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District 7020 News | 05• 01 • <strong>2016</strong><br />
Youth Service Month<br />
Inspire, Mentor, Celebrate!
In this Issue | 05 • 01 • <strong>2016</strong><br />
District Governor’s Message | 4<br />
Bahamas’ Rotary Proclamation | 7<br />
Youth Service’s<br />
District Chair Message | 8<br />
Clubs’ Anniversaries | 18<br />
CLUB NEWS | 19 - 27<br />
RC St. Port-au-Prince<br />
Rotaract Club of Port-ao-Prince<br />
www.7020.org
Rotarians can help shape the future of our<br />
communities by mentoring our young leaders.<br />
From<br />
DG Felix’s<br />
Outs and<br />
Abouts<br />
with our<br />
Youth<br />
Album<br />
11 - 17<br />
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“Train up a child<br />
in the way he should go and when he is<br />
old, he will not depart from it.”<br />
Dear Fellow Rotarians,<br />
DISTRICT GOVERNOR’S<br />
MESSAGE<br />
<strong>MAY</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
“Their work<br />
was both<br />
inspiring<br />
and<br />
thoughtprovoking.”<br />
This biblical pronouncement is practical time-tested sound<br />
advice regardless of one’s beliefs. May is Youth Service month<br />
in the Rotary World. Youth Service is the Fifth Avenue of<br />
Service on which our service activity is based. When this avenue<br />
of service was introduced in 2010, it was envisaged that<br />
Rotarians could positively affect the youth through “leadership<br />
development activities, involvement in community and<br />
international service projects, and exchange programs that<br />
enrich and foster world peace and cultural understanding.”*<br />
Many programmes exist in our District such as Rotaract, Interact,<br />
Earlyact, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, and Rotary<br />
Youth Exchange.<br />
In my official visits to our territories, I particularly enjoyed<br />
the time spent with our youth. I watched their earnestness<br />
in conducting their meetings and planning and executing<br />
projects. They clearly had community values instilled in<br />
them that they will not depart from.<br />
This Rotary year, our youth groups had the opportunity<br />
to write songs about the Four-Way Test and to make<br />
videos encouraging Peace and Conflict Resolution for<br />
two District contests. Their work was both inspiring and<br />
thought-provoking. I recall meeting 10 year-old, Jaleel
Cameron, Earlyactor in Tortola, BVI, who was motivated to raise<br />
money for a hospital which did not have the equipment he needed to<br />
treat his illness. Jamaal did not complain or sulk. He took action.<br />
He sold water and raised USD$27,000! 10 years old!<br />
I am confident that Rotarians in our District are ensuring that our<br />
communities have a bright future and that our youth will aim for<br />
peaceful interactions and co-existence in our world. It is important<br />
that our Rotary Clubs remain committed to mentoring our<br />
youth, involving them in our service projects and providing the<br />
resources needed to support them.<br />
May is also the month of District Conference in our beautiful District! Carla and<br />
I, along with your Rotary family of The Bahamas, are ready to welcome you to the 42nd Annual<br />
PETS, Assembly and Conference of Rotary District 7020. We are excited that RI President<br />
Ravi and his wife, Vanathy, will join us. However, we are mindful that not all of our<br />
Rotary family will there.<br />
My Rotary family, thank you for all that you do. Continue to move from Success to Significance.<br />
Be a role model for our youth and others and Be a Gift to the World.<br />
Felix N. Stubbs<br />
District Governor 2015 - <strong>2016</strong><br />
Rotary District 7020<br />
Conference Update:<br />
The District Conference is progressing with raving reviews!<br />
For the first time in our District, the Conference committee integrated “IT Smart” Conference and it has worked<br />
really well. If your Club has an upcoming event, you should try the app.<br />
Check it out at https://guidebook.com/g/d7020bahamas<strong>2016</strong>/<br />
Tonight, the Rotary delegation will experience the Bahamas’ world famous Junkanoo Carnival. There will be<br />
lots of photos, videos and stories to share soon. In the meantime, stay tune to the District’s Facebook pages<br />
https://www.facebook.com/groups/57738835633/<br />
https://www.facebook.com/Rotary-7020-2015-16-282452865211707/
Some years ago, in the Kano plains of Kenya, a well-meaning development<br />
