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District 7020 News | 03• 15 • <strong>2016</strong><br />
World<br />
Water<br />
Day<br />
YOU WHAT CAN DO DO TODAY<br />
March<br />
22<br />
Time’s Up for District Conference Registration
In this Issue | 03 • 15 • <strong>2016</strong><br />
Club of the Month<br />
Great Ideas from<br />
our large Clubs| 24<br />
CLUB NEWS | 29 - 30<br />
RC St. Croix Mid-Isle<br />
RC St. Maarten Mid-Isle<br />
Training<br />
Opportunities<br />
| 24<br />
www.7020.org
Get Ready for Bahamas, May <strong>2016</strong><br />
Registration & Team Contacts | 4 - 5<br />
Areas of Focus: Water and Sanitation<br />
What YOU Can Do | 10 - 13<br />
March 1st, <strong>2016</strong> | 3
Time’s Up for District Conference Registration<br />
Fellow Rotarians,<br />
Your Conference Committee is working diligently to produce an amazing conference for<br />
you. We are eagerly looking forward to seeing as many of you, if not all, in May for our Annual<br />
Conference. The Atlantis has advised that they have booked up all of Royal Towers<br />
Rooms and have a few Coral Towers and Beach Towers remaining. They have given us until<br />
next week to confirm if we will take those rooms as there are guests interested in those<br />
room which they can sell at a higher rate. So if you are thinking about coming and have<br />
not booked your hotel as yet ai implore you to move quickly to make your bookings before<br />
availability goes. Please remember to advise us of your airline information so that we can<br />
have transportation in place for you. Remeber registration will be more expensive the closer<br />
you get to the conference so please take advantage of the current rate.<br />
The sooner you can register the better it will be for us as we planned for your arrival.<br />
Please check website regularly as more opportunities are being added for you to maximise<br />
on your visit.<br />
Our team is here to answer any questions you may have. We want to make this as easy for<br />
you as possible. Please let us know how we can help.<br />
Yours in Rotary,<br />
Charles Sealy II, PAG<br />
Conference Chair<br />
CLICK BELOW to go directly to registration:<br />
https://www.cvent.com/events/rotary-district-7020-pets-assembly-conference-<strong>2016</strong>/registration-490392a15613493782545a2f29d0fe51.aspx
RI President Ravi<br />
and DG Felix<br />
extend a personal<br />
invitation to you!<br />
CLICK for video<br />
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District<br />
Goals<br />
Keep Track.<br />
Stay on Track!<br />
We still have time<br />
to make these goals<br />
happen!<br />
Need assistance?<br />
Contact your<br />
District Team for<br />
ideas and support.<br />
Goal # 1 focuses on Membership Development and<br />
Retention<br />
More committed Rotarians would mean stronger clubs,<br />
more hands to do more work, the opportunity to raise<br />
more money, for bigger and better and more sustainable<br />
projects the opportunity to be significant.<br />
Goal #2 Foundation Giving<br />
We want to enhance our giving to the Rotary Foundation<br />
Annual fund<br />
Endowment fund<br />
Polio<br />
Focus areas<br />
Paul Harris fellows<br />
Paul Harris society members<br />
Bequest Society<br />
Major Donors<br />
Arch Klumph society<br />
Goal #3 Online Tools Adoption<br />
Rotary Club Central<br />
Rotary Showcase<br />
Rotary Ideas<br />
Discussion groups<br />
and the ability to measure progress against goals<br />
and to apply for those end of year awards.<br />
Goal #4 Humanitarian Service<br />
I don’t need to say much here. This is who we are. This<br />
is what defines us. How well we do in serving humanity<br />
will determine whether we are just successful Rotarians, or<br />
successful Rotary clubs or a successful Rotary International<br />
or, if we are making that move to significance.<br />
You will find our<br />
District Leadership<br />
Directory at<br />
www.7020.org<br />
Goal #5 New Generation<br />
Rotaract and Interact and for us Earlyact.<br />
What support are we giving them?<br />
How do we nurture their progress into Rotary?<br />
Goal #6 Public Image<br />
Rotary has spent a lot of money on enhancing its brand<br />
and like any good business, we need to show our stakeholders<br />
a return on that investment. We need to promote<br />
the good we do shamelessly and cause people to want to<br />
come to Rotary.<br />
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Club of the Month<br />
Great Ideas from our Large Clubs<br />
Winston Churchill has stated and I quote,<br />
“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.”<br />
In this article, ideas from the large clubs in our ‘awesome district’ will be shared on how they<br />
help to encourage and promote ‘World Understanding / Peace and Conflict Resolution’.<br />
A number of clubs such as Rotary Club of Tortula, Rotary Club of Road Town, Rotary Club<br />
of Liguanea Plains, and the Rotary Club of Eleuthera invited guest speakers to discuss and<br />
