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Local News and Events
DG's December Thoughts
Kia ora koutou katoa
With the recent events in Samoa there has been a wake-up call world-wide on the importance of disease prevention and treatment.
The tragedy for us all is that while knowledge and treatments are available they are not universally or consistently applied to our populations.
 
Rotary has Disease Prevention and Treatment as one of our six areas of focus. We also have a huge proactive engagement in this area with the End Polio Now and Rotary Give Every Child a Future campaigns, but there is still the need for doing more and doing better along with our international and local partners.
Our International Service Chair, Nick Hurley, joins me with his contribution on what we can do to support the people of Samoa.
 
From Lane and me we wish you all a very safe and joyous festive season with family and friends wherever you may be.
We are so impressed and proud of our District 9940 members and everything you are doing. Our people truly are people of action.
Ngā mihi arohanui
John H Mohi     
                                                                                    
 
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 Conference 2020 - ROTARY CONNECTS THE WORLD -TOGETHER WE CONNECT
In December 2019,  we launched our District 9940 Conference website.
Bookmark the website on your computer now and you will see more over time as we add to the information. Look out for the highlight promotions that will appear regularly.
 
Registrations for the conference (15 - 17 May 2020) open in early February 2020.
 
The conference is our annual opportunity to share information, have fun and to connect with Rotary people from around the District and across the world.  The conference programme is being built around local and international leaders engaging with you, as well as you engaging with each other – Interactors, Rotaractors, Rotarians, friends and our guests.
 
Book a date with the RNZ Airforce Jazz Orchestra for our conference dinner dance. As a club, start creating your club’s theme for the dance night. Be creative and dress to impress. Come as a group, come as a team and come and have fun.It promises to be a fabulous night.
Nau mai Haere mai,  koutou katoa                            
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The 2019 RI Brand Model - More than Just a Rotary Wheel
Take a moment to look at your club Facebook page, your webpages and any printed promotional material advertising your club.
 
Does it look like the 2019 model ?
 
If not please update it as it is really important that we are sending consistent messages and our Rotary brand out to the public on everything we do. There is strength in our brand use it well.
More than just the Rotary wheel 
 
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Wonderful work Carterton Satellite Club
 
 
A very new Club but already motivated and actively engaged in supporting the Carterton Community.
 
'Rotary Satellite Club of Carterton out there making a difference in our community. Well done Feija and team'
 
As published in the November 13th Carterton Crier.
 A 'Record' Annual Food Bank Appeal. Well done Masterton South Rotary.

Masterton Food Bank has declared a “record” Annual Food Bank Collection on Wednesday night. (13/11) Emergency services, community organisations, school students, businesses, clubs, and individuals gathered food from right around Wairarapa to replenish its three foodbanks. Masterton Foodbank co-ordinator Lyn Tankersley said volunteers had packed 396 banana boxes of food – last year they packed 280.“It was an absolutely fantastic night,” she said. 

 

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Janis Baker - Off to RYLA January 2020
ATNZ apprentice Janis Baker has been selected to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Programme (RYLA) in January 2020 - Ngamotu Rotary Club

In the second year of her Mechanical Engineering apprenticeship, Janis is currently seconded to Trustpower Ltd and spends her days working on hydro power stations.

She is thrilled to have been chosen for the weeklong live-in programme in Lower Hutt.  The programme is designed to help young people develop their teamwork and communication skills and fulfil their potential as leaders.  Janis told us “I am hoping to gain a great variety of experiences out of RYLA

 

 

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Rotary Porirua - The shoebox Pressie
What was going to be Secret Santa gifts for the Porirua Rotary Club members at the annual Christmas party  became Christmas gifts for the less fortunate families in Porirua. 
 
President Steve Haddock said that Club members decided to make up 20 boxes to spread the Christmas cheer to the community. With the generous support of Club members, friends, work colleagues and local businesses such as New World Porirua,  KMart Porirua and PaperPlus North City, the Club put together just over 135 gift boxes in three weeks. 
Each box contains all things Christmas and a reading book which has a Rotary designed label on the inside cover. The Christmas gift boxes called the 'shoebox pressie' have been distributed to a local school and the Wesley Community Action group. 
Project co-ordinator and President Elect, June Murugan said that the Club would not have been able to deliver such a large number of gift boxes without the support from friends of Rotary Porirua and the local businesses.  One of Rotary's key focus areas is to support education and literacy, and each of the gift boxes contains a book from the latest summer titles. We hope that the families and children enjoy reading over the holidays, she said. 
With such an overwhelming responses this year he hopes that this project will become even bigger next year and that other Clubs will want to join in this initiative for their own communities.
Nice work for such a small club  smiley
AG Adrienne Murray and President Steve Haddock of Rotary Porirua handing over some of the gifts to the Team at the Wesley Community Action Group.
  June Murugan and friends also delivering
  Paula Williams at one of the local schools
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