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4 ♦ Rotary Africa ♦ July 2014
From the editor...
Editor Sarah van Heerden
Administration Sharon Robertson
Chairman Gerald Sieberhagen
Directors Greg Cryer
Peter Dupen
Andy Gray
David Jenvey
Richard Tolken
Publisher Rotary in Africa
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gain)
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newspaper
Design & Layout Rotary in Africa
Printers Colour Planet, Pinetown
Advertising Sharon Robertson
Sarah van Heerden
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Distribution Rotary Districts 9210,
9211, 9212, 9220, 9350,
9370 and 9400
(Southern and Eastern
Africa)
Contact Rotary Africa
P.O. Box 563
Westville
3630
South Africa
Telephone 0027 (31) 267 1848
Fax 0027 (31) 267 1849
Email rotaryafrica@mweb.co.za
Website www.rotaryafrica.com
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International or The Rotary Foundation.
Facts count
It never ceases to amaze me what a Rotarian can
achieve. A club can take a single idea and turn it
into a project which will benefit more people than
one can imagine. Look at the SOUNS project,
which is teaching very young children literacy
skills or the Hiding Hyena, a project currently
being run in Malawi, which educates children
about HIV/Aids while providing them with a safe
environment to talk and learn about the many
sensitive issues associated with the spread of
this disease.
Over the years, I have been awed by the projects
our clubs undertake and just as I think I have found
a favourite project, another comes to my attention.
While there is no doubt that we are doing wonderful
work in our communities, it is easy for some members
to forget that they are part of a bigger picture, part of
a massive movement of service which is changing
lives every day. Some find themselves wondering if
they are making an impact as they see the magnitude
of problems affecting our communities. They lose
motivation and leave our clubs. This is an issue we
have often heard about in terms of membership
retention and one of the easier ways to address it
is to encourage your fellow members to take part in
multi-club, district and international events.
June is Fellowships Month and our Rotary
fellowships provide us with a wonderful opportunity
to share our experiences, promote our interests
and create friendships which will span the globe.
They allow us to enjoy ourselves and realise that
we are part of something special. Life can’t only be
about work, we need to take time to recharge. Our
fellowships can provide this. So, why not join one?
“Nothing speaks of “first world privilege” more than
being able to choose an organic, anti-establishment,
free-range and natural lifestyle… Yet we may be faced
with the re-emergence of preventable diseases because
our vaccination rate is worse than South Sudan.” -
northernriversvaccinationsupporters.org.
Over the years, I have received concerned communications
from Rotarians refuting the autism/vaccination claim and from
those worried that all vaccinations are dangerous. It’s time to end
the debate. It’s time to tell people to dump the hype. As respected
community members, you can help spread the word – “don’t play
Russian roulette with your children’s lives, vaccinate them!”
I remember the start of the great autism/vaccination debate.
It began with an article published in a British medical journal in
1998. The article was later partially retracted and more recently,
fully retracted and declared fraudulent. The lead researcher
has had his medical licence pulled. An investigation by Brian
Deer, a British journalist, revealed that the lead researcher
had undeclared conflicts of interest, manipulated evidence and
broken other ethical codes.
The autism claims snowballed when the media picked up the
story. Observers have criticised the mass media for giving the
study more credibility than it deserved – a result of “science by
press conference.” Actress Jenny McCarthy, who believes her
son’s autism was caused by vaccinations, quickly jumped on
board. She took to the talk show circuit and, despite having no
medical or scientific training or background, convinced thousands
that vaccinations triggered autism. Her unsubstantiated claims
encouraged a massive anti-vaccination campaign. Research has
repeatedly found her claims to be untrue.
Amy Pisani of Every Child by Two, an organisation which
advocates childhood immunisation, spoke out against McCarthy’s
crusade when she was appointed to co-host a TV show. Pisani
said McCarthy’s “unfounded claims that vaccines cause autism
have been one of the greatest impediments to public health in
recent decades.” Another objection to the appointment came
from Katrina van den Heuvel, the editor of The Nation: “Hiring
her would seem to credit her as a reliable source... Indeed, there
is an enormous cost to society when the truth could save lives.”
The truth can save lives. I place my trust in science and
honest research which is not manipulated and is conducted with
objectivity. I do not place my trust in a Playboy pin up with no
medical or scientific training and who continues to scare parents
using ‘facts’ derived from a fraudulent study. I also place my trust
in 1.2 million intelligent and community-spirited Rotarians, who
each day bring us closer to eradicating a horrific and preventable
disease.
So, as we continue along the final stretch to eradicate polio, I
wish all our readers a wonderful new Rotary year and I urge you
all to go forth and vaccinate.
Have a wonderful month,
Sarah
4 ♦ Rotary Africa ♦ June 2013
From the editor...
Editor Sarah van Heerden
Administration Sharon Robertson
Chairman Gerald Sieberhagen
Directors Peter Dupen
Andy Gray
David Jenvey
Natty Moodley
Richard Tolken
Publisher Rotary in Africa
Reg. No. 71/04840/08
(incorp. association not for
gain)
PBO No: 18/13/13/3091
Registered at the GPO as a
newspaper
Design & Layout Rotary in Africa
Printers Colour Planet, Pinetown
Advertising Sharon Robertson
Sarah van Heerden
Tariff card on request
Subscriptions Sharon Robertson
Contributions rotaryafrica@mweb.co.za
Distribution Rotary Districts 9200,
9210, 9220, 9270, 9320,
9350 and 9400
(Southern and Eastern
Africa)
Contact Rotary Africa
P.O. Box 563
Westville
3630
South Africa
Telephone 0027 (31) 267 1848
Fax 0027 (31) 267 1849
The Rotary Emblem, Rotary International, Rotary,
Rotary Club and Rotarian are trademarks of Rotary
International and are used under licence. The
views expressed herein are not necessarily those
of Rotary Africa, Rotary International or The Rotary
Foundation.
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regulars
Gary CK Huang
President, Rotary International
Message from the
RI President
On the Web
Speeches and news from RI President Gary CK Huang at www.rotary.org/president
Dear fellow Rotarians,
I find many traditional Chinese values
reflected in Rotary: values of service and
responsibility, of respect for family and for
others. Sometimes I call Confucius the world’s
first Rotarian, because even though he died
2 500 years before Rotary was founded, his
ideas are very much Rotary ideas. And one of
the things he said was: 與其抱怨，不如改變.
In English, you say, “It is better to light a single
candle than to sit and curse the darkness.”
I think that one line sums up the way we in
Rotary approach the problems of the world.
There is so much difficulty. There are so many
people who need help. Many people look at this
and say, “There is nothing I can do.” So they do
nothing – and nothing changes.
But this is not the Rotary way. The Rotary
way is to light a candle. I light one candle, you
light one candle – and so do 1.2 million other
Rotarians. Together, we can do so much more
than we could ever do alone. Together, we can
light up the world.
In 2014/15, I am asking each of you to light
your own Rotary candle – and Light Up Rotary
together.
There are so many ways to Light Up Rotary.
I hope many of you will choose to host a Rotary
Day, to show your community what Rotary is and
what we do. I hope you will involve your Rotaract
and Interact clubs in your service, to bring the new
generation of the Rotary family closer to Rotary
membership. And I hope you will keep Rotary
strong by inviting new members into Rotary –
including your own spouses and family.
Perhaps the most important thing we can do
to Light Up Rotary is to finish the job we’ve been
working on for more than a quarter of a century:
the eradication of polio. We are so close to our
goal. But we will get there only if we keep up
the fight, keep up the momentum and close the
funding gap for the polio endgame plan.
Light Up Rotary is our theme for this year, but
it is more than just a theme. It is how we in Rotary
see the world and our role in it. We believe that no
one should sit alone in the darkness. Instead, we
can come together, all 1.2 million of us, to Light
Up Rotary. This is our goal – and my challenge
to you.

what you
should know
Object of Rotary
The Four-Way Test
Goals for
a new
year Foundation trustee
Rotary at a Glance
Rotary Members: 1 220 115; Clubs: 34 558
Rotaract Members: 158 401; Clubs: 6 887
chair, John Kenny
Interact Members: 385 066; Clubs: 16 742
RCCs Members: 182 137; Corps: 7 919
As of 2 April 2014
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and
foster the ideal of service as a basis of
worthy enterprise and, in particular, to
encourage and foster:
First. The development of acquaintance
as an opportunity for service;
Second. High ethical standards in
business and professions; the recognition
of the worthiness of all useful occupations;
and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s
occupation as an opportunity to serve
society;
Third. The application of the ideal of
service in each Rotarian’s personal,
business, and community life;
Fourth. The advancement of international
understanding, goodwill, and peace
through a world fellowship of business
and professional persons united in the
ideal of service.
Of the things we think, say or do:
1) Is it the TRUTH?
2) Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3) Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER
FRIENDSHIPS?
4) Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
It is an honour and a privilege to serve this
Rotary year as chair of our Rotary Foundation.
And we should be proud to call it our
Foundation, for each day millions of people
are touched by the magic of Rotary – made
possible only by the service and dedication of
Rotarians throughout the world.
Our Foundation is the engine that drives the
Rotary machine. It gives us the chance to see and
fulfil the opportunities for service both within our
community and internationally.
Your Foundation Trustees have set five goals
for the year.
The first goal is the eradication of the polio
virus from the face of the earth. We have much
to be proud of in our efforts to rid the world of this
dreaded disease, but we must finish the job. We
cannot let up in our efforts. We cannot undo all
the good work that has been done in the past.
Our second goal is to continue to support
Rotary’s own charity, The Rotary Foundation,
through our contributions. The good that we do
is limited only by what we receive. Let us ensure
that clubs which have made no contributions to
our Foundation do so this year.
Our third goal is to ensure the progress of
our new grants programme by participating
in sustainable educational and humanitarian
projects.
Our fourth goal is to foster goodwill and peace
by promoting and publicising the Rotary Peace
Centres programme, whose purpose is to create
a cadre of individuals dedicated to peace and
conflict resolution.
Our fifth goal is to emphasise that the
responsibility for the future of our Foundation is in
all our hands so that we can continue doing good
in the world as we endeavour to Light Up Rotary.
I look forward to your support.

