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Volume 16 Issue 10                                                             6 - 12 Sep 2023
Inside this issue:
  • What's on this week
    • Weekly club meeting: Music for Dementia
    • Birthday & Anniversary Celebrations
  • Report from last week
    • Last week's meeting
  • Project Updates
    • Microscopes at Chaoyang School, Singapore
    • Interplast
    • PRID Dr Ken Collins AO Award for Excellence in Rotary Service
  • Ongoing Fundraisers
    • Containers for Change
    • Rotary Raffle
  • Upcoming Events
    • Government House Open Day 28th & 29th October
  • This Rotary Month: Basic Education & Literacy
  • 2023-24 Club Board
We are still waiting on a few members to pay their 2023/24 membership fees. These are now 2 months overdue, so prompt payment would be much appreciated.
What's On This Week

This week we will be meeting via Zoom. Our own Prof Hamid Sohrabi will be giving us an update on music for dementia and donating headphones to nursing homes.

The meeting link is:

https://zoom.us/j/2779220379?pwd=em83cCtOWU96VzY2eE9LVWRhREFCQT09 

Meeting ID: 277 922 0379
Passcode: b95thd
Happy Birthday to Hamid Sohrabi on September 7th!
Last Week: Meeting at Moerlina

Unfortunately our speaker planned for last week's meeting on Wednesday 30th August was unwell and unable to join us. The meeting did not end up being streamed.

Microscopes for Chaoyang School, Singapore

Chaoyang School, Singapore was gifted 30 handheld microscopes by the Rotary Club Freshwater Bay on 28 August 2023. The school immediately integrated the use of the microscopes into the upper primary science teaching curriculum.

A small group of students had the chance to trial the use of the new learning tool and were fascinated to see the magnified images of organisms such as butterfly legs and goldfish scales. 

Teachers were equally excited to include the new teaching and learning tool into their science lessons.  They believe that the microscopes will help students to develop a deeper understanding of science.

The handheld microscopes are a valuable addition to the Chaoyang School Science Department. They will allow students to learn about the microscopic world in greater detail.

The Chaoyang School community would like to thank the Rotary Club Freshwater Bay for exposing a new world of science learning to their students.

Thank you to Freshwater Bay Rotarians Sheila Cheng, LAU Eng Seng, Greg Acciaioli and Nini Toley for attending the event at Chaoyang School on 28th August 2023. More photos of the Microscopes in use are available in a short presentation available on our website.
Greg, Nini, Sheila and Lau also checked on the Buddy Bench previously donated to Chaoyang School.
Thank You from Interplast
PRID Dr Ken Collins AO Award for Excellence in Rotary Service

Nominations are currently open for the PRID Dr Ken Collins AO Award for Excellence in Rotary Service.

Rotarians in Western Australia who have provided a significant amount of Rotary service to the community, locally and/or internationally, across at least 3 avenues of service, and have served Rotary in a leadership capacity, are encouraged to nominate.

Full details and the nomination form are available online.

Nominations close on 16th October 2023.
Do you have news to include in the bulletin? Details of upcoming speakers, more background about new projects, photos of events and other information of interest to members and friends of the club? Please email them before Sunday to bulletin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au - verbal updates and updates via other social avenues may not be remembered / seen by the time the bulletin is prepared!
Containers for Change Update
As one of our main sources of income for our projects, your assistance in sourcing, collecting, and/or returning containers is greatly appreciated! 

Unfortunately, a combination of a lack of commitment in collecting from the Tee Box Cafe and another Rotary club taking containers earmarked for us has meant that they are now going to prioritise giving their containers to two other groups (including the other Rotary Club, now that the Tee Box is aware that the other Rotarian is not from our club). It is vital that any bags they do earmark for us are promptly collected so we don't lose this source of income completely! 

Project Coordinator PP Simone Collins can provide information / support:
  • providing bags for you to fill at home (let your neighbours know you are collecting - they may be willing to help you!)
  • assisting with working with the Scouts if you know a workplace / business that is willing to help
  • coordinating a roster to collect from the Tee Box Cafe - if you cannot pick up on a night you had agreed to help, please let us know so someone else can collect the containers instead
So far in 2023/24, we've raised $470.10 from recycling containers.
Enter a raffle to win a resort holiday in tropical Fiji

Win a holiday for two on the beautiful Fijian island of Taveuni, valid for 18 months after the draw, along with USD$1,000 spending money.

As well as 5 nights at Paradise Taveuni, the prize includes a bonus two nights at a 5 star hotel at Denarau Island. 

Tickets are $11 each, with the next prize drawn on 17 November 2023. 

The prize is fully donated and the funds raised are split:
Buy Raffle Tickets Now
This is an initiative of the Rotary Club of Corrimal; we are grateful for their gift of funds from ticket sales! Thank you to all those who buy tickets. We have raised $299.32 from ticket sales so far since we started promoting it.
Upcoming Events

Meetings are held 6:00 pm to 7:00pm
1st & 3rd Wed: Via Zoom
2nd & 4th Wed: Moerlina School - Carnaby Community Room
16 Brockway Road, Mt Claremont

If you can't join us in person, watch our meetings Live on Facebook
 
SEPTEMBER 2023
  • Wed 6th Sep - Club Meeting via Zoom
  • Fri 8th Sep - North Cottesloe Primary Peace Pole Ceremony 12:25pm
  • Mon 11th Sep - Community & Vocational Service Committee
  • Wed 13th Sep - Club Meeting at Moerlina
  • Mon 18th Sep - Board Meeting
  • Wed 20th Sep - Club Meeting via Zoom
  • Thu 21 Sep - Canning Vale Primary Peace Pole Ceremony
  • Wed 27th Sep - Club Meeting at Moerlina
Government House Open Day - October 28th & 29th

The next Government House Open Day will be the weekend of October 28 & 29. Our club has been asked to put on a Devonshire Tea instead of a sausage sizzle, which will be indoors in the undercroft.

This will be an important fundraising activity, especially with our reduced income from recycling containers. Please keep as much of this weekend as free as you can to help. We will also need family and friends to assist!

More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population. 

Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

Rotary members make amazing things happen, like:

Opening schools: In Afghanistan, Rotary members opened a girls’ school to break the cycle of poverty and social imbalance.

Teaching adults to read: Rotary members in the United States partnered with ProLiteracy Detroit to recruit and train tutors after a study showed that more than half of the local adult population was functionally illiterate.

New teaching methods: The SOUNS program in South Africa, Puerto Rico and the United States teaches educators how to improve literacy by teaching children to recognize letters by sounds instead of names.

Making schools healthy: Rotarians are providing clean, fresh water to every public school in Lebanon so students can be healthier and get a better education.

Enhancing educational systems: In Kenya, Rotary clubs are working with the Global Partnership for Education and local and national governments to advance life-long learning opportunities for poor and marginalized children. 
Club Board Rotary Year 2023-24
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