The document summarizes Rotary Foundation activities in November 2014, including encouraging clubs to showcase their projects through Rotary Showcase to seek funding and partnerships. It highlights a few local club anniversary celebrations and partnership activities in South Africa, including supporting education for girls through the Ruth First Memorial Trust.

1. November celebrates Foundation Month
Issue 6
November 2014
Cloud Chatter
Showcase your projects to the world!
When we focus on sustainable projects we can achieve so much more when we have access to the Rotary Foundation funds – However, in order to make a measurable impact, we need to contribute to the Rotary Foundation.
We see only 30% of the total iceberg at sea level – the remainder is under the ocean. Rotary funding has a similar pattern. You can see the amounts involved through the Rotary Foundation funded projects annually (above sea level). The non-TRF funded projects is a far larger fund (below the ocean)… but both funds guarantee 1000s of projects worldwide. Your contribution will make a difference!
Rotary Showcase allows clubs and districts to boast about the projects undertaken. Rotary Showcase has other benefits which allows countries to experience different project ideas which they could use. Showcase’s Impact Tracker includes information of the number of project volunteers, how long they spent on the project and the worth of the contributions in either cash or kind.
The value of Showcase is shown on the diagram.
Load your project/event via the Internet browser: Showcase works best with Chrome, Firefox, or Safari - register your project by signing into Rota- ry.org. Go to Develop Projects section of the Take Action menu. Rotary Showcase is supported Rotary languages and Google translate. You can include your project and club partners. Video your project or event and load it onto YouTube. Showcase allows you to post up to 20 photos.
Include information about the project, volunteers, the hours spent and the impact that the project had on the community. Other social media to consider is Facebook; Twitter and your district or club blog and website.
Tell the world what Rotarians and Rotaracts do – use Rotary Showcase to seek sponsorship – the more the corporates see, the more they would want to be involved.

2. As we head for our first anniversary……..
The RC of Roodepoort (70 years) and Roodepoort Central (40 years) were celebrating their birthdays.
None of us will be around to celebrate this kind of anniversary but we will leave behind a legend!
Pres Brian (right) PDGS Ernie Hendriks (2nd from left) and Robin Liedtke (2nd from right) and DG Annie in the middle - AG Hans is on the left.
DG Annie with Pres Brian Keith Robertson from Roodepoort and PP Annemarie (E Club).
Out and about with the Rotarians from Miami, USA
What a special evening. Dinner was held with Rotarians from Miami and they have poten- tially confirmed their support to assist us with the centre in Mathibestad.
Right: Rtn Judith Chinkumbi (Rotary Club of Northcliff), DG Annie Steijn (D9400), PE Edie Spiegel

3. Members of our E Club showing lots of passion in their commitment making a difference in Mathidestad
Below: Tara Ison Dr Pat and Dr Mashadi
Tara Ison, Charlotte, DG Annie Steijn & Sue Paget
Win Bauer and Dr Pat Francis
Tunnel gardening at Mathibestad

4. It is hoped that the Ruth First scholarship will enable promising learners whose parents may have considered Jeppe Girls to be out of their financial reach the opportunity of attending this school.
Ruth First attended Jeppe from 1939 - 1941 where her talents as a leader, writer and thinker were already evident. A library prefect, she won the English prize as well as obtaining a distinction in English, which was a very rare occurrence in those days. Born into a middle class family, Ruth, spurned a comfortable and privileged life to become a remarkable leader in the anti-apartheid struggle.
She was an exceptional writer and political thinker who used her skills and intellect to highlight the injustices in South African society. She enrolled at Wits to do a BA degree and became involved in student politics, joining the South African Communist Party.
Her first job was as a researcher in the Johannesburg munici- pality, which she found exceptionally boring. She left and be- gan working with trade unions, where she distinguished her- self as an investigative journalist, exposing the vicious truth of apartheid rule.
Ruth joined the Guardian newspaper and later became editor. The South African govern- ment sought to crush all opposition to apartheid during the Fifties and Sixties. In 1956 the Guardian was banned and Ruth was one of 150 people charged with high treason, along- side Nelson Mandela and her husband Joe Slovo. She spent 117 days in solitary confine- ment before she was acquitted. She died in 1982 when a letter bomb, sent to her by apart- heid agents, exploded in her office at the university in Maputo.
Justice Albie Sachs has agreed to be a patron of the fund, and has this to say "Ruth First was a wonderful friend, a brilliant thinker and writer and remarkably courageous in pursuit of freedom. I will do everything I can do to honour her memory. I am delighted that Jeppe High School for Girls has taken this initiative which I support whole- heartedly. I commend it to all who value Ruth's profound contribution to the establishment of democracy in South Africa and respect the sacrifices she made. It will be wonderful for many young women of diverse backgrounds to be given the opportunity to obtain top quality education at Ruth's old school and thus follow in her footsteps."
RUTH FIRST FOUNDATION AWARDS EVENING
Judith Chinkumbi, Judge Edwin Cameron and PE Annemarie Mostert
The Ruth First Foundation bursary awards evening as held at the Jeppe Girls High. PE Annemarie Mostert with Rotarian Judith Chinkumbi are founding members of the memorial fund and supporting a bursary of one child for 5 years.
The Ruth First Memorial Trust aims to pro- vide scholarships and support that will help turn young women from ordinary circumstances into principled leaders who will make a difference in South African society.
Late PP Nelson Mandela & Ruth First

