District Governor's visit on 7 July - we passed with flying colours!

 7-14 JULY 2023

From the pen of the President...

During her visit to the club, District Governor Riana Pretorius emphasised the importance of members keeping current with developments within Rotary and the availability of on-line training courses. There are a wide variety of courses available on the Rotary website and you are encouraged to make use of this free facility. Longer serving members often feel that there is little they have to learn about Rotary but are sorely mistaken. Please look at the courses available and complete courses of interest or that are relevant to your responsibilities. 

To access the courses:

Log on to My Rotary
o Sign in, or register if you have not yet done so
o Click on member center, then on-line tools and then learning centre
o A Catalogue of the various course available will be shown

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Address by our District Governor, Riana Pretorius...

At the meeting on 7 July, our District Governor (DG), Riana Pretorius, addressed the club. She congratulated Rosebank Rotary Club on being such a well-organised club - which gets projects done! She complimented the club on working so well alongside the Rotary Anns, who have worthwhile projects. The financial side of the club is well under control and the club has reached an admirable level on important aspects. 

Introduction of a District Project...

DG Riana introduced her new District initiative. The project aims to replace pit latrine toilets in 120 schools. DG Riana said that there are currently pit latrines in 5000 schools in South Africa. These are extremely dangerous for users as well as being a health hazard. Every child deserves decent sanitation at school. The project would aim to install 240 portable toilets at each of the 120 schools (Each unit consists of three cubicles).

DG Riana approached a representative of the Department of Education, who was adamant that the Department has no money in the budgets for the installation of toilets in schools, although they recognize that the pit toilets are an unsatisfactory solution for scholars. The responsibility for the maintenance of the toilets, however, would rest with the Department of Education. 

The first proposal is a Finnish design which consists of three toilets in a “block” and can be installed and plumbed within the three days. These are installed at a cost of R150 000 each, but DG Riana has managed to negotiate the price down to R125 000 for the  purchase and installation of the toilets, so R250 000 per school. The projected cost for the project would be R250 000 multiplied  by 120 – a total of thirty million Rands in total. 

There will be a meeting, organised by the WASH committee (under David Grant) to inform Rotarians of the developments and enable comparison of different alternatives. 

  

Zoom meeting ID...

For those wishing to join any weekly Friday meeting virtually via Zoom should join using the meeting ID: 864 9604 0522. The same meeting ID will be applicable to all meetings up until at least July 2024. Please store this number as a note on your cell phone so that it is readily available should you need it.

Run goat, run!

Here is a fundraising project with a difference. The Oyster Bay Rotary Club of Dar es Salaam promoted their signature project: a Goat race. Sponsors were generous and were VIP’s at the race. The whole community of Dar es Salaam, especially the ex-pats, rallied to support this initiative. The money raised was used for bursaries for university and college students. Thanks to Aisha Sykes who told us about the project and sent these photos

Next meetings on 14 and 28 July 2023...

On 14 July, our Club member Brigit Booth will be giving us a talk entitled: 

My Story. 

On 28 July, there  will be a business meeting.  

In conclusion...

Sybille sent us a joke to cheer us up...

A woman walked into a hypnotherapist’s office, sobbing.

“Doctor, I’ve been faithful to my husband for 19 years, but yesterday I broke that trust and had an affair! The guilt is killing me. I just want to forget that it ever happened. Can you do that for me?” the woman asked.

“Of course, Mrs Randall,” said the hypnotherapist. “Welcome back.”

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