A busy week indeed....

 From the Pen of the President.....

August is Membership and new club development month. Rosebank got off to a great start and we are hitting our membership goal early!! Rosebank rocks!!

It has been such a busy weekend – besides our Careers Day, which was just great, the Commonwealth Games and T20 cricket. Love a good win for SA!!

I told the young people on Saturday when we welcomed them that they should choose a job which they enjoy!! I think most of you would agree that there were not as many opportunities when we were making career choices. So many options now!!

Hope to see you all as we take a walk on the WILDS side on Saturday – you can walk, talk or just relax – your choice!!

Have a good week.

Ann

 

Last Week...

... we might not have had an official Friday lunchtime meeting, but it was a busy Rotary week nonetheless.

Monday

Charles Mpofu and his band of Rotary Community Corp volunteers donated sanitary pads to needy girls at different avenues in Alexandra as part of Mandela month. The sanitary pads had been bought by members of RC Rosebank in support of Alex RCC.

Tuesday

President Ann, Jean Bernardo and Sybille Essmann accepted an invitation from PP Grace van Zyl of the Rotary Club of Johannesburg to listen to a fascinating talk by renowned military author Simon Green who has travelled the length and breadth of Southern Africa to explore the thousands of block houses that were erected by British soldiers during the Anglo-Boer War. Meeting up and exchanging ideas with Rotary members from other Johannesburg clubs is always a pleasure.

Wednesday Evening

Our weekly Wednesday Zoom Quiz Challenge was against members of DG Koekie Makunyane-Quashie's home club of Manzini, Eswathini. Our quiz coordinator David Bradshaw is making sure that our quizzes remain relevant and fun.

Next week, the 10th of August will be our 100th quiz!!

A few facts regarding the quizzes we have had:

We started on the 21 May 2020 .

Our first two Quiz’s were against Kyalami.

We have so far had quizzes with clubs from the following countries(8).

Botswana.

Uganda(Rotaract Club Bukoto).

Tanzania(Joyster Bay Dar es Salam).

Zimbabwe(EClub Harare).

Lesotho(Mantsopa Maseru).

India(Cochin, Smart City, Beachside Periyar, Uptown, Tripunithura Royale) all Kerela Clubs.

Malawi(Lingadzi Lilongwe).

Eswatini(Manzini).

Western Cape.

Cape Town(Newlands).

Cape Town(Somerset West).

Hermanus

Limpopo.

EClub Boabab.

 

Local Clubs

Meyerton-Henly on Klip.

Pretoria/Centurion.

Hatfield.

Benoni

Fourways 

Main Reef.

Johannesburg

Kyalami

Morningside.

New Dawn

Northcliff

Randburg.

Rosebank Rotary Anns

A total of 25 clubs in all, including 17 South African Clubs, and 8  from outside including 7 in Africa plus India.

We have also had some Rosebank Men v Ladies evenings, one South African three club evening, 5 or more Indian clubs in one evening.

That is very impressive!!

Thursday

The Interactors from the Highlands North Boys High School distributed much needed blankets to Rays of Hope in Alexandra.

Rays of Hope is a Non-Profit Company (NPC) and a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO), which manages a large number of social outreach programmes in Alexandra Township (Alex) in northern Johannesburg.  The organisation aims to enable individuals and families to improve all aspects of their lives, thereby creating a lasting impact on the broader Alex community.

The young men were accompanied by Marianne Soal and Jean Bernardo, as well as teacher Mimie van Deventer.

Thursday Evening

We held a raucous skittles fundraising evening at the Swiss Club in Vorna Valley to help Tsjamo Nyato, who has been selected as a Rotary Exchange Student, get to to Finland next year. Through the generosity of Rotarians and Friends of Rotary who bought ample raffle tickets we managed to raise      R5700 that evening!

Saturday

After a hiatus of nearly two years we were finally able to once again host the annual Careers Fair at the Holy Family College in Parktown.

Team "Youth" (Jean Bernardo, Les Short, Marianne Soal, David Bradshaw and Ann Hope-Bailie) managed to invite  a diverse and eclectic variety of representatives  from the medical fraternity to all avenues of engineering, architecture, financial planning, law, real estate, hairdressing, coding, fashion design, electrician, teaching, journalism and entrepreneurship. 

Various universities, colleges and other institutions of higher education were also there to inform the learners about their options and choices.

Grade 10, 11 and 12 learners from various schools in Johannesburg had been invited, and the turnout on the day was exceptional. 

A big thank-you has to go to Marianne Soal for coordinating and liaising with the presenters and making sure that everything ran smoothly on the day.

Headmaster Franc Sobreira and his PA Bela also played a big part in making this day a huge success.

He is already giving thought to making this event even bigger and better next year.

Thank you to all the Rosebank members who showed their support on the day.

Howard Johnson and James Croswell showcasing their profession with pride.

This Friday....

Please join us either in person at Wanderers or on Zoom and let Lorenzo take us on a virtual tour around the island of Fano in Denmark.