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Tuesday 18 February 2014

In this weeks newsletter

Urgent Appeal for help with our Cebu, Phillipines medical supply project
Gift a smile for life with Operation Cleft
International Women's Day Breakfast presents Dorinda Hafner
Rotary Club of Elizabeth's Celebrate India Dinner
Special Presentation: Gemma Sisia, School of St Jude, Tanzania

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Tuesday 25 February
Kent Town Rotarian Kaitlin Piggot will speak about her RYLA experience and volunteering overseas
Tuesday 4 March
Hayley Everess; Oz Harvest Adelaide
Tuesday 11 March
Rotarian and Salvation Army Officer Remo Elms;
Random Acts of Kindness
Tuesday 18 March
Internal Working Groups

Tuesdays 6:30pm for 6:45pm
The Royal Hotel
2 North Terrace Kent Town

President
Tegan Webb
E: presidentrckt@gmail.com

Secretary
Jonno McIntyre
E: secretaryrckt@gmail.com

Honorary Member
Steven Marshall MP for Norwood

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CLUB PROJECTS

Urgent Appeal for help with our Cebu Phillipines project

We urgently seek extra help from 25 people or more on the 15 & 16 March to load two shipping container with medical equipment and supplies.

The Rotary Club of Kent Town international project is to send much needed medical equipment and supplies to the Visayas Community Medical Centre (VCMC) in Cebu. This area was one of many devastated by Typhoon Haiyan and is still in dire need of materials for its rebuilding and rehabilitation. To this end, we have partnered with St. Andrews Hospital and Donations In Kind (DIK) to send two shipping containers of urgently needed medical equipment such as: theatre instruments, hospital beds, wheel chairs, shower chairs, linen, and a wealth of other items.

St Andrews Hospital and DIK are sourcing the equipment that we estimate to be valued in the range of $150,000 to $300,000. Once the goods reach Cebu VCMC, they use it to replace equipment currently in use and then send the replaced equipment to its sister hospitals in the region.

If you can help us with our humanity project in anyway, please contact Rotarian Jesse by text or call on 0437 527 121. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

FEATURE

Did you know that $250 can change the life of a child, or young adult, the family of those affected by a member having a cleft palate and the acceptance of the village in which that person lives.

With the support of a District Grant, the Essendon Rotary Club is sponsoring a surgical team to perform 25 operations. The plastic surgeon will be operating for 3 days at a newly established hospital, and his whole team of 10 assistants will accompany him.

Operation Cleft has now developed a booklet that has been translated into Bangla and is distrusted by the surgeons and stuff to the parents before or after the surgery. Local Community Hospital Workers receive training to care for patients after the operation. Since 2005 Operation Cleft has changed the lives of 8,500 children of Bangladesh.

If your club would like a guest speaker, Judy Shipp, President of the Rotary Club of Holdfast Bay is more than happy to spread the "Good Works" of Operation Cleft. Or maybe YOUR Club (or perhaps a shared venture) could look at using a grant to sponsor a surgical camp in Bangladesh. Contact Judy on 0418 814 080

EVENTS CALENDAR

23 February 2014
24 February 2014
01 March 2014

02 March 2014
13 March 2014
20-23 March 2014
5-6 March 2014
02 May 2014
04 May 2014
01-04 June 2014

District 9520/9500 Rotary Foundation Movie Night
R. C. of Campbelltown Rotary Day
R. C. of Elizabeth Shelterbox CELEBRATE INDIA
St Peters 54th Annual Jumble Sale & Family Fair
District Team Training, Adelaide
Special Presentation: Gemma Sisia, School of St Jude
District 9520 Conference, Warnambool, VIC
President-Elects Training Weekend
White Lion ‘Bail Out’ event
District Training Assembly
International Convention, Sydney, NSW, Australia

ANNOUNCEMENTS

International Women's Day Breakfast presents Dorinda Hafner

Join us for a morning of celebration and inspiration as we acknowledge women’s roles in Community and the skills, professionalism and abilities they bring to influence positive changes in our community and around the world.

