Guest Speaker Eric Dabbs guides us through Ukraine's history, Emma's memorable weekend with fellow exchange students and an Appeal from Charity begins with Me...

 From the Pen of the President....

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

Beautiful rain – some would say too little, some will say too much!! While thousands are affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands are also affected closer to home in Mozambique. Roads and bridges closed in the Kruger National Park. The Rotary Clubs in 9400 are donating money and collecting goods to send to Maputo. Please spare a thought for the residents of the city who have been without fresh water for some days and a spread of cholera is feared. The situation has occurred in a matter of days. Keep all affected in your thoughts and prayers.

It is at times like this that people ask how they can help – please contact me if you have any ideas, donations can be targeted. Bearing in mind that we are stronger together!

Have a great week.

Ann

Last Friday....

...our guest speaker was Eric Dabbs, certainly  no stranger to our Club, who gave us a riveting presentation. 

Since his retirement as Professor of Genetics in 2011 Eric Dabbs has travelled to 101 countries and has meticulously researched the history (and pre-history) of these countries. 

 He grew up in Surrey, south east of England and has always achieved academically – his academic qualifications are from Kent University, through Cambridge University and culminated in Harvard University where he received his PhD.

The topic of today’s talk was on the History of Ukraine (which means ‘borderlands’). 

Who knew anything of Ukraine before the recent historical events? We may have been aware of the Great Famine of the 1930's and that USSR premier Nikita Krushchev hailed from Ukraine and we would have heard about the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Eric filled in the gaps in our knowledge of Ukraine’s rich and interesting history.

At the start Eric gave us statistics on Ukraine: it is a country of 43 million (South Africa is 57 million); the average life expectancy is 72years (South Africa’s is 67 and Germany is 82) and the GDP Purchasing Power Parity figure (USD) is 11.6, compared to Romania (which was also previously in the Soviet Bloc) at 40.2; Germany at 59.1  and South Africa at 19.3 (Source: ‘CIA FACTS’, 2022).

Some highlights of this captivating talk were:

·         that the first people in the area were Neanderthals (45 000 to 55000 years ago) and showed how the society had gradually changed to become agrarian.

·        Interestingly, earlier than Stonehedge, around the year 4000BC, in Ukraine, there was the relatively wealthy and sophisticated culture of  Cuouteni-Trypil  that had cities of 3000 dwellings each with around 20 000 people. An interesting fact was that, according to Ruth Tringham, in a ritual ‘cleansing,’ all the houses in those cities were burned to the ground every 60-80 years. Marija Gimbutas, a historian, hypothesized that this matriarchal society of Cuouteni- Trypillian was later replaced by a patriarchal society with classes based on wealth (as indicated by rectangular burial mounds).

·        Around 3500 BC the factor which changed the course of history in Europe (including Ukraine) was the domestication of horses (We know this from cave paintings). The increased mobility and speed of the horse-mounted warriors gave them the upper hand.

·       The Vikings arrived in the area, rowing large warships. A Muslim ambassador who went to the Volga via Ukraine, described with horror that the people of the area were tall, fair, filthy, drunk, immoral and worst of all cremated their dead by setting a boat containing the corpse alight. This fits our image of Vikings well! 

·      Around 370AD The area was populated by the Huns. Curiously, the elite families of the Huns deformed the skulls of the babies. This same anomaly was found in the Mayan culture of South America. The most famous Hun was, of course, Atilla the Hun. The DNA of the Huns reveals that they were a mix of Mongol and West Asians. The Huns were transient – after 100 years, they moved out of the Ukraine area. There were “waves”  of Asiatic Nomadic peoples in this area in the years that followed.

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 T   The Slavs were largely polytheistic, worshipping a chief god Perun.  However Vladimir, the leader of the Slavs in 980AD, adopted Christianity. The result was that the elite became literate, and the new religion was reflected in architecture and in art, primarily icons.

·        Around 1162 Genghis Khan  invaded Ukraine. His armies were ruthless, killing mercilessly. The invasion by the Mongols created the vast Mongol empire. His son succeeded him as leader, but Genghis Khan’s grandson divided the Mongolian Empire into four, and it disintegrated. Fortunately in the Far North-west area of Ukraine, the Slav people were not impacted by the Mongolian invasion. Their leader was Alexander Nevsky and in 1242, he took control but he grovelled to the Mongols and the nation survived!

