Dear Orscelik
&
Afet,
There
are many links in every ROTA newsletter, making
it
easy for
you to find more
information.
If letters or numbers
are
blue,
you can click with your mouse to
go to that
website.
This
month you will find 59
places to click. That should give you
plenty
to read until the New Year comes
around!
Tom
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How
About A Summertime Trip To Africa?
Capetown
meetings and side
trips |
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Ray’s Rotary Reunions
and
Projects Expo in Capetown 3-5 February 2011
will
feature excellent speakers, including
former South
Africa President, Nobel Peace
Laureate F.W. de
Klerk, Rotary Foundation
Chairman Carl
Wilhelm-Stenhammer, Past RI
President Jonathan
Majiyagbe, RI Director Sam
Owori, and (of course)
President Ray
Klinginsmith. Truly a flock of
eagles.
Some clubs are
organizing
Rotary Project Safaris in
conjunction with the
Capetown meetings. More
information is available
on the Ray’s Rotary Reunions
website,
and by contacting Event Chairman Rodney
Mazinter or ROTA South Region Chair June
Webber.
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Mohamed
Delawar North Region Chairman
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ROTA
North Region Chairman Mohamed Delawar,
D-2450
Egypt
speaks
about Reach Out To Africa
Click photo
to view
video
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Ridha
Soussi North Region Vice Chairman
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ROTA
North Region Vice Chairman Ridha Soussi,
D-9010
Tunisia speaks about Reach Out To
Africa
Click photo to
view
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A View of ROTA from the
Secretariat
by
Sharon Cyr,
Division Manager, RI
Programs
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When working to
support
Rotary clubs around the world, one of
our biggest
challenges is making sure we know
what is
happening out there. What types
of projects
are Rotary clubs doing well? What
resources would
assist clubs with their service
projects? While
staff in Evanston always look
for ways to get
success stories from Rotarians
in the field, this
is often a challenge. Since
2007, one of the
greatest benefits we have seen
from Reach Out to
Africa Committees is the
collection of success
stories and resource
needs from Rotary clubs in
Africa. Through
these efforts, we can better
assist Rotarians
in addressing the gap between
interest and
action.
This special
focus on
membership and service on the African
continent
helps us connect people, establish
relationships
between Rotarians in different
parts of the world,
and highlights resource
needs. If you have any
ideas or success stories
that you would like to
share with us, please
write to programs@rotary.org
and help us support ROTA. Also remember to
submit
stories for the ROTA newsletter to ROTA
Chairman Tom
Branum.
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Want
Do Do Something Good?
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As of the
date
of this newsletter, there are 66
unfunded
Humanitarian Grants projects looking
for partners
in Africa. Look at the
following websites to
help your club find
one. Non-pilot
districts
can find 63
matching grant opportunities at on the Matching Grants Global
List.
Pilot districts
(Future
Vision Districts)can
find 6
matching grant opportunites at on the Matching Grants Global List
for
non-pilot
districts.
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Matching Grant to
Malawi
Reduces Malaria
Cases
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During the 2008-2009
Rotary year, 20 clubs and Rotarians in Rotary
District 6040 (Missouri, USA) implemented a
District Matching Grant project to supply 37
villages in Malawi with anti-malarial bed nets
and
related services. According to recent
results
reported by Malawi Childrens Village,
the project
has reduced the incidence of
malaria in those
villages by 65-70%.
The total costs
were
$14,000 USD for two years of malaria
prevention
efforts. Data for each village
was reported
on a monthly basis to Malawi
Children’s Village by
an assigned volunteer
coordinator and educator,
who also conducts
follow-up visits.
Baseline data
was
collected before the initiation of the
project and
compared with Malawi government
projections.
Pre-project case rates for
children under five
without bed nets ranged
from 29% to 37%. By
December of 2009, the
case rate for malaria in the
37 villages had
dropped to 4.2%.
