Vol 6-35-June 13 - Katanning Rotary Club

District 9465Katanning, Western AustraliaVol 6 - No. 35 Monday, 13 June, 2011Rotary Club of KatanningPostal Address: PO Box 127 Katanning WA 6317Meeting time: Mondays - 6.30pm for 7.00pmVenue: Katanning Country Club - Round Drive, KatanningApologies & Guests: Peter Molinari - 9821 1933 or 9821 1673DISTRICT 9465 - District Governor - Marilyn BartonWeb: http://rotary9465.org.au/Danielle PerriePresident 2010-11

Monday, 13 June, 2011RI WEEKLY NEWS UPDATERotary Club of KatanningClub DirectorsPresident:Danielle PerrieTel: (H) 08 9822 8030(M) 0428 231 506Club Service/President ElectWayne SergeantTel: (H) 08 9821 1890(M) 0409 103 801International ServiceJulie BrownTel: (H) 08 9823 1115(M) 0408 590 006New GenerationsCommunity ServiceMichael HobleyTel: (H) 08 9821 4797(M) 0428 214 794Vocational ServiceDavid MeyerTel: (H) 08 9821(M) 0409PresidentRotary InternationalRay KlinginsmithBanerjee outlines emphases forthe yearRyan HylandRotary International News - 25 May 2011RI President-elect Kalyan Banerjeeasked Rotarians at the 2011 RIConvention in New Orleans,Louisiana, USA, on 25 May to go backto their communities and think of “newand different ways” to take on thechallenges of today.“We are the doers of our communities,the leaders, the ones who are mostinvolved, who see the problems andhave the means to find the solutions,”Banerjee said. “I am asking you toreach within and unleash your innerpower and then use it to embraceeverything and everyone around you.”Banerjee, who will take office 1 July,said Rotarians should be guided bythree emphases -- the family,continuity, and change -- as they workto support the 2011-12 RI theme,Reach Within to Embrace Humanity.Family is the first emphasis, he said,because the family is the starting pointfor everything Rotary is trying toaccomplish.“The family is the building block of thecommunity,” Banerjee said. “If we wishto see a world that is more joyous, wefirst have to make sure that thefamilies of the world are more joyous,that they have the things they need tobe happy, to thrive, and move forward.So we have to look at housing, atclean water and sanitation, at healthcare, at all the issues affectingmothers and children.”Continuity involves continuing andstrengthening those things Rotariansdo well, said Banerjee.“There are so many areas in which wehave been successful -- working forclean, safe water; spreading literacy;working in so many ways withGeneration Next, our youth. And ofcourse, our greatest project, polioeradication,” he said. “If we want toreally achieve the impossible, we haveto have not only persistence, but vision- we have to be looking past what weare doing now, at what we can andshould be doing in the days and yearsto come.”Change is the third emphasis,Banerjee said. If Rotarians wish toachieve peace, reduce child mortality,prevent hunger, and stopenvironmental degradation, they mustbe the instruments of that change, heexplained.“We will need to think in new anddifferent ways, explore new ways ofseeing,” Banerjee said. “If we do whatwe have always done, we will get whatwe have always got -- nothing better,nothing more. This would not satisfyus professionally, and it certainlyshould not satisfy us in our Rotaryservice, where the stakes are so muchhigher.”District GovernorDistrict 9465Marilyn BartonPage 2OURCOVERIsobel and Clarrie Eaton from St John AmbulanceKatanning Sub Centre.Isobel is Katanning’s longest serving member and waspresident of the association for 19 years.Pictured at our Volunteers Thankyou Dinner.Rotary Club of Katanning