share conflict resolution skill, tools and tips that can be used in the workplace, school, home<br />
and other settings. Nice!<br />
In contrast, the Rotary Club<br />
Sunrise of Road Town made<br />
presentations on peace and<br />
conflict resolution to the EarlyAct<br />
Clubs of Althea Scatliffe<br />
Primary School and Isabella<br />
Morris Primary School, where<br />
scenarios on conflict were distributed,<br />
students were placed<br />
in groups of 4 to come up with<br />
a solution, and they had to role<br />
play to other students. Just<br />
wonderful!<br />
Likewise, members of the Rotary<br />
Club of Road Town were<br />
guest speakers at the early act<br />
club where they presented on<br />
the topic of bullying and conflict<br />
resolution skills for dealing<br />
with a bully at school (do’s<br />
and don’ts). Lovely!<br />
On the other hand, members of the Grand Cayman Rotary Sunrise made presentations to<br />
their Rotaractors about dealing with difficult people in the workplace, and the club held a<br />
session with the EarlyAct in a primary school about bullying. Great!<br />
As part of the Rotary Clubs of Bahamas, the Rotary<br />
Club of SouthEast Nassau organised a peer mediation<br />
seminar for 40 persons from Earlyact, Interact and<br />
Rotaract. One of their members, was instrumental in<br />
the planning because of her affiliation with Rotary’s<br />
Road to Peace in The Bahamas Initiative. A worthy<br />
training that should be repeated!<br />
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The Rotary Club of St. Thomas held a Youth<br />
Peace Conference to hear directly from young<br />
people about issues that affect them and what<br />
can be done to stem gang violence. In addition,<br />
the club is working towards implementing programs<br />
and resources requested by the young<br />
people in order to address gang violence. Superb!<br />
The Rotary Club of St. Thomas also created a<br />
domestic violence video for the District 7020<br />
video contest, so that parents can understand<br />
how trauma affects their children and<br />
the paths they take. This is awesome!<br />
Whilst, the Rotary Club of Eleuthera partnered with One Eleuthera Foundation’s<br />
Female Empowerment Movement Program to launch a “Peaceful Conflict Resolution Jingle<br />
Competition” in all schools throughout the island. Fabulous!<br />
The Rotary Club of West Nassau<br />
decided to make a donation<br />
to the Bahamas Urban<br />
Youth Development Center.<br />
This is an organization that<br />
enrolls at risk youth and immerses<br />
them in vocational,<br />
basic math and English, and<br />
counselling sessions with<br />
aim of ensuring that they<br />
become productive citizens<br />
devoted to peace. This is a<br />
wonderful invest!<br />
The Rotary Club of St Croix<br />
Mid-Isle participated with<br />
the other three St Croix clubs<br />
in a Rotary ‘Peace Table Initiative’,<br />
which meets monthly<br />
with members of the community and students to discuss different ways that they can<br />
affect change on the island through peace. An Amazing Community Initiative!<br />
The Rotary Club of Road Town participated in an experimental program between the BVI<br />
Prison and the BVI Youth Court to teach these youth the importance of hard work and offered<br />
them a path of rehabilitation that did not take them into the prison system. Excellent!<br />
Finally, the Rotary Central Cayman Islands sponsored at-risk-youths programs under the<br />
“Cayman Crisis Centre/Big Brothers Big Sisters” program to attend Summer Camp at the<br />
YMCA As part of an effort to decrease the number of young offenders on our island. Another<br />
wonderful program!<br />
Hope you enjoyed the excellent ideas that were shared in this edition. Please remember,<br />
“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” - Alfred North Whitehead<br />
-Submitted by PP Marcelia Henry<br />
March 1, <strong>2016</strong> | 9
March 22 | WORLD WATER DAY : What you can do TODAY<br />
Join WASRAG & Give to The Rotary Foundation<br />
ABOUT WASRAG | www.wasrag.org<br />
The Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG) was formed in 2007 by a group of Rotarians, recognized<br />
by Rotary International, and focused on WASH projects. Since then it has facilitated many hundreds of<br />
projects – helping clubs find partners, ensuring sustainability, stressing the importance of a needs-driven approach,<br />
and developing best practices. We encourage a holistic, integrated approach in which water is not the<br />
end in itself, but is rather the means to a better life and livelihood in the community. Most importantly WASRAG<br />
links water and sanitation to improved hygiene, better health, and empowerment of the community – especially<br />
women, irrigation and agriculture, education and literacy and, ultimately, child mortality.<br />
Why a World Water Day?<br />
World Water Day is an international observance and an opportunity<br />