·    The two Ivan's in Ukraine history were Ivan the Great (iii) and Ivan the Terrible (iv) who killed one of his sons, and the remaining son who succeeded him was an ineffective and weak leader and so the dynasty ended.

·        In the 1700s the Romanov dynasty came to power; there were two notable leaders – Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. At this time, Crimea became part of Russia, but was re-united to Ukraine later.

·         Ukraine, Eric told us, has only had two periods of independence, immediately after the end of the first World War and in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union when  Ukraine became an  independent country.

Eric had researched the history of Ukraine in great depth and the talk was fascinating! It would be wonderful if Eric’s knowledge and research of Ukraine and of other related topics could be captured into a more permanent form such as in videos, podcasts or books, although he has made PowerPoint slides. 

We look forward to hearing Eric present to the Rotary Club again.

 

 Emma makes more Memories....

Last weekend Emma and other long term Rotary Exchange students staying in various parts of Germany met for a memorable skiing adventure in the ski resort of Oberwiesenthal, which is situated on the Czech border less than 3 hours from Weißwasser.

There were exchange students from all parts of the World: France, USA, Australia, Mexico, Brazil and of course Emma representing South Africa.

She reports:

* A meet-and-greet on Friday afternoon, where they built a snowman and then had a good old fashioned snowball fight.

* Two Argentinians Tiziano and Pablo and Emma tried to figure out how to make a fire so that they could have a braai (or asada as they would call it in Argentina).

* That night they went for a walk with burning torches to watch the lights of the neighbouring villages.

* Saturday morning was an early start so that they could attempt the baby slopes. None of them had ever skied beforehand, so they all battled on together.

* Carnival was also in full swing, so they took part in the festivities and only got to bed very late.

* The next day they were all very tired and stiff from their first ski attempts, but they persevered.

* They then took a cable car to the highest "mountain" in Saxony (all of 1000 meters above sea level) at minus 9 degrees Celsius. It was amazing and something she will never forget.

* After that they drank Glühwein and sat around a fire and watched the stars.

No doubt friendships for life were forged that weekend.

Speaking of forging, Emma also attended a Rotary meeting where she was taught to forge.

An Appeal from Charity Begins With Me....

Stephan Ferreira tirelessly and singlehandedly  tries to make a difference and we can assist him to reach his goal. 

New project!!

Winter is fast approaching and I want to make sure all my children have something warm to wear. Many children living in informal settlements walk around with old, worn out clothing.

My goal is to collect 1500 jerseys, jackets, long sleeve tops, or even long sleeve pj's.

(Other clothing items also welcome.)

Please take some time this week / weekend and clean out those closets.

Drop off in Fairland, JHB or send to us via PostNet.

Collection ends 31 March 2023.

Please WhatsApp if you can help.

Stephan

072 5933 866

This Friday...

....join us at Wanderers or on Zoom for our monthly business meeting.

Guest Speaker Tim Truluck's role as Ward Councillor revealed, Emma's journey, Sybille visits the Rotary Club of Stanford in the Cape and save the date for an exciting Quiz Challenge...

 From the Pen of the President....

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

 

Jennifer Jones reports back on the survey done amongst members – “what’s most important is for everyone in every Rotary club to speak up and listen to one another. We should never be afraid to share with our fellow Rotary member what we expect to get out of our membership and have an open discussion about how to make that happen.” Sound advice.

I picked up on the Inter District Friendship Exchange – who is keen – I am!! Not everyone can afford overseas travel, but a visit to another district in South Africa for example, could be fun and we would host a group from there in exchange!! Let me know if you are keen.

It is half way through the Rotary year – we need to start looking at our goals!!

Have a great week and keep well.

 

Ann

 

 

Last Friday...

...we had the privilege of a visit by Tim Truluck who is no stranger to our club, as he had addressed us on a previous occasion in 2015 when he gave us an account of the history of Linden.

Tim's background is in environment as he studied Environmental Science and he has always been community orientated, joining the resident association before becoming a councillor.

He has been the Ward Councillor for Ward 117, comprising of the area we call the "Parks" as well as parts of Blairgowrie, Zoo Lake and the Johannesburg Zoo and the Braamfontein Spruit for the past 12 years, representing the Democratic Alliance.