Convention countdown
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Badplaas
The one-week holiday
destination for Senior Citizens
• Enjoy your next holiday in a safe
environment with new friends from one
Sunday to the next.
• The famous hot water springs are only
500 metres away from us and we provide
transport to the Hydro Spa every morning.
• While you relax we spoil you with three
meals daily.
• You will love our new indoor heated
swimming pool and Jacuzzi.
• Your regular television programmes can be
viewed on DSTV.
• The elegantly furnished rooms, the scenery
and the mountains ensure an unforgettable
all inclusive break-away week.
• All the rooms are for two persons to share
so please bring a friend.
• The most affordable holiday in the country.
For Bookings or more information
Contact Engela at 017-844-1060 or email
hennie@rotaryresort.co.za
www.rotaryresort.co.za
Rotarians who travel to the 2015 RI Convention
in São Paulo, Brazil, 7-10 June 2015, will find
themselves in a country with the fifth-highest
number of Rotarians: 56 000, in 2 381 clubs
and 38 districts. Women represent 22 percent
of the nation’s club membership.
In 2012/13, Brazil was the ninth-largest
contributor to The Rotary Foundation, giving
US$5 109 889. The Brazilian Association of The
Rotary Foundation encourages companies to
make contributions to the Foundation by offering
tax incentives to corporate donors.
Brazil has 11 300 Rotaractors and 19 800
Interactors. Brazilian Rotarians empower young
people by helping with job placements and
supporting Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and
Rotary Youth Exchange. More than 1 500 Youth
Exchange students each year are either hosted
by local clubs or travel to other countries to
experience another culture.
The Foundation of Rotarians of São Paulo is
the largest educational complex in the Rotary
world. It educates over 6 000 students at all
levels, from preschool to postgraduate, offers
professional development and extension courses
and engages in community service projects.
Three RI presidents have hailed from Brazil:
Armando de Arruda Pereira in 1940/41; Ernesto
Imbassahy de Mello in 1975/76 and Paulo Viriato
Corrêa da Costa in 1990/91. São Paulo hosted
the convention once before, in 1981, and Rio de
Janeiro was the site of Brazil’s first RI Convention,
in 1948.
Register for the 2015 RI Convention in São
Paulo at www.riconvention.org.

rotary’s challenge by Regional Rotary Co-ordinator - Zone 20A South, PDG Natty Moodley
Natty’s Natter www.rcnatty.blogspot.com
Being a Rotarian gives you the world and more than 1.2 million friends. This month we look at the
challenges we face in terms of finding and retaining members.
It was a wonderful privilege to have attended
the district conferences of District 9210 in
May and D9400 in June. The conferences
gave us an opportunity to celebrate Rotary
and the success of the respective districts
over the past year. A district conference
is an opportunity to celebrate, evaluate
and motivate. I had the privilege to talk on
Rotary’s challenge for the future, as the future
of Rotary is in your hands.
Rotary has offered me more than I could have
had in a single career path in the typical workplace.
It has given me connections and friendships that I
never could have dreamt of. It gave me the world
and more than 1.2 million new friends. Rotary
gave me the opportunity to develop personally
and to help develop my fellow members, as each
one of us shares our different vocational skills. It
gave me the opportunity to make a difference in
my community and it gave me the opportunity to
serve and feel good about it.
Now, for a minute, I want you to imagine
Rotary to be your business. A business you
started two decades ago. When you started,
your subscriber base was approximately 1.2
million. You were making good progress but each
successive year the operating costs increased
and your subscriber base remained the same.
Now imagine that in order to grow your turnover
you needed to diversify, so you added in new
products like satellite clubs and associate clubs.
You allowed your subscribers some flexibility
to operate, offered some incentives, perhaps
some awards. Still your subscriber base did not
increase. You developed a new strategic plan to
include a new and exciting market, the up and
coming middle class and still nothing happened.
You have got to agree that before long you would
be in a crisis.
Worldwide, membership shows a downward
trend. In July last year, we dipped below that
magical 1.2 million membership mark to 1 185
million members. In the southern hemisphere
there is growth but we have some problems in
the northern hemisphere. Africa, in particular,
is growing with great gains in central and west

Africa.
On the African continent we have 54 countries.
Of these, Rotary is present in 52 countries and
economic indicators show a net GDP growth of
five percent across Africa. This provides a great
opportunity for the creation of a new middle class
of individuals - individuals who are making money
from IT activities and entrepreneurial talent.
Unless we engage with this new generation of
members, we run the risk of losing them to other
non-profit and community-based organisations.
Organisations which do not require an attendance
commitment, do not charge annual fees, which
are specific area focused and which receive
government funding for their operations. If we
do not ask this new emerging middle class to
join Rotary, these organisations will secure their
membership.
The second membership issue is retention.
When we invite someone to join our clubs and
they join, do we take care of them? Are they
assigned a mentor? Are they kept informed about
the workings of the club and district? Are they
engaged in service activities?
Most people join Rotary to serve their
communities, for friendship and fellowship.
Rotarians who feel they are a valuable part
of the organisation, contribute to projects and
feel appreciated do not leave. One can argue
that recruitment and retention in a volunteer
organisation is different than in a business, but
the goals are very similar – both want the most
qualified individuals to advance their organisation
and both need to do what they can to keep these
individuals satisfied.
One of the biggest challenges for South
African clubs is the concept of corporate social
investment (CSI). Large corporations, via
their staff pool, are investing heavily in social
upliftment programmes. Any staff member can
identify a worthwhile project in their community,
submit a plan of action to the CSI committee
and, if approved, the project is undertaken with
corporate funding, personnel and time. Now,
why would one want to join Rotary when one is
employed by a corporate that provides the time,
money and opportunity of doing good in one’s
community?
That’s where our public image skills come into
play. We need to clarify what Rotary stands for,
how it is different and why people should care. It is
our responsibility to inspire, motivate and engage
prospective members and strategic partners.
The second challenge in South Africa is the
attraction of the black members of the community
into our organisation. While critics may continue
to castigate us for not trying enough, the actual
problem lies in the very concept and philosophy
of Rotary. Why must I pay fees to belong to an
organisation that requires me to give of my time
to uplift others while I myself may need help?
Until we can change this mindset, this will remain
a problem. But all is not lost. With 20 years of
democracy behind us, we believe that the
younger generation will embrace Rotary’s values
and principles.
So, dear friends in Rotary, what is the future?
When I look back, I find infinite power. The
power is in the knowledge that we have a great
organisation and have done great work without
which our world would be that much poorer.
Before me, I see endless possibilities.
The possibility for each one of us to make a
determined effort to share the joy of membership
and to invite individuals to share in the joy and
magic of Rotary.
Around me I see boundless opportunities for
us to work together in growing our organisation.
So, I encourage each one of you to share the
gift you were once given, to reach out to that
friend, colleague, business associate or young
generation’s member and to ask the question
once posed to you…would you be my guest
tonight at my Rotary club?
It could be the start of a new friendship and
it could change the life of the person you invited
and yours as well.
As we look to the new Rotary year, I encourage
you to continue to Engage Rotary and to make a
difference in your communities by changing lives
and creating such an illumination that we Light
up Rotary.
“Unless we engage
with this new
generation of
members, we run the
risk of losing them to
other non-profit and
community-based
organisations.”

our foundation
Doing good in the world
By PDG Anne Botha - Regional Rotary Foundation Co-ordinator Zone 20A South
sustainability A misunderstood concept
Global grant projects must be sustainable and display the above characteristics.
For many years, The Rotary Foundation spent
millions of dollars without knowing if the funds
met the most urgent needs of the benefiting
communities. We have lost contact with the
thousands of scholars we’ve supported,
unsure of what our return on investment in
their education has been.
The Rotary Foundation therefore asked for
an independent assessment of the old Matching
Grant system, to determine if the grants had a long-term
and sustainable impact on the beneficiaries.
It was found there were opportunities to improve
the design of grant projects and to hold ourselves,
and our project partners, accountable for not just
delivering goods and services but ensuring that
our grants continue to benefit the community
years after funding ends.
It is therefore compulsory for Rotarians to
include in their project planning and Global Grant
applications the appropriate elements to ensure a
sustainable outcome for the project beneficiaries.
In Brazil, one of the largest banks in the world
placed a two-page advertisement in a well-known
magazine that reinforced the value of
sustainability. It read: “From now on, we will only
conduct business with sustainable companies

