The document provides a summary of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay's bulletin for January 4-10, 2010. It discusses Rajah and Jes visiting Rotary clubs in India, the top five reasons to support the Rotary Foundation, rebuilding efforts since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and a barbecue being held by a member on January 10th. It also briefly outlines a member's experience obtaining science equipment for a school in Estonia through a matching grant, and becoming a Rotary scholar. The bulletin concludes by listing the club's program and meeting details for January.

1. New Horizons
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9450! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 2, Issue 27 4th - 10th January 2010
Rajah and Jes in India Top five reasons to Five years after the BBQ @ The Forsdyke’s Scoring an advance for Rotary Foundation
Rajah and Jes visit support The Rotary Tsunami What are you doing on science education in Thought of the Week
Rotary Clubs in India. Foundation How is Rotary helping Sunday 10th January. Estonia This week’s thought is
Page 1 Countdown the top 5 to rebuild lives since the Page 2 A Rotary Alumna and about becoming a
reasons. Tsunami. Matching Grant bequest society
Page 2 Page 2 funding advancing member.
science. Page 4
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Rajah & Jes
Attend Rotary
in India
During our recent visit to
India my wife (Jes) and I took
the opportunity to attend
meetings of two Rotary Clubs
and meet with members (and
visit their Matching Grant
projects) of a third Club.
Brief synopsis of the
meetings is given below.
Rotary Club of Pune
Uptown, Maharastra State
We attended the meeting of
this Club on Tuesday, 1 Photo: (from Left) Jes, Principal of Sourastira Girls School, PP Jawahar, PP Sasidharan, PP Sridhar (all from
December 2009. Their Rotary Club of Madurai) and Rajah.
weekly meetings are similar
to ours in that no meals are Governor Designate, who fellowship, buffet style, with members each year, to bond
involved; members have stressed the importance of no sitting at tables. The main the members and their
snacks during the fellowship “giving back to the part of the meeting was families.
before the meetings, which community”. It was taken-up that evening by the
start at 7.30 pm. The main interesting to note that one of Guest Speaker, who spoke on Rotary Club of Madurai,
item on the Agenda that the “standard” Agenda item what causes a person to feel Tamil Nadu State
evening was the conferring was the reiteration by all hurt. It was an all-male affair
by the Club of a Vocational members of the Four Way (except for Jes), and we were We were not able to attend a
Excellence Award to a small- Test in English. (The major told that spouses attended meeting of this Club, but we
time entrepreneur who had part of the proceedings that one meeting each month. met four members of the
built-up a home-based evening was in Marati.) Another aspect that struck us club, three of whom were
confectionary into one which was the age of the members – Past Presidents, all very
now had three outlets and Rotary Club of Madurai when we remarked on this, passionate about their
provided employment to a Metro, Tamil Nadu State we were told that the average projects. This Club was
number of members of the age of the members was chartered in 1938, and is the
community. The Guest We attended the meeting of around 30 years. The third oldest in India. It has
Speaker, a prominent this club on the evening of members were proud of the carried out a number of
businessman, spoke on the Monday, 7 December 2009. fact that their club was the projects, and we were taken
merits of the entrepreneur. There was a meal (3 course), first 100% PHF Club in the to see recent projects carried
The meeting was also but the meal was served after District. The club runs a two- out at two locations with
addressed by the District the meeting during the day Family Camp for its Matching Grants. They were
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2. N E W H O R I Z O N S
at two schools the Club had
“adopted”. At the primary 5. Fighting hunger
school, the Club had BBQ @ The Forsdyke’s
completed two toilet blocks, In Romania, orphans and
a water purification plant sick children have eggs, milk,
Sunday, 10th January, 2010
and a bore-well, as well as and meat because of a 12:00pm for 12:30pm at 144 Brookmount Drive, Ellenbrook.
donating a mini-bus to ferry Health, Hunger and
children to and from school. Humanity (3-H) Grant that Cost is $10.00 per person to be donated to the Club Charity
The second school is benefits local farmers. The Account.
attended only by girls, and farmers are able to buy Maps and instructions have been emailed out to the club
has classes up to Year 12 everything from animal feed members. If you have not received this please contact Daniel or
equivalent. Here the Club to packaging materials. There Claire directly.
has built a toilet block, is one stipulation: They must
donated a bus, and equipped donate a portion of their Please RSVP to Daniel or Claire by Wednesday 6th Jan 2010.
