Our next meeting will be on the evening of Wednesday 25 Sept 2024
at Ronald McDonald House, Randwick where we will prepare dinner for the families that are staying there.
There will be no meeting at the Graphic Arts Club
Members are reminded that half-yearly Membership Fees are now due.
President's Message
Welcome to this Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Botany Randwick Inc. Our club has been serving the local and international community since 1948.
Rotary promotes the ideal of service through fellowship. Attending our meetings allows members to enjoy the fellowship of other club members, enrich their professional and personal knowledge, and meet other business leaders in their community.
As a Club we support a wide range of projects. As well as having a broad range of local and international community projects, we are particularly focused on the Rotary projects, Australian Rotary Health, Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) and Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) together with The Rotary Foundation.
We welcome everyone to come along to any of our meetings to join in the fellowship and to learn more about what we do.
Members are reminded that on this night we will be preparing a special dinner at Ronald McDonald House for families, mainly from rural NSW, whose children are undergoing treatment at Sydney Children's Hospital.
This function is part of our sponsorship of a room at the House.
Advice has been sent to all members who indicated that they would attend. Could they please return the Volunteer Declaration Form as soon as possible. Note that a restriction on our numbers by House management means that only those previously advised can attend.
We will be serving the meals from 6pm. Thanks to those who can be there at 5pm to start preparations. If others can arrive between 5:30 and 6:00 that would be great. Families tend to wander in at varying times, especially if they have kids in one of the hospital wards. At the end of the night we will package up any leftovers for them to snack on, or devour in the following days.
Most of the families are from rural NSW, some from Canberra. They all will appreciate a chat over the meal, so please mingle with them during the night.
Our last meeting
Our last meeting was a special night to introduce Rotary and our Club to prospective members. It was very pleasing to have eight guests along with us.
A special guest on the night was Steve Lovison, a Rotary Community Leader for our area. Steven updated us on the Regionalisation program, a new way of managing and assisting Rotary Clubs in their endeavours to better serve our communities,
President Simon also had the pleasure of inducting Dr Tobias Vickers as a member of our Club. Congratulations Tobias!
Proudly Partnered with Sydney Airports Corporation
2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at the Graphic Arts Club,
182 Coward Street,
Mascot.
6pm for pre-meeting drinks and chat. The meeting, with dinner, starts at 6:30pm and normally concludes by 8:30pm.
ROMAC is a Program of the Rotary Districts of Australia and New Zealand that facilitates major surgical treatment, in Australia and New Zealand, for children of the Oceania Region that would otherwise have no access to that treatment. Since inception of the program 35 years ago, over 550 children have received life saving or dignity restoring treatment that has changed not only their lives, but also that of their families and communities.
District 9675 Governor Warwick's video this month introduces Haggai who was born in a remote village in PNG with a large facial growth. You will hear from Warwick how ROMAC and Doctors at the Children's Hospital at Westmead transformed her life. Watch this inspiring story here.
Members Christine and Greg recently met Kim Miller from the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation to hand over some of the foreign currencies collected through our Rotary bins located at Sydney Airport before she goes back to Vietnam next week. We could donate the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao money, which amounted to approximately $500 Australian Dollars.
Kim has been with the Foundation for ten years, and she talked about the positive changes they are making for the Vietnamese people. She told us about how and why the Vietnamese people are lured into places like Cambodia to work for ‘scam factories’; they are targeted because they are taken away into locations where they do not have contact with people who speak the same language and put into areas that they do not know how to escape from or learn how to return to their own countries. These young people are held under guard, beaten and tortured (and sometimes) have their organs removed if they do not comply with what they are told to do.
Kim said that it costs about $1,000 to rescue one person. The cash we gave will be used to purchase petrol, food, drink and emergency supplies like shoes worn during rescues. (At times, people need to walk out of places like Myanmar through jungles at night and hide during the day to get back to Vietnam, and this can take up to 28 days)
Win a great holiday in Fiji and support the local and international projects of the Rotary Club of Botany Randwick.
5 night’s accommodation in a Beachfront Hotel Room
Full buffet breakfast daily
Return Malolo Cat transfers
Complimentary use of non-motorised water sports equipment
2 kids under 12 stay and eat free
1 night in a Deluxe Room at Fiji Gateway Hotel, across from Nadi Airport
Plus AUD1000 cash toward travel or spend as you wish. The prize is valid for 18 months. The prize is transferable to friends - your receipt will have a gift certificate to share.
Members Christine and Greg recently met Kim Miller from the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation to hand over some of the foreign currencies collected through our Rotary bins located at Sydney Airport before she goes back to Vietnam next week. We could donate the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao money, which amounted to approximately $500 Australian Dollars. 