because they stimulate and benefit the economy.
These funds create better businesses and lead
to prosperity in our communities, which in turn
generates greater investment and, by extension,
a better country and that is what we seek.”
Applied to Rotary, this concept means that
sustainable projects invest in building the capacity
of communities to meet their own long-term needs.
It will help ensure beneficiaries are capable of
creating more prosperous communities and a
better world, with millions of people enjoying a
better quality of life.
We should by now understand the ‘why’
regarding sustainability, but what about the ‘how’?
Sustainability means different things to different
organisations.
For The Rotary Foundation, sustainability
means long-term solutions to needs that the
benefiting community can maintain after grant
funding ends.
A few months ago, you would have
received Global Outlook: A Rotarian’s guide to
Sustainability with your copy of Rotary Africa.
If you need another copy, the publication is
available at www.rotary.org and it contains all the
detailed information you will ever need to achieve
sustainable projects.
Last month, The Rotary Foundation trustees
met and made the following decisions regarding
grants.
The trustees expanded the eligibility for district
grants. Effective immediately, district grants can
now fund youth programmes (including Rotary
Youth Exchange, RYLA, Rotaract, or Interact),
construction (including low cost shelters), travel
for staff of co-operating organisations, scholar
orientation seminars, grant management
seminars and activities primarily implemented by
an organisation other than Rotary.
They also amended the area of focus definition
by updating the wording of the economic and
community development area of focus to provide
clarity.
Community infrastructure projects continue
to be ineligible, unless they result in a significant
increase in the ability of community members to
produce and distribute goods and services that
create personal resources.
Despite a number of successes, packaged
grants are to be phased out. An evaluation of
grants and partnership models revealed notable
changes between the original goals of packaged
grants and the actual experience of Rotarians
during the course of the pilot period and beyond.
Such variation resulted in significant challenges
in packaged grant implementation and scale, as
well as barriers to Rotarian participation.
Therefore, the trustees agreed to allow the
current agreements for packaged grant options
with the Foundation’s strategic partners to expire
at the end of their terms.
Packaged grants will no longer exist when all
the active grants are closed.
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ZAN! Rotary
Meet International’s
Rotary
new
president,
International’s new
president, Gary CK
Gary C.K. Huang
Huang
Gary Huang played a lot of sports when he
was younger, but basketball was his favourite.
He was captain and point guard of his high
school basketball team. “I’m not tall, but I was
quick.” He flashes a grin. “I knew how to move
the ball and set my team up to win.”
That was decades ago, but whether in
basketball, business or Rotary, moving the ball
continues to be Huang’s game. He likes action
and progress. He relishes a challenge. When the
Rotary Club of Taipei (D3480, Taiwan) told him
he was too young to be a member, he persisted,
attending every meeting for nine months until
he hooked an invitation at age 30. Since then,
he has not stopped moving forward. Five
years after joining Rotary, Huang became club
president. Then he became Taiwan’s youngest
district governor, first RI director and first Rotary
Foundation trustee. This month, he becomes the
first Chinese president of Rotary International.
Huang was born in Fujian, a province in
southern China. He is the third child of seven.
Like many others, his family fled China during the
civil war, unhappy with the communists who were
taking over the country. The Huang family settled
in Taiwan in 1947, when Gary was one year old.
Huang’s parents pushed him to excel in school,
but they also believed that grades were not the
only things that were important. “My father used
to say to me that getting a BS was OK, but I had
to participate in activities and join clubs. He said
that would help me in the future,” Huang recalls.
Although Huang’s father was not a Rotarian,
he instilled similar ideals of service in his son.
Helping others, his father said, would help him
learn how to be a leader. As a result, Huang
was president of his high school class. Besides
playing basketball, he played soccer, ran track
and, at the urging of his mother, participated in
(and often won) speech competitions. He also
GARY HUANG PLAYED A LOT OF SPORTS when he was younger, but
basketball was his favorite. He was captain and point guard of his high school
team. “I’m not tall, but I was quick. ” He flashes a grin. “I knew how to move
the ball and set my team up to win. ” That was decades ago, but whether in
basketball, business, or Rotary, moving the ball continues to be Huang’s game.
He likes action and progress. He relishes a challenge. When the Rotary Club
of Taipei told him he was too young to be a member, he persisted,
attending every meeting for nine months until he hooked an invitation at
age 30. Since then, he has not stopped moving forward. Five years after joining

people
Huang and Yao look into the garden of the home
where Huang grew up. The house is on Yangmin
Mountain, known for its cherry blossom trees,
waterfalls, and hot springs.

Huang and Yao at home in Taipei with their children and grandchildren. Front row: Yao, Huang, and
daughter Linda with her husband, Eddie Lucero Jr, and their sons, Eddie Lucero III (age 4) and
Evan (age 1). Back row: Son Billy, with his wife, Vesta, and younger daughter Nancy. Yao, an artist,
painted the scrolls on the wall behind the family.
led the daily morning pep rallies at his school
for six years. “My father was happy I did those
things,” Huang says. “Every time there was a
school celebration, no matter how busy he was,
he would always attend.”
After high school and two years of serving in
the military, Huang moved to Michigan to attend
the University of Eastern Michigan in Ypsilanti. He
recalls those years with fondness, remembering
how clean and wide-open the Midwest felt to a
city boy from Taipei. He lived with an American
family, who gave him the name Gary because they
liked the actor Gary Cooper. He worked through
school at a gas repair company, where he started
at $1.25 an hour and ended at $4.75 a few years
later. When he graduated with a business degree
in 1971, he was so happy, he bought himself a
graduation ring. “It was the first, most expensive
thing I’d bought with my own money, so I wear it
all the time,” he says.
But his education was far from over. Huang’s
father was president of an insurance company in
Taiwan and wanted his son to be well prepared
for a career in the same field. Huang went on
to graduate school at New York University and
spent time in England, Switzerland, Germany and
Japan, learning about the insurance business
and making international connections. Years
later, Huang would again be making connections
all over the world as RI president.
Huang returned to Taiwan to work for a small
insurance firm, which over the next 15 years he
built into one of the largest in the industry. He
made one agreement with his chairman: that he
had to be able to fit Rotary into his busy schedule.
“I wanted to continue my work in Rotary no matter
what,” he says.
When Huang began to experience success in
his profession and in Rotary, his mother kept him
grounded, something she still does at the age of
95. “I know she is proud of me,” he says. “But no
matter how successful I am, she never praises
me.”
The year Huang joined Rotary was also the

year he met his wife, Corinna Yao, at a church
Bible study. “He kept calling me,” Yao says. But
Huang remembers it differently. “She’s the one
who picked me up!” he claims.
He was outgoing and social. She was an
introvert. “I wondered how we would get along,”
she says. “But it’s 38 years later, and we are still
good.” Together they raised three children – two
daughters and a son – and now they have two
grandchildren, Eddie and Evan. Evan was born
on the same day that Huang found out he was
the RI president-nominee. His name is a play on
“Evanston.”
Huang and Yao raised their family with Rotary,
so it plays a part in their children’s memories. “I
always wanted what you had with your Rotary
friends. Growing up, they were my aunties and
uncles,” eldest daughter Linda tells her father.
Nancy, his second daughter, remembers visiting
an orphanage with Huang when she was young.
“It was the first time I learned about what Rotary
does. My dad was so passionate,” she says.
The orphanage was one of the first Rotary
projects that inspired Huang more than 30 years
ago. When he toured the facilities, he was taken
aback, seeing the kids crammed into one room
at night, watching them share a pot of rice at
mealtime. Many of the orphans were the same
age as his young children at the time. The
orphanage needed so many things – a new roof, a
refrigerator, an air conditioner, nappies and other
supplies. The Taipei club provided these things,
but Huang wanted to do more. He and another
Rotarian decided to sponsor two of the girls.
They choose two four-year-olds with the same
Chinese zodiac sign as Huang and his friend: the
rooster. They took the girls to dinner once every
other month. They paid for the girls’ school fees
every year and eventually sent them to college.
After graduation, they paid for a celebratory trip
to Hong Kong and helped them find jobs when
they came home. Thirty years later, Huang and
his friend still meet them regularly for dinner, now
with their own families.
Huang believes that Rotary should be about
lifting people up. The theme he chose, Light Up
Rotary, is a reflection of his desire to encourage
Rotarians to bring light where there is darkness.
Huang also hopes that Light Up Rotary inspires
Rotarians to lighten up Rotary’s image. He
wants Rotary to be fun, not just for fun’s sake,
but because having a good time builds genuine
bonds of friendship, retains members and helps
recruit new ones.
RI President Gary CK Huang wears a
traditional Chinese Tangzhuang jacket at the
Grand Hotel in Taipei.

Member recruitment is a hallmark of Huang’s
Rotary career. When he was club president, his
club grew from 102 to 138 members. When he
was district governor for Taiwan, Hong Kong,
and Macau, he added 19 new clubs. “If you
want to invite people, you need to make things
interesting,” he reasons. “Then they will love it
and come again.”
Huang’s friend and RI Director Celia Elena
Cruz de Giay supports this approach. “Rotary is
a serious organisation but not a solemn one. RI
President Gary is putting an emphasis on making
Rotary fun because he can see the winning
combination of Rotarians having fun while they
serve,” she explains.
He also champions the idea of opening
Rotary’s doors to younger people and recruiting
more female members. “Some Rotarians are too
conservative. They disagree with having women
or younger members,” he says. “With younger
people, they are our future. In a few years, they
will be bigger, better, maybe richer than us,”
Huang and Yao celebrate
the charter of the Rotary
Club of Taipei Roundtable,
with President Sabrina Liu
(centre). Yao is a charter
member and International
Service Committee chair of
the club. The club has 102
members, many of whom are
women.
Huang jokes. “It’s good for them, good for Rotary
and good for society.”
Even though he jokes, Huang is so serious
about membership that he recruited his own family
into Rotary. His wife joined first, then his three
grown children followed suit, each in a different
club. His son, Billy, believes that being in Rotary
has made the family closer. “We participate in
activities together,” he says. “I understand my
dad better.”
Huang is thrilled to bring together the most
important parts of his life, giving new meaning
to the idea of the family of Rotary. He hopes
that others will follow his example. “Why leave
your family to do your Rotary work? You can
do it together,” he suggests. “Then doing good
becomes a family event.”
These days, Huang plays golf instead of
basketball, but he’s still in the game of setting up
his team – the team of Rotary – to win.
– Susie Ma
Huang with Grace
Chang, a member
of a choir made
up of Taiwanese
polio survivors.
Huang helped bring
the group, called
Kwang Ching, to
Philadelphia to
perform at the 1988
RI Convention.