Monday, 13 June, 2011RI WEEKLY NEWS UPDATETanaka elected RI president for2012-13Rotary International News -- 25 May 2011Sakuji Tanaka, a member of theRotary Club of Yashio, Saitama,Japan, was elected president ofRotary International for 2012-13 bydelegates during the fourth plenarysession at the 2011 RI Conventionin New Orleans, Louisiana, USA."It is my honour to accept thenomination to serve as president ofRotary International," said Tanaka."Since I joined Rotary, I haveembraced every new challenge ofRotary service. To me, challenge isa very important word. It inspiresus. It also helps us to be and to doour best. It allows us to bring outour fullest potential."Tanaka encouraged Rotarians tohelp Rotary reach its potential byfinishing the job of polio eradicationand using the organisation'sstrengths to enhance its ability to"do good in the world."He said Rotarians share aresponsibility to make Rotary clubsstronger by attracting qualitymembers and ensuring that everyclub meeting is productive andmeaningful. He also called uponclubs to make an action plan tobring in younger members."We need to stop talking about this.Instead, why don't we just do it!" hesaid.Tanaka also took a moment to thankRotarians for the outpouring ofassistance after the earthquake andtsunami that struck his country inMarch. "People around the world,particularly Rotarians, offered helpto rebuild the communities thatwere lost. Only with the knowledgethat we are not alone, can we worktogether for the long healing processafter such tragedy."For 32 years, Tanaka was presidentof Tanaka Company Ltd., a wholesalefirm that went public in 1995and later merged with other leadingwholesalers in Japan. Currently, heserves as vice president of theYashio City Chamber of Commerceand adviser to Arata Co. Ltd., ananimal feed and pet food wholesaler.He also chaired the NationalHousehold Papers DistributionAssociation of Japan for eight years.Tanaka studied business at NihonManagement Daigakuin and TokyoManagement Daigakuin.A past trustee of The RotaryFoundation, Tanaka chaired the2009 Birmingham ConventionCommittee. His other service toRotary includes RI director,regional Rotary Foundationcoordinator, district governor, andmember of the Polio EradicationAdvocacy Task Force, thePermanent Fund Committee forJapan, and the Future VisionCommittee.Tanaka established an endowedRotary Peace Fellowship, and heand his wife, Kyoko, are Paul HarrisFellows, Benefactors of thePermanent Fund, and Major Donors.He is a recipient of RI’s ServiceAbove Self Award and The RotaryFoundation’s Distinguished ServiceAward.Rotary Club of KatanningClub SecretaryBrent LadymanTel: (H) 08 9821 0030(M) 0427 968 533Club TreasurerMarlene ShackleyTel: (H) 08 9822 8040(M) 0428 683 601Public Relations,Spoke Editor,Arthur ToddTel: (H) 08 9821 2019(M) 0429 100 084Sergeant at ArmsGreg RammTel: (H) 08 9821 1718(M) 0427 974 452&Club OfficersGeoff BeeckTel: (H) 08 9821 4333(M) 0417 966 802AttendancePeter MolinariTel: (H) 08 9821 1673(W) 08 9821 1933ProgramArthur ToddTel: (H) 08 9821 2019(M) 0429 100 084Immediate Past PresidentNigel AitkenTel: (H) 08 9821 1690Rotary Club of Katanning Page 3

Monday, 13 June, 2011MEETING SUMMARYMonday, 13 June, 2011VENUE:Katanning Country Club, Round Drive, KatanningPRESIDING:Michael Hobley - Community Services DirectorATTENDANCE:Volunteers:Gavin Dennisen, Katie Warren, June and Greg Brooks,Nathan Dennisen, Barry and Lyn Kowald, Syd andPam Garlick, Bev and Kelvin Crosby, Rob andChristine Conning, Cameron Beeck, Lisa Farrell, PhilRae, Julie Gooch, Greg Garlick, Tim Clegg, IanColeman, Allen and Tracey Wilson, Tony Richardson,Murray Harris, Alistair Dusting, Geoff and Fiona Clay,Chris and Wendy Obst, Ian and Shelley Norrish, Peterand Wendy Bessell-Brown, Scott Thompson, Craig andSarah Bignell, Bev Stanes, Ian Garstone, TraceyKippin, Laurie and Maureen Steere, Bob Boyd, PaulineWalker, Grant Olsen, Mick Trezona, Rob and MaureenGairen, Laurie Hull, Daniel Mahoney, Kath Crosby andLes Crosby, Yvonne and Ian Hoglin, Clarrie and IsobelBradbury, Derek Stock, Kym and John Shepherd, Neiland Sharon Poett, Gail Ellson, Peter Caldwell, Trevorand Tracey Watson, Christopher Brooks, CameronPunch, Stephen Brooks, Benjamin Watson, AdrianMatthews, Lyne and John Paini,Lesley Black, Laurie Seaton, and Matt Kerin.MEETINGRegular meeting suspended.Grace: Julie BrownToast: Russel ThomsonGuest Speakers:Grant Olsen, Regional Director, Fire & EmergencyServices - AlbanyLaurie Seaton, Sergeant, Katanning Police StationGail Elson, President, St John Ambulance - KatanningRotarians:Mike Hobley, Alex Leach, Peter Molinari, LesleyTrimming, Geoff Beeck, Nigel Aitken, Brent Ladyman,Julie Brown, Jacquie Stade, Iain Woods, MarleneShackley, Russel Thomson, Arthur Todd, DannyMcGrath, Andrew Pritchard, Marianne Perrie,Danielle Perrie, Peter Caldwell, Kevin Newman, DavidMeyers, and Greg Ramm.Partners & Family:Pauline Todd, Jenny Hobley, Lyn Leach, MorrisTrimming, Helen Beeck, Elizabeth Ladyman, MargaretThomson, Rachelle Newman, and Charmaine Meyers.Prize Sponsors:Caltex Katanning, Exchange Hotel, Trevellen Wines,Castlereagh on Middleton (Albany), and GilbertsWines.Page 4Rotary Club of Katanning

