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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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/
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
Congratulations are offered to our Members for their Australia Day Honours: Alistair Urquhart OAM; Susan Davis AO; John Levi AC and congratulations to Stephen Mandie's wife, Amanda Mandie OAM.
Our Vocational Services team lead by Richard Skinner created an outstanding panel of Members: Sarah Macleod-Bourke, Catherine Baxter, Philip Endersbee, and Sandra Hills. Their discussion: "How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?" allowed for many interesting questions.
Editor spotted this item on Facebook and is sharing for our enjoyment. David Kram has created a Wagner Suite 1 for Bass Trumpet, four Wagner Tubas and Contrabass Tuba for a theatrical production Das Rheingold.
Adjourned to 3 February, only online at 1.05 pm during the regular Club luncheon meeting.
10 February: Evening Meeting, Mark Balla, President Rotary Box Hill Central, Philanthropist, TED Speaker,Author. "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/
17 February: Lunch Meeting Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner – Victoria, ‘Black Summer Bushfires - One year on - Partnering with East Gippsland Rotary Clubs’
24 February: Monthly Members Lunch
Following the NITV screening, the you can watch Homeland Story on SBS On Demand until 16 Febuary.
See: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1839692867831/homeland-story
This year's International Women's Day Breakfast will be "a bold new world". For the first time, this 10th Breakfast will be an Online Event which can be view from 9 March to 12 March. Breakfast will be in your home and will be viewed by not just 1,200 guests face to face as normal, but thousands of guests online.
For the 5,000 viewers online at the Rotary Australia Day Event, Rotary Melbourne received many acknowledgements as we approach our 100th Centenary. DG Phillip Archer and his team of volunteers showcased our projects including Give Every Child a Futue, Rotary SAFE Families, End Trachoma to much applause.
Rotary Foundation Australia’s Chairman, Maurie Stack, delivered an informative presentation at the Rotary Australia Day event on the Foundation’s new Public Benevolent Institution.
Our Rotary campaign to end polio has faced many challenges in the last two years, not least being the impact of the Covid pandemic.