His role is admirable given the many pressures and stresses of the position. He maintained that proper maintenance and upgrading of basic services had taken place for more than twenty years but that it would take 20 years of a stable political coalition to rebuild these systems. 

He gave the club a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes machinations of the City Council of Johannesburg. It is a deteriorating system in which the government agencies are unable to operate efficiently - for a number of reasons - and this has created a downward spiral in municipal services. 

Tim urged those who were able to, to install solar panels, gas heated cylinders and boreholes. 

The suggestion was raised that ratepayers should stop paying rates, but Tim advised against this, saying it would worsen the situation immensely and that interest would be added to the account for which the ratepayer was liable, although he acknowledged that there are communities who, for historical reasons, are not paying for lights and water. 

The valuation roll for Johannesburg is being published on 8 February 2023, and will be in place for the next five years. R7billion Rand has been set aside by the city for infrastructure upgrades.

 He guided the Rotarians on how to appeal against high property valuations and suggested that proper valuations (not by estate agents, but by a qualified valuer) be part of the defence plea. 

Tim considers himself the top boule player in Parkhurst but he will have to take a break from this pastime activity as he will be undergoing a hip replacement in the near future and we collectively wish him all success and a speedy recovery.

The Friday attendees also had the opportunity of wishing Ken and Melodene on their anniversary in person.

Exchange Student Emma's weekly Check-in....

It was Emma's 17th birthday last Monday the 30th of January and her host family celebrated her in style by baking her two birthday cakes.

Emma is certainly getting her fill of historical sights right on her doorstep. This magnificent castle in Bad Muskau is only 12 km from Weißwasser.

Not only will Emma be an ace fencer by the time she returns home, her bags are packed to set off on a skiing adventure on the Austrian border.

Emma will soon be proficient in German, but she is also teaching her host family a bit of Afrikaans.

Sybille visits the Rotary Club of Stanford....

The Rotary Club of Stanford might only have 9 members, but what it lacks in numbers it makes up in energy and enthusiasm. They meet every second Tuesday of the month at Egret and the Owl Book Cafe and on this occasion they had three  Rotary visitors, two from the UK, swallows that spend half a year in Hermanus as well as a Rotary visitor from Norway. Besides yours truly there were two further visitors who could be potential members.

As it is such a small club everyone mucks in. Every last Friday of the month Stanford holds a sunset market, where Rotary sells raffle tickets for three hampers filled with local wines and fare and at the January market they managed to raise R3 650 for their projects.

Save the date for a Quiz Challenge against RC Esbjerg, Denmark....

Our quiz convenor David Bradshaw is getting ever more ambitious and has managed to confirm a Quiz Challenge against the Rotary Club of Esbjerg, Denmark on Wednesday 22nd of February.

They have announced it in their calendar and so far 22 of their members are attending, and no doubt we will match them in numbers and in brainpower.

This Friday....

... we welcome another Friend of Rotary, Eric Dabbs, who will give us insights into the history of  Ukraine.

Guest Speaker Josephine Sidambe promotes Eco-bricks, Emma's Exchange Journey continues, The Power of Social Media and Sybille attends a meeting of the Rotary Club of Newlands in the Cape....

 From the Pen of the President...

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

 

We are called on, presently, to be extra patient – loadshedding, water restrictions, low water levels in our reservoirs. It can be very trying for those living in Johannesburg – but, hey, we have a new mayor!! (yes, another one!!)

Looking on the bright side may not be easy – this is what we need to do – be grateful for all our many Blessings, look around at the beautiful shades of green and prolific gardens. We have fabulous parks to walk in.

I was inspired by the Eco Brick talk – lets go all out and fill those bottles – it really is something easy to get on with.

When I drive around in the city it strikes me that if everyone played a small part, then things could look a lot better – if every household, street group could clean up their own verges and pavements?? It makes me smile to see beautifully cut grass verges with weeds growing in the street!!

That is my beef for the week – have a good one!!

 

Ann

 

Last Friday...

.....We had the privilege of listening to Josephine Sidambe, a founding member and director of the Earthly Touch Foundation, a Non-Profit organization, whose main focus is the collection and repurposing of plastic waste into eco-bricks. At this stage they only have a presence in Gauteng. 

