NEXT WEEK WE ARE INTO BOOK PUBLISHING

Last Meeting

Venue: Damien on Fisher

Guest Speaker: Jane Gascoigne

Guests: Lucy Davies

Attendance: 19 members 1 guest

The bell rang at the early time of 6.27 and nothing and happened. It rang again at 6.29 (an ambitious time to start the meeting, but still nothing happened. Just two minutes later, with the hope of an early start dashed, the chair Valerie Bonython called us to order, invoked us, and introduced President Ken who announced nothing new, before officially open meeting number 2300.

Guest Speaker: Jane Gascoigne - Rotary's Indigenous Health Scholarship

Jane Gascoigne is a member of the Campbelltown Rotary Club. She worked in senior management roles in State Government for most of her working life, concluding with a term as Commissioner with the Local Government Grants Commission. She took over the role of Chair of the Indigenous Health Scholarship Programme in 2018.

This ambitious programme is a co-operative project between Rotary, State and Federal governments (with sponsorship from Cooper's Brewery and Doctors' groups), and it provides annual scholarships of $5,000 per year to indigenous students achieving a qualification as a health professional. Aboriginal folk have higher rates of ill health than other other Australians and indigenous health professionals often enjoy a higher degree of trust and can often provide more culturally appropriate care.

The programme was the brainchild of Geoff Bailey from Mitcham club, who was well known to Unley Rotarians due mainly to his skill as a lawn bowler, frequently frustrating our attempts to defeat Mitcham on the green. He pulled together Rotary and the Sate Government to get it all started in 1999 with two students in the first year. It grew to include all states of this great land and in 2003 The Australian Rotary Health Foundation took over the national management with the financial support of the Feds.

So far 89 scholarships have been awarded across Australia, and scholarships have supported over

25% of all graduated indigenous doctors.

The candidates are evaluated by the Health Department where their ethnicity is ensured, and clubs can choose from the list of candidates available. Clubs provide half of the scholarship and are encouraged to provide mentoring and involve the students in their club programme.

One of the first two students was Olivia O’Donoghue and she was sponsored by the Unley club over a number of years. She regularly attended club events and was well known and liked by all of our members. Unley ceased its involvement in the programme and Jane encouraged us to revisit it.

SPOTS

Trevor McGuirk didn't disappoint with not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 (yes FOUR) separate spots. In the first he instructed those who couldn't fulfil their scheduled Thrift Shop appearance to disavow the notion that their responsibility was extinguished by sending an email and asking for someone to step in. They should keep ringing people until they find someone to attend in their stead.

In his second spot, Trevor asked all members to remember to bring along $2 to go into the lucky draw. He has busted his gut to make the draw exciting by having five prizes (but the old heads just smiled, They know it's just a donation to the club to pay for the guests meals - including the speaker's, so it's not about the prizes, it's about doing you bit for the club).

Spot 3 was to draw our attention to the article in Rotary Down Under about Jennifer Jones (the new Rotary President) that he said was worth reading (presumably not the swimsuit edition).

And finally, he asked us to be sure we're there for the next meeting where his good mate Bob Koehne will be talking us through the process he underwent to become a published author.

Heather Kilsby asked members to consider a fitting tribute for her friend (in fact the friend of us all) Pam Trimmer. Her suggestion is the Pam Trimmer award for the Thrift Shop Volunteer of the Year to be awarded at the annual Christmas event for volunteers or at a club meeting.. The criteria would be determined by the Thrift Shop committee. Heather sought feedback on this suggestion and also other ideas.

Patsy Becket said SAVE THE DATE. The car rally this year is on Sunday 31st October. This year there will also be a photo competition judged by the club at the next meeting. The rally will be easy but the questions will be hard because she's hoping to frustrate the Bakers. They'll probably still win and win the photo competition too!

Finale

Th exciting lucky draw, (now five draws) saw Wendy with the first pick, Rhonda with the second, Brenton with the third, and John K with both the fourth and fifth (a bit dodgy as he actually drew the number for the fifth making this draw not only exciting but controversial).

Meeting closed at 7.45 despite the late start.

Note from Trevor. Please change your email contact for Trevor to: trevor.mcguirk7@gmail.com and delete the Chariot address.

Rotary International News.

Rotary e-club empowers girls in Kenya

Posted on July 8, 2022

By Roberta Porter, Rotary E-Club of District 5450

Young women receive training in self defense during a project to empower girls in Kenya.

I was shocked and stunned as I sat in silence listening to the pain in my daughter’s voice. She was calling me from Kenya where she had travelled as a volunteer with an Australian volunteer organization.

She described witnessing first-hand the impact poverty was having on the health and wellbeing of families and especially the children she was working with. The main focus for her at that time was lack of education about puberty, sexual health, and sexual violence.

She returned to Australia with a burning need to take action. After a quick fundraising campaign, she returned to Kenya and enlisted the services of Ujamaa Africa to provide a gender-based violence prevention program. Having completed the program in one school, she decided to go back and run the program in another school. We decided it was now time to talk to Rotary.

My husband and I are members of Rotary and have many contacts within the clubs in the Townsville North Queensland area of Australia. Victoria was invited to speak at a number of these clubs and at the district conference. She was overwhelmed with the support she received and was able to return to Kenya the following year and bring the program to another large school in this same community.

