1. New Horizons
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9450! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 2, Issue 20! 16th - 22nd November 2009
Update on the Eotary Amelia, Fundraiser for ARH News When the Berlin Wall The Virtue of Small Rotary Foundation
WA Cord Blood Bank Polio Is breakfast the most Fell, Rotary was There Change Thought of the Week
Project update from the Report on the movie important meal of the Look back on the 20 See what a difference This week’s thought is
Chairman. night to raise funds for day?. years since the fall of small change can make about Matching
Page 1 the Rotary PolioPlus Page 2 the Berlin Wall. around the world. Grants.
program. Page 2 Page 3 Page 5
Page 1
have nominated bannerettes we’ve had
RWACBB as their printed there. The printer
charity so we win both emailed to advise the
ways. The game will be Trudgian’s have picked up
played on Friday 6th the banners. Although we
November 2009 on a ordered 100 he also advised
course which is in tip he has given us a bonus of 20,
top condition. so the cost of the banners will
average out at around $2.40
provides an animated “walk
Update on through” of the proposed
John Iriks
Chairman
each, making them very
inexpensive. Once again, our
building please contact your Rotary WA Cord Blood Bank appreciation to Marcos for his
Rotary WA representatives if you want Trust great design work and we’re
an updated presentation. looking forward to seeing the
Cord Blood finished product.
Fundraising Amelia,
Bank Project As you will be aware our
original target of $5,000,000 fundraiser or Pull Up Banner
Greetings all, I have been was revised to $6,000,000 to
waiting for information on cover cost increases over the
extended period of the
PolioPlus Due to a new baby in the
the successful tender but as family, Peter Sung, the
many of you are anxious to project. To date we have manufacturer of our banner,
Many members went along
receive an update I will received cash and pledges of had overlooked making it.
to Innaloo last Wednesday,
follow up with that $5,550,674 net after expenses. Simone has received his
11th November to see the
information later. The most positive aspect of confirmation that it should be
movie Amelia. As well as
the fundraising is the 100% with us in the very near
being an enjoyable, true story
Building Progress response from all pledges. By future. Once again, our
about Amelia Earhart, we
Tenders have been called and January 2010 almost all thanks to Marcos and we’re
have an extra amount raised
have now been received for pledges will have been also eagerly awaiting its
for PolioPlus. A total of 137
processing. Although the received. arrival to see how it looks.
of the 150 tickets were sold
figures have not been
and our members sold
analysed the general trend Further donation will be
around 38 of them. Well
shows that there is no major coming in from the Climb for
done and a big thank you to RYLA
cost escalation as we feared a Smile about $20,000 and the
the ticket sellers.
might have been. Further Kwinana Golf Club Charity
Alan and Jan Stewart have
updates will be provided Match which will raise about
been holidaying but due
once the tender has been $10,000 for our project and
$20,000 donated to the
Club home anytime. Once back at
accepted. We anticipate work Alan will pursue to
commencement and charity nominated by the
winning team. The match has
Bannerettes prospect of bringing two
completion in 2010. Aboriginal Youths down to
attracted 28 teams including
Dawn and Jeff Trudgian from the RYLA (Rotary Youth
Guest Speakers and representation from the
the RC of Hillarys are Leadership Awards) Camp,
Promotion Rotary Clubs of Bunbury,
holidaying in Bali until 26th with BHP picking up the cost
Committee members have Melville, Scarborough, Palm
November and they have of sponsoring these two
access to a DVD which Beach. Many of the teams
kindly collected the youths.
