1. New Horizons
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9450! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 2, Issue 44 3rd - 9th May 2010
Letter from the Club Burundi Peace Choir & WAPA Concert 6th May The Twa People RO President’s Monthly Rotary Foundation
President Band Tickets to WAPA Rob looks into the Twa Message Thought of the Week
Find out what is Launch of the Burundi concert on 6th May to people after attending This months message is This week’s thought is
happening around the Peace Choir CD. aid Rotary. the Burundi Peace about Rotary’s role in about the Rotary
club. Page 2 Page 3 Choir launch. disaster recovery. Foundation.
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the good will and better We have now seen both the Thursday, plus three visitors
Letter From the understanding that comes outbound and inbound from the RC Cambridge, a
out of such exchanges. As I teams, with the D9450 team couple from Matilda Bay and
Club President said on Thursday evening, to Normandy departing on hosts and drivers from the
the programs of the Rotary 16th May. We wish our girl RC of Perth along with the
Dear Fellow Rotarians, Foundation are all about Kylie West and other Normandy GSE Team.
building world members of the Team a
On 28th April, the RCFB understanding and peace rewarding and fulfilling (it is Welcome back to travelling
hosted the Inbound GSE through its educational and always life changing) trip to Rotarians Peter Symons and
Team from D. 1640 in humanitarian programs and Normandy. Clive Boddy and we hope to
Normandy. They are a very worthy of our club and have Blaise Johnson home
friendly team with a great personal support. It was wonderful to see a from the USA very soon.
sense of humour and I hope good number of our own Toni James emailed from
all present glimpsed a little of members at our meeting last Boston and will be home in
early June. We have a very
mobile membership and are
always delighted to see
members on their return.
It’s been another busy week
with two more schools
presented with magnifying
microscopes and the launch
of the Burundi Peace Choir
and Bands CD and website
on Saturday, 1st May. As a
Club we can be well satisfied
with our achievements since
receiving our Charter just 17
months ago.
Pres. 2010-11 Simone and PE
2011-12 Bill are attending the
District Assembly on Sunday
2nd May so everything is
happening with respect to the
change of guard in the Club
on 1st July. As Ken and I will
be overseas from 22nd May
until 26th June enjoying some
private travel prior to
attending the Rotary
International Convention in
Photo: Inbound GSE Team from Normandy visit RC Freshwater Bay. (L-R) Claire Forsdyke, Daniel Forsdyke, Montreal, Simone will
Adnan Zahouani, Patrick Lebailly, Michael Wood, Vanessa Lakdar, Sebastien Brognard, Sarah Barbey, Warren effectively be taking over the
Milner
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2. N E W H O R I Z O N S
running of the club in just a with Pres. Kerry McAuliffe Cost is $30 per
few weeks time. It is quite a and Di re the Club’s Charity person, BYO
process taking all the Club Foundation. It is slowly wine money
property in and out of our progressing and will be will be collected
venue each meeting and advancing to the next stage. on the night.
Bryant has kindly offered to Further advice will be Those with
see if there may be a announced as developments spouses, please
cupboard in the hospital take place. remember to
where we might be able to include them.
store the property. If this is
not possible, it would be Andrea’s
helpful if a member could RYPEN
offer to be responsible for it Relocation
during our absence. Any Along with one
volunteers please? As Andrea Hayward has not student from
been able to get back to the Christ Church
Outstanding speakers Club during the period she Grammar, the
coming up so please be has been packing to move to club will
certain to make Wednesday her new job in Canberra sponsor two
Rotary meetings a priority. we’ve not had the students from
This week we have opportunity to wish her well. MLC for the
Australian of the Year for Andrea will keep her Rotary Youth
WA, Rotarian Professor membership with us until Program of
Ralph Martins update us and she finds a Club in Canberra Enrichment
Ken Collins holds up the Burundi Peace Choir CD
present his very positive which she would like to (RYPEN) camp
message on his area of transfer to. We’ll miss you at the end of Ken officially launched the
expertise, Alzheimer ’s Andrea and look forward to May. project by opening the
Disease. Bring spouses and your visits when you are in packages of CDs. Melpo
friends as he is not to be Perth to visit your family.
missed. Burundi Peace Economou, the person
behind the project finishes
Yours in Rotary Service, Meeting on 12th Choir & Band her position at ASETTs this
Tuesday. She has done a
wonderful job, coordinating
Di Collins May Simone, Wilma, Rob, Ken the project and bringing it to
Charter President and Di attended the launch a conclusion prior to her
As it will be a buffet meal of the CD, Website and DVD departure.