a teaching computer lab. The products to children’s
Club has prioritised hospitals, schools, and
children’s access to education orphanages. internal fighting before a Foundation going in the face
in healthy environments as comprehensive peace accord of overwhelming need. "We
its primary service objective. In Alaska, USA, the Rotary took effect in 2007. Read must do what we can, where
Club of Anchorage East is more about Oussou. we are, with what we have,"
Possible Joint Projects also fighting hunger by says Estess. "Through our
distributing food to low- Rotary Peace Fellows are Foundation, we are able to
The Rotary Club of Madurai income families through a leaders in promoting pool our resources and
has requested our Club’s mobile food pantry. national and international achieve even more. And the
assistance with joint projects cooperation, peace, and stronger our Rotary
that will help them meet 4. Reducing child mortality conflict resolution. Help Foundation becomes, the
their primary objective of support the Rotary Peace greater the scope of the tasks
facilitating to all children The Rotary clubs of Jaela- Centers. we will be able to undertake
easy access to education in Kandana, Western Province, successfully. We will be able
healthy environments. These Sri Lanka, and Madras 2. Giving the world hope for to do far more good, in far
could be Donation in Kind Northwest, Tamil Nadu, just US$2 a week more lasting ways." Read
(used books, computers, etc.) India, are helping to reduce more.
and Matching Grant Projects child mortality by providing Foundation Trustee Chair
(toilet blocks, water improved sanitation facilities Glenn E. Estess Sr. By giving US$100 a year
purification plants, etc.) for 15 families in a small paraphrases Mother Teresa in through the Every Rotarian,
community in Sri Lanka. explaining what keeps the Every Year (EREY) initiative,
Rajah Senathirajah With a Rotary Foundation
Club Treasurer (2008-2010) Matching Grant, the clubs
have built 14 toilets, helping
to prevent diarrhea and other
Top five diseases related to poor
sanitation.
reasons to
According to the World
support The Health Organization, 1.8
million children die of
Rotary diarrhea every year, making
it the second leading cause of
Foundation death among children under
five. Proper sanitation can
By Antoinette Tuscano
reduce the rate of child
Rotary International News mortality in many
29 December 2009 communities by up to a
third.
There are as many reasons to
3. Promoting peace and
support The Rotary
conflict resolution
Foundation as there are ways
to do good in the world.
Watching civil war tear apart
By contributing to the
his homeland of Côte
Foundation, you advance
d'Ivoire instilled in Rotary
world understanding,
Peace Fellow Kouame Remi
goodwill, and peace through
Oussou a passion to resolve
the improvement of health,
conflict.
the support of education, and
the alleviation of poverty.
He is now working for the By contributing to the Foundation, you advance world
United Nations Development understanding, goodwill, and peace through the
Here are a few ways your
Programme in the Central
contributions are making improvement of health, the support of education, and the
African Republic, a country
change possible. alleviation of poverty. Rotary Images
that weathered periodic
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3. N E W H O R I Z O N S
Scholar who acted as a that were the beneficiaries of
project liaison between the medical equipment, and I was
sponsor Rotary clubs and taking her around to the
the Va n a l i n n a hospitals,” recalls Raie. “I
Hariduskolleegium school mentioned that I have a dream
in Tallinn, Estonia. that I would like to get a
Teachers have been using graduate degree in America, and
the US$24,000 worth of she said, ‘You know, we have
equipment in high school this scholarship program. Why
classes and in don’t you try?’”
extracurricular lab sessions
for younger students. Less than two years later, Raie,
then 38, was working as a Rotary
As a board member of a Scholar toward a master’s degree
foundation serving the in cultural and educational
school and a former vice policy studies at Loyola
principal, Raie helped University in Chicago. Hosted by
complete the grant the Rotary Club of Chicago, she
application and coordinate introduced herself to the
the effort with the sponsor Midwest Estonian Association
you become a Rotary Foundation
Rotary clubs of Nõmme-Tallinn, and helped the group prepare for
Sustaining M e m b e r. Forty Estonian high school
Estonia; Magdeburg-Otto von a convention at which she gave a
Contributions to EREY are the students rolled up their sleeves
Guericke, Germany; and presentation.
primary source of funding for and used Matching Grant-
Helsinki City West, Mäntsälä,
Foundation programs. Make a funded science equipment to test
Tuusula, and Ylikerava, Finland. While completing an internship
contribution now. water, air, and soil at a nuclear
She also took German Rotarians at the Latin School of Chicago,
power plant and other sites in
on a tour of the lab. Raie became acquainted with the
1. Eradicating polio Latvia and Lithuania during a
school’s music director, Michael
three-day trip in October.
