From the Pen of the President...
Our President Costa is taking a well deserved rest and instead shares a beautiful sunset with us.
Last Friday....
... was the last Friday of the month and thus a social meeting, and as agreed upon was held in person at Wanderers. It is very challenging to transmit a social meeting successfully on Zoom, and thus it was decided to not offer the online option.
Last year Roger Wedlake had regaled us with My Path to Wellness (Part 1) and this time he gave us a most interesting second part to his path to wellness.
It was the beginning of the pandemic, and as a retired chemist with a lot of time on his hands and a healthy dose of curiosity Roger's ears pricked up when he read an article that a herbal cure for the Corona Virus had been developed on Madagascar. At first he scoffed at it, but when he heard that the well respected Max Planck Institute in Munich took the claim seriously he started his own investigation into the ingredients of this alleged wonder drug.
The herb in question was the sweet wormwood plant (Artemisia annua), which is readily available at any Dischem, and with that Roger turned his kitchen into a lab and started experimenting with a variety of other natural ingredients with anti-viral properties such as echinacea, cats claw, olive leaf, astragalus and mullen leaves, tumeric tincture and potassium iodide. The Corona Virus is very PH sensitive and does not like a alkaline environment, so buffer the concoction with sodium bicarbonate.
Add all these substances to a cheap bottle of gin, and voila - an anti-septic, anti-viral throat spray is born.
It goes without saying that the chemist Roger based his creation on sound chemical principles and he does not profess this to be a cure, but it could possibly help to make us more resilient to fight off the dreaded lurgy.
The District 9400 website...
When last have you visited the District 9400 website?
https://rotary9400.org.za/
Under the Rotary Links you will find
which gives our newer members profound insights why we have joined this incredible organization.
There are valuable links to the Rotary Basics and The Learning Centre, and we urge you to take advantage of this useful tool.
This Friday.....
.... we welcome PDG Eric Kimani from Kenya, who will address us on the Rotary Foundation and Donations. It will be a hybrid meeting taking place at Wanderers and we urge as many members as possible to attend the meeting either in person or online.
We will be joined by members of Johannesburg New Dawn.
Guests are welcome.
Please notify President Costa of your attendance.
PDG Eric Kimani is an Entrepreneur, attorney of law, fellow certified public accountant (FCPAK) and business leader of repute having founded his own companies and run some public companies such as KTDA Ltd and Sameer Africa Ltd as Chief Executive Officer. Together with his wife Margaret, he runs the Palmhouse Foundation, a very successful education trust. He is also a published author and a sought-after motivational and inspirational speaker. He a recipient of the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) by His Excellency the President of Kenya for service to community in 2011 and holds an LLB (Laws) degree from the University of London. He is currently serving as Rotary Endowment and Major Gifts Advisor (EMGA) of Region 28 of Zone 22, 2021-24.
Kimani is a member of the Rotary Club of Muthaiga North and a Paul Harris Society member. He has been a Rotarian for 31 years and has served as a past president of the Rotary Club of Nairobi North and past District Governor of District 9200. During his stint as District Governor in 2012/13, (which at the time consisted of Kenya, Uganda Tanzania and Eritrea) he grew the District with the formation of a record 21 new clubs and led a record fund raising for the Rotary Foundation.
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