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2. N E W H O R I Z O N S
appreciated if the members access to the hotel. We have
Board for concerned treat this as a
When the been waiting for these guests
matter of urgency and pay for 28 years, and we ask you
2010-11 dues immediately please, as
Berlin Wall to wait with us. The
we don’t want to pay for [Brandenburg] gate and wall
It’s time to seriously consider magazine subscriptions, RI are open.’”
nominating members for our dues etc for the next six Fell, Rotary
Board for 2010-11. Daniel months for members who are The fall of the Berlin Wall 20
distributed the Nomination currently not financial. was There years ago this month marked
form with the last Bulletin. Adapted from an article by the beginning of
Please return completed
forms to Sec. Daniel. Australian Matthias Schütt
Rotary International News
monumental political
changes in Europe, but also
the start of a new era in
Rotary Health 12 November 2009
Enid Wall Rotary. The event is largely
seen today as the
Enid is still fragile but
News launching pad for
the rebirth of
working on coming back to Remember the old saying Rotary across
Rotary, hopefully this week that breakfast is the most Eastern Europe.
for our Committee meetings. important meal of the day?
We miss you Enid and look New research funded by German Rotarians,
forward to your return. Australian Rotary Health
stunned by the
suggests breakfast plays an events of 9
Br James and important role in adolescent
mental health.
N o v e m b e r,
rejoiced in the
School in Research conducted by Dr
prospect of a
reunified Germany
Wendy Oddy from the
Nepal Curtin University of
and what it would
mean to Rotary.
Te c h n o l o g y / Te l e t h o n
An update on the school that They also wasted
Institute for Child Health
James has become involved no time in getting
Research found that a high
with in Nepal may be involved, even as
quality breakfast, with foods
possible this coming week. the wall itself was
from at least three different
Looking forward to learning coming down.
healthy food groups, is
about this great project Members of the
linked with better mental
which will improve life for Rotary Club of
health in fourteen-year-old
many young folk in Nepal. Berlin-Tiergarten
boys and girls. And for every
welcomed visitors
extra food group eaten, the
coming through
50 Years of teenagers’ associated mental
health score improved. Enthusiasm for Rotary's role in a soon-to-be
the wall from East
Berlin with tea and
Service to the Dr Oddy and her colleagues
reunified Germany was scrawled onto the Berlin c o f f e e .
Wall before it was dismantled in 1990. Photo
The
asked over 800 teenagers Rotarians also
Local and what they ate for breakfast,
courtesy of Rotary Magazin donated street
and scored this based on maps of West
International their intake of the core food On a November 1989 Berlin, which the visitors
needed because their East
groups. Mental health was evening, hundreds of
Community also assessed using a detailed Rotarians participating in an German maps didn’t indicate
any West Berlin streets. “The
questionnaire. International Institute
Congratulations to the packed the foyer of the coffee went cold, but the
Research has already shown maps went in a flash,” recalls
Rotary Club of Nedlands on Hilton in West Berlin. They
that students who eat Berlin-Tiergarten club
their 50 years of service. anxiously waited for taxis to
breakfast pay more attention member Jürgen Thormann.
There is an article in the Post take them to a host
in class, retain more
this week on their 50 year hospitality event, but none
information and are more In the weeks and months that
anniversary which is being arrived.
interested in learning, but followed, West German
celebrated today, 15th ,with a
this is the first study to show Rotarians developed
riverside festival. Their Finally, a hotel employee
that variety of breakfast is strategies for reestablishing
actual anniversary was on walked to a microphone and
also important. clubs that had once existed in
2nd November and two made an announcement, as
Charter Members, John organizer Peter Lorenz, of the eastern part of the
This is just one of hundreds country, in cities such as
Grosser and Lloyd Fethers of ways your donations to the Rotary Club of Berlin-
will participate in the Spree, recounts: Chemnitz, Dresden, and
Australian Rotary Health not Leipzig.
festivities. only help improve health in “He said, ‘We have to ask for
Western Australia but across your patience because the
District governors from the
Club Dues the country. Please encourage
your club to donate to ARH.
