Local News and Events
 DG John's Message
Kia ora koutou katoa  
                                                     
Basic Education and Literacy
September is basic education and literacy month.  Worldwide our Rotary Foundation invests $10.99m (USD) a year supporting education.  We know from our partnership with the UN that 775 million people over 15 are illiterate.  We know too that the education of girls and young women is a major key to economic development for whole communities. The Rotary Foundation capital investments are the engine that helps fund our basic education initiatives. Thank you for your support. Closer to home, clubs working in schools, on literacy projects and with refugee communities all support Rotary’s literacy focus.
 
 
 The Conference Planning Team:  PDG Howard Tong and Suzanne Manning
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Rotary Illustrated Dictionaries -  PRIP,  Bill Boyd shares a Testimonial
Dear Governors,
The Dictionary project is going well [over 180 000 so far] and this testimonial is a classic. Clubs in every district are involved and I wondered if you might use the testimonial as a paragraph in your District newsletter.
Regards, Bill Boyd
 
 
         Hi Brian  
 
       To all the Rotary Newmarket Team, you guys are awesome.   
 Yes we have received the illustrated dictionaries with the greatest of thanks. An illustrated dictionary is given to the student when they start working with a Howard League volunteer tutor. Howard League work with those requiring extra support               with education, (ESOL, dyslexic, brain injury and limited (sometimes none) opportunity for schooling as a child mostly due to abusive/dysfunctional upbringings).
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Wildbase Recovery Centre Puzzle is Complete
 
PDG Rodney Wong writes:
'Final piece of the Wildbase Recovery Centre project puzzle is now in place. A 5.2metre Paul Dibble bronze sculpture named "Dawn chorus on the fish of Maui", depicting 9 species of NZ native birds in a karaka tree.
The fish symbolises the North Island hooked up from the sea by Maui. This eight year project is now complete...thank you for your assistance and I think it has been significant.'
Whanganui Daybreak Rotary ' Flying High'

Whanganui Daybreak had an excellent meeting this morning (2/9). Although everyone was tired this morning after yesterday's Monster Kite Day was a MONSTER success, the mood was one of quiet satisfaction with a job well done. Lots of fantastic ideas were tossed around that will make next year's event even bigger and better.This morning's Whanganui Chronicle has pictorial and video coverage; check it out at the link below. But without doubt, the most successful aspect of the day was seeing so many families out and about in the spring sunshine, having fun outdoors.

 

Whanganui Daybreak promotes itself as a family-friendly Rotary Club, and you couldn't get much more family-friendly than yesterday's event!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/.../article.cfm...

 

 

Mana Tangata  - a reminder

Mana Tangata: Centenary History of Rotary in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands - A reminder from PDG Martin Garcia.

From October to December, our professional historian, Dr Stephen Clarke, will be working on Chapter 4 of the coffee table book, ‘Changing Society (1972 – 1996) - from peak membership Rotary faces socio-demographic challenges.’                                                                           

 

 

This period was a time when many of our Rotary Clubs were established and/or were developing and facing challenges and opportunities.  As DG John Mohi has been exhorting Clubs, please make sure our historian has access to information about your Club’s stories and please highlight the important elements for him.   

Please refer to the webpage https://rotary9940.org/stories/mana-tangata-people-of-action-the-publication-outline/  for information about how to provide your Club’s history to the historian.

 
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District Information
 
District Bulletin
September Bulletin 2019
Sep 09, 2019
Freya Kerr
Aug 05, 2019
 
RI Convention 2020 - Hawaii