Weekly Meeting of Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020: March 25, 2016

WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY MEETING

FRIDAY, March 25, 2016

In this meeting:

Rotary Minute
ABCs of Rotary
An Update on Polio
Vocational Service
Random Acts of Kindness
Water is Life
Rotary in 30 seconds
Humour
What happened Wednesday, March 23
20 Reasons to join a Rotary club
Kitchen scraps
DGE Haresh and DGN Robert in Haiti- Good things happening through Rotary!
Foundation Corner
Rotary Anthem
Four-Way Test to close

NOTE: Where links are provided in the meeting, click the link to view the video. To return to the meeting, click either your browser's BACK button or click the previous window or TAB.

OUR GREETER THIS WEEK IS LOU DELAGRAN

President's Message

Dear fellow Rotarians and Guests,

March 22, 2016 was celebrated as World Water Day, the theme being Water and Jobs. This day was used to tell people around the world we care, and that we all have the power to make a difference.

The excerpt below was taken from the Wednesday’s guest speaker - Mr. Jan Eliasson, who is the chairman of the Swedish WaterAid. Let us join hands and heart together and achieve our world mandate since Water is Life.

Please join us on a weekly basis as we fellowship and engage in lively discussions, presentations by guest speakers on topics relevant to Rotary and our commitment to a worthy cause.

Let us be the change!!!!!

March 26 – Weekly Meeting

May 2 – 7, 2016 – District Conference [Bahamas]

ROTARY MINUTE

QUOTATIONS REGARDING ROTARY

by Rotary International Presidents

1948-49 Angus S. Mitchell (manufacturing), Rotary Club of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Rotary vision: To work with the youth of today to build a strong and peaceful world of tomorrow.

“Our boys and girls have greater freedom, exercise greater power, and have more opportunities for both good and evil, than ever before. Even if we fail them, youth will not be neglected, for they are the object of universal attention from all the conflicting ideologies and opinions in the world….How important it is, therefore, that youth’s great possibilities for good be realized and developed!”

— Address to 1948 Rotary Convention, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1949-50 Percy Hodgson (novelty yarn manufacturing), Rotary Club of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. Rotary vision: To train the youth of today (the leaders of tomorrow) in sound business ethics.

“If we train our youth properly, we need not have any fear as to the future of the world.”

— Inaugural Address, 1949 Rotary Convention, New York, New York, USA

ABCs OF ROTARY

RI President (1992-93) Cliff Dochterman

Club Singing

Harry Ruggles was the fifth man to join Paul Harris in the conversations that led to the formation of the first Rotary club in Chicago in 1905. Harry was a fellow who enjoyed singing, and this was a popular activity at the turn of the century. At an early meeting of the fledgling group, Harry jumped on a chair and urged everyone to join him in a song.

Group singing soon became a traditional part of each Rotary meeting. The custom spread to many of the clubs in the United States and is still a popular fellowship activity in the Rotary meetings of such diverse countries as Australia, Japan, Nigeria, New Zealand and Canada. Some clubs sing a national song as the formal opening of the meeting. Social singing, however, is seldom found in the Rotary clubs in Europe, South America and Asia.

Honorary Membership

"Honorary" is one of the types of membership a person may have in a Rotary club and is exercised only in exceptional cases to recognize an individual for unusual service and contributions to Rotary and society.

An honorary member is elected for one year only, and continuing membership must be renewed annually.

Honorary members cannot propose new members to the club, do not hold office, and are exempt from attendance requirements and club dues.

Many distinguished heads of state, explorers, authors, musicians, astronauts and other public personalities have been honorary members of Rotary clubs, including King Gustaf of Sweden, King George VI of England, King Badouin of Belgium, King Hassan III of Morocco, Sir Winston Churchill, humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, Charles Lindbergh, composer Jean Sibelius, explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, Thomas Edison, WaIt Disney, Bob Hope, Dr. Albert Sabin, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and many of the presidents of the United States.

Truly, those selected for honorary membership are those who have done much to further the ideals of Rotary.

AN UPDATE ON POLIO

march 25

Read an article here about Ukraine and challenges:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/16/ukraine-risks-polio-spreading-delays-licensing-new-vaccine?CMP=share_btn_fb

The switch

VOCATIONAL SERVICE

What do we mean by vocation, anyway?

Posted on January, 2016

Members of the Rotary Club of Greater Huntsville, Alabama, USA, used their vocational skills to build two wheelchair ramps for needy families in December.

By Evan Burrell

The question we face almost from the time we are old enough to talk is “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

It’s a question most often put to us by our parents, teachers, and friends. When we are young, we are content to keep our answers pretty vague or even whimsical. When I was 10, I wanted to be a Cowboy Astronaut Zookeeper!! Sometimes I wish I was one, if only to see the look on the face of Rotarians who ask me what my vocation is.

The word “vocation” gets bandied about quite a lot in Rotary circles. I saw the word for the first time in some dusty old Rotary manual, I thought to myself “someone keeps misspelling vacation”!

Vocation really means “a calling,” a strong desire to spend your life doing a certain kind of work or occupation.