PDG Elizabeth Eusovicz
submitted
this
article.
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Baby
Incubators from India to Disrict 9200 |
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Nyakahanga
is a designated
Hospital in Karagwe
District. It is recognized as
a Referral
Hospital since it serves the entire
District
with a population of more than
600,000
people. Not only its inhabitants, but
also
people from the neighbouring countries as
Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi more even from
neighbourhood districts in Kagera Region.
The
picture shows four premature
babies in the
Incubator. Sometimes it may need
only one or
two babies who are supposed
to be
placed in the Incubator. Yet, since
there
are many babies who are born prematurely,
the
demand is still on place for
consideration
bearing in mind the population
mentioned
above”.
The
Rotary Club of Karagwe, Tanzania
(D-9200)
conveys appreciation to Reach Out to
Africa
committee for this valuable
donation.
Thanks
to PDG Andy
Chande
who sent
this story at
request of RIPE Kalyan
Banerjee.
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Heart
Surgeries in India for African
Children
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Rotary Gift
of
Life project in India is classic example
how
Rotary can promote goodwill and
understanding
between nations. Recently,
under this
program, 25 children from Africa
underwent
successful open heart surgery in
Delhi
hospitals.
The first child
to reach
Delhi was 16 year old Kabuuka Emmauel,
a native
of Agola in Kawempe Division,
Kampala
District, Uganda for valve
replacement. Kabuuka’s surgery was a
challenging one because many hospitals abroad
refused to undertake this surgery due to high
risk
involved. He finished his primary seven
(PLE )
exams last year with support of
philanthropists.
Since he was a bright student,
his school wanted
him to study further after
the surgery. He was
presented to their local TV
stations to raise the
cost of air tickets from
Uganda to India. A
company came forward
to sponsor the cost of
tickets. He returned
happily to his native place
last year with
smiling faces.
This was
followed by
18 months old Harriet
Nantume, 9 year
old Apophia
Natukunda, 12 year old
Scovia Amoding and 15
year old Okanyakure Petter
Pius (for double
valve replacement). After
getting new
lease of life, Pius celebrated his
16th
birthday at hospital.
A Rotary
Foundation
matching grant helped to arrange
surgery of
another 20 children from Uganda,
Sudan and Kenya
in Delhi hospitals recently.
Rotarian families
assisted as hosts and
interpreters who also
brought warmth and
comfort to escorts while
extending motherly
care to children.
Thanks to Dr.
AC Peter,
National Coordinator (India),
‘Gift of
Life’
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Mountain
Climbing For Polio Eradication
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HELP
WIPE
OUT POLIO
The Rotary
Club of Moshi,
Tanzania is offering visits to
the National Parks
in the north and Zanzibar in
the south, where
special tour operators will
give $1000 to The
Rotary Foundation at no extra
charge to the
tourist. $1000 covers the cost of
vaccinating 1660
children.
Tanzania is a
peaceful
country. The people are warm and
charming and the
landscape is spectacular with
stunning flora that
abounds in the numerous
wildlife parks such as the
Serengeti and
Ngorongoro Crater.
Also available
are
sponsored climbs ’2 Peaks in 2 weeks’
climbing
Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru, where
visitors raise
their own sponsorship.
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SECOND
CLUB IS CHARTERED IN ANGOLA
An
Historic
Event |
DG
Shân
Biesman-Simons writes: “For any District
Governor the chartering of a new club is a
highlight, particularly when it is in a
country
that only had one club. On the 26th
October 2010
Luanda Sul Rotary Club was
admitted to membership
of Rotary International.
Before Angola gained its
independence on 11
November 1975, there were six
Rotary clubs. The
Rotary Club of Luanda was the
only club to
survive the turbulent transition
period. The
Rotary Club of Luanda is the sponsor
club of
Luanda Sul. The occasion of the charter
was
celebrated at a gala event at the Tatalona
Convention Hotel on the 22nd November. Décor,
food
and fellowship were outstanding.There
was
extensive media coverage. President
Isabelle
Bamba-Crattaz and her fellow Rotarians
warmly
welcomed visiting Rotarians, honoured
guests and
the press.