5. NEST DRESSED COUPLE
Night at the Races: RC of North- cliff’s fund-raiser -
PE Annemarie representing our club
Hassan-ii-Mosque -
Casablanca:
Morocco
Morocco was a special place!
Rotary International Image Coordinator for the 10 countries in Southern Africa, PDG Shirley Downie, spent two weeks in Morocco working for Rotary International.
The first two days was spent in Casablanca, on holiday! The rest of the time was spent training incoming Governors for 2015 & 2016 for Zones 20A and 20B—18 countries involved from Africa and Southern Europe.
Shirley then attended the Rotary Coordinators meeting and the Foundation seminar. Then two days were spent at the Zone 20B Institute (493 people attended) and she delivered a paper - and then the Reach Out to Africa (ROTA) two days Seminar.
Rotarians are very special people the world over! Lots of new ideas and hundreds of projects being undertaken.
Night market—Marrakesh

7. Twinning club— making history...this is their message.
On Monday 17 November @ 7pm SA time an historic moment. Was enjoyed by many It was the twinning of two Rotary Clubs –
The “Rotary E-Club 9920 Francophone” is a small E-Club (only 14 members), chartered in April 2011 by our Member/Executive Secretary PDG Nicola Spillmann who was then the DG of D.9920, but we are very, very active !
We are a 100% E-Club, not Hybrid, and we have members all around the World: Belgium, France, Japan, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Tahiti.
One of our Members is the Founder of the “Inter-Country Committee France-Bolivia”, and I am the “Inter Country Committee France- Thailand Chair” and the “Inter Country Committee France-Cambodia vice Chair”.
The “Rotary E-Club 9920 Francophone” has been Participating in many MGs before July 2013, and now already in many Global Grants (GG). So, as for today, the “Rotary E-Club 9920 Francophone” has been involved:
 in 4 Matching Grants in 2012-2013, 2 as Secondary Partner and 2 as Primary Partner for a total budget of USD 120 000
 and has already been involved in 4 GG since July 1rst, three as Secondary Partner and one as Primary Partner for a total Budget of USD 380 000.
Concerning these 4 GGs, they all have been budgeted and three of them have already been sent to TRF for approval. As for the “Philippines GG” to help the people in need after typhoon Yolanda, it is on the way to be sent to TRF as the USD 200 000 initial budget has been completed in six weeks (USD 217 000 total budget, with a TRF USD 99 800 grant asked for).
Otherwise, we are already looking forward to organize in 2014-2015:
 2 GG for Mother and Child care Health Center, one in Samoa Islands, being already in progress , and another one in Morocco.
 1 big GG (400 000 USD ) to equip around 10 Mother and Child Health Care Centers for the Hill Tribe population in Northern Thailand ; we already have done the “example/prototype” with a previous GG on the way to be approved by TRF.
 a big USD 192000 GG to help the research on Malaria (please see other email)
 a GG to help the very badly burnt children in Bolivia
Well done indeed….more news about the eClub in the next newsletter.
- their members are very proud to see that our “small” E-Club has succeeded to raise USD 12,500 in 2 weeks in