New RI Directors The RI Board of Directors has 19 members: the RI president, the president-elect and 17 club-nominated
directors, who were elected at the RI Convention. The board manages Rotary
International affairs and funds in accordance with the RI Constitution and Bylaws. Eight new
directors and President-Elect KR Ravindran take office on 1 July.
KR Ravindran
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ravi is founder and CEO
of a publicly listed company
with a worldwide clientele in
the tea packaging industry.
He also serves on the board
of several other companies
and charitable trusts. He is
the founding president of
the Sri Lanka Anti-Narcotics
Association. As his country’s PolioPlus committee
chair, Ravi headed a task force, consisting of the
government, UNICEF and Rotary, and worked
closely with UNICEF to successfully negotiate a
cease-fire with northern militants during National
Immunisation Days. A Rotarian since 1974, Ravi
has served RI as treasurer, director, Rotary
Foundation trustee, committee member, vice
chair and chair, task force member, training leader
and district governor. He also chaired the Schools
Reawakening project, sponsored by Rotary clubs
and districts in Sri Lanka, to rebuild 25 tsunami-devastated
schools to benefit 15 000 children.
Safak Alpay
Istanbul-Sisli, Turkey
Safak is a shareholder
and chair of the executive
committee of Interpromedya
AS, an information and
communications technology
media company and is an
executive board member
and shareholder of Interpro
Holding, which serves the ICT sector in Turkey. A
Rotarian since 1974, Safak is the founder of the
Rotary Club of Ankara-Kizilay. He has served RI
as president’s representative, committee member
and chair, PolioPlus national advocacy adviser,
regional Rotary membership co-ordinator,
International Assembly discussion leader and
training leader, and district governor. Safak is a
Paul Harris Fellow and Benefactor of The Rotary
Foundation. He is a recipient of RI’s Service
Above Self Award and the Foundation’s Citation
for Meritorious Service and the Regional Service
Award for a Polio-Free World.
Robert L Hall
Dunwoody, USA
Robert owns an executive
and professional recruiting
firm, HRHRecruiting, which
specialises in non-profit
organisation searches.
He is on the board of
Communities in Schools
of Georgia, helping at-risk
kids stay in school and
graduate. A Rotarian since 1971, Robert is an
honorary member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta.
He has served RI as Council on Legislation
representative, committee member and chair,
and district governor. He currently serves as chair
of the Host Organisation Committee for the 2017
RI Convention in Atlanta. Robert and his wife,
Charlene, are Major Donors and Bequest Society
members. Robert has received RI’s Service
Above Self Award, The Rotary Foundation’s
Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished
Service Award and the Regional and International
Service Awards for a Polio-Free World.
Per Høyen
Aarup, Denmark
Per retired in 2001 from
Nordgraf A/S, where he had
been production manager
since 1999. Educated
and trained in printing and
graphics, he held technical
and production management
positions at several
companies throughout his
career. A Rotarian since 1999, Per has served RI
as president’s representative, committee member
and chair and district governor. He also has
served as Council on Legislation representative,
district Rotary Foundation committee chair and
district polio co-ordinator. He was on the board of
directors and chaired the committee for the digital

development of Rotary Norden, Denmark’s official
Rotary regional magazine. Per is a multiple Paul
Harris Fellow and Benefactor. He has received
The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious
Service and its Regional Service Award for a
Polio-Free World.
Julia Phelps
Malden, USA
Julia, who began her
career in education
in 1976, is associate
commissioner for the
Centre for Curriculum and
Instruction for the State of
Massachusetts. She served on the board of the
Amesbury Educational Foundation Inc and the
John Ashford Link House Inc. A Rotarian since
1997, Julia has served RI as Rotary Foundation
alumni co-ordinator and district governor. She is
a Major Donor, Benefactor, multiple Paul Harris
Fellow and Bequest Society member. Julia is a
recipient of The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for
Meritorious Service.
Greg E Podd
Evergreen, USA
Greg is a certified public
accountant and personal
financial specialist and has
operated his private practice
since 1979. A Rotarian since
1982, Greg has served RI
as president’s representative, Major Gifts adviser,
committee member, regional RI membership
zone co-ordinator, Council on Legislation
representative, training leader, assistant
sergeant-at-arms, Group Study Exchange team
leader and district governor. Greg is a recipient
of RI’s Service Above Self Award and The Rotary
Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service.
He and his wife, Pam, are members of the Arch
C Klumph Society and are Rotary Foundation
Sustaining Members. All members of their family
are Paul Harris Fellows.
Takanori Sugitani
Tamana, Japan
Takanori is president
of Ariake Nursing Home
and the social welfare
organisation Tenkeikai. He
has been president and
vice president of the Party
of Kumamoto Nursing Home and is director of
the Kyushu University of Nursing and Social
Welfare. He is past president of the Tamana
Junior Chamber and past chair of the Japan
Junior Chamber of Kumamoto. Takanori has
been a Rotarian since 1973 and has served RI
as regional RI membership co-ordinator, training
leader, committee member and district governor.
He is a Benefactor, Major Donor, multiple Paul
Harris Fellow and Bequest Society member.
Guiller E Tumangan
Makati West, Philippines
Guiller is executive vice
president of Solid Mills Inc.
He has been director of the
Textile Millers Association
of the Philippines and
served as vice president
of the Philippine Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.
Guiller has been a Rotarian since 1988 and
has served RI as president’s representative,
committee member, training leader, zone co-ordinator
and district governor. He is a Major
Donor, Benefactor and member of the Paul Harris
Society. He also is a recipient of RI’s Service
Above Self Award, the Presidential Citation,
The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious
Service and Distinguished Service Award.
Giuseppe Viale
Genoa, Italy
Giuseppe is a professor
emeritus of neurosurgery
and chair of the
neurosurgery department at
the Universities of Sassari
and Genoa.
In these positions, he has
co-ordinated international
research programmes in
cooperation with universities in Germany, the
United Kingdom, Switzerland, Poland and the
United States.
A Rotarian since 1988, Giuseppe has served
RI as Council on Legislation representative and
district governor. He is a Paul Harris Fellow,
Benefactor and Major Donor to The Rotary
Foundation. He is the author of A Glance at a
Forgotten Rotary and the editor of a series of
historical studies (Collana Storica Rotariana)
written in Italian and English, consisting of 11
volumes as of 2013.

Alumni
making a
difference
Maya Ajmera founded the Global Fund for
Children in 1993 to provide seed money to
community-based organisations that help
at-risk children around the world.
Since then, GFC has awarded more than
US$32 million in grants to over 600 groups in
80 countries, improving the lives of millions
of children by supporting education for AIDS
orphans in Uganda, “curb-side classrooms” for
waste pickers in Cambodia and other efforts.
“Education is the key to getting human
beings out of poverty,” says Ajmera, whose
studies at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai,
India, were sponsored by the Rotary Club of
China Lake (D5240, USA). “Community-based
organisations are probably the most creative in
being able to find the most marginalised children
and provide education that is meaningful and
makes sense in their lives.”
In recognition of her work, The Rotary Foundation Trustees
chose Ajmera to receive the 2013/14 Rotary Foundation
Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award. She received the
honour at the RI Convention in Sydney on 3 June. Ajmera
credits the success of GFC to extraordinary leadership at the
grassroots level, combined with the ability and willingness to
work in partnerships.
“Trust is important,” she says. “You also need ways of
measuring outcomes: how many kids got educated, how
many were kept off the streets, how many got psychosocial
counselling.” Nowhere was the need for leadership and trust
more evident than in Afghanistan in the 1990s. GFC awarded
US$5 000 to the Afghan Institute for Learning to fund the secret
education of 600 girls. Even after the September 11 attacks,
GFC continued its support, including a $25 000 sustainability
grant to establish a reserve fund.
Today, the institute reaches more than 400 000 women
and children annually with education and health care. GFC
also has released over 30 children’s books, including Children
From Australia to Zimbabwe, co-authored by Ajmera; a portion
of the proceeds from sales support the organisation’s grant
making.
GFC has invested in documentary films such as War Child,
which tells the story of hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former
child soldier in Sudan’s brutal civil war. Jal spoke at the Rotary
World Peace Symposium in Bangkok in 2012.
Ajmera stepped down as GFC president in 2011. She is
now a visiting scholar and professional lecturer at the Paul
H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns
Hopkins University in Washington and social entrepreneur in
residence and visiting professor of the practice of public policy
at Duke University.
“Rotary was an incredible inspiration,” says Ajmera,
adding that without the scholarship, GFC wouldn’t exist. “The
scholarship fed my soul.”
In recognition of its humanitarian work, the alumni
association of District 3020 in India was selected to receive
the 2013/14 Rotary Foundation Alumni Association of the
Year Award. The honour was presented to K Soma Sundera
Sai, founder and long-time president of the group, and other
members at the Rotary Alumni Celebration in Sydney on 31
May. The association can take pride in knowing that it helped
make history.
On 27 March, the World Health Organisation certified that
Southeast Asia, which includes India, had eradicated polio.
The association’s members “actively participated in National
Immunisation Days and contributed liberally to The Rotary
Foundation and polio eradication,” says SR Yogananda, a
regional Rotary Foundation co-ordinator. Many members
are Rotarians who have been involved in grant-funded
service projects, such as establishing an orphanage in
India and creating a sustainable health care programme for
schoolchildren in Thailand. Sai says the association is focused
on maintaining connections – among members, with their
communities, and with Rotary. “Once I realised the value and
potential of the alumni to Rotary and its Foundation, it became
a part of my life,” Sai says. – DAN NIXON

