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Michelle Tanner - Give Every Child A Future

Posted by Leanne Jaggs on Apr 21, 2022

At our last Zoom meeting, we had PP Michelle Tanner of Rotary Club Matamata speaking, about Rotary's Give every child a future project.

As some background, 1 child in 41 dies before they turn 5 in our Pacific Nations, with pneumonia an diarrhoea being the top killers. Zone 8 "Down Under" Centenary project is to deliver 3 vaccines (RV, PCV & HPV) to 100,000 children in 9 Pacific Island Countries (these countries determined by Unicef). This is a 3 year project that all countries will continue to do after the 3 year project finishes. The project is worth 4.5 Million, done through 24 Global Grants. Currently needing $700,000 to finish this wonderful project.

President's Report 18 Mar 2022

Posted by Glynis Carter on Mar 17, 2022

Well, as I write this it is St Patrick's Day- and thanks to many Rotary fundraisers held in March I have a load of accessories to acknowledge the day and wore a number of them to work. Wasn't a great deal of people at work as Thursday is a big working from home day, and I am not likely to be taken to a pub this evening, so I don't think my efforts have been overly well appreciated.

Hey ho, I have googled St Paddy's/Irish sayings and while I quite like "May your home always be to small to hold all of your friends" I found this:

President's Report 24 March 2022

Posted by Glynis Carter on Mar 24, 2022

A mixed week of news overall but FINALLY! Some light at the end of the Omicron tunnel. No, not Orange, going down the tiers of traffic lights has proven to be simply too big a step so the analogy has rather failed really as imagine the chaos if the light just went slightly pink, however, we will embrace the relaxing of the protocols regardless of what on earth it is called.

While we have been able to travel internally for a while Rod and I are still catching up on trips that were cancelled between August and Dec last year so this weekend just gone saw us in Pyes Pa, Tauranga with a school friend of mine and her husband. As usual a hilarious (late) Friday night started the weekend with a bang that took most of the rest of it to recover from. A walk around the Mount (I did chicken out on climbing it) and some very bad tennis got our constitution right for a dinner at a Mt Maunganui restaurant called Fife Lane, which was very pleasant, if in an unlikely location for a swanky restaurant. I finished the meal off with a Lemon Meringue Pie cocktail!

President's Report 11 March 2022

Posted by Glynis Carter on Mar 11, 2022

Another stormy week of news, it is difficult to comprehend what an entire country is going through on the other side of the world. Be assured that Rotary will be there, with funding and volunteers from all over the world. You can help with that, there are donation compaigns running to get aid to the Ukraine via Rotary channels - more details will come through from district - and as you know all money donated will go to the cause, without contributions to admin costs.

We have decided to contribute $250 to Interplast, I am sure most of you know what important work Interplast does in the South Pacific, it is life changing for the patients that it touches. We have also been involved in a Global Grant with an Australian District, and we might try to get someone on zoom to speak to us about that, although timing might need to wait until our time zones are more aligned. Speaking of which about a month of day-light saving to go so enjoy this burst of warm weather to the fullest.

President's Report 3 March 2022

Posted by Glynis Carter on Mar 03, 2022

Greetings all, Rod & I, Steve & Edith and Kirsten attended the Rotary Foundation Dinner last Saturday. Due to COVID an in person award dinner had not been able to be held for two years so we had presentations by both PDG Gary and IPDG Craig for their DG years. Our "small but mighty club" as Leanne would put it, featured very well represented, with recognition of a Major Donor, two consecutive 2nd places for annual giving to the Foundation per capita, and one further member admitted to the Paul Harris Society. Go you all!

Thank you to all that participated in the fastest brain storm session EVER, coming up with a great raft of ideas for how we can take our small and mighty club to something a bit bigger and equally mighty, if not, mightier. Thanks to Edith for collating those efforts.