Monday, 13 June, 2011VOLUNTEERS DINNERIn most of rural Australia all fire and emergency services aremanned by unpaid volunteers supported by governmentfunding for equipment.These volunteers are members of the communities in which theyserve with full time jobs and families.They are supported by community minded employers who allowthem to suddenly down tools and take off from work at amoments notice to attend fires, accidents or other emergencies.The volunteers have to give up family time, work time, leisuretime, often put their lives on the line, or witness horrific scenes.It is estimated that the real value of the service volunteersacross a range of services and sports provide Australia is inexcess of 20 billion dollars!This dinner is our way, on behalf of the community, of thankingthe men and women of our emergency services and theirpartners for their exceptional work in making our community asafer place to live.Grant Olsen (FESA) with Jacquie StadeRussel Thomson with Laurie Seaton (Katanning Police)Peter Caldwell with Gail Elson (St John Ambulance)Rotary Club of Katanning Page 5

Monday, 13 June, 2011VOLUNTEERS DINNER - PHOTO ALBUMService above selfPage 6Rotary Club of Katanning

Monday, 13 June, 2011LITERACYLifting literacy levels in South AfricaFOR most Westerners, reading is more of a birthright than aprivileged skill. Bedtime stories bring back warm memories andrecollections of school spelling bees incite either panic or pride.For many people in South Africa however, literacy is a luxury.Most South African children never have the chance to read abook for fun and a huge chunk of the population do not havebooks in their homes.Illiteracy rates are high and final school year pass rates remainlow.Around 24 per cent of adults over 15 years of age are illiterateand 6 to 8 million adults are functionally illiterate.One of the basic causes of this is the lack of money to fundeducation. The country’s most poverty-stricken areas made up40 per cent of all schools in 2007 and resources are notsufficient to provide every learner (student) with the opportunityto become a confident reader and writer.The lack of books, followed by the lack of money, was cited asthe leading barrier to education among 7 to 18 year olds in2006.To work on these issues, the South African Department ofEducation has help from a number of literacy-promoting nongovernmentalorganisations (NGOs).One of the most successful of these has been the Rotary-led‘Bury Me in Books’ campaign.It all started seven years ago when then DGEs Ted Pope(D9300) and Charlie Clemmons (D5890) launched the Bury Mein Books campaign.Since then, Rotary clubs in Texas together with schools andprivate individuals have collected and shipped close to 9 millionbooks through the ‘Rotary Books for the World’ project.The literacy initiative is run under the auspices of District 9300through the Rotary Humanitarian Centre in Bedfordview,South Africa.The centre is managed by PDG Ted Pope and Matching GrantChairperson Robin Bath. Books are unloaded from thecontainers and sorted and stacked by Rotary volunteers underthe guidance of PDG Charlie Clemmons, PP Barb Clemmons,Rotarian Angie Jiminez and his staff.Since May 2007, 499,073 books have been delivered to schoolsrepresenting 51.48 per cent of the 918,311 books distributed –an average of 55,396 books per month.To date, over 4.2 million people have benefited from receivingthese books.“This project has the potential to become RotaryInternational’s most prominent literacy project,” says RobinBath.“We’ve had visits to our centre by Chairman of the FoundationTrustees Bob Scott, PRI President Wilf Wilkinson and most recentlyPRI President D.K. Lee.All were very impressed with the organisation and what we haveachieved since May 2007. PRIP D.K. Lee even went so far as tocomment that this was the best project he had seen.”The Bury me in Books campaign gained a new lease of life inFebruary 2008 when then DG and PRRG Zone 10A AfricaCoordinator, Shirley Downie, approached the governmentownedSouth African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) andsuccessfully negotiated the flighting of the Humanity in Motionadvertisements on their radio and TV channels.Acting Chairperson for the SABC Foundation, Gail Pedra,agreed to partner the campaign with RI and PostNet, whoproduced the Bury me in Books TV advertisement.The campaign was launched in September when South Africacelebrates Literacy Month.“It’s a perfect partnership,” says Robin.“Rotary International is shipping the books to South Africa, Post-Net will deliver the books via its fleet of PostNet Courier vehiclesand 5FM will give the project a national voice via the airwaves.”PDG Shirley Downie, who has fielded over 7,500 calls since theadvertising campaign’s launch, says the response has beenstaggering.“We’ve had thousands of book requests – the oldest caller beinga 74 year old bedridden lady whose nearest bookstall is 75kilometres from her old age home.The need is huge!The cry for knowledge is evident.Schools have expressed the need to start a library and otherswant to replace old library books.Volunteers of community projects want books to teach the underprivileged to read and learning centres say they will take anythingwe offer.”In order to sustain South Africa’s huge literacy demands, theliteracy project needs more books.“South Africans will read whatever they can get their hands on,”says Shirley.“Due to the success of the campaign, Gail Pedra has requestedRotary run a ‘Back to School’ Literacy campaign in January2009 when the schools open.PostNet has agreed to partner Rotary once again.We need books, pencils, erasers, rulers and sharpeners, PCs,medical equipment, toys, wheelchairs, mattresses and whateverdonors think we can use.Funds will also always be welcome.“Thousands of underprivileged South Africans will benefit fromyour generosity. Your support will help reduce the illiteracy rate,you will give people a variety of books to read and they will gainan education and thus the opportunity to earn a living.”Did you ever notice that when you blow in adog's face, he gets mad at you, but whenyou take him on a car ride, he sticks hishead out the window?Rotary Club of Katanning Page 7