another
rotary
success
story
By Sandy Smith,The Rotary Club of Durban Berea (D9370)
Twenty-six years ago, a mother and her 18-month-old
son, Sibonelo, visited our domestic worker.
The mother left the child with our employee and
never returned.
We were a young couple bringing up three
children and realised that taking Sibonelo in would
require a number of additional commitments -
education being the greatest. I did not want Sibonelo
to lose his culture, but he needed a secure home and
people who would give him the love he deserved.
I approached child welfare and asked for
help. Baby Sibonelo was placed with a gogo
(grandmother) in Lamontville. This would be his
home unless our financial position changed.
Each month, the gogo called in at our home to
collect the provisions she required for the baby.
Eventually, it was time for Sibonelo to begin primary
school.
While Sibonelo was at primary school, we hosted
an exchange student, Helen Silfven, from Oregon,
USA. Helen returned home and told her parents,
who were Rotarians, about Sibonelo. Just before
Christmas, we received an e-mail from Helen’s
parents, Roy and Ellen, who said they would like to
send money to contribute to Sibonelo’s education
and continued to do so twice a year.
Sibonelo began high school in Lamontville. After
not receiving progress reports from the school, I
phoned the principal but could not reach him. We
decided Sibonelo needed to move to a school that
was closer to home and where we could monitor his
progress.
A few months earlier our club had sponsored an
Interact club at Brettonwood High School. Through
the Interact club I met the school’s principal and after
plucking up the necessary courage, I approached
him and asked if he would take Sibonelo in as a non-paying
learner.
A week later, Sibonelo was interviewed at
Brettonwood High School and, provided he agreed
to repeat Grade 10 as his command of the English
language was very poor, he was accepted as a
learner.
During his first year at Brettenwood, Sibonelo
was selected for the first cricket team and received
academic colours. In Grade 12, he was made
a school prefect. He matriculated with three
distinctions and a B aggregate pass. Many years
had passed since we had hosted Helen Silfven and
her family had continued to regularly contribute to
Sibonelo’s education.
It was not long before Sibonelo had finished high
school and had qualified to enter university, but how
would we pay for it?
I heard that the Rotary Club of Durban Thekweni
(D9370) had an educational trust for higher
education and I sent all his school records to the
club in hope that he could obtain a bursary to fund
his university education.
Once again, Rotary was Sibonelo’s saving grace
and he received a full bursary for the duration of a
Bachelor of Commerce degree. His honours year
was funded by our daughters, their husbands and
ourselves.
Sibonelo was also actively involved in community
service. While attending high school, he was a
member of the Interact club and, after matriculating,
he became a charter member of the Rotaract Club
of Durban Berea.
In June, Sibonelo left Durban for Johannesburg to
begin his working life with an international company.
As a family, we are so proud of what he has
achieved and are sad to see him leave home to start
a new life – a life which may not have been possible
without the help of Rotary.

She was born without arms, but that’s not stopping 13-year-old
Princess Sithole from...
Princess and her mother, Nonkululeko Sithole, at the presentation of the desk and laptop.
Soaring to great heights
… and the Rotary Club of Empangeni plans to help her get there!
By Rose Cyrus
She has become known as the Warrior
Princess and she is just that! Armed with
dreams and aspirations, young Princess
Sithole has big plans for her future and being
born without arms, is not going to stop her.
As a little girl, Princess often used to ask
“mommy when are you going to buy me arms?”
While other children her age use their hands for
everything, the dexterous girl learned to use her
feet instead. Her loving mother, Nonkululeko
Sithole, a second year law student, always
encouraged Princess to reach for the stars and
to not let her disability stop her. The caring and
accepting home environment which Nonkululeko
provided for Princess ensured the young girl has
a positive attitude that knows no boundaries.
However, since starting high school the
volume of work has started to create some
logistical issues for Princess. When she was at
junior school she would sit on the desk in order to
write with her feet, but, as a high school learner, a
more suitable seating arrangement was needed.
Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Empangeni
(D9370), Eric Bernon and Vince Read, sought
advice from an occupational therapist and
developed a mobile desk for Princess. The angle
of the desk allows Princess to sit comfortably
and write. It has wheels and car seat that can be
adjusted as Princess grows. Fellow learners help
Princess by pulling the desk between classrooms.
To assist with the increasing volume of written
work, a local company, Onsite Computers,
donated a laptop that fits comfortably and
securely on the desk. It is voice activated and
this will allow Princess the versatility of faster
computer operation.
The Rotary Club of Empangeni cannot give
Princess arms, but hopes to assist with the small
things she needs to develop her wings and soar
to success.

ShelterBox aids flood victims Response Team member Philip Wheeler receives the tents sent for the displaced Zimbabweans.
After unseasonal flooding tore through the
Tokwe-Murkozi basin in Zimbabwe, DG Stella
Dongo, PDG Chris Molam and the Rotarians
of the Rotary Club of Masvingo (D9210), asked
ShelterBox SA for help. A team was deployed
to investigate the extent of the flood damage.
On commencement of the construction of the
Tokwe-Murkozi Dam, approximately 72 kilometres
south of Masvingo, the gradual withdrawal and
resettlement of the people living in the flood
basin had been planned but not completed.
Unfortunately, the normally arid area suddenly
fell victim to non-stop rain at the beginning of the
year – the resulting rainfall was twice the recorded
seasonal average.
Such was the volume of rain that many of the
locals were stranded and forced from their homes
by the rising flood waters. The uncompleted dam
wall was also under threat. A breach would place
an additional 60 000 people at risk.
The emergency removal of victims was
undertaken. Villagers gathered their belongings
and tried to salvage whatever they could of their
homes, immature crops and livestock, before
being evacuated to a holding camp at Chingwisi.
The camp, situated in an area of fallow
agricultural land with no services, housing, water
or sanitation, was now home to some 20 000
souls.
It was to this camp that ShelterBox deployed
a team to meet and collaborate with the
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an
organisation with which ShelterBox has enjoyed
a successful working relationship with a number
of other worldwide disasters.
IOM has a permanent office in Harare and
was delegated the task of managing the camp
at Chingwisi. It also distributed tarpaulins and
poles with which the victims could build their own
shelters. The Zimbabwe Red Cross was also on
the ground providing basic medical and health
services.
The ShelterBox team, consisting of ShelterBox
Response Team member Philip Wheeler (UK)
and PP Dave Moss (SBSA), was tasked to
assess the needs of specific vulnerable groups
and spent five days in the area, visiting the flood
basin, transition camps and the main holding
camp at Chingwisi.
Prior to withdrawal, the ShelterBox team
submitted its report and recommendations to
ShelterBox HQ in England. Within days, 878
tents and a team to oversee the distribution had
been dispatched.

projects During four days of intense
D9210 Rotarians go up the
hill to Light Up Rotary
moving
mountains
By Ray Mawerera, District Public Image
Chair (2013/14), D9210
engagement, Rotarians from District
9210 braved chilly weather to take stock
of their service projects and capacities
when they met for their annual district
conference in Zimbabwe.
The venue for this year’s discon, chosen
by the organising team assembled by
outgoing District Governor Stella Dongo,
was the scenic resort of Nyanga, nearly
300 kilometres outside the Zimbabwean
capital, Harare.
Themed Moving Mountains To Change
Lives, this was one of District 9210’s most
highly subscribed events. Roll call put the
tally at just 25 delegates shy of 400 and
Troutbeck Resort, the main venue for the
conference, was filled to capacity. Hotels,
lodges and camping sites absorbed the
rest of the delegates, which included
spouses and a large contingent of
energetic Rotaractors.
The suave Marwan Fattal, the Rotary
International President’s Personal
Representative, travelled from Cote
d’Ivoire (D9101) to deliver RI President
Ron Burton’s special message. Topping
the bill of speakers was renowned
Zimbabwean-American motivational
speaker, scholar and humanitarian Dr
Tererai Trent, whom Oprah Winfrey once
referred to as her “favourite guest of all
time”. Other speakers included nutritionist
Dr Basil Kransdorff, conservationist
Clive Stockil and Nyanga South’s
youthful Member of Parliament, Supa
Mandiwanzira, who is also the Zimbabwe
RIPPR Marwan Fattal and PDG Stella Dongo with DG
Ken Chibesakunda soon after his inauguration as
district governor.
Dr Tererai Trent chatting with Rotarians after her
presentation.
Exchange students Juliaano Zimmerman and Vinicius
Oliveira at the conference.

