Rotary Club of North Melbourne (Nov 24, 2021)

Tomorrow we start the meeting with our AGM which all organizations are required to do by 30th November.

Our Secretary has sent out the agenda to members and the main agenda items will be for the Treasurer to present and pass the financials and to Elect or senior board members. Last year, we didn't pick a President-Elect who would then automatically advance to President for the 2022/2023 year so tomorrow we will elect our next President as well as our next President-Elect.

Last week was a milestone for our club. It is a big occasion even for a club with over 100 members to induct 3 new members at one meeting but for a club with only 15 members it really is significant

The 3 new members are Fatuma Ali, Abdullahi Osman and Ibrahim Abdi. We look forward to the benefit of their contribution to our club and watching their personal growth in our club as well.

We had a couple of people that could not attend our meeting so we put it on Zoom for them to share at the moment as well so can see our member Kammy Leung watching on.

It was good to also have a new volunteer and hopefully, a future member as well in Vidya Yeleswarapu attend our meeting in person for the first time. You'll notice in the photo below that the new members already have their dinner badges. Our club is very big on badges, in fact, each new member received the following 5 badges: 1. Regular Rotary Lapel Pin. 2. Separate Small Rotary Masterbrand Logo Lapel Pin. 3. The Rotary Kangaroo Pin. 4. Our club 50 Year Anniversary Badge & 5. Dinner badge with the member's name and classification.

Already, new member Fatuma Ali is clearly going to be known as the "selfie queen"

Once all the inductions we done we had Herbison speak to us about his vision for a major Wellness Centre for his capital city of Malawi, Lilongwe. He presented the concept drawn up by member Kammy Leung and told us about how the elderly over there need special care as there is a culture of a part of the community to see older people as being involved in witchcraft and as a result are getting murdered due to fear.

As well Ted Dziadkiweicz explained to us about NAC - North Melbourne Agency Collective and pointed out that our club needs to be part of it.

This week our column appeared in the North West City News. If you use the link below you will find our article on page 19 and it is about engagement in the local community and has a picture of members Sainab and Herbson supported by volunteers Rahma, Vidya, and Michelle who all were working at Rimern.

https://mcusercontent.com/1bf5fca2dfad47867dc3b0013/files/e3debb21-4fc8-b762-016a-ad3eb9243187/NWC10.pdf

RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network)

This Saturday is actually now our last commitment to volunteer there for the year and for the volunteers scheduled this week please remember it is now a MORNING session. 10.00am to 1.00pm

The volunteers scheduled for this week are:

SAINAB, HERBSON, MICHELLE, COLLEEN & VIDYA

If you can't make it please contact Judy Page so she can try and arrange a replacement on 0425 741 624 or email on judypage3@gmail.com.

Sunday 5th December at 5.30 pm - 8.30 pm

This has been organized by the Centre and we are catering for 100 people with kids its BYO and they will be inviting people from the high rise flats. We will be trying to get numbers at tomorrow's meeting.

Friday 10th December 2021 at 12.00 noon

This is organized by Ames Australia we have agreed to carry out this BBQ lunch.

This is quite a big one as we are catering for 400 people and we have been requested to provide sausages, veggie burgers, and soft drinks. Ames Australia has a budget for this event and so it will be a good fund-raiser for the club but we really will need quite few volunteers so please let us know if you can assist us. page@ghp.biz.

They have arranged the venue with Parks Victoria and it will be near the Fairfield boathouse and we will have access to water and power.

All sausages for both BBQs will be Hallal.

Tomorrow's speaker

This will be a very informative session about the importance of having healthy Kidneys and how best to achieve it.

The Zoom Link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82885605624?pwd=QmdDL3pPUGU0NzdxU21qVmZ2bFpyZz09

Meeting ID: 828 8560 5624 Passcode: 585402

Thursday 25th November 2021 at 7.00 pm

SAVE THE DATE - 16th December 2021 at the Mercure Hotel

This will be our last meeting of the year and our "Xmas" meeting.

We have a special guest media personality, Shawn Cosgrove. Shawn is also a friend of our Past President, Fr. Joe Giacobbe who has confirmed he is attending.

We will be having a special 2-course meal and further details with pricing in next week's newsletter.

It really will be a good night to end the year with special guests of the club from our future friends from the refugee community.

Rotary Club of North Melbourne Website address

https://www.rotarynorthmelbourne.org.au/