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Kia Ora Koutou
November in the Rotary Calendar is The Rotary Foundation month
Foundation news from Simon Manning - District Chair Rotary Foundation
At 11am on 11 November this year, Aotearoa New Zealand marked
the centenary of the armistice that ended the First World War in 1918. On that day 100 years ago, after four years of brutal conflict, war finally gave way to peace.
Rotarian and U.S. Marine Alvan C. Hadley’s painting of a serviceman reading The Rotarian in a war-torn landscape appeared on the magazine’s June 1918 issue.
World Polio Day in October has been and gone with some great events held in District but we are not yet “Polio Free” with YTD cases this year 20, 16 in Afghanistan and the other 4 in Pakistan.
Polio does still exist! Is it curable!
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Remember to keep free the weekend of 17th -> 19th May 2019 for District Conference and District Training Day. All going well, DG Marion advises that there will be updated information on the District website from the 18th of November.
The multi-facetted port city invites you to the Rotary International Convention from June 1st through June 5th, 2019. Use this opportunity to get to know Rotarians from around Germany, Europe and the world! Help shape the future of Rotary and become inspired during the conference.The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has a long and rich Rotary tradition: the first German Rotary club was founded in Hamburg in 1927. The "Gateway to the World", tradition meets modernity, the Elbe Philharmonic Hall – all this is Hamburg. And so much more. Visit us in 2019 and we can explore this global city together.
We look forward to seeing you!
Rotary Fellowship Exchange programmes give Rotarians and their families (or friends) the opportunity to experience other cultures firsthand, by participating in reciprocal visits with Rotarians from other countries and their families.
Members of District 9940, namely: South Wairarapa, Eastern Hutt, Masterton South, Rotary of Ngamotu and Plimmerton Rotary attended an outward exchange programme at the end of September this year to the District 5020 with many highlights of the trip including Vancouver Island, North West Washington from Pierce County south to Woodland. Our Rotarians and their partners had a wonderful time and “were extremely well looked after”.
D9700 Central New South Wales, Australia will be visiting our District from 24th February - 10 March 2019 and esp those who are keen to go on the exchange programme later to Australia (2-15 September this year) should be getting involved when these Rotarians come to visit our part of the country !
Actually, anyone interested in participating in one of our upcoming exchange programmes ought to get involved as soon as possible, as first come, first served is the deal.
Next year we have an outbound international exchange programme (10-19 April 2019) already booked with Taiwan; this District has already visited D9940, under the guidance of Anthony Scott.
More international exchange programmes are coming up - check the programme here.
Rotarians please ensure that you insert the correct RI Logo compiling Rotary publication and Information documents.
To access the correct RI Logos please go to the RI website, login to MY Rotary and select Brand Centre.
You will find all of the correct options and correct information there.