Vacation and vocation don’t have to be that far apart if you are doing what you love. Honestly, I think a lot of people confuse the word vocation with what we actually do to earn a buck. But vocation really means “a calling,” a strong desire to spend your life doing a certain kind of work or occupation. In other words, spending your life doing what your mind and heart feel called to do.

When you’ve found your calling, you know it. You are driven by a passion that fills your life with fulfillment and satisfaction. And it’s that kind of passion that drives Rotary members to celebrate serving through their vocation.

Someone who has a gift for fixing things and working with their hands might be passionate about building. They might use their vocation to build outdoor toilets to improve hygiene in a third world country with help from fellow Rotary members and a grant from the Rotary Foundation.

A person whose gifts are in entrepreneurship and who is passionate about working at home might use their vocation to develop web projects to assist disabled people in their local community.

Whatever your vocation or true calling is, Rotary can help you grow and develop as a person, and reach your full potential.

Your unique gifts and talents can be applied to Rotary service. And in Rotary, you can find opportunities that allow you to exercise your talents and use your capabilities to the fullest extent possible.

Ultimately, whatever your vocation or true calling is, Rotary can help you grow and develop as a person, and reach your full potential. And that is something we would all like to accomplish, isn’t it?

About the author: Evan Burrell is a member of the Rotary Club of Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia, and a former member of Rotaract.

He has been involved with Rotary since he was 18 and served Rotaract in almost every capacity possible before joining Rotary. He currently manages social media for Rotary Down Under, the Rotary regional magazine of Australia.

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

MOST UNSELFISH

The GREATEST MAN on Earth!

Posted in Facebook by Killuminati ∆ on Sunday, February 10, 2013

WATER IS LIFE

Please turn off the water!

A 30-SECOND ROTARY TV SPOT

A LITTLE HUMOUR

WHAT HAPPENED ON WEDNESDAY!

March 23

Water is life

Access to clean water is a human right and is closely incorporated in the Millennium Development Goal number 7 with the aim to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Jan Eliasson is chairman of the Swedish WaterAid, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sweden and currently represented in the UN group of Ambassadors for promoting the Millennium Goals, offered the opening speech at TEDxUniversityofGothenburg.

Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

On 2 March 2012, Jan Eliasson was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He took office as Deputy Secretary-General on 1 July 2012.

Mr. Eliasson was from 2007-2008 the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Darfur. Prior to this, Jan Eliasson served as President of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly.

He was Sweden’s Ambassador to the US from September 2000 until July 2005.

In March 2006, Mr. Eliasson was appointed Foreign Minister of Sweden and served in this capacity until the elections in the fall of 2006.

Mr. Eliasson served from 1994 to 2000 as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a key position in formulating and implementing Swedish foreign policy. He was Sweden’s Ambassador to the UN in New York 1988-92, and also served as the Secretary-General’s Personal Representative for Iran/Iraq.

Mr. Eliasson was the first UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and was involved in operations in Africa and the Balkans. He took initiatives on landmines, conflict prevention and humanitarian action.

In 1980-1986, Mr. Eliasson was part of the UN mediation missions in the war between Iran and Iraq, headed by former Prime Minister Olof Palme.

In 1993-94 Mr. Eliasson served as mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He has been a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University in Sweden, lecturing on mediation, conflict resolution and UN reform.

Mr. Eliasson has had diplomatic postings in New York (twice) Paris, Bonn, Washington (twice) and Harare, where he opened the first Swedish Embassy in 1980.

Prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson also served as Chair of Water Aid/Sweden and a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advocacy Group of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Education

Mr. Eliasson graduated from the Swedish Naval Academy in 1962 and earned a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration in 1965.

Personal

Mr. Eliasson was born on 17 September 1940 in Goteborg, Sweden. He is married with 3 children.

With apologies to Lou, who arrived a moment after this screen was captured.
And then, obviously, no other photo was captured! But Lou was there for the full meeting!

Excellent discussion on two areas of focus - Disaster Management and Water and Sanitation!

Plan to join us on a Wednesday to continue to learn and to have fun!

MAKE USE OF YOUR KITCHEN SCRAPS

DISTRICT GOVERNOR-ELECT HARESH IN HAITI

with DGN Robert Leger from Haiti
Did you know that there are 21 Rotary clubs in Haiti?

A second short video - Good things happening through Rotary!

entrepreneurship-camp.or g

FOUNDATION CORNER

WHAT IS THE ANNUAL FUND

ANNUAL FUND is the primary source of funding for all Foundation activities. Our annual contributions help Rotary Clubs take action to create positive change in communities at home and around the world. Our gift helps strengthen peace efforts, provide clean water and sanitation, support education, grow local economies, save mothers and children and fight disease.

The EVERY ROTARIAN every year (EREY) inigtative asks every Rotarian to support The Rotary Foundation every year.

Through our annual Sustaining Member contributions of $100 or more, the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 has been a 100% EREY contributor since we were chartered in 2013. Let us continue to support The Rotary Foundation (TRF) through our annual donations. We have been and continue to “Be a gift to the World."