There were
numerous
celebratory speeches with an emphasis
on the need
for Rotarians to assist our global
partners
eradicate polio, acknowledging the
severity of the
recent outbreak in Angola.
Luanda Sul
chartered with
twenty members. The club is
already involved with
a number of projects in
the community. We are
confident that this club
will have a long and
successful future Building
Communities Bridging
Continents. It is expected
that he Rotary Club of
Lobito will soon be
chartered.
Article by DG
Biesman-Simons
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Restoring
Eyesight in Swaziland
Rotarians
in Wales work
with African
country |
The RC of
Llanfairfechan and Penmaenmawr learned that
Swaziland, where cataracts are endemic, had a
population of 1.3 million, but only one eye
surgeon – Dr Jono Pons!
The club decided
to help
Jono by funding essential equipment to
restore
sight. Over £2,000 was raised and
matched by
District 1180 and the Rotary
Foundation. In all,
around £10,000 resulted,
and the equipment was
supplied via RC of
Malkerns
Valley.
Together with RC
of
Mid-Wirral, a caravan, outfitted as a
mobile
out-patient clinic, was provided and a
Liverpool
University surgeon was sponsored to
demonstrate
the latest developments. Further
equipment needed
by Dr. Pons has since been
shipped.
Contacts:
Good
Shepherd Hospital,
P.O. Box 2, Siteki,
Swaziland – Dr. Jono Pons
RC
Llanfairfechan and
Penmaenmawr – Geoff
Uttley,
Secretary
RC Malkerns Valley,
Swaziland – Angela Jackson
Thanks to
Reg Ling reg_ling@hotmail.comfor
this story.
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Australia
Group on a Rotary Project Safari
D9790
- D9320
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In
early November a team of seven Rotarians, with
five spouses, traveled from D9790 in South
East
Australia to D9320 in Central Southern
Africa on
what had been planned initially as a
Rotary
Friendship Exchange, but which developed
into the
first Rotary
Project Safari as proposed by RI President Ray
Klinginsmith.
Representative
of seven clubs in their District, the team*
visited as many clubs in D9320 (Potchefstroom,
Klerksdorp, Kimberley South, Kimberley,
Welkom,
Ficksburg, Bloemfontein-Raadzaal),
spending two to
three nights with each
club.
The
team was home-hosted throughout, had time for
sight-seeing at each stop and, of course,
hosts
took the opportunity to show the
Australian guests
some of their projects.
The
Australian team were wonderful guests, and all
hosts thoroughly enjoyed
their visit.
The
Australian Rotarians having expressed their
interest in the projects which they saw, it is
now
hoped that this first Safari visit will
lead to
support for programmes being undertaken
in
D9320.
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Team leader, Marg Crisp Ruth Konig Fred &
Denise Mandersloot,
David & Jenny Dow Brian & Cheryl
Robson
Leila & Ken Craig, Peter &
Jutta
Webb
Thanks
to Wes & Ethne
Papenfus
for this
article.
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New
Orleans Convention |
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 Register
now for the 2011
Rotary International
Convention in New Orleans.
Join thousands of
Rotarians in New Orleans,
Louisiana USA on May
21-25, 2011. Early
registration saves you
money. For most attendees
the convention
registration cost is $300. That
price will
increase on December 15 and then
increase again
March 31,2011. Visit
the Reach
Out To Africa booth in House of
Friendship.
Check out more
details on the Convention pages on the RI
website.
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ROTA
Display in Wyoming,
USA
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PRID
Örsçelik
Balkan,
Vice-Chair |
 Hello Fellow Rotarians,
Recently,
I attended the Hannover Zone Institute of
Continental Europe & RIBI, and the
Sofia
Zone Institute of Zone 20B.