Monday, 13 June, 2011EDUCATIONLavender Hill EarlyChildhood DevelopmentProjectSouth Africa has many social needs and requirements.Trying to select the most deserving and most needy is reallyhard, but with limited resources choices have to be made.To this end, early in 2008 the Rotary Club of Newlands, CapeTown, South Africa, began researching which project wouldbring most benefit to both a specific community as well as societyat large.A very interesting website, The Copenhagen Consensus( http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com) which reflects thethinking of a large group of experts gathered every two yearsin Copenhagen, to assess both the worlds most pressing problems,and more importantly which of these can be fixed andwith the least amount of money.High on their list are health and education issues.High on the education list was reducing the cost of education,and starting early with children.Nelson Mandela too realised while still incarcerated that thekey to social upliftment in South Africa would start with the veryyoung.To leapfrog the social discrepancies, focus on Early ChildhoodDevelopment (ECD) would give previously disadvantagedgroups the kick start they needed to quickly stream intoexisting structures and catch up.Regrettably, when actually in power, the ANC has not met thisdream.On making local inquiries, the club made some very interestingdiscoveries: A charter member of Newlands Rotary hadalready been, since the early 1980's, involved in educationalupliftment of poor children.They also discovered that the local official Centre for EarlyChildhood Development (CECD) was headed by a person whohimself had been sent by the ANC in exile to the UK to studybest practice ECD already in the 1980's as well, before theyeven had any money in the party.The last piece of the puzzle was meeting up with a local expertwho was then head of a best practice private sector ECD, anda known expert in the field.The clincher was that all these persons also knew each otherwell, so the links were forged.The ProjectAfter a lengthy assessment process with all the main players,sites were chosen and funding was secured.This process even included Rotary Clubs in Australia, the UKand Germany for input, advice and motivation.Funding from the club’s earnings from managing the CycleTour were limited, so members selected five ECD centre's inthe most depressed part of Cape Town known as LavenderHill, ironically only a few kilometres away from where most ofclub members live.Page 8It was decided to:∗ Focus on most of the spending being spent directly onbenefits for the children.∗ Focus on bringing the 5 selected centres up to theminimum standards to receive the Government grant (R11per child per day)∗ Focus on upgrading the teachers / management skills ofthe sites∗ Focus on upgrading facilities, toys, stimulation, health careand nutrition∗ Focus on safety and security∗ Bring best practice from private skills to the five centre's bytwinning with a prestige ECD centre∗ Get Newlands Rotarians to personally engage not only withmanagement, but on a more day to day basis∗ Obtain an outside Academic Study to evaluate locally theeffect on the children and communityA sub committee was formed of members from NewlandsRotary, the CECD, Monterey and other interested parties.This committee meets on a quarterly basis to assess progressas well as authorise the next payment (Financially managed bythe CECD and overseen by Newlands Rotary).The project has been very successful so far (Backed up by thefirst academic report) and already a need is seen to either expandto more centre's, or to track the best children through thevarious grades in their education, right up to tertiary level.Rotary Club of Katanning