Josephine has worked for over 20 years in supply chain management, construction, project management and facilities management for large companies. 

Together with Diana Musara they are the driving force behind the eco-brick project of Khensani Collection in Diepsloot, where the very first eco-brick classroom was constructed in 2020.

Unfortunately due to loadshedding Josephine was unable to share a short but powerful YouTube clip which tells the story of the building of this classroom.

Josephine is on a constant drive to address and educate school children about how they can reduce and combat plastic pollution by making eco-bricks, thereby reducing their carbon footprint.

So far 10 schools in and around Gauteng are actively involved in making eco-bricks.

The Earthly Touch Foundation also works closely with the Diepsloot community where waste collection is non-existent and encourages particularly women and children to repurpose the tons of plastic waste that is produced daily.

Making a correct eco-brick is quite an art; the non-recyclable plastic waste that goes into the two liter  plastic cooldrink bottles has to be solidly compacted and should weigh a minimum of 500g. 

Community Services chair Sybille, who is herself very passionate about the eco-brick project thanked Josephine for her very insightful presentation and in keeping with environmental sustainability James Croswell presented our guest speaker with a spekboom plant.

Emma's Journey continues...

Emma reports that she has a wonderful host family; dad Steffen and mom Bea Noak, daughter Helene is 16 years old and Isabelle is 11. Her German is coming along very well but making new friends is quite challenging. Learning the periodic tables in German seems very strange to her.

 She loves the ham and coffee but misses the South African "tjops" and steak.

It is bitterly cold and they have had quite a bit of snow, but despite the snow they cycle to school every day.

This is Emma tobogganing.

And after an outing in the snow what is better than to warm up with a mug of "Heisse Schokolade mit Sahne".

She has also started fencing lessons, which she enjoys tremendously and has acquired a fencing glove.

This is a video Emma made to showcase South Africa

Social Media highlights the good work RC Rosebank does...

The Rotary Club of Rosebank supports Charity Begins With Me not only because of Stephan Ferreira’s selfless work, but because of the dignity he is instilling in the Durban Deep community and his endeavors to uplift its people.

This is Stephan Ferreira's Facebook post which is worth sharing:

Charity Begins With Me

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Every year our amazing friends at Norwood Spar have a trolley where people can buy and drop donated groceries for our other friends at the Rotary Club of Rosebank.

Many charities benefit from this initiative and we were again blessed to be on the receiving end as well.

Thank you to each and every person at Rotary Rosebank, Norwood Spar, and all the customers who made this possible!

A Visit to a Meeting of the Rotary Club of Newlands....

Last Monday evening the Ramble editor Sybille had the opportunity to attend a meeting of the Rotary Club of Newlands. Sybille knows PP Shan Biesman-Simmons, who roped her in to say the Fourway Test.

It was a lively evening made memorable by the visit of several Rotary members from the USA, who had read an article in their monthly Rotary America magazine of an educational project, the LEAP Science and Math Schools, that RC Newlands supports, with the wish to donate a sum of dollars for this worthy cause.

This Friday....

.... Should be very interesting as Ward Councillor Tim Truluck will paint a picture of what his job entails.

Let's give him a warm Rosebank Rotary welcome.

We say farewell to James Byrne RIP, Rotary Exchange Student Emma's first few days and see who the Club 100 December and January winners were.....

 From the Pen of the President.....

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

 

It was a reflective meeting on Friday – sad to learn details about someone when they have already passed.

I found this poem really got me thinking, because EVERY life is a life well lived when you really get down and think about it, besides, who are we to judge??

 

A life well lived is a precious gift, Of hope and strength and grace,

from someone who has made our world a brighter, better place.

 

It’s filled with moments, sweet and sad, with smiles and sometimes tears,

With friendships formed and good times shared, and laughter through the years.

 

A life well lived is a legacy, of joy and pride and pleasure,

A living, lasting memory our grateful heart’s will treasure.

 

The message I wanted to convey during the first part of the meeting:

1. As a Club we should be looking at succession planning
2. New Members should be taking up roles and learning the ropes
3. Training is becoming something our Club is measured on – all members are required to do some Rotary training.

That’s me for this week!!