Dorinda Hafner is a breath of fresh air. Be in her company for more than a minute and you wonder what your life was like before you met her! She is a teacher, a motivator, a free-spirit. She moves into a room full of people for the sole purpose of reminding them that life is for living - this is what she was put on this earth to do.

WHEN Wednesday 5 March 7:00 for 7:30AM start
WHERE Naval Military & Air Force Club of SA, 111 Hutt Street Adelaide
COST $30 p.p. includes 3 course breakfast
RSVP Book your tickets online here

Proceeds from the breakfast will support Rotary’s End Polio Campaign.

The Monuments Men Foundations Movie Day

Based on a true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history. The Monuments Men (IMDb, Trailer)
focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. The Monument Men, as they are called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture.

WHEN Sunday 23 February 3:00pm and movie starts at 4:00pm
WHERE Regal Theater, 275 Keningston Rd, Keningston Park SA 5068 (map)
COST $20p.p. for pre-movie drinks, nibbles and movie
RSVP Book Now

This is a 9500 & 9520 combined District function so come and support the Rotary Foundation and help END POLIO NOW.

St Peters' 54th Annual Jumble Sale & Family Fair

On Saturday 1 March head down to the Rotary Shed, Linde Reserve, Stepney from 7:30AM until midday and grab a bargain at the Rotary Club of St Peters' 54th Annual Jumble Sale and Family Fair. Food stalls and rides for the kids.

The jumble sale has been a local St Peters event for many years and is a significant fund raiser for the community programs of St Peters Rotary Club.

Rotary Club of Elizabeth 'Celebrate India' Dinner

Have you heard about Rotary Club of Elizabeth Inc.'s event celebrate India? It's set to be an amazing night of culture and food to support ShelterBox Australia and End Polio Now.

WHEN Saturday 1 March 2014
TIME 6:30pm for 7:00pm until late
WHERE Payneham Library, 2 Turner Street, Felixstow
COST $30.00 per person

Tickets are available from
Viv Valladares on 0419 213 224 or Pandiyan Thevar on 0415 850 821 or email tnjnitz@bigpond.com

During the evening you will enjoy a demonstration of classical and modern Indian dances; enjoy a beautiful Indian buffet dinner catered by the renowned Charminar Indian Restaurant, see and learn all about Shelter Box, get the latest update on the End Polio Now project as well as being entertained by a variety of Indian dances.

Special Presentation: Gemma Sisia, School of St Jude, Tanzania

For the first time in several years Gemma Sisia, Founder of the School of St Jude in Tanzania will visit Adelaide for one day only. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Mitcham, guests will hear about the school’s amazing triumphs over the past 12 years and gain insights into Gemma’s personal experiences.

WHEN Thursday 13 March 7pm start
WHERE Wyatt Hall, Pulteney Grammar School, 190 South Terrace, Adelaide
COST $20 per ticket, includes a drink and light nibbles

Online Bookings: via TryBooking http://www.trybooking.com/73359
Cheque Bookings: ‘Rotary Club of Mitcham Inc’ post to Margaret Northcote, 52 Dress Circle, Athelstone, SA, 5076

For full event details, visit the Facebook Event

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

How wonderful it is that nobody need to wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

2013-2014 BOARD OUR LAST MEETING

President
Tegan Webb

Vice President
Kaylene Kranz

Immediate Past President
Steve Hayter

President Elect & Club Engagement Director
Sarah Stewart

Secretary
Jonno McIntyre

Treasurer
Augustine Bhaskarraj

Community Director
Chris Harris

International Service Projects Director
Greg Love

Communications & Visibility Director
Nelson Sousa

Meeting
32nd Meeting for 2013/14

Date
Tuesday 18 February

Chair
President Tegan Webb

Venue
The Royal Hotel, Kent Town

Activity
Guest Speakers PDG 9500 Roberta Waterman and Rtn Geoff Ellershaw on RAWCS & RABS

Guests
Assistant District Governor Scott Nicholls

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