Mark Balla, Vice Chair at Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group, President Rotary Box Hill Central, Philanthropist, TED Speaker, and Author presented to our members at last week's online evening meeting. He is seen here with MC Mikaela Stafrace.
A truck loaded with Vicks Vaporub overturned on the highway ... Amazingly, there was no congestion for 8 hours!
Each year Rotary Melbourne offers a number of awards rewarding excellence in education, training, and vocational contributions to our community.
The Rotary Melbourne Young Achievers award recognises and honours three outstanding young Victorians for their achievements, with an award and a prize of $1,500. Photo by Guille Álvarez on Unsplash
PDG and Rotary Williamstown's Murray Verso is seen here with Rob McGuirk, Kerry and Rick Kornhauser, Sandi Fulcher, Irene Verso and Project Coordinator, End Trachoma's Lien Trinh. Rotary Williamstown awarded Lien with a Paul Harris recognition for her dedication to End Trachoma.
24 February: Monthly Members Lunch
3 March: Lunch Meeting - Speaker to be advised
9 March: Rotary International Women's Day event - online
Our International Women's Day Event: A Bold New World is open for bookings: www.iwd.org.au/tickets
This online event is to be our Wednesday, 10 March Meeting. Presenters are:
This Statement from the Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was discussed at a recent meeting of the Peace Symposium Committee. Thought I would share with you. This topic is part of our Centenary Peace Symposium April 21-22, 2021 2021-doomsday-clock-statement.pdf
The next Membership event is Sunday, 28 February at 11.00 am online with MC Christina Boys and panellists: Cynthia Edgell, Nina Hunter, David Ali and Eleanor Onibere.
Thank you Quin Scalzo for sending me Ed Tudor's email with the marvelous update from MITS' Ed Tudor.
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.
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.
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
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.
17 February: Lunch Meeting Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner – Victoria, ‘Black Summer Bushfires - One year on - Partnering with East Gippsland Rotary Clubs’
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24 February: Monthly Members Lunch
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."
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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.
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.
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
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’.
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.
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.
For the latest news and presenters at our Rotary Peace Symposium, go to the internet Peace Leadership site. More updates next week.
Via the Rotary 'grapevine', Editor was emailed this wonderful letter that Melbourne Rotary Club sent to Rotarian W.J. Fulton, Rotary Club of Keokuk, Iowa, USA in 1932. Thought I would share it with you.
Wednesday, 3 February - LUNCH MEETING
Guest Speaker: Dr Tania Militec, Assistant Director, Centre for Peace Building, University of Melbourne
Topic ‘Australia’s Role in Peace and Conflict Resolution’
Chairman: Richard Dent
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: ZOOM Online only
Meeting Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-lunch-meeting-3rd-feb