Have a goodie and let’s get some projects going.

Ann

 

 

Last Friday...

....we celebrated the life of James Byrne, who was called to Higher Service on the 4th of January of this year. He had not been well for a while but our almoner David Bradshaw had spoken to him the day before he passed away and we trust that he knew that his Rotary family had kept him in their prayers.

After the general club matters had been concluded Roger Wedlake, who knew James the longest,was called upon to begin the memorial proceedings. In his hand he held a little stick, explaining that according to Jewish lore when Sitting Shiva  after the passing of a loved one, a Talking Stick was passed around as a communication tool used to foster an atmosphere of active listening and respect. Only the bearer of the Talking Stick has the right to speak and those present must listen quietly to what is being said. The Talking Stick is then passed on to other speakers in turn.

Roger met James in 1969 in Shannon, Ireland shortly after they had both finished university. They were both scientists working for De Beers, manufacturing synthetic diamonds.

In Roger's words: James was an interesting character. He was very intelligent and held very strong points of view. His memory was exceptional. Roger remarked that if he were to have to phone a friend on the popular TV show Who wants to be a Millionaire, James would be his man. For all his cleverness he however lacked common sense and never managed to monetize his intelligence. Although he was a scientist he tried his hand at being a financial advisor but that did not end well.

James loved the Great Outdoors and in his younger years headed up a camping club in South Africa.  He also found the time to do charitable work and was an active Round Table member before becoming a founding member of the Rotary Club of Parktown Excalibur where he met fellow members Pierre Rossouw, Jan Jalloh, Peter James-Smith and Costa Qually, who were present on Friday to honour James' memory. 

In his final years James' eyesight deteriorated quite badly which meant that he was no longer able to drive, but Roger would pick him up for the Friday meetings and the members of the Rotary Club of Rosebank represented his last friends.

Roger  passed on the Talking Stick to James Croswell, who commented on James' broad Irish accent which he never lost, even after many years in South Africa.

Then it was one of James' brothers turn to avail himself of the Talking Stick. He spoke on behalf the Byrne family who had flown across the Pond from Ireland to be part of his farewell and to attend to James' final affairs. In his family he had been lovingly referred to as JJ.  It was very evident how grateful his blood family was to his Rotary family for their friendship. They had made a collective decision that all James' remaining worldly possessions would go to Charity.

Peter James-Smith regaled us with his memories of spending many happy weekends with James and his wife Mary at a various game farms - a friend for life.

Costa jokingly added that Mary had her good-natured husband under her thumb, and that he always had a tall tale to tell, provided that you understood his accent.

James' caregiver was the person that would have been with him in his final days and when the Talking Stick was given to her she added what a kindhearted and gentle soul he had been and how saddened she is by his passing.

The proceedings closed with Roger's invitation to retire to the Wanderer's bar, with the quip that you cannot drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Rotary Exchange Student Emma's first few days.....

It goes without saying that Michelle is in touch with her daughter via WhatsApp on a constant basis, and the Ramble editor has tasked her to forward all the photos and report backs to her so that we can share Emma's journey with her Rotary family.

Emma has settled in well at 
her school and her classmates
raised funds for a school hoodie

A visit to the picturesque town of Görlitz, which is 55 km away 
from Weißwasser, on the Polish border.

From there Emma hopped across into Poland itself. It had snowed recently and there was still sufficient snow left for her to build her first snowman, however small. She then indulged in a hot chocolate and some delicious German torte.

An observation when going to a proper German restaurant was that everything gets doused with cheese.

Next week, next episode....

This Friday....

... we are excited for Josephine Sitambe from the Earthly Earthly Touch Foundation who is passionate about  EcoBricks to address our club.  It promises to be an enlightening presentation.

Earthly Touch Foundation

Earthly Touch Foundation (ETF) is a Non-Profit organisation whose main focus is to contribute to the reduction of global warming through collection of plastic waste and repurposing it into eco-bricks which are then used for construction, making of furniture, and in agriculture. The organisation was registered in 2020 operating out of Gauteng with the main focus in training and education of communities on the impact of plastic pollution and how they can participate in saving their own environment from the impact of plastic pollution. ETF is BBBEE level 1 with its activities aimed at benefiting previously disadvantaged communities through training, skills development and job creation jobs within their own environment.