Monday, 13 June, 2011PROVIDING HOSPITAL BEDSHospital beds for South AfricaThis Rotary year the Rotary Club of Mooroopna,Melbourne, Victoria, received advice from the NkwaziRotary Club in Lusaka, of the arrival of 60 hospital beds,for use in the Chelston Clinic and further.The club purchased the beds almost two years ago, andfailed to get a Matching Grant to help with transport.Mooroopna club has paid for the sea component of$6000 and a similar amount has been found via theNkwazi Club.These beds came from the old Women's Hospital inMelbourne.When contacted soon after the arrival, a Nkwazi Rotariansaid they look like new beds!DIK collected the remaining 35 Hospital Beds the clubwas holding, and they have been sent to South Africa(Rotary Club of Balwyn) and to Sudan (Rotary Club ofWest Footscray).Members have also collected some spectacles for DIKwhich have been delivered to DIK.Members have undertaken to assist The MooroopnaHistorical Society to purchase the building that theyoccupy, and are now fundraising from the community,local service clubs, local, state and Federal Government.The Appeal has a target of $500,000. The HistoricalSociety has a great collection and needs to own its ownbuilding, as that opens up the opportunity of furthergrants.The Society was, and still is, at risk of being told to exitthe building but now have the Contract of SaleDocuments ready to sign as soon as the Rotary Club ofMooroopna gains a little more funding.It is well on the way to financing this project.The Mooroopna club has a young Kenyan Rotarian fromthe Rotary Club of Leakey, who would like very much tobe able to help his own country.Fund raising with a street stallHe has been on holiday back in Kenya and he was askedto research a project.The project he came back was suggested by the KenyanGovernment.This project builds large fish ponds for fish farming.This provides employment, food, and the profit providesfor further development of fish farming as well asfinancing the building of houses.One Farm can employ about 15 youth, and provide fishfor the market every 6-8 months.Each year each farm would also build about six to eighthomes, very basic brick houses, but not mud houseswhich wash away with heavy rain.The club is actively investigating this project.It has also already supplied local clubs with a lot ofinformation about the project seeking support.They understand that having a Kenyan National to assistis of great importance for he understands the people andthe Country.Rotary Club ofMooroopnaMelbourne - VictoriaRotary Club of Katanning Page 9

Monday, 13 June, 2011HELPING CHILDRENRotary Club assists St. Dominic's Hospital,Akwatia, GhanaAkwatia, (E/R) March 23, GNA -The Rotary Club of Ottendorf and some RotaryVolunteer doctors in Germany have donated medicalequipment and some emergency medicine valued atabout 20,000 Euros to the St. Dominic's Hospital atAkwatia in the Kwaebibirem District of the EasternRegion of Ghana.The donation was made at Akwatia on behalf of thedonors by Dr. Klaus-Gerrit Gerdts, a PaediatricPhysician, who is in a four-week voluntary service at thehospital with sponsorship from Rotary Club ofGermany.Dr Gerdts, a Rotarian said, the donation was to help setup an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Children's Wardof the hospital.Some of the equipment included an ultrasound scanner,X-ray viewer, full resuscitation facilities includingoxygen and a baby manikin for training purposes.Others were intubations set and suctioning device, ababy warming bed (kangaroo care type) for twoneonates, respirator bag and ventilators, and paediatricambu-bags with appropriate masks.He said a second batch of equipment is due in May thisyear with a third one arriving at a latter date and gave thetotal cost on completion of the project as 100,000 Euros.Dr Gerdts, who has 25 years professional experience inpaediatric emergency medicine,said during two visitswith fellow Rotarians to thehospital last year, he notedthat the facility lacked anICU, a situation which heregrettably observed existedin most health facilities in thecountry.He said he was moved by theplight of the very sick and thedying, some of whom wouldhave been saved had therebeen an ICU, and he solicitedfor funding to help thehospital when he returned toGermany.Ghanaian health workers, Dr.Gerdts noted, were highlyskilled, hardworking andmotivated, but what waslacking, was the absence ofmodern machinery andequipment to enhance theirwork for the desired impact.He said for now, his targets were the children andmaternity wards where the rate of neonatal deaths washigh, but cautioned that, it was not the fault of thehospital but because the facility was a referral point, andhad to take on a lot of cases form far and beyond. Someof which came in very hopeless situations.Dr. Dan Annor-Adjei, paediatrician in-charge of thechildren's ward said when he assumed duty last year, herealised that most of the preventable neonatal deaths didnot receive any form of intensive care and managementneeded to sustain those very sick neonates due to lack ofequipment.Dr. Annor-Adjei said he quickly proposed an ICU as aneed to cut down children mortality at the hospital andcommunicated his concern to Dr Gerdts who agreed toarrange for funding for the project.He said nurses at the ward would be given the requisitetraining with sponsorship from rotary donors through Dr.Gerdts.Dr (Mrs) Mercy Dawson, Medical Superintendent at thehospital on behalf of management expressed thehospital's appreciation to Dr. Gerdts and the donors andgave assurance that the equipment would be put to gooduse.Page 10Rotary Club of Katanning