DPIC Ray Mawerera, Dr Tererai Trent, Simangalison Newman and Angela Machonesa during one
of the breaks. Dr Trent is a Zimbabwean-American woman who never relinquished her dream of an
education. Her amazing life story was featured in the book Half a Sky. The story was picked up by
the Oprah Show and in May 2011, Oprah Winfrey revealed that Dr Trent was her all-time favourite
guest and donated $1.5 million so that Dr Trent could build her own school in her old village in
Zimbabwe.
government’s deputy minister of information,
media and broadcasting services. The deputy
minister commended Rotary for its work and
suggested possible synergies and partnerships
with the community in Nyanga.
Breakaway sessions included Rotary’s
Membership Challenge, led by RRC Natty
Moodley; grant management and sustainability,
led by DRFC Sherry Coleman and DGSC D5450
Carolyn Schrader; Global Grants “Glorious Gold”
led by RRFC Anne Botha and Public Image led
by RPIC Shirley Downie. Other sessions included
district leadership and information communication
technology seminars. These were conducted by
the district’s own in-house members.
Rotaractors had their own breakaway sessions
and a separate programme that included District
Rotaract Representative’s induction.
Zimbabwe has returned to the Youth Exchange
programme and the delegates were interested to
hear of the experiences of two young Brazilian
exchange students, Juliaano Zimmerman and
Vinicius Oliveira.
But it was not all work. The delegates found
time to visit places of interest in the scenic Nyanga
area and play a round of golf before wrapping it
all up with the district governor’s banquet, where
the Rotarians danced the chill away…or at least
tried to!
DG Stella duly handed over the chain of office
to her successor, Zambia’s seasoned Rotarian
Ken Chibesakunda. It was an emotional farewell
for Zimbabwe’s DG Stella, the district’s first female
DG, who confessed to have been humbled by the
scale and extent of Rotary’s reach, saying she
only really appreciated it when she had to travel
district-wide.
She paid tribute to husband Emmanuel for
his moral support and Rotarians throughout the
district for making her tenure an enriching one.
Rotarians agreed that this was one of the best
conferences they had ever attended, both in
terms of programme quality and the level of
organisation.
On the final day, as the Rotarians bade each
other farewell, the sun finally came out, as if to
endorse the new Rotary year’s theme: Light Up
Rotary!

ROTARY CLUB OF VEREENIGING
6th ANNUAL MUSIC
IN THE PARK
day of Family Fun Join us for a Play facilities, food with Children’s beer & wine bar!!
stalls,
Music, Date: Sunday, 24th August 2014
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
Venue: Kariba Ranch, Donald Rd, Glen Donald
Cost: R80 Adults / R60 for Pensioners
Children under 12 free
Buy at the gate or Contact
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Proceeds to the benefit of the Sedibeng Safe Haven.
Sponsored by:

John Connah presents a cheque for R10 000 to Mymoena Scholtz, the chairperson and director of
Where Rainbows Meet.
Healing a community
Drug and alcohol abuse, rape, crime, domestic
violence, poverty and unemployment. This is
the harsh reality the residents of Vrygrond,
near Cape Town, wake up to each day. Shack
fires are common, as is HIV/Aids.
More than half of the people of Vrygrond and
its surrounds have been victims of crime. They
have experienced robbery, hijacking, deliberate
damage to property, sexual assault and rape.
Not only are the streets unsafe, but violence and
crime are a common occurrence in many of the
homes. Just over 15 percent of children, youths
and adults are confronted with violence at home,
43.9 percent are exposed to alcohol abuse, while
29.9 percent abuse drugs.
A survey, based on 100 interviews in Vrygrond
and surrounding communities, revealed that
three key factors leading to crime and violence
within the families were the high unemployment
rate, parental substance abuse and financial
difficulties. These factors mainly arise from lack
of education, information and support.
In 2008, Mymoena Scholtz, a trained social
counsellor, established Where Rainbows Meet.
Working from an old car, called Titanic, she
ventured into the poverty-stricken settlement and
began providing counselling and other services to
help vanquish the horror and hopelessness from
the residents’ lives.
Through hard work, persistence and
perseverance, and with the help of volunteers,
donors and service organisations, Mymoena
developed her service into a recognised and
registered development and training foundation.
Where Rainbows Meet aims to create a better
future for every resident of Vrygrond and its
surrounding communities. It believes this goal is
only achievable when all of the disadvantaged
groups in the community work together in a
mutually supportive environment, to achieve
social and economic success.
To achieve this, the foundation equips people
with the skills and knowledge they need to
improve their future. This is done through the
development and implementation of programmes
and courses to enable social and economic
development of the community.
The Rotary Club of Kromboom (D9350) is
one of the organisations which supports Where
Rainbows Meet. John Connah, the chairman of
the International Committee of the Rotary Club of
Chester (D1180, UK) and an honorary member
of the Rotary Club of Kromboom, recently gave
Where Rainbows Meet a gift of R10 000. This
will be used to buy fertilizer for the foundation’s
vegetable garden.

Love
to
learn
Every Thursday morning
during the school term, a
group of Rotarians and their
friends meet at Pinetown
Junior Primary School.
This group has become
affectionately known as the
Rotary Club of Pinetown’s
(D9370) Reading Gogos.
The gogos read to groups
of ten Grade 2 or 3 children for
an hour and listen to them read.
They use flash cards to make
up sentences and assist with
word comprehension and take
them outside to play educational
games and just to have fun. Of
course there is a more serious
side – learning to read. The club
believes the more children read,
the more they learn.
Recently the gogos found that
some of the reading books the
children brought with them were
worn and outdated. Thanks
to funds from the Rotary Club
of Pinetown, 10 new sets of
readers were purchased for the
project.
The Pinetown Junior Primary
reading project is part of the
Pinetown Rotary Schools
Forum, which includes two high
schools, two primary schools, the
Rotaract Club of the University
of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as
Rotarians and their friends. By
sharing skills and resources,
the forum plans to strengthen
education in Pinetown.
Rotarians Margaret Keogh and Cheryl Marx, with friends of
Rotary Helga Lapke, Yvonne Westoby, Pam Kilian and a Grade 2
reading class from Pinetown Junior Primary School.
Photo: Highway Mail
School upgrade from Noon Gun
More than R2 million has been raised by the Rotary Club of Noon
Gun (D9350) for its school project at Stormont Madubela Primary
School.
The lion’s share of the funding came from Ein Herz Fuer Kinder, a
German organisation supported by Bild, the biggest German tabloid
newspaper. The organisation was approached in 2013 and initially
rejected the request for help. This did not deter the club and it continued
to apply for funding.
In 2014, the club received good news. Ein Herz Fuer Kinder has
decided to provide €135 000 to help fund the project.
The project will see Noon Gun provide the school with new toilet
facilities and a computer and communication room. It will also help
secure the school premises and extend the size of the classrooms to
ensure they comply with legislation.
Donations were also received from other individuals and the Rotary
Club of Hagen (D1900, Germany) donated R100 000 to the project.

brings happy The team which ensured the success of the most recent
Operation of Hope surgical mission to Zimbabwe. The
missions provide free cleft lip and palate restoration
surgeries. Right: A young patient shows her ‘before’
picture.
The Rotary Club of Avondale Harare, in USA, helped make real the dreams of over two clubs helped fund, with Rotary Foundation, Operation of Hope team which was at Harare the capital city.
The team of volunteer surgeons, mainly operations on people with cleft lip and cleft is caused by abnormal facial development people in Zimbabwe. Those affected do expression of affection and happiness too Over 200 surgery candidates attended screening by Mrs Stella Dongo, the District Governor President Loveness Sibanda of the Rotary mission as a resounding success, and expressed Rotary Club Forty-of five Zimbabwean children have been
given the gift Portland of a beautiful smile thanks to
Pearl,
a partnership between the Rotary Club of
the dream Avondale (D9210, Zimbabwe) and the Rotary
Club of Portland Pearl (D5100, of USA).
a smile. The
The two clubs helped fund an Operation of
mission Hope surgical mission to to Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe The team of
volunteer surgeons, led by Jennifer Trubenbach,
was based at Harare Central Hospital and
by
state performed free owned operations on people with hospital cleft lip
and palate conditions.
Cleft lips and palates are caused by abnormal
in
facial development during gestation and occur in
approximately one in 850 people in Zimbabwe.
Those affected do not have the confidence or
ability to smile - a powerful expression of affection
Trubenbach, and happiness which is all too often taken for
granted.
More than 200 surgery candidates attended
carried out
Cleft a screening lip day on 6 and April and District Governor
Stella Dongo visited the event as well.
After the surgeries had been completed,
cleft palate
Avondale president, Loveness Sibanda,
in described about the mission as a resounding success.
1 in 850
ability to smile, a powerful
“The operations brought joy and happiness
to 45 lucky children who underwent surgery
successfully. It is always a pleasure to assist in life
changing initiatives. It’s mission accomplished!”
Operation of Hope surgical teams have been
regular visitors to Zimbabwe since 2006. To
date, approximately 800 Zimbabweans have
successfully undergone reconstructive surgery.
“Projects such as this are what we Rotarians
cherish. There is great joy and satisfaction in
doing something for one’s community, especially
for needy children who could never dream of being
able to afford the more than US$30 000 needed
for a single procedure in the United States,” said
Valerie Takundwa, the club’s projects director.
One of the surgeons, Dr Travis Tollefson,
of the University of California’s Davis Medical
Centre was impressed by the co-operation and
facilitation of the local partners, led by Valerie
Takundwa, and the enthusiasm of the surgical
team itself which worked long hours.
“I look forward to coming back to Zimbabwe
and to visit and enjoy other places, such as Great
Zimbabwe Ruins in Masvingo,” he said.
Mission
accomplished