taxis we called can’t make it
to the hotel. As you will see, Austrian and German
thousands of visitors from districts discussed plans for
There are still some members The Influence of Diet on Teen
the eastern part of the city expanding Rotary into East
who have not paid their Mental Health. Author: Malcolm
are on the streets, blocking Germany and neighboring
dues. It would be Kates
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3. N E W H O R I Z O N S
countries, including success. “What matters,” she In rural Yunnan, an HIV- AIDS Initiative clinics treated
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and says, “is the outcome.” positive pregnant woman has the women and provided drug
Yugoslavia. Clubs and districts 33 percent chance of passing on therapy to prevent HIV
also began conducting seminars Rotarians know this firsthand, the virus in utero, during transmission. Of the children
with communities in East whether they are among the delivery, and while breast- born to the women, only two
Germany, many of which helped Foundation’s top donors, feeding. A 70-cent test, funded had the virus. “The rate is on
establish twin city programs or bequeathing multimillion-dollar by a Matching Grant from The par with standards achieved in
led to Rotary club projects that fortunes, or the many club Rotary Foundation, lowered developed Western nations,”
are still ongoing, 20 years later. members who steadily the risk to less than 2 percent Zee says. Recently, a second
contribute smaller amounts among those tested. The rapid Matching Grant funded
Even though the concept of every year. HIV test allows for early another drive. Only one child
service clubs was foreign to an detection so the mother can be tested positive.
entire generation in what had We surveyed the landscape of treated, preventing
been East Germany, within a recent projects funded by the transmission and saving two Mosquito net: $5
year after the German Foundation and came up with lives. “Give me $10-$20,” Terry
reunification, 49 new clubs were these eight ways to change the Youlton says, “and we can save
chartered there. world on the cheap. All of them Armed with Foundation funds, a family.”
fall into at least one of the six the Rotarians and Ho’s China
In March 1990, Hugh Archer, areas of focus outlined in the AIDS Initiative launched a Youlton, 73, is directing the
who was RI president at the Future Vision Plan. And all have massive drive to perform rapid delivery of 110,000 mosquito
time and attended the price-to-impact ratios that HIV tests on 30,000 newlywed nets to boarding schools across
International Institute in West would delight any executive. and pregnant women. Tanzania. “There are over 16
Berlin when the wall came For the cost of a candy bar, you million cases of malaria a year
down, traveled to the Kremlin to can save a child from HIV The China AIDS Initiative, a in Tanzania,” he observes.
discuss the concept of service infection. Give up a couple of public-private partnership, is “And 100,000 people die. Most
organizations with Soviet lattes, and you can restore coordinated by the Aaron susceptible are pregnant
officials. Three months later, the someone’s eyesight. And your Diamond AIDS Research women and small children.”
Rotary Club of Moscow was next dinner at a restaurant? Buy Center in New York, where Ho
chartered. some chickens instead – you is chief executive officer. Ho Youlton’s club, the Rotary Club
could feed a family and provide recruited basketball stars of Ridgetown, Ont., Canada,
By the autumn of 1995, the enough income to send the Magic Johnson (Ho’s retroviral and the Rotary Club of Moshi,
reunified Germany had 91 new children to school. drugs are keeping him alive) Tanzania, with 18 Canadian
clubs, and the Rotary movement and Yao Ming to publicize the districts, secured a Matching
was rapidly expanding into Rapid HIV test: 70 cents drive. “A photo of Yao showing Grant from the Foundation and
Eastern Europe. The remote border towns of Magic how to eat with another grant from the
China’s Yunnan Province are a chopsticks – that carried a Canadian government. The
virtual petri dish for HIV, with a message that HIV is not Rotarians purchased the nets
The Virtue of thriving sex trade, cheap heroin transmitted casually,” says through the Against Malaria
from the neighboring Golden Fremont club member Lena Foundation, which guarantees
Small Change Triangle, plenty of migrant Zee. that they’re distributed where
By John Conroy workers to spread the virus, and promised. On the group’s Web
The Rotarian a lack of education about safe The Rotarians and the initiative site, donors can track the nets
November 2009 sex practices. (In 2003, about 6 also organized 270 educational through photos and videos.
percent of Chinese villagers events for the public, reaching “This was the kind of proof I
Everyone remembers the knew that condoms could 120,000 people, and trained wanted for Rotary,” Youlton
horrifying December 2004 protect against AIDS.) Yunnan is 1,800 health workers. says.
