruth Carlos-Martinez presented her update on the fantastic work being achieved in the Phillipines. Ruth has committed many years of her life to assisting in providing clean water to many parts of this often disaster struck country.  Her work partnering with Rotary Clubs and the use of Global Grants is history making.

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

17 February:  Lunch Meeting Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner – Victoria, ‘Black Summer Bushfires - One year on - Partnering with East Gippsland Rotary Clubs’

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88911607774?pwd=dUkwM0hHcVh0QlFRc0xYYy82Q0ZBUT09

24 February:  Monthly Members Lunch  

CLUB EVENTS & NEWS

For the latest news and presenters at our Rotary Peace Symposium, go to the internet Peace Leadership site. More updates next week.

Members please note that this meeting on 17 February is being planned to host five Gippsland Rotary Clubs: Orbost Rotary Club, Rotary Club of Lakes Entrance, Sunrise Club, Bairnsdale Club, and Mitchell River Club. Our Guest Speaker will be Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner – Victoria, ‘Black Summer Bushfires - One year on - Partnering with East Gippsland Rotary Clubs’.

Our Rotary Melbourne International Women's Day event is looking outstanding with Guest Speakers and Presenters from around the world. Bookings can now be made: https://events.humanitix.com/iwdevent2021/tickets

Imagine how much mobile phones, and other handheld devices have contributed to landfill over the last two decades? There are now more mobile phones than humans on the earth.

Editor apologises for not acknowledging the terrific 'hands on work' by Nina Hunter and Allan Wang at the Rotary Australia Day Event at Nossal Park High School. They served lunch and were part of the clean up team. Thank you both.

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

The Membership Team have created a fantastic number of bios of Club members under our website tab: My Rotary Story. The following is the story of PP Quin Scalzo.

NOT QUITE A HIGHLIGHT!

OTHER ROTARY NEWS

Invitation from Jenny Foster, D9800 International Service Chair (DISC) 2019-2021: "It is our pleasure to invite Rotary Melbourne Members & Friends to our Nepal Carnival Dinner on Friday, 26 February 2021, at Estonian House in Brunswick East from 6.30pm. Numbers are limited due to COVID19 restrictions so please book early.

The 3rd Annual Rotary Art Show is happening again - Save the Date - March 26-28. Rotary Flemington-Kensington invites us all to enjoy the Flemington Art Show.

 Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021