to learn more about water related issues, be inspired to tell<br />
others and take action to make a difference. World Water Day<br />
dates back to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment<br />
and Development where an international observance for<br />
water was recommended. The United Nations General Assembly<br />
responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water<br />
Day. It has been held annually since then. Each year, UN-Water —<br />
the entity that coordinates the UN’s work on water and sanitation<br />
— sets a theme for World Water Day corresponding to a current<br />
or future challenge. The engagement campaign is coordinated by<br />
one or several of the UN-Water Members with a related mandate.<br />
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TO SECURE SAFE WATER FOR ALL<br />
GO TO www.rotary.org/give, scan the QR Code,<br />
TAKE ACTION!<br />
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Areas of Focus: Water and Sanitation<br />
AROUND THE WORLD<br />
WATER AND SANITATION<br />
WATER AND SANITATION<br />
SANITATION AND HYGIENE<br />
SANITATION AND HYGIENE<br />
2.5 billion people<br />
2.5<br />
lack access<br />
billion<br />
to improved sanitation.<br />
people<br />
lack access to improved sanitation.<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
Improve<br />
sanitation<br />
facilities Improve by<br />
sanitation<br />
facilities by<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
providing toilets and<br />
latrines that flush<br />
providing into a sewer toilets or safe and<br />
latrines enclosure. that flush<br />
into a sewer or safe<br />
enclosure.<br />
1,400 children<br />
1,400<br />
die each day from<br />
children<br />
diseases caused by<br />
lack of sanitation and unsafe water.<br />
die each day from diseases caused by<br />
lack of sanitation and unsafe water.<br />
TIPS FOR SUCCESS<br />
Avoid prescribing a solution for a community.<br />
TIPS 1<br />
Instead, FOR SUCCESS work with the community to<br />
Avoid determine prescribing what is a most solution appropriate. for a community.<br />
1<br />
Instead, Remember work sanitation with the and community hygiene: to Very<br />
2 determine few people what die from is most thirst; appropriate. millions die from<br />
Remember preventable sanitation waterborne and diseases. hygiene: Very<br />
2<br />
few people die from thirst; millions die from<br />
preventable waterborne diseases.<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
Promote good<br />
hygiene habits<br />
Promote through education. good<br />
hygiene habits<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
Proper hand washing<br />
with through soap and education. water can<br />
reduce Proper diarrhea hand washing cases by<br />
with up soap to 35 and percent. water can<br />
reduce diarrhea cases by<br />
up to 35 percent.<br />
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Learn more about<br />
Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group<br />
www.wasrag.org
Areas of Focus: Water and Sanitation<br />
TAKE ACTION.<br />
IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND ACCESS TO WATER<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
Build wells<br />
to extract<br />
groundwater from<br />
underground<br />
aquifers.<br />
TIPS FOR SUCCESS<br />
1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
Work with the<br />
community to<br />
establish a water<br />
committee and<br />
a fee system to<br />
allow for ongoing<br />
operation and<br />
maintenance of the<br />
water system.<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
Implement<br />
rainwater<br />
harvesting systems<br />
to collect and store<br />
rainwater for drinking or<br />
recharging underground<br />
aquifers.<br />
Before digging or<br />
drilling a new well,<br />
plan carefully to<br />
ensure that the water will be safe and the well is<br />
environmentally sustainable.<br />
Utilize government-approved technology and<br />
equipment so that spare parts and repair work will<br />
be readily available.<br />
6 hours<br />
per day is what women in some rural<br />
parts of Africa spend collecting<br />
water from a remote source.<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
Promote low-cost<br />
solutions, such as<br />
chlorine tablets or plastic<br />
bottles that can be<br />
exposed to sunlight,<br />
to improve water<br />
quality.<br />
TAKE ACTION<br />
Provide home<br />
water treatment<br />
capability, through<br />
the use of filters,<br />
solar disinfection, or<br />
flocculants, to make<br />
drinking water<br />
safe.<br />
748 million people<br />
don’t have clean drinking water.<br />
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Training Opportunities<br />
APR<br />
07<br />
6:30pm<br />
EST<br />
Avoiding the Confusion -<br />
Ensuring New Members Know What<br />
to Expect!<br />
Registration Link:<br />
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6895609536985196547<br />