agency took on the task of improving water availability to<br />
a rural community. Committees were formed, meetings were held,<br />
and the local people were consulted. The main need the community<br />
identified was improved delivery of water for irrigation and livestock.<br />
A plan to meet this need was created, and the work was soon<br />
begun, exactly as the community representatives had requested.<br />
Yet once construction began, it was met by immediate protest from<br />
groups of community women, who came to the site and physically<br />
blocked workers from building diversion channels. Upon further<br />
investigation, the agency realized that the water it was diverting for<br />
farming came from the only source, for dozens of families, of water<br />
for cooking, drinking, and washing. The entire project had to be<br />
scrapped.<br />
Why? Because it had never occurred to a single member of the allmale<br />
team in charge to consult the local women. At every stage, it<br />
was assumed that the men knew the needs, spoke for the community,<br />
and were able to represent it. Clearly, this was far from the case.<br />
The women knew the needs of the community, and its resources, far<br />
better – but their opinion was never sought.<br />
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE<br />
May, <strong>2016</strong><br />
K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran<br />
President 2015-16<br />
We have had women in Rotary for only the last quarter of our history,<br />
and it is no coincidence that those years have been by far our<br />
most productive. In 1995, only 1 in 20 Rotarians were women; today,<br />
that number has risen to 1 in 5. It is progress, but it is not enough. It<br />
is only common sense that if we want to represent our communities,<br />
we must reflect our communities, and if we want to serve our<br />
communities fully, we must be sure that our communities are fully<br />
represented in Rotary.<br />
Rotary’s policy on gender equality is absolutely clear. Yet nearly onefifth<br />
of our clubs still refuse to admit women, usually by claiming that<br />
they simply cannot find women who are qualified for membership.<br />
I would say that any Rotarian who makes this argument, or believes<br />
it, himself lacks the two most basic qualifications for Rotary membership:<br />
honesty and good sense.<br />
A club that shuts out women shuts out much more than half the<br />
talent, half the ability, and half the connections it should have. It<br />
closes out the perspectives that are essential to serving families and<br />
communities effectively. It damages not only its own service but our<br />
entire organization, by reinforcing the stereotypes that limit us the<br />
most. It leads our partners to take us less seriously, and it makes all<br />
of Rotary less attractive to potential members, especially the young<br />
people who are so crucial to our future.<br />
To tolerate discrimination against women is to doom our organization<br />
to irrelevance. We cannot pretend that we still live in Paul Harris’<br />
time, nor would he ever want us to. For, as he said, “The story of<br />
Rotary will have to be written again and again.” Let us see to it that<br />
the story we write in Rotary is one of which he would be proud.<br />
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Rotary Week<br />
Proclamation Signed by The Bahamas’ Prime Minister<br />
District Governor Felix N. Stubbs wishes to share the official proclamation of the Rotary<br />
Week signed by the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas Perry G. Christie<br />
in recognition of the important humanitarian service that Rotarians carry out in The Bahamas<br />
and worldwide and the celebration of District 7020’s 42nd District Conference.<br />
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Monthly Theme | May | Youth Service<br />
Early Leaders Embrace Rotary Values<br />
It has been a pleasure and privilege assisting District Governor<br />
Felix over the past several months as District Chair<br />
for Earlyact & Interact.<br />
It is true that our Rotary Youths represents the future Rotary<br />
Leaders who will influence the way the world succeeds and<br />
we applaud Rotarians that supports youth clubs 100 percent,<br />
to prepare the next generation to continue and succeed beyond<br />
our years.<br />
Throughout the district Earlyactors and Interactors completed<br />
projects that embodied the many principles of Rotary including<br />