Scholars are typically introduced Teolis. She invited Teolis to bring
Around the world, Rotarians are
to Rotary service during their the school’s band and choir to
taking millions of steps in “The possibility of taking the
scholarship year, but Raie was Tallinn, and in 2008, 85 students
walkathons, diving into icy equipment along and letting
already coordinating a Matching spent eight days in Estonia and
ocean waters, and participating students do on-site measuring is
Grant effort as a school vice Finland, performing at joint
in other fundraisers to help a dream come true for any
principal when she first heard concerts with students from both
Rotary fulfill its promise to rid science teacher,” says Katrin
about the Ambassadorial countries.
the world of polio. Si Burgher, of Raie, a 2003-04 Ambassadorial
Scholarship
the Rotary Club of Bloomfield,
opportunity. “She was instrumental in almost
Indiana, USA, raised almost
With a every aspect of planning the
$1,600 by having his shaggy
degree in trip,” says Teolis. “Tallinn
eyebrows shaved.
English as a students gave tours, and some of
s e c o n d our students are still in contact
Rotary launched its PolioPlus
l a n g u a g e , with students they met there.
program in 1985. Since then,
she has
eradicating polio has been the
coordinated In 2009, after a two-year position
organization's top priority. End
m u l t i p l e professionalizing the training
Polio Now and help fulfill its
grants since curriculum at a national freight-
promise.
1 9 9 8 forwarding association, Raie was
i n v o l v i n g named deputy regional director
Scoring an the
club
local for SOS Children’s Villages
and International.
advance for Rotarians in
F i n l a n d , “My experience as a Rotary
science G e r m a n y , Scholar as well as the knowledge
and t h e and skills I acquired at Loyola
Former Ambassadorial Scholar Katrin Raie (center)
education in presents Harri Saarinen (left), of the Rotary Club of
U n i t e d will be put to the best use in this
States. position, for the benefit of
Helsinki City West, Finland, a framed letter of appreciation
children and families,” says Raie.
Estonia for the club’s support of a 2009 Matching Grant project that
“There was a Written for Reconnections
By Peter Schmidtke supplied science equipment to a school in Tallinn, Estonia.
U.S. Rotarian
Rotary International News 29 Photo by Laura Leena Raud
visiting some
December 2009 of the sites
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4. N E W H O R I Z O N S
founder of The Rotary better equipped organization
The Rotary Foundation and Past RI or institution than Rotary
Foundation President, Arch C. Klumph
“...There are tens of
International can be found to
be entrusted with such
thousands of Rotarians who funds?”
Week 27: This week’s Rotary will look upon this
Foundation Thought is about opportunity (building the Join with fellow Rotarians
becoming a Bequest Society Rotary Foundation as a real past and present who have
member and leaving your privilege)...Then there are left their legacy by
legacy through The Rotary other men who are seeking remembering the foundation
Foundation. ways and means of leaving in their estate plans.
some part of their wealth
This is best expressed where it may do the greatest
through a quote from the good for humanity. What
Program for January
Introduction
Date Details
Date Name
7th January No Meeting
14th January TBA
10th January BBQ Lunch @ The Forsdyke’s
14th January 1st Meeting for 2010
Vote of Thanks 21st January TBA
Date Name
28th January TBA
14th January TBA
Welcoming Roster Board Club Details
Rotary Year 2009-10
Date Name Di Collins — President Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au PO Box 168,
Nedlands,
14th January TBA Ken Collins — Vice President / Western Australia, 6909
Membership Director
21st January TBA vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Thursday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
28th January TBA Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
Simone Carot Collins — President Elect / Queenslea Drive
Club Administration Director
Claremont
presidentelect@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
clubadmin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Email
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer Phone
treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au 08 9385 0471
Fax
Bulletin Contributions Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary
secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
08 9385 0472
Website
Contributions for the weekly bulletin are Rob Rohrlach — Projects Director
www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
sought from members of the club. projects@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Why not use the bulletin to update the club Facebook
Claire Forsdyke — International Director
on the projects your committee is working http://www.facebook.com/group.php?
foundation@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
on or promote the clubs next fundraising gid=47737002646
event. Toni James — PR & Marketing
Committee Director Chartered 19 December 2008
Please forward articles and photos to
daniel.forsdyke@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au publicrelations@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
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