Earlier this Rotary year, I listened to 2021-22 Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta urge members to make empowering girls a priority. This time I turned to my own club and was delighted when the board agreed to make the Kitengela school sexual health initiative one of their 20th year celebration projects.

By this time Victoria had become a Rotarian herself, appreciating the power of Rotary in her work. She established an NGO www.jifunzeinternational.com which now works with Rotary clubs across the world and Rotaract clubs in Kenya.

With a grant from the Rotary E-Club of District 5450 and some additional sponsorship money from Jifunze International and clubs in Rotary District 9560 (Australia), we were able to provide comprehensive training for both the girls and boys.

The program includes

Puberty and sexual health education, including self-defense.
Assistance for children experiencing domestic violence and sexual abuse, including pathways for heath checks and counselling sessions.
Data collection around children affected, this helps to inform where future projects can be directed.

Results from the reviews carried out indicate that following training there is a 47% decrease in rape cases, 52% of girls put their training into use to prevent an assault, 74% of boys trained successfully stopped an assault, and there was a 46% decrease in pregnancy and related school dropouts.

During the training in Kitengela an opportunity was given to our club to witness the classes in progress. We were given time to speak to the educators and get a real understanding of what the lessons involved.

This project was so much more special for our e-club because of the international involvement of clubs such as the Darwin Sunrise Rotary Club, Townsville Central Rotary Club, Ross River Rotary Club, Rotary E-Club of Outback Australia in District 9560, and the Rotaract Club of Kitengela. (Earlier projects had been supported by the Rotary Club of Mundingburra, Rotary Club of Darwin South, Rotary Club of Mareeba, and Rotary Club of Townsville Sunrise, with support from Rotary District 9560.)

Coffee Chat at Impressa, Unley Shopping Centre

10.30 am on the first Friday of the month is good for a chat with Rotary friends and a caffeine fix! Next one is Friday 5 August 2022

Upcoming Meetings

Tuesday 2 August 2022 6 for 6.30pm Damien on Fisher

Guest Speaker: Bob Koehne Publishing a book - The Mysteries

Attendance and welcome: Paul Duke & Trevor McGuirk

Tuesday 9 August 2022 6 for 6.30pm Damien on Fisher

Joint meeting including RC Eastwood & RC Hyde Park

Guest Speaker: Mark Huddleston Rotary Regional Re-organisation

Attendance and welcome: Paul Duke & Trevor McGuirk

Apologies and Meeting Enquiries to: Secretary Greg McLeod on 0417 811 838 or email to secretary@unleyrotary.org.au

Venue Set-up Enquiries to: Bulletin Editor Stephen Baker on 0403 687 015

Saturday Thrift Shop Roster

Early Shift: 10.00am to 1.00pm Late Shift: 1.00pm to 4.00pm

Week 1: 6 August 2022

Early: John Peacham (Jerry Casburn) & Linda Sellers (Haydn Baillie) | Late: Robyn Carnachan & Leonie Kewen

Week 2: 13 August 2022

Early: Greg Mcleod & Virginia Cossid| Late: Wendy Andrews & Heather Kilsby

Week 3: 20 August 2022

Early: David Middleton & Nathan White | Late: Vera Ann Stacy & Vera Holt

Week 4: 27 August 2022

Early: Stephen Baker & Judi Corcoran | Late: Jason Booth & Rhonda Hoare

Week 5: 30 July 2022

Early: Bob Mullins & Wendy Andrews | Late: John Kikkert (Virginia Cossid) & Greg McLeod (Paul Duke)

Rotarians, who are unable to attend as rostered, please arrange a swap or as a very last resort contact: Vivienne Wood 0408 819 630; e-mail: vwood#ozemail.com.au

Mitre 10 and Bunnings Barbeques

The Mitre 10 BBQs are the first and third Saturdays of each month. Morning shift 8.30am - 12 noon; afternoon shift 12.00 - 3.30pm, then clean-up.....next one is Saturday 6 August 2022

ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm

Morning shift: 8.00am – 12.30pm | Afternoon shift: 12.30 – 5pm

We have been allocated the last Monday of each month.....next one is Monday 29 August 2022

The Tale End.....

Stephen Westgarth has provided a few tweets about happiness and the attainment thereof

Laura
Sometimes I hide condiments from my husband by moving them three inches to the left.

Bart
My wife asked me if she had any ‘annoying’ habits and then got all offended during the PowerPoint presentation.

Matthew {On the phone with my mum}
Me: What’s your secret to 55 years of marriage?
Mum: We never hated each other on the same day.

Wife: Did you tell the kids to drop out of school?
Me: They don’t like their teacher.
Wife: I’m their teacher.
Me: and I’m their guidance counsellor.

Molly
Pro tip for couples suddenly working from home together: Get yourselves an imaginary co-worker to blame things on. In our house, Cheryl keeps leaving her dirty coffee cups all over the place and we really don’t know what to do about her.

Simon

I have a cold and it’s pretty bad, but my wife has a husband with a cold and apparently that’s way worse.

Jocelyn

I track my husband’s location but it’s not what you’re thinking. I need to know when he’s almost home so that when he walks in I’m cleaning toilets instead of watching Oprah.

Janet

My husband pissed me off so I bought another half-dozen throw pillows for our bed.

She

My husband surprised me with a night out to celebrate the anniversary of our first date. I was reminded of the man I fell in love with.

We arrived at the theatre and learned that the movie was playing at another location a full hour earlier. I was reminded of the man I married.

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