caring and respect for others, empathy, compassion,<br />
responsibility and leadership; creating and building lasting<br />
relationships not only among themselves but with communities.<br />
We commend and continue to admire the remarkable talents<br />
displayed with community projects, fundraisers and leadership<br />
development. The active clubs throughout the District<br />
have certainly proved that they are wise to what is going on,<br />
not only in their community, but around the world<br />
We are proud of their commitment to “Service Above Self”,<br />
Below we have highlighted some of the amazing projects<br />
from our Youth Clubs across the District.<br />
Rema Martin<br />
Earlyact - Interact<br />
District Chair<br />
2015 - <strong>2016</strong><br />
Abbi Christopher – The Rotaract Club of Tortola and the Rotaract<br />
Club of Virgin Gorda<br />
There are some that believe that habits are formed in sixty-six<br />
(66) days, while others believe that twenty-one (21)<br />
days is all that it takes. I have always believed that a child<br />
that serves whole-heartedly in any of Rotary’s Youth Arms<br />
does not follow in the ways of Rotary…they lead in it! As the<br />
current Youth Services Director for the Rotary Club of Tortola<br />
and a former Rotaractor, I look at the potential that constantly<br />
surrounds me and see beyond the future of Rotary, I<br />
see the future of the World.<br />
In April alone, the Rotaract Club of Tortola and the Rotaract<br />
Club of Virgin Gorda (sponsored and co-sponsored respectively)<br />
have completed projects that served their community,<br />
and targeted youth.<br />
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“I look at the potential that constantly surrounds me<br />
and see beyond the future of Rotary,<br />
I see the future of the World.”<br />
The Rotaract Club of Tortola took their bi-weekly literacy project of reading to children<br />
in the community and building and fostering better literacy skills to the park,<br />
instead of the usual indoor library sessions. The club has been committed to this<br />
programme and believe strongly in the educational and life benefits of literacy. This<br />
project has also been supported by the EarlyAct Club of St. George’s Primary School,<br />
who is also sponsored by the Rotary Club of Tortola.<br />
During the month, the Rotaract Club of Virgin Gorda has extended their efforts in<br />
getting persons from near and far to contribute to this year’s Saving Lives District<br />
7020’s blood donation project. This month alone, a total of 3 clubs combined their<br />
efforts and 175 persons donated blood (575 units of blood) from blood drives held in<br />
support of the Club’s initiatives. Though outside of our District, the Rotaract Club of<br />
Matopos, the Rotaract Club of Bulawayo and the Rotaract Club of NUST were amazing<br />
for lending their support to such a worthy cause. The strength of the Rotary Family<br />
is indeed alive and well.
Object of Rotary<br />
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster<br />
the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise<br />
and, in particular, to encourage and foster:<br />
FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an<br />
opportunity for service;<br />
SECOND. High ethical standards in business and<br />
professions, the recognition of the worthiness of<br />
all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each<br />
Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve<br />
society;<br />
THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each<br />
Rotarian’s personal, business,and community life;<br />
FOURTH. The advancement of international<br />
understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world<br />
fellowship of business and professional persons united<br />
in the ideal of service.<br />
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Monthly Theme | May | Youth Service<br />
District Governor Felix’s Great Moments with 7020 Youth<br />
DG Felix has made inspiring<br />
our youth a top priority of<br />
his travel agenda.<br />
Here are some memories<br />
that he would like to share<br />
with all.<br />
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Club April Charter Anniversaries<br />
Congratulations!<br />
RC East Nassau<br />
6 May, 1963<br />
RC Montrouis<br />
30 May, 2012<br />
RC Nassau Sunrise<br />
8 May, 2001<br />
RC Old Fort<br />
5 May, 2015<br />
RC Providenciales<br />
17 May, 1996<br />