Chairman of our
Regional Subcommittee –
Northern Africa, PDG
Mohamed Delawar, made a
presentation of ROTA in
the Zone 20-B
Institute. Intercountry Committee
Chair PDG
Tony Polsterer urged the European
Rotarians to
focus on humanitarian projects in
Africa
through ICC. In both Institutes, numerous
Rotarians appealed to me expressing their
enthusiasm to launch projects in Africa. I
advise
you to be pro-active on disseminating
your need
assessments to European Rotary Clubs,
offering
collaboration. Don’t hesitate to
contact me if you
need help on this
opportunity.
Please note
that “WORLD
UNDERSTANDING AND PEACE FORUM” will
convene in
SHERM EL SEIKH, EGYPT, DURING 24 – 26
FEBRUARY
2011. President Ray Klinginsmith and
numerous
Rotary Senior Leaders will attend this
important gathering of our Rotary with big
number
of participants from many parts of
the
world. Mrs. Nagwa Shoeb, the
General
Director of The Suzanne Mubarek
Women’s
International Peace Movement, assured
us that
First Lady Mubarek will attend
this meeting
to address at the Opening Plenary
Session. We are
informed that she plans to be
with us, as
observer, at another session and
join us at the
peace park walk and dinner.
There will be a
presentation and workshop on
ROTA at his FORUM
also. I urge you to attend
this meeting and build
awareness on the
humanitarian needs that Africa
suffers from, as
well as the project needs to
address these
problems.
Best
regards
ROTA Vice-Chair
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The
Last
Word |
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Nearly half way
through
the year as chairman, I find myself growing
ever
more proud of Rotary; every week receiving more
stories of compassionate endeavors
aimed at
Building Communities and Bridging
Continents.
I hope that you share
my
gratitude at being invited to join
Rotary.
If so, perhaps this would be a good
time to
pass your good fortune on by
inviting a well qualified friend to join your
club.
Yours
in
Rotary,
Past
RI Director Thomas Branum,
Sr.
ROTA
Chairman
Please address any
questions or comments to Tom at
Email.
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LOOK
AT THE ROTA WEBSITE OFTEN FOR IMPORTANT
INFORMATION |
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You are invited to send postings to Vice
Chair Orscelik Balkan Email
or Email
such as:
- Names and contact information of
Regional
ROTA Subcommittee members
- Calendar of and links to coming events
of
interest to ROTA supporters.
- Humanitarian projects to be posted on
the
Virtual Projects Fair.
- Expressions of interest in RIPE
Klinginsmith’s Rotary Projects
Safari.
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Send Us Your
Stories
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In your own words, write in English,
French, Arabic, or Portuguese about a project
or an opportunity in 150 words or less that you
would like to appear in a future ROTA
newsleter. Include a photo if possible.
Submit
all stories to Editor PDG
Karin Blue
at Email
or Email
and a copy to Email.
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East
Africa Region |
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 Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritus,
Mayotte,
Reunion, Seychelles, Tanzania and
Uganda
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Nelson Nkawalya, Chair
 Kaushik Manek, Vice
Chair
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North
Africa Region |
 Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania,
Morocco (incl Western Sahara), Sudan and
Tunisia
 Mohamed Delawar,
Chair |
 Ridha Souissi, Vice
Chair
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South
Africa Region |
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 Angola, Botswana,
Lesotho,
Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South
Africa,
Swaziland, Zambia and
Zimbabwe
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 June Weber, Chair  Josh
Chimhanda, Vice Chair
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West
Africa Region |
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 Benin, Burkina Faso,
Burundi,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African
Republic,
Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic
of
Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali,
Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo
(Brazzaville),
Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe,
Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Togo and
Tunisia
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 Michael Olawacole, Chair  Yaovi Tigoe, Vice
Chair
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