Meeting 1st - 15th July

Hi Everyone

I join Chris, welcome everyone. Hope we can chat often. I feel lonely sometimes. Visited Ashford Club last evening. Wonderful welcome. A very proactive forward thinking club.

Wendy

Thank you Chris and Happy New Year to all our members

Here at the Support Centre in Alcester we have already started off the new Rotary year with an ongoing local community project - the first Friday of every month we are collecting for our local foodbank.

This is a copy of what was sent to all staff here - our members may wish to do something similar in their local communities...


Happy New Rotary Year from the E-club of Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland!





Our first project is Foodbank Friday – the first Friday of each month we will be collecting for our local Foodbank – in the staff room there’s a box labelled:-








Foodbank Friday Donations please…








Your contributions will be appreciated and feedback (!) will be given on what has been raised.





You don’t need to be an E-club member to contribute – kind and generous colleagues are welcome to join in!

Accidentally posted as a guest - it's me!

Hello all,

It's great to have joined you as we head into a new Rotary year. Best of luck to Claire in her new role as President.
Back in 2008, I designed the District 1060 logo for the Link Weekend that we hosted that year. It was originally used for badges for the Rotary Scholars and has then continued to be used in other ways. I would be happy to draft something that we can use for the Club's badges, banners, etc.

Paul

Everybody loves a volunteer. Design away.

Hi all, good to be here and look forward to getting involved this year! Welcome Paul and Keith

I thought if we design an e-banner (underway by Paul) we could use the basis of that design in name badges which we could download.

The Rotary Club of Birmingham Breakfast circulated an invitation to join their meeting this morning via Zoom web conferencing - something they were already using to allow their speaker, Amy Porter, to talk to them from the Dominican Republic. Not only was this 3,000 miles away, but 5 hours behind in time - so Amy started her talk at 03:07 in the morning (local time)!

Amy works for Yspaniola and is supporting one of 200 'shanty town' communities that originally housed the migrant workers from Haiti that were brought in for the sugar plantations. They never returned and were joined by families, resulting in large impoverished communities that suffer from massive discrimination. Amy illustrated this by pointing out that a child born there - in the Dominican Republic - has 'foreigner in transit' on their birth certificate.

They now have water provided 5 days a week and a reasonably reliable electricity supply, but no government funding at all. Her charity have rented a school facility, but it floods in rain. Even so, they have managed to raise the education level considerably, with the majority of children 7-9 now able to read & write in Spanish - with their home language being Haitian Creole, this is a fantastic achievement.

Yspaniola has a team of 15 and believes strongly about investing in local people. University Scholarships have resulted in 4 graduates now working in the community - expanding the available skills and encouraging local talent. They are largely dependent on individual donors.

Yes, there is a local Rotary Club and we are encouraging Amy to make contact with them and see what can be done on a wider scale to support the amazing work she is doing.

Great to see the talk and share with a number of remote attendees, including one on his way to work!