Monday, 13 June, 2011CARING FOR BABIESHester Louwen onmidwifery in North BaliBaby Incubator for CrisisCare CentreRotary Club of Bali LovinaOn Tuesday August 3, Immediate Past President Robbie (onthe right) hands over the new Baby Incubator that has beenfunded by the Rotary Club of Shoreline Breakfast to Gloria(centre), who is Manager of the Crisis Care Centre inKaliasem, Lovina. On the left is Nurse Kadek.A couple of months back the Rotary Club of ShorelineBreakfast contacted Rotary Clubs in Bali seeking opportunitiesto assist. (Shoreline is about 20 Km north of Seattle inWashington State with the waterways of Puget Sound to thewest, and Lake Washington to the east).Rotarian Michael Young from the Rotary Club of Bali Lovinathought of the Crisis Care Centre in Kaliasem so contactedGloria.She was wanting a baby incubator - she had previously hadone but lent it to a Singaraja hospital which kept on using it.Rotarian Michael, and then President Robbie, sent thisinformation to Rotarian Stanley Graves at the Shoreline Club,and the first thought was that they would acquire an incubatorand send it.But because there would be customs difficulties, and becausean incubator sourced in the US may not easily plug in here, theplan was changed.The Shoreline Club sent funds (US$3,000) and the babyincubator was purchased from an Indonesian supplier forabout $1,200. One feature of the incubator is low powerconsumption which is really important in Lovina.)The balance of the funds has been used for new tyres for theCrisis Care minibus, water pumps, and medical suppliesincluding anti-rabies vaccine.Rotary Club of Bali LovinaThe Rotary Club of Bali Lovina welcomed HesterLouwen as guest speaker.Hester had long wanted to study midwifery, andfinally enrolled as a mature-age student.She is nearing the end of her studies and wasrequired to undertake a project, so she elected todo this in Bali.However, she was having difficulty getting a placementin Bali until she contacted Gloria at the CrisisCare Clinic in Kaliasem.Her time with Gloria is only beginning, and so farshe has had one meeting in the hills where fivepeople were present, and then a disappointment atthe clinic when no-one turned up.Her area of interest is problems with haemorrhagingand blood loss following a birth.Such problems may become evident in the hour ortwo after the birth.But usually the local midwife (bidan) will be presentfor the birth and then leave soon after.So for births at the clinic there can then be aproblem because the staff on-hand may not bepermitted to administer injections of intravenousdrips.In the past, the Crisis Care Clinic has been able toemploy a midwife, but currently they are unable toget one.Mostly, the midwives prefer to take governmentjobs if they can because of the extra benefits.Adequate nutrition during pregnancy is animportant way to reduce the likelihood of bleedingproblems – if the mother has low iron levels thenbleeding problems may be worse.Members and Guests listen to HesterRotary Club of Katanning Page 11