A breakfast club, run at a Mitchells Plain high school, has resulted in improved attendance and
performance from the learners.
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The ever popular Aloe Breakfast Club or, as it
is fondly known, The BC, at Aloe High School
is growing from strength to strength. It was
launched nine years ago by the school’s
educators when they realised many of the
learners only had one meal a day or went for
as long as three days without a hot meal.
Principal Keith Damon says, “since launching
The BC, we have seen a remarkable decrease
in absenteeism at the school. We believe that
the hearty meal that is served to kick start
each day has definitely had a positive impact in
getting learners to come to school and on their
performance during the day.”
Using Rotary International grants, the Rotary
Clubs of Newlands and Kirstenbosch (D9350), in
conjunction with the Rotary Club of Swindon Old
Town (D1100, England), raised sufficient funding
to renovate The BC, and provide a fully decked
out eating area for the learners.
“Initially, only approximately 180 learners could
be accommodated in The BC on a daily basis. This
was just over 20 percent of the school’s learner
population of 750. We can now accommodate
up to 250 learners,” says Mike Walwyn from the
Rotary Club of Newlands.
“This collaboration between the Rotary clubs
has benefited us tremendously and I want to
thank all involved for making this dream possible,”
concludes Damon.
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The members of the Rotary Club of Ulundi/Melmoth were visited by DG Greg Cryer in May.
praise and support
In May, District Governor Greg Cryer visited
the Rotary Club of Melmoth Ulundi (D9370).
During the visit, special reports and project
updates were presented. DG Greg provided
positive and constructive feedback with
regard to the items that were discussed.
The programme was opened by President
Cyprian Mncwango who expressed a warm
welcome to his fellow Rotarians and all the
visitors.
Feedback on all the club’s projects was
presented, with KGN-OVC being the highlight.
This particular project is based in Ulundi, at
eNkonjeni area and supports orphaned and
vulnerable children. Donations such as food,
clothes and uniforms are given to the children
by the Rotarians. Other club projects include
community gardens.
Not only do the Rotarians empower their
communities, but they also work to stimulate the
growth of their club. Recently, they chartered an
EarlyAct club at Ntuthuko Primary. The young
members have already completed some projects
which included providing food to homeless people
in Durban.
DG Greg praised the club’s work and provided
useful suggestions such as social networking, to
help make the club grow.
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Every year, the Rotary Club of Windhoek treats the city’s senior citizens to a special day out. This
year, the residents of Susanne Grauheim visited Okapuka Ranch.
Day at the ranch
Recognising the role of our frequently
unacknowledged elders, who over their
lifetime have contributed in one way or
another to the development of Namibia, is an
important annual community service project
of the Rotary Club of Windhoek (D9350).
Each year, the club hosts an outing to Okapuka
Ranch, a game park located north of the capital
city, for residents of one of the local old age
homes. Thirty-nine senior citizens from Susanne
Grauheim enjoyed the outing which included a
game drive and a luncheon afterwards.
For the 2014 senior citizens’ outing, the club
partnered with Julius Gaweseb, who is the
founder and chief executive of Vulkan Ruine
Tours and Transfers. The firm provided two buses
to transport the old people to Okapuka Ranch.
Okapuka Ranch also contributed towards the
cost of staging this year’s outing. The premier
hospitality and tourism facility provided the game
drive and buffet luncheon at a highly discounted
rate.
The guests enjoyed exciting game drives
through the ranch.

Chairman of Rotary Satellite Club of St Francis, Ann Knight, welcomes visiting Rotarians from the
Rotary Club of Mar Dyke (D1240, UK) and exchanges banners with club secretary, Graham Dockrill.
Above right: Gilly Schwitter gets close to Protea all-rounder Vernon Philander.
top notch festival By Lyn Aitken
The Rotary Satellite Club of St Francis
(D9370) teamed up with retail giant Makro in
Port Elizabeth to host the Rotary Makro Golf
Festival competition. It was played at both the
St Francis Bay Golf Club and the St Francis
Links in March.
The Betterball competition attracted golfers
from as far afield as Canada, Norway, Ireland,
England, Switzerland and Germany, as well as
visitors from Plettenberg Bay, East London and
Johannesburg. Protea cricketers, all-rounder
Vernon Philander and bowler Garnet Kruger, also
attended the event.
Title sponsor, Makro Port Elizabeth, was
delighted with the response from golfers and
sponsors alike. “We will definitely be back in
St Francis next year to help sponsor another
similar event,” said Makro Port Elizabeth General
Manager Dees Gopaul. “We’d really like to thank
the celebrity cricketers for taking time out of their
busy schedules to support our day.”
Ann Knight, the St Francis satellite club
chairperson, thanked Makro Port Elizabeth team
saying it “entered into the spirit of this festival with
such enthusiasm and we are delighted that they
intend to partner with us to make this an annual
event.
“The festival was more than just a fundraiser
for St Francis club projects,” continued Knight.
“We hoped it would also provide a welcome boost
to the economy of St Francis and we believe that
over time the festival will become a big attraction
on the St Francis calendar.
“Compliments have been pouring in for both
the St Francis Bay Golf Club and St Francis Links
for their professional management of the two-day
event.”
The event’s overall winners were Janine van
der Merwe and Derek Knight. The development
team of four youngsters from Sea Vista, who are
being mentored by St Francis Links and whose
entry in the festival was sponsored by Kouga
Wind Farms, also excelled. Two of them finished
the event in second place. Charles Laird was the
lucky winner of the fabulous two-night stay at the
award winning Dune Ridge Country House in St
Francis.
Makro suppliers and local businesses
sponsored a range of fantastic prizes for the
competition and offered discounted rates for
accommodation.
The two-day event culminated in a luncheon at
The Links on Saturday where the lucky winners
were awarded their prizes and the guests were
entertained by the master showman himself,
Links CEO Jeff Clause.

Terrific tea for moms
The Rotary Club of Queensburgh
(D9370) hosted a Mother’s Day High
Tea fundraiser. The tea party, held at
West Park School in Queensburgh,
was attended by more than 100 people
who were spoilt with delicious cakes
and treats. Lucky draws, hair styling
demonstrations, a piñata game,
bingo and inspirational speeches
provided entertainment for the guests.
Queensburgh President-Elect Brenda
McDermott said that the event was just
one of many exciting projects the club
has planned for its community in the
new Rotary year. “It’s great to be part
of a community upliftment programme.
It is rewarding to see the joy it brings to
our women in the community.”
Clockwise from top:
Enjoying the high tea are
Nirvana Rambally, Shireen
Soobrathi, President-Elect
Brenda McDermott, Vani
Inderjeet and Kimona
Kanniah. When it comes to
bingo there is no such thing
as too much concentration
or seriousness. Ready to
pound that piñata. The
winner of the best table
setting, Ursula Muller.

Interactor Michaela Miller with the completed collage.
Faces of the nation by Kristin Groenewald, President, Interact Club of the Oakhill School (D9350)
In April, Interactors from a number of Knysna
schools, including Percy Mdala, Knysna
High, Knysna Secondary, Oakhill and Knynsa
Montesorri, took part in a magnificent project.
They were asked to photograph the elders
in their communities as well as the surrounding
natural environment. The Interactors were
encouraged to take photographs containing
as many bright colours as possible, as well
as photos containing black, white and brown
colours. Canon SA, in particular Rotarian Zane
Pretorius, lent cameras to the Interactors to use
in the project.
The aim was to take all these pictures and
make a collage forming Nelson Mandela’s face,
with the South African flag behind him. The entire
picture would in fact be composed of tiny little
photographs - a picture of pictures.
The final result was absolutely breathtaking.
Nearly 2000 photos filled up over 9000 unit
blocks on the piece. Michaela Millar from Oakhill
School, who is an Interact member and head of
the Oakhill Audio Visual Society, was in charge of
arranging the photographs on a grid to form the
face of Mandela.
The piece serves as a tribute to Nelson
Mandela and represents what we as a country are
working towards daily. It holds our very essence,
our people, our respected elders, our scenery,
our faces and our hearts.
It also represents the power of the youth and
the arts. Together, we as young people worked
to create something that spoke to the hearts of
all. Art has the ability to turn our creativity into
something that speaks, that touches and that
moves and changes.
Money raised by the piece will be filtered back
into Interact to be used in community service and
outreach projects and to stimulate and encourage
young artists and photographers. Michaela
Millar was also awarded a camera for her much
appreciated contribution.