RC St. Croix Mid-Isle<br />
May 13, 1988<br />
RC St. John<br />
May 21, 1999<br />
... and Happy Birthday to all Rotarians<br />
celebrating their birthdays this month!<br />
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D7020<br />
Clubs<br />
News<br />
April 1, <strong>2016</strong> | 17
Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Journée de Solidarité<br />
Le Rotary Club de Port-au-Prince participle a la Journee de Solidarite avec les Malades par<br />
l’Archidiocese de Port-au-Prince a Saint Louis de Gonzague<br />
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Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Reunion de Gift of Life<br />
Le 22 fevrier <strong>2016</strong>, Les Partenaires de Gift of Life qui etaient a Port-au-Prince ont presente<br />
le resultat des 12 interventions chirurgicales realisees a l’Hopital St Damiens sur des Enfants<br />
a mal formation cardiaque selon leur programme avec les Clubs Rotary d’Haiti, programme<br />
introduit et gere par le Rotary Club de Port-au-Prince.<br />
Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Conference sur le Role du Barreau des Avocats<br />
A la reunion statutaire du 29<br />
fevrier <strong>2016</strong>, Maitre Carvez<br />
avait introduit Maitre Stanley<br />
Gaston, le patron actuel du<br />
Barreau des Avocats qui nous<br />
avait entretenus sur le role de<br />
cette institution.<br />
May 1, <strong>2016</strong> | 21
Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Fete du Rotary International<br />
Le Rotary Club de Port-au-Prince avait grandiosement fete la Fete du Rotary International.<br />
Les membres de notre Club Rotaract etaient avec nous et certains avaient profite pour<br />
prendre une photo avec la Presidente du Club parrain don’t ils sont si fiers<br />
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Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Presentation sur la Menopause<br />
Presentee par le Docteur Joseph Guillaume le Lundi 28 Mars <strong>2016</strong> :<br />
La Menopause Un Tournant<br />
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Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Alerte a la Destruction de la Planete Terre<br />
Madame Jayne Whynne est venue sonner l’alerte et demander l’apport du Rotary Club de<br />
Port-au-Prince a la lutte sur la protection de l’environnement dans son expose : La Planete<br />
Terre a besoin de nous. Lundi 11 avril <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Presentation de Clertida<br />
C’est le lundi 4 avril que le Dr Clertida Cassamajor, Membre du Rotary Club de Port-au-<br />
Prince, avait presente une conference sur Les Effets du Stress sur les Organe.<br />
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Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Conference sur la Resolution des Conflicts<br />
La conference sur la Resolution des Conflits resentee par le juge Carves et Me Marides Menager<br />
a la reunion statutaire du 21 Mars <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Conference sur la Resolution des Conflicts<br />
Le samedi 12 mars, plusieurs membres du Club Rotary de Port-au-Prince avaient fierement<br />
participle au Grant Seminar anime par le PADG Raphael Izmery pendant toute la<br />
journee, aux cotes des membres des autres Clubs venus d’autres villes du pays.<br />
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Rotaract Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Intronisation de nouveaux membres<br />
C’etait la fete chez nos Rotaractiens a l’Hotel Kinam de Petionville. Plus d’une vingtaine<br />
de nouveaux Rotaractiens avaient ete intronises. Certainement que le Club Parrain avait<br />
grandiosement participle. Nous etions fiers de nos filleuls. Samedi 19 Mars.<br />
Rotaract Club Port-ao-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Assemblée 2.0<br />
Le club Rotaract de Port-ao-Prince vient presenter son programme au Rotary Club de<br />
Port-au-Prince don’t il fait partie<br />
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Rotary Club Port-au-Prince | Dossier des événements récents<br />
Soirée de Famille Rotarien<br />
C’etait la Soiree de l’Harmonie de la Famille Rotarienne du Club Rotary de<br />
Port-au-Prince chez notre soeur Fabienne. Il faut savoir feter ensemble, en<br />
dehors du cadre des reunions statutaires.<br />
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Rotaract Club of St. Thomas<br />
Rotary Has Heart for Vocational Services Seminar<br />
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