Joan Sainsbury brought a number of models who she works with at Figures & Form to demonstrate posing for portraiture and figure drawing and painting. She also brought along examples of work done as well as portraits. We all enjoyed this meeting with a difference and I wonder if Joan has been successful in recruiting any of her fellow Rotarians either as models or potential artists.
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| Jack Young, Joan's husband was also there...or was he? |
Whilst all this was going on Rotarian Howard Johnston was flying over Wanderers and looking down on us.
This Week
Our speaker this week is Claudine Ribeiro, Director of the Johannesburg Parent & Child Counselling Centre. The Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Centre (JPCCC) is a counselling, training and development agency which provides short or long term therapy for adolescents, families, adults and couples and play therapy for children. Trauma, bereavement and crisis counselling are also offered and counselling is undertaken in numerous schools on a weekly basis in order to identify young people's problems early on and intervene where necessary.
We provide consulting, training and mentoring for schools and other organisations and educational, psychological and career assessments are undertaken for children and youth ranging in age from 2-25 years.
The Centre works with parents/caregivers and families in the community to strengthen their ability to care for their children and provides psycho-social support and development projects for families in difficult circumstances by providing them with opportunities to mobilise themselves to reach their full potential.
The Evolution of JPCCC
The Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Centre has a long standing history within the community, and hopes to continue providing support to families, children, and individuals in the years to come.
The Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Centre was established in 1944 as the Johannesburg Child Guidance Clinic to provide counselling and guidance for parents and children with emotional and developmental needs. For the past sixty-four years the service has gone from strength to strength, and now operates under the name of the Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Centre. Our services extend throughout Gauteng and we operate from premises in Soweto and Parktown.
In line with modern Child and Family Care Philosophy and the Children's Act of South Africa, the strengthening and preservation of family life is the focus of our services to the community. Early detection of and intervention into challenges experienced by children and their families is vital to build capacity in families and communities.
We deal with issues such as the psycho-social impact of HIV/AIDS and poverty on children and their families, bereavement, divorce, separation, custody conflicts, marital problems, bereavement, unemployment, depression, anxiety, work-related problems and other psycho-social and emotional difficulties.
Severe storms, an earthquake, and hurricanes are wreaking havoc across the globe from the United States and Mexico to South Asia and Africa. The Rotary Foundation and Rotary clubs in affected areas are helping bring emergency aid to battered communities.
The Rotary Foundation is collecting emergency relief funds to help victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Severe rainfall caused historic flooding along the Texas coast, including in Houston, the fourth largest city by population in the United States. About 6.8 million people have been affected by the hurricane.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Irma is in the Caribbean and headed for Florida and the Atlantic coast of the United States. Already, the storm has directly affected 1.2 million people and millions more are in its path.
“The power of Rotary is in the Foundation's ability to pull help from around the world while local clubs provide immediate relief in their own communities,” says Don Mebus of the Rotary Club of Arlington, Texas.
Rotary districts along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana are collecting emergency relief funds and providing immediate aid to flood victims.
The most powerful earthquake in a century hit the southern coast of Mexico Thursday. At least 61 people were killed in the 8.1-magnitude quake. Rescue and relief efforts are expected to be hampered by floods and a dangerous storm surge off the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Katia moves into the area .
In Sierra Leone, torrential rains and a mudslide in August has killed more than 500 people and destroyed nearly 2,000 homes. An orphanage where more than 60 children slept was one of the buildings swept away in the slide on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. More than 600 people are still missing.
As estimated 40 million people across India, Bangladesh, Nepal have been affected after massive floods hit the area last month. UNICEF estimates 31 million people in India have lost their homes, and 8 million people in Bangladesh and 1.7 million in Nepal have been affected.
Rotary's partner, ShelterBox, is providing support to families displaced by the storms.
ShelterBox teams are working with Rotarians to assess the damage and provide supplies, housing and resources in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Panama, Nepal and Bangladesh.
In Texas, hundreds of light privacy tents were deployed to evacuation centers for families to use temporarily.
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