Monday, 13 June, 2011FRESH WATER PROJECTProviding cleandrinking water inPakistanThis year the Governor of Rotary District 3271 inPakistan laid great emphasis on providing clean drinkingwater to the under privileged in the community all overthe District.For the current year, PDG Akhtat Alavi was assigned theresponsibility as Chairman of the Water ResourcesDevelopment and Management Committee for District3270.The Rotary Club of Karachi had initiated the project ofproviding hand water pumps/rain water storage tanks tothe needy community in the year 2000.Since then this is an on-going project of the club.The Karachi club has also received financial supportfrom the Government of New Zealand of Rs 350,000 forthis project.On March 6, 2010, HE Brian Sanders, HighCommissioner for New Zealand, inaugurated a pump atGulshan -e-Hadeed in the presence of Rtn Moin Fudda,PDG Akhtar Alavi, PE SM Ehtishamullah and team ofRotarians.In fact, the New Zealand Government has increased itsdonation, being satisfied with the performance in thepast years.In addition, PDG Muhammad Akbar donated Rs 50,000.The Rotary Club of Karachi provided 51 hand pumpsand 11 storage tanks costing Rs 367,000 in partnershipwith Rotary Clubs in the interior of Sindh.The club has offered to other clubs in the District thatthey will be willing to join them in this project in theirrespective areas on 50:50 basis.It is recommended that the balance of Rs 262,725 shouldbe used in this year on this much needed project.Matching GrantThe Rotary Club of Karachi received a Matching Grantof Rs 854000 in October 2009 from The RotaryFoundation for providing 61 hand water pumps and 61water storage tanks in the interior of Sindh particularlyin the Kunri area.The project was implemented in collaboration withthe Rotary Clubs of Kunri, Mithi and other clubs.After the Kunri area was surveyed and sites wereidentified, payment of Rs 732,000 in instalments havebeen released for 61 hand water pumps and 61 waterstorage tanks in Kunri.Nearly all of the pumps have been installed and watertanks have been built.The remaining are in the final stages.Page 12Rotary Club of KarachiPakistanNew hand pumps for fresh water supplyThe Final Report to The Rotary Foundation will besubmitted after a couple of months, i.e. within twomonths of completion of the project.The balance of Rs 122,000 would be refunded to TheRotary Foundation thru a Fiscal Agent before submittingthe Final Report.It is interesting to know that one Hand Pump serves 25families (average 8 persons per family), i.e. 200 peopledaily.These are the poorest of the poor living in Thar Desert.Two Rain Water Storage Tanks (one for human beingsand one for cattle) – each tank stores 4,000 litres whichprovides on an average drinking water for a family ofeight and their cattle for five to six months.Rotary Club of Katanning

Monday, 13 June, 2011Water Aid forWATER & SANITATIONMalawiFor the last three years the Rotary Club of InvernessCulloden in Scotland has worked closely with LINKCommunity Development, one of the leading agencies workingon the delivery of the Scottish Executive's Programme foreducational support for schools and teachers in Malawi. Inaddition, the Club has part-funded the post of a LINKDevelopment worker whose job it is to progress developmentin schools in the Dedza area, which lies south of the capitalcity of Lilongwe.For several months now the Club has been in contactwith the Rotary Club of Gota Kanal , Sweden, and the RotaryClub of Bwaila in Lilongwe, Malawi, with a view to jointly undertakinga number of water related projects for both the improvementof water supplies in villages and the provision oftoilets in schools. The idea being that the Inverness and GotaKanal Clubs would raise funds and seek a matching grant fromRotary International, which would finance the project, and theBwaila Club would hold these funds, monitor progress of theproject, and release funding as and when required to keep theproject moving forward and sending regular updates ofprogress to the other two rotary Clubs.The supply of a water pump to a village means that thevillagers no longer have to walk up to several kilometres forwater on a number of occasions each day, but rather that theyhave clean water within the confines of their village and hencehave easy access to it. It also affords girls (whose job it is tofetch the water daily) more time to attend their local school andreceive an education, which is of vital importance to their futureand quality of life. The supply of toilets to the local school notonly gives the children decent facilities, but also helps girls toattend school more regularly in that they have privacy andwashing facilities where possibly neither exists at the moment.This International Project took a step nearer to fruition recentlywhen, in May, three Inverness Culloden Club members, PhillipThorn, Duncan MacDonald and Derek McRae, undertook aten-day trip to Malawi, helped by Alness based companySureclean which paid for the airfares of the three Rotariansconcerned.The idea behind the trip was to identify villages, which requiredclean water pumps, and schools which would benefit fromtoilets and sanitation projects. The type of pump favoured bythe Club was one produced by a company called PumpAid, themechanism of which is easily installed by the company, withthe villagers help (thus giving them a sense of ownership), andalso readily maintained by the villagers themselves. Theschool toilets are constructed of local mud bricks (usuallysupplied by the village) on the basis of two toilets per class(one for boys and one for girls). Liquid waste from the toiletscan also be used to manufacture manure for local gardens andfields.Rotary Club ofInverness CullodenInverness, ScotlandWhilst in Malawi, the Inverness Rotarians attended twoBwaila Rotary Club meetings and also held successful talkswith representatives from the Malawi Club regarding the monitoringof the project. They also met with representatives fromthe LINK organisation and PumpAid, visiting villages andschools with them and discussing possible projects whichcould be undertaken in both the Lilongwe and Dedza areas. Inaddition, they met with the Director of Education and his Deputy,in Dedza, and discussed the best way forward for implementingthe projects which they had identified. It is hoped toraise around £10,000 each year to fund these projects all ofwhich will greatly improve the lives of the villagers and schoolchildren involved.Travelling around the countryside and visiting remotevillages was a bit of a culture shock and a real 'eye-opener' forthe Inverness Rotarians. The economy of Malawi is heavilybased in agriculture,with a largely ruralpopulation, and whilstthey were preparedfor life in a countrywhich is amongst theworld's leastdeveloped and mostdensely populated,they were stillshocked by the abject poverty and living conditions of thepeople, especially in the outlying country areas.They saw villages, ranging from a few, to many mudbuilt buildings with no toilet facilities and no water well, wherethe women have to walk several kilometres every day to fetchwater which is sometimes not even clean or disease free.Schools with dark,unpleasant classrooms,housing up to 350 childrenin any one room, and withtoo few teachers to teachthem. Schools partly builtwhere the children sit on aring of stones under a treebecause there are noclassrooms for them. Schools where the girls cannot attend allthe time because there are no toilet facilities for them duringmenstruation. An orphanage where up to 120 pre-schoolchildren were fed by one lady every day from a small pot,cooking maize porridge on an open fire under an open-sided,straw roofed kitchen.Rotary Club of Katanning Page 13

