Rapport 13 March 2018 (Mar 11, 2018)

President

Michelle Smith

Secretary

Jeff Smith

Treasurer

Ric Buchanan

President Elect

David Bradshaw

Immediate Past President

Simon Dalton

Rotary Foundation

Boyne Drummond

Membership

Neil Swanney

Public Relations

Warwick Leyland

Youth

Alastair Macfarlane

World Community Service

Boyne Drummond

Bulletin Editor

Colin Lucas

Special Services

Tom Speed

Administration

David Weikart

Community & Environment

Martin McGahan

Fundraising & Events

Nathan Saminathan

Michelle Smith

From President Michelle.

Peter Corner is still looking for participants in the Petanque evening taking place on 21 March. He needs another 10 or so people. Contact him to enter. The winner receives the glorious Bob MacMillan trophy.

Play it Strange and Rotary Newmarket present

We Are One

Duty Rosters

Members please note that if you are unable to undertake your duty please arrange for some-one else to take your place.

Programme	20-Mar-2018	27-Mar-2018	3-Apr-2018
Topic	Newmarket Business Association	NZ Road Safety Education	NPH organisation
Speaker	Mark Knoff-Thomas	Maria Lovelock	Aurora Zacarias Evening meeting
Introduction	Peter Corner	John Overall	Loren O'Sullivan
Thanks	TBC	Alastair Macfarlane	Martin McGahan
Rapport	Colin Lucas	Ron Halls
AV Duty	Paul Monk	David Weikart
Cash Desk	Colin Lucas	Greg Carr	John Hawke
Registration of Visitors	Marcus Graham	Patrick Learmonth	John Mtichell
Presidents Table	Rotary Foundation	Youth	Community and Environment
Host to Visitors	Ron Halls	John Long	Graeme Orchard
	Alan Hayward	Bill Mabey	John Overall
Attendance Register	Glen Marvin	Malcolm MacDonald	Kevin Peacock
Sunshine Boxes	Terry Hibbitt	Ron McPherson	Richard Solomon
	Richard Holden	Terry Mikkelsen	Bill Strand
Raffle Duty	Pat McKenna	Ian Bond	John Burton

BeyondWater

Sharon and Pete Crean

Sharon and Peter have established the charity “BeyondWater” in East Africa.

The charity was founded to alleviate poverty in East Africa through the provision of safe, clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to communities in that part of the African continent.

BeyondWater has as its founding principles one of community development and the provision of self-sustaining solutions to bring about empowerment. It achieves its aims by engaging with local communities to assess need, bringing deliverable solutions and education to the point that the charity can exit the project and handed over to local ownership.

Peter and Sharon told us how the charity evolved. In November 2007 they lived in Sydney. They were looking for worthwhile projects that they could apply their talents to. They were informed that at least one billion people on this planet of ours do not have access to safe and clean drinking water and another two billion do not have use of adequate sanitation facilities.

They looked to see where their talents could be best applied and decided upon East Africa basing themselves in Kenya. This set up a team of volunteers working to alleviate poverty in East Africa. In the 10 years that beyond water has been in existence they been able to give 10,000 people across East Africa sustainable solutions in a way out of poverty.

How do they do that?

They provide deepwater bores tapping into local aquifers, guttering water tanks hand washing facilities toilets and health education programs. These programs are provided in conjunction with the local communities so that they continue once the people who established the program have long left. Pete and Sharon have found these programs work better than the fly in fly out programs that find favour with the much larger NGOs and the United Nations.

This is because the fly in fly out programs leave infrastructure which falls victim to the lack of maintenance which occurs when no one actually knows how to use the facilities constructed by these programs. The point of difference between those programs and beyond water is that the infrastructure that is installed is solid and simple with for example boreholes having a lifespan of 25 to 50 years.

As well as providing water to communities in the East African region beyond water also undertakes the girl project. This project aims to keep young woman in school by providing sanitary products, soap underwear and toothpaste to enable them to participate when in the absence of such items which we take for granted in New Zealand young woman would spend up to 30% of the time away from school. This project which costs $80 per girl per year gives those young women leadership development career counselling and mentoring skills all done by local women leaders to inspire those girls to achieve scholastic and employment goals. If that doesn't happen the lot of these women is simple destitution and hand to mouth existence.

This was a very interesting presentation on a venture that we as a club could consider engaging with.

For more information go to www.beyondwater.global

Dr Ariana Andrews

Brian McMath introduced Ariana Andrews who as well as being the Mappas awardee from 2011 was one of our nominees for the 2013 RYLA week. Ariana has now graduated from the Auckland medical school. She is joining the US peace corpse for a two-year period. During that time she will be stationed in Vanuatu working in the health and education sector.

Ariana will be living and working in the community for the duration of her stay. This is an exciting opportunity for Ariana and we wish her well and look forward to hearing from her again in the future.

An Evening with Jennifer Jones

An Evening with
Jennifer Jones

Tuesday 27 March 2018
Quality Hotel, Parnell
Join Jennifer Jones, former RI Director 2015-2017, in an evening where you can connect and hear Jennifer talk on the future of Rotary.

Jennifer is the President and CEO of Media Street Productions Inc., an award winning television production company in Windsor, ON. She is a proud member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland and is a Past District Governor of District 6400.
In Rotary, she has served as the Chair of the Strengthening Rotary Advisory Group, Moderator of the 2013 RC/RPIC Institute, Vice Chair of the RI Communication Committee, North American RPIC Coordinator, the Advisory Board for Rotary Canada and the RI Promotions Committees for Lisbon and New Orleans. She served three terms as Seminar Leader at the International Assembly and has been a featured speaker at this event on four occasions.

Quality Hotel, 10-20 Gladstone Rd, Parnell, Auckland
Cash bar from 6pm, buffet dinner at 7pm. $50 per person
To reserve your place, go to rotarydistrict9920.org and follow the link or email jenniferjonesdinner@gmail.com
To confirm your booking by making payment – please deposit the cost of your ticket/s to:
Rotary International District 9920: 12-3011-0757766-02
Reference: (your surname)

Whats Coming up

Rotary Youth Exchange

Rotary is looking to our clubs to find suitable candidates for the 2019 exchange year.

One of the most rewarding aspects of the Rotary youth Exchange programme is that it is open to NZ students (and family of Rotarians) to apply and have a 12 month exchange with great supporting host families

Club Members will have someone eagerly wanting to apply and all they need is to know about the program – be the person that changes their life…

Contact

John Fothergill

John.fothergill@xtra.co.nz

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