Last month we offered ‘The Lost Art of the Induction’ and this month<br />
for our final webinar of the Rotary year we offer ‘The Art of Clarity,<br />
informing new and perspective members.<br />
Webinars are easy and fun. You can participate from the comfort of<br />
your own home, with your favorite snack and beverage! Please invite<br />
others in your Club & District by simply forwarding this invitation.<br />
They can register using the link included.<br />
Should you receive our webinar invitation more than once, please<br />
accept it only once and make sure it is populated to your calendar.<br />
I apologize in advance should you receive the invite multiple times,<br />
but our growing list of those interested and those having attended<br />
previous webinars continues to grow rapidly and sometimes I don’t<br />
keep up with the changes well.<br />
Please join us!<br />
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing<br />
information about joining the webinar.<br />
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MONTHLY THEMES<br />
2015 - <strong>2016</strong><br />
JULY<br />
New Rotary officers’ year of service<br />
AUGUST<br />
Membership and New Club Development<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
Basic Education and Literacy<br />
OCTOBER<br />
Economic and Community Development<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
The Rotary Foundation<br />
DECEMBER<br />
Disease Prevention and Treatment<br />
JANUARY<br />
Vocational Service<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution<br />
<strong>MAR</strong>CH<br />
Water and Sanitation<br />
APRIL<br />
Maternal and Child Health Month<br />
MAY<br />
Youth Services Month<br />
JUNE<br />
Rotary Fellowships Month<br />
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TAKE YOUR<br />
ROTARY EXPERIENCE<br />
TO THE NEXT LEVEL!<br />
The Zone 34<br />
Coordinator Team<br />
is available to join your<br />
meeting or training<br />
session via Skype or<br />
Zoom for presentations<br />
and workshops which<br />
will keep MEMBERS<br />
inspired, engaged and<br />
proud to be Rotarians.<br />
Get in touch!<br />
RC Art MacQueen<br />
art.macqueen13.14@gmail.com<br />
ARC Jeremy Hurst<br />
jeremyhurst7020@gmail.com<br />
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LAST MONTH TO ENTER!<br />
Club of the Month<br />
2015-<strong>2016</strong><br />
Calendar of Club-of-the-Month Themes<br />
PLAN AHEAD!<br />
AUGUST<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
OCTOBER<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
DECEMBER<br />
JANUARY<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
<strong>MAR</strong>CH<br />
Membership/Partnerships<br />
New Generations/Literacy<br />
Economic/Community Development<br />
Rotary Foundation/Public Image<br />
Disease Prevention & Treatment<br />
Vocational Service/Rotary Fellowship<br />
World Understanding/Peace & Conflict Resolution<br />
Water & Sanitation/Maternal & Child Health
D7020<br />
Clubs<br />
News<br />
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Rotaract Club of St. Croix Mid-Isle<br />
Honored with Important Community Recognition<br />
Rotary St. Croix Mid-Isle was honored by their community in many ways during the month<br />
of March. The first was the award from the Virgin Islands Daily News readers poll that recognized<br />
them as the “Best Social Club/Membership Organization” on the island of<br />
St. Croix.<br />
That same week, the club was acknowledged for their community efforts by being nominated<br />
by the St. Croix Chamber of commerce as the Non-Profit of the year on St. Croix. While<br />
the club didn’t come home with a win, they were excited to be there to watch member, Nina<br />
York be presented with the Chamber’s lifetime achievement award for her contributions to<br />
the community.<br />
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Rotary Club of St. Maarten Mid-Isle<br />
Supports the Benjamin Gamali Foundation<br />
The Rotary Club of St. Maarten-<br />
Mid Isle presented a cheque to<br />
Vice President Paul Ellinger and<br />
treasurer Marinka Gumbs of<br />
‘The Gamali Benjamin foundation’.<br />
Police Officer Gamali Benjamin<br />
was the first officer to be<br />
fatally shot in the line of duty on<br />
St. Maarten. There is no insurance<br />
provided for police officers<br />
which prompted the setup of the<br />
Foundation in honor and memory<br />
of the fallen officer.<br />
The Foundation’s objectives include<br />
rendering assistance in different forms to men and women police officers critically<br />
injured while on duty: providing therapeutic and rehabilitating assistance to eligible recipients<br />
and providing educational assistance to children of victims, one of its main goals. The<br />
first recipient will be Officer Benjamin’s’ young son, the Foundation will aid in providing<br />
him with a sound education.<br />
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