Monday, 13 June, 2011ROTARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 2011W 1T 2JUNE 2011 JULY 2011F 3 MEALS ON WHEELS 1S 4 2 VOCATIONAL VISITS 5 3M 6 PUBLIC HOLIDAY 4T 7 5W 8 6T 9 7F 10 8S 11 9 COMMITTEE MEETINGSS 12 10M 13 VOLUNTEERS DINNER 11T 14 12W 15 13T 16 14F 17 15S 18 16S 19 17M 20 BOARD MEETING 18T 21 19W 22 20T 23 21F 24 22S 25 23 FELLOWSHIPS 26 24M 27 CHANGE OVER NIGHT 25T 28 26W 29 27T 30 28F 29S 30 FINAL COMMITTEE MEETINGSS 31Page 14JUST FOR A LAFF!A mother took her five-year-old son with herto the bank on a busy lunchtime.They got behind a very fat woman wearing abusiness suit complete with pager.After waiting patiently for a few minutes, thelittle boy said loudly, "Wow, She's fat!”The mother bent down and whispered in thelittle boy's ear to be quiet..A couple more minutes passed by and thelittle boy stretched his arms out as far as theywould go and announced; "I'll bet her bum isthis wide!"The fat woman turned around and glared atthe little boy.The mother gave him a good telling off, andtold him to be quiet.After a brief lull, the large woman reached thefront of the queue.Just then her pager began to emit a "beep,beep, beep"The little boy yelled out, "Run for your life,she's reversing!!"A little boy was waiting for his mother to come outof the grocery store.As he waited, he was approached by a mancalled Terry who asked, "Son, can you tell mewhere the Post Office is?"The little boy replied, "Sure! Just go straight downthis street a coupla blocks and turn to your right."Terry thanked the boy kindly and said, "I'm thenew pastor in town. I'd like for you to come tochurch on Sunday. I'll show you how to get toHeaven."The little boy replied with a chuckle. "Awww,come on.... You don't even know the way to thePost Office."All you old crocks who think you are still as handsomeas you were 30 years ago, take this advicefrom the gym trainer.I'm at the gym the other day and I hear this froman older man, not in the best physical condition,who asked the trainer:"I want to impress that beautiful girl over there.Which machine should I use?"The trainer replied: "Use the ATM machine outsidethe gym."A hug is a sign of love.A laugh is a sign of happiness.And a friend like me… ??That's just a sign of good taste.Rotary Club of Katanning

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