Club Charity and exact numbers are
required, can ALL members
of the Burundi Peace Choir
and Band on Saturday, 1st Why not support the Choir
May at the Leederville Town
Foundation please indicate their
attendance/non attendance Hall. There was a
by purchasing CDs as gifts?
No yet available on line as
for the meeting on 12th May disappointing attendance banking facilities are not in
Our solicitor from Talbot and when Past Rotary from supporting Rotary place, information can be
Olivier is back from her International President Glen Clubs, however, Simone sourced via the website
break and has been in touch Kinross will be our speaker. spoke about the website and www.burundipeacechoir.com
The Burundi Peace Choir
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3. N E W H O R I Z O N S
the conflict between the Hutus survival. Today much of the
WAPA Concert and Tutsis, which reached its available land, apart from
height in the Rwandan areas reserved for wildlife
6th May genocide of 1994, when, about conservation and
30% of the Twa population of environmental protection, is
Although it is short notice, if Rwanda died in the fighting. now under cultivation.
members and friends are able Unable to access their
to attend the Baroque Banquet Traditionally, the Twa have ancestral lands and practice
Concert on Thursday, 6th May, been a semi-nomadic “hunter traditional cultural and
please let Peter Symons know. gatherer people of the economic activities, the Twa
mountain forests. Due to now perceive their pottery
Peter has kindly negotiated clearing of the forests for as an expression of their
$5.00 for each ticket sold to agriculture, logging, present day identity;
come back to the Club, development projects, or however, since cheap
however, he needs 25 tickets to
be sold to take advantage of
creation of conservation areas,
the Twa have been forced to
industrialized products are
now readily available,
RI President's
this fundraiser. leave these areas and establish
new homes. As they seek to
pottery has become a “loss-
making” activity. Despite
Monthly
develop new means of this, the Twa cling to the
Thank you Peter. Let’s hope
25 can be rounded up quickly. sustaining their communities activity for its cultural and Message:
(such as agriculture and social significance. Not only
livestock development) most do they consider it an Helping with
The Twa People are currently landless and live ancestral tradition, but it
By Rob Rohrlach (with much help in poverty. The ancestral land also carries a social Long-term
from Wikipedia) rights of the Twa have never importance in their current
been recognized by their day society. The process of Recovery
When I attended the release of governments and no digging the clay and
the Burundi Band & Peace compensation has been made carrying it to their Efforts
Choir CD I was moved by for lands lost. settlements allows for Rotary International News
their music, thanks for being socialization and a sense of 23 April 2010
accepted in Australia and the Twa children have little access community amongst Twa
fact that their women have to education and their potters. In his May message, RI
difficulty smiling. I decided to communities have limited President John Kenny says,
research on the Net to find out representation in local and It has been our pleasure to "Rotary is not a disaster relief
more. national government. Due to help these people spread agency, but we are very good
their pygmy ancestry, they their message in Perth. at long-term recovery. After all
Their own website (http:// continue to suffer ethnic the media attention dies
prejudice, discrimination, down, Rotary will still be
www.burundipeacechoir.com/
about/) gives some clue but I violence, and general Changeover there on the ground -- in
had to dig deeper. exclusion from society. Twa Haiti’s case, with 17 local
men struggle with alcoholism, Night 1st July clubs and thousands of willing
The following is mainly lifted known to occur in partner clubs.
from Wiki but gives a good communities facing cultural As it is our
summary of their history. collapse as men can no longer very first Club
carry out traditional roles and
provide for families. By 2007
C h a n g e o v e r,
please put the
Visit to Manna Industries
The Twa, also known as
Batwa, are a pygmy people
who were the oldest recorded
begging was the primary
source of livelihood for 40%
date in your
diary. It is of
‘Kids in the Kitchen’
inhabitants of the Great Lakes Rwanda Batwa. course another
meeting for When: Wednesday, 19th May, 2010.
region of central Africa. They
While the Twa adapted to the your spouse to Venue: Maddington Primary School, Albany
are found in Burundi,
changes in their environment attend and Highway, Maddington.