Youth
The EarlyActors’ international project is the Global Swimarathon. The funds raised at the event are
donated to End Polio Now.
celebrating a decade
A decade ago, the Rotary Club of Empangeni
(D9370) chartered the first EarlyAct club in
the then District 9270. After reading in Rotary
Africa about the establishment of the first
two EarlyAct clubs in Africa, the Empangeni
club agreed to sponsor the St Catherine’s
EarlyAct Club. With the approval of the
district governor at the time, Siva Naidoo, the
club was chartered.
To celebrate the anniversary, the Empangeni
Rotarians were invited to attend a celebratory
meeting, held by the EarlyAct Club of St
Catherine’s School. With 15 Rotarians and all
the class representatives present, the young
committee conducted a formal meeting with the
most amazing confidence. It was interesting to
see the confidence the young children showed
while running their own club and reporting on their
own affairs, all under the gentle and dedicated
guidance of their mentor, Rotarian and teacher
Denise Brooks.
It was Denise who, more than 10 years ago,
realised the benefit of an EarlyAct club to the
school, the youth and the Rotary club. She was
instrumental in promoting and developing this
initiative and has been at the helm of this EarlyAct
club since its inception. Denise is currently on
the board of the Rotary Club of Empangeni. Her
portfolio is Youth Service and she is actively
encouraging and offering mentorship to other
schools so that more children can benefit from
learning leadership skills and can become active
in community service.
All learners between the ages of five and
thirteen are members of the club which is run
by a committee elected from Grades 6 and
7. Each Rotary year, the club is required to
complete a minimum of three projects – at least
one school project, one community project
and one international project. This year, St
Catherine’s International project was to host its
third Swimarathon and it raised R20 000 for the
End Polio Now campaign. Every October, the
EarlyActors celebrate Global Handwashing Day
by organising an activity to promote hygiene.
The EarlyActors have continued to support
their community by assisting with the collection
of food and clothes for the needy. The learners
were encouraged to fill their ‘blessing bottles’
with small change and the change collected was
used to give some special help at Christmas
time. Last Christmas, the club gave R4 010 to
the Hope Project’s Christmas Bliss campaign for
underprivileged and poor people in Empangeni.
The EarlyActors also support Bandana Day
and Casual Day, as well as the 67 Minutes for
Madiba campaign every year. The club has
been challenged to design and create a poster to
promote the bottle tops and bread tags campaign
which it supports.
Every year the EarlyAct club gives the school
something or donates funds towards an item
which will be used by all the learners. It was
agreed that this year a donation would be made
towards goal posts for the school’s new multisport
astroturf.

Reneé Verhaelst (mentor) and Kudzai Sibanda (learner), of Concordia High School. Kudzai won the
audience choice award at the English Speaking Union Speech Contest.
Kudzai’s big win
Kudzai Sibanda, an Interactor from Concordia
High School in Knysna, and deputy principal,
Reneé Verhaelst, jetted to London in May to
compete in the prestigious English Speaking
Union Speech Contest. As a national winner
of the Anglo American Young Communicators
Speech Contest, Kudzai and his mentor were
invited to participate in the international
contest. Before departing for London, Kudzai
addressed the D9350 District Conference.
With sponsorship from organisations and
individual donors, they were able to finance their
journey to London. He competed against speakers
from 52 countries in the Commonwealth. The
topic expounded by contestants was ‘imagination
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is more important than knowledge’. All
contestants had to deliberate on their speeches,
and field questions from the audience. Of the 53
entrants, 18 contestants went to the semi-finals.
In this round, they had to prepare a three minute
impromptu speech without any assistance from
mentors. Kudzai triumphed once again and made
the final six.
At the finals, three winners were announced,
namely, the judges’ choice winner and runner-up
and the audience choice winner. Kudzai captured
the hearts of the international audience and was
selected as the audience choice winner. The
many hours spent by him and his mentor, Reneé,
had finally paid off.
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The Rotary Club of Grahamstown (D9370) chartered the Rotaract Club of Grahamstown. The
club was formed in mid-2013 and chartered on 6 May 2014. Since its inception the club has been
involved in a number of activities that not only produced funds to sponsor projects but also
created awareness about Rotaract. These projects have included the High Heel Walk for Cancer
and the sponsoring of chain saws and mattresses for Salem Crossroads. The club has also
provided rugby shirts for a local team and donated blankets to the SPCA.
The Rotary Club of Isipingo-Morningside (D9370) held its annual New Generations Conference in
May. The conference was attended by more than 200 learners from various schools in the district.
The club has hosted this event for more than 15 years.

Rotarians flocked to Carnival City Casino
in May to battle it out to win R25 000 for
the charity of their choice. The main aim
of the competition was to have fun for a
good cause. Members from the Rotary
Clubs of Boksburg Lake, Boksburg,
Benoni, Germiston and Nigel (D9400),
gathered at the casino in high spirits. To
make the competition even more exciting,
Carnival City roped in their Most Valued
Guests (MVGs) to play a few games on the
Rotarians’ behalf. This is the second time
that Carnival City hosted and sponsored
this fundraiser and it intends to make it an annual event. Even though all the teams hoped to win
the grand prize, every Rotary club which participated received money to donate towards their
charity of choice. The Rotary Club of Benoni won the grand prize of R25 000, Boksburg Lake won
R10 000, Germiston won R7 500, Boksburg won R5 000 and Nigel won R2 500.
The Rotary Club of
Helderberg Sunrise
(D9350) donated a
cheque for
R175 000 to the Cape
Town Opera. At the
handover are PDG
Graham Money, CEO
of Cape Town Opera,
Michael Williams, and
Helderberg Sunrise
President Carl-Heinz
Duisberg.

round up
A spirited and enjoyable educators’ workshop was
hosted by the Rotary Club of Kenton on Sea (D9370).
The workshop was attended by 41 Grade 1 to 3
educators and ‘creating with waste materials’ was its
theme. Club president, Stella Swanson, and youth
services chairman, Charlotte Wormold, welcomed
the educators and opened the proceedings. An
introductory activity, titled ‘What’s in the Bag’, got
creative juices flowing as participants used a variety
of waste materials to create useful apparatus for their
classrooms. A colourful shop, made of cardboard
boxes and toilet roll inners, caused great excitement.
After demonstrating how to create a similar shop and
the many ways it can be used as a valuable teaching
aid, each teacher was given a starter pack to create a
shop of their own.
James Kibet lost his left hand after he was robbed
last year. Thanks to the Rotary Club of Nairobi
Utumishi’s (D9212, Kenya) LN-4 Prosthetic Hand
project, the father of five received a new hand. Rose
Mbaika Mutheni (52) also received a LN-4 prosthetic
hand from the Nairobi Utumishi club. Rose lost her
left hand after she was born with a birth defect. She
is a self-employed vegetable seller.

The Rotary Club of Kenton on
Sea (D9370) held two successful
fundraisers. The first, the annual
Seafood Extreme, saw 170 people
gather to enjoy a five-course seafood
feast. The South Sea Island themed
evening also featured a full service
bar and a charity auction. The second
event, the Kenton on Sea Primary
School EarlyAct Car Wash, was held to
raise funds for the EarlyActors charity
drive. More than R1 400 was raised and
23 cars were cleaned. The EarlyActors
were supported by the Rotarians who
sold scrumptious bacon and egg rolls
to the car wash customers.
Sacred Heart Girls’ High School near
Esigodini, opened this year with 40
learners. Prior to the school’s opening,
young girls did not have access to a
high school education. This led to the
community appealing for help. A previous
Matching Grant with District 6170 and the
Rotary Club of Bulawayo South (D9210)
provided a borehole and reservoir to
enable the building of the classrooms,
toilet blocks, teachers’ cottages and
a hostel. This year, the Rotary Club of
Alresford (D1110, UK) provided US$3 800
for classroom furniture. Rotarian Steve
Walker visited Zimbabwe to officiate at the
handover ceremony.
Josie Norfolk, Wendy Davies, Eileen de Wet, Glen Davies, Denise de Villiers, Linda Knox, Nico de
Villiers, Teresa Thomson and President Andrew Thomson of the Rotary Club of Melkbos (D9350)
participated in the District Potjiekos competition which was organised by the Rotary Club of
Pinelands.

Just before the winter chill set in, a joint project saw grandmothers in Dundee receive a much-needed
gift of blankets. The Rotary Club of Dundee (D9370), Chan’s/Harry’s Transport and the
Dundee Rama Krishna Temple, as well as Robbie Fitzpatrick from the Dundee Adult Centre
sponsored the blankets.
Members of the Rotary E-Club of
Southern Africa 9400 (D9400) joined
Sešego Cares in launching its annual
winter drive. The project gave hand-knitted
garments to needy people
from vulnerable communities. The
Wool Project, as it has become known,
entails the donation of wool by the
readers and supporters of Northcliff
Melville Times. Retired women from
East Town, Roosevelt Park’s Rose
Village and Sophia Town use the
wool to make garments. These are
distributed among organisations which
care for the needy.
The Rotary Club of Knysna (D9350) presented 2 000 books to Chris Nissen School and Concordia
Primary School. The books were donated by Pearson Publishers through the Rotary Club of
Chicago Lakes (D5960, USA). The club asked Knysna to assist with the handover. Principal
Numvula Bam accepted the books from Knysna President Alan Warne.

Welcomed and honoured
Rotary Anns Wendy Scorgie, Andrena Foster, Ann President Ingrid Edelson, Jehanne Blades and Gill Collinge ,of the
Rotary Club of Kloof (D9370), were recognised for their dedicaiot n to community service. Jehanne Blades received the
Edelson Floating Trophy for Ann of the year.
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recognised
Sophia Warner was
recognised as a Paul
Harris Fellow by the Rotary
Club of Somerset West
(D9350).
John Homewood is a new
member of the Rotary
Club of Kenton on Sea
(D9370).
Eileen de Wet is a new
Club of Melkbos (D9350).
Wendy Davies is a new
Glen Davies is a new
Gcobani Nomana is a new
Club of Pietermaritzburg
(D9370).

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course. A stone’s throw from the beach. Off street
parking. R550 p/n. May to September: Pay for
6 and stay for 7 nights. Four sleeper. Fantastic
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peteandme@mweb.co.za. Tel: 021 786 3331.
Cell: 074 915 7747.
student accommodation 2014
Planning to study at any institution in Port
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Kenilworth & Rosmead Ave, Kenilworth. 021 671
2400 or 083 653 6536.
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