 

Upcycling is the new buzz word and our Rotary Exchange Student Emma spreads her wings...

From the Pen of the President.....

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

The heat over the past week has been amazing – everywhere in the world it seems that climate conditions are extreme. This scenario is what prompted environmental programs and the recycling of waste. We were presented with a unique way of upcycling waste at Friday's meeting. I think the aim is to not use anything which cannot be reused or repurposed and have another life!!

There are thousands of projects on the go and organizations to consult in this regard. You can recycle your waste and be a responsible citizen, do not expect to have someone do it for you. You can also assist with reducing waste and even make money from waste and do a ‘spring clean’ and donate your unused goods, past their prime clothes or out of date paraphernalia. There are no acceptable excuses – GET TO IT!! 

This week we will be celebrating the life of Rotarian James Byrne (Friday) and also Past Ann President Carol Lawrence (Thursday) – this is the circle of life!!

May their souls rest in peace.

Ann

Last Friday....

.... was a Friday the 13th. There are various theories as to the origins of the common superstition why this day is considered unlucky. Roger Wedlake shared one of them with us: On Friday the 13th 1307 Phillip the IV of France rounded up representatives of the very influential Knights Templar, a monastic military order, accusing them of trumped up crimes. They were brutally tortured and eventually burned at the stake. Thus began the infamous Inquisition.

One of our guests on Friday was former Rotarian Derrick Lange who was asked to tell us a little bit about himself. Now, well into his 70s he relayed the account that at the age of 50 he pushed a wheelbarrow for 660 km from the Zimbabwe border to Johannesburg with the aim of raising awareness for cancer. He did this under the Rotary banner and managed to raise R107 000, which was a sizeable amount of money over 20 years ago.

Unfortunately the only photo we have of Derrick is one that I took of my laptop screen. Due to loadshedding constraints the photo is a little grainy.

We were privileged to welcome Mark Fruhauf and his wife Winnie McHenry from the Upcycle Foundation to address our Club and tell us a little bit more about the concept of upcycling.

They were introduced by Rita Millan from RC Northcliff, who met Winnie 20 years ago and  is passionate about wanting to share the extraordinary work that Mark, Winnie and her team have accomplished.

The Upcycle Foundation had its beginnings in 2006. Winnie was a design and development consultant and applies her god-given creativity and ability to think out of the box to use literally anything that you and I might discard or throw away and repurpose it and breathe new life into it.

Mark was at pains to point out that there is a vast difference between recycling and upcycling. Recycling is the destruction of waste in order to create something new, whereas with upcycling you reengineer  waste and create something new from  it's current state, thereby increasing its value.

Mark uses the example of a vinyl record, where the record sleeve might be recycled with the input of energy, water and chemicals; the record itself would more than likely end up in landfill. Why not upcycle the record sleeve and make a gift bag, and turn the record itself into a wall clock?

In 2009 Upcycle had a breakthrough when Investec ordered 5000 branded drinking glasses as corporate gifts.

This was the first test of upcycling as a mass production model.

Upcycle also has a memorandum of understanding with several large companies whereby they will take on their advertising material, clothing or gifting that has been misbranded or is out of date and de-brand the items. They remove the identity and then on-sell them, thereby raising funds to  enable to do more. training.

A good example are the 60 backpacks that we as  Club  purchased from Upcycle towards the end of last year to donate to Charity Begins With Me for one of their school projects.

James Croswell thanked Mark and Winnie for their very insightful presentation with a home grown spekboom plant.

Again, apologies for the poor quality of the photo.

Our Rotary Exchange Student Emma finally spreads her Wings...

The build-up to Emma's departure to Germany has been nothing short of frenetic and last Wednesday she finally boarded a flight to Amsterdam and from there flew on to Dresden where she was met by her host family.

Terry Cannon, from the District Youth Exchange Committee, AG Jean Bernardo and President Ann were there to bid her Bon Voyage and God Speed. 

We have no doubt that Emma will be a worthy ambassador for Rotary and for South Africa.

May she soar!! 

Please click into the short video Emma compiled before heading out.

This Friday....

.....we will have our first Business Meeting for 2023. Please join the meeting to find out what plans the Rotary Club of Rosebank has in store for the balance of the Rotary Year.