Rwanda, Uganda and the
by adopting new economic also please Time: 6:00pm
Congo. There are also a
activities and thus traditions invite friends Note: This is in place of our regular meeting
number living in the swamps
and deserts far from the forest and identities, they continue to and potential
in Angola, Namibia, Zambia, face challenges to their Rotarians.
and Botswana living.
In 2000, they numbered PRIP Glen Kinross RC Freshwater Bay
approximately 80,000 people,
making them a significant You are invited to the Dinner Meeting to Changeover Dinner
minority group in these celebrate the visit of PRIP Glen Kinross to the
countries. club. The first Changeover Dinner of the Rotary Club
When: Wednesday, 12th May, 2010. of Freshwater Bay.
Over the centuries they have Venue: Bethesda Hospital Cafe, Queenslea Drive, When: Thursday, 1st July, 2010.
been dominated by other Claremont. Venue: Nedlands Golf Club, Melvista Ave,
races, including the Butu and Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm. Nedlands 6009.
and Tutsis. The Twa are often Cost: $30 (BYO Wine) Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm.
ignored in discussions about Cost: $45
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4. N E W H O R I Z O N S
Left: Manna Industries “Manna, Health
in Eating Facility” – (L-R) Ken Collins,
Mrs Margaret Collins Director Schools
Canning Education District, Bill Hassell,
Elizabeth Bain and Bev Lowe of Manna
Industries
Right: Presentation of microscopes at
Lesmurdie Primary, (L-R) Alan Rourke
(Watercorp) Rob Rohrlach, Di Collins,
Principal Cheryl Elphick, John Clarke
(STAWA) and students
Left: Presentation of microscopes to
North Cottesloe Primary – Science
Teacher Kaye Wood, John Clarke, Vice
Principal Darrilyn Dawson, Rob
Rohrlach, Di Collins, students Alzena
and Michael, Claudia Renner
(Watercorp) and Ken Collins
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5. N E W H O R I Z O N S
charity of choice and that I leader of his GSE team he Ontario, Canada that
The Rotary had to convince others that it was already a dedicated makeshift school he visited
Foundation should be theirs also.” Rotarian but what he saw in
South Africa made him not
has now benefited from two
matching grants. Meanwhile
The visit to a makeshift just a Rotarian but a John is busy telling everyone
Week 44: This week’s Rotary school during a Group Study cheerleader for the Rotary about The Rotary Foundation
Foundation Thought is about Exchange in South Africa Foundation. He saw first and why Every Rotarian,
cheering for The Foundation. helped to change Rotarian hand the importance of the Every Year is his charity of
John Tomalson from Canada. Rotary Foundation’s Choice.
“I became a true Rotarian. It programs and the impact
was that GSE experience. It He learned that real teaching they have on the world.
was a defining moment. I is about the love of teaching;
came back and realized that he also learned what it meant Through John’s efforts and
the Foundation was my to be a Rotarian. As the team the Rotary Club of Bolton,
Program for April/May
Introduction
Date Details
Date Name
5th May Ralph Martins - Alzheimer’s
5th May Margaret Stuart Research
12th May Ken Collins 12th May Past RI President Glen Kinross -
Dinner Meeting
Vote of Thanks 19th May Vocational Visit: Manna Industries
“Kids in the Kitchen’ in Maddington
Date Name
26th May Club Assembly
5th May Bryant Stokes
12th May Bill Hassell
Welcoming Roster Board Club Details
Rotary Year 2009-10
Date Name Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
Di Collins — President
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au PO Box 168,
5th May Simon Carot Collins Nedlands,
Ken Collins — Vice President / Western Australia, 6909
12th May Margaret Stuart Membership Director
vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
19th May TBA membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
Simone Carot Collins — President Elect / Queenslea Drive
26th May Clive Boddy
Club Administration Director
Claremont
presidentelect@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
clubadmin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Email
New Horizons: Winner of the District 9450 president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Bulletin Award for 2009/10 Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer Phone
treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au 08 9385 0471
Fax
Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary
Bulletin Contributions secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
08 9385 0472
Website
Rob Rohrlach — Projects Director
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event. Chartered 19 December 2008
Committee Director
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