tsunami. But what few people also a place of mythic beauty; it
know – because almost no inspired the legend of Shangri- More than 160 of the women in The Against Malaria
media reported this fact – is that La. Yunnan tested positive. China Foundation provides long-
nearly half of total relief
donations worldwide, $2.78 The Rotary clubs of Shanghai
billion, came from ordinary U.S. and Fremont, Calif., USA,
citizens. Celebrities and big teamed up with pioneering Club Birthday & Christmas Dinner
corporations got press, but not virologist David Ho in 2006 to
these individual small donors, prevent mother-to-child
transmission of the virus in Thursday, 17th December, 2009
most of whom gave less than
$50. Yunnan, which accounts for a
third of China’s reported AIDS 6:30pm for 7:00pm at the Nedlands Gold Club, Melvista Ave,
cases – by far the highest of all Nedlands.
Wendy Smith describes this
unprecedented burst of provinces. Ho, named Time
magazine’s Person of the Year in Cost is $45.00 per person for a three course traditional
generosity in Give a Little: How
1996 for inventing the cocktail of Christmas dinner (Vegetarian alternative available)
Your Small Donations Can
Transform Our World , drugs so successful in treating
published this month. Smith, AIDS patients, is also credited Speaker: WA Chief Scientist Lyn Beazley
who profiled a bridge-building with helping to convince the
project funded by The Rotary Chinese government to confront Entertainment: Richard Symons
Foundation, adds that giving a the AIDS epidemic with a huge
lot of money does not guarantee commitment of resources.
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4. N E W H O R I Z O N S
cataracts account for nearly preventable blindness in wild poliovirus persists. And it’s
half of the world’s blindness, children, vitamin A deficiency, a bargain: 60 cents will protect a
and as people live longer, the can be eliminated for 2 cents a child from polio for life. Since the
numbers are rising. dose. Up to half a million PolioPlus program was launched
children a year lose their sight in 1985, Rotarians have
In the United States, cataract because they lack the vitamin, contributed more than $800
surgery to replace the abundant in the diet of children million to the cause and
existing crystalline lens with in developed nations. (Eggs, immunized two billion children.
an intraocular lens (IOL) fortified milk and cereal, carrots,
costs about $3,000. Two and spinach are all good Flock of chickens: $20
small Rotary clubs – Spring sources.) Children with vitamin The Rotary Foundation has
Township Centennial, Pa., A deficiency are also more likely awarded many grants over the
and Karachi South, Pakistan die from common childhood years to clubs that team up with
– found a group to do it for illnesses such as diarrhea and Heifer International, providing
$25 at a state-of-the-art measles. farm animals to impoverished
hospital in Karachi. With a families. The stipulation:
Matching Grant, they Administering 200,000 IU Recipients must pass on the
funded IOL implants for (international units) of the good fortune, by way of animal
The Foundation has funded insecticide- 2,000 impoverished patients, vitamin for two days cuts offspring. With a Matching
treated mosquito nets like these to help teaming up with the Layton blindness and mortality rates. Grant, the Rotary clubs of
prevent malaria, which kills one child Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust, Matching Grants have funded Kololo-Kampala, Uganda, and
every 30 seconds. AP/Charles Dharapak a nonprofit operating 16 eye many vitamin A drives. Hayle, England, recently
care hospitals in Pakistan. Supplements also are often provided 22 Ugandan families
lasting insecticidal nets. The delivered with polio vaccines with heifers for $500 apiece.
mosquitoes are drawn by the Concentrated l a n g u a g e during National Immunization About 58 gallons of milk are now
odor of the sleeping person and encounter: $8.56 Days, averting 1.5 million flowing each day into the local
killed on contact with the nets. Where conventional literacy childhood deaths since 1998. economy.
Even with holes, a treated net techniques have failed, hundreds
remains 90 to 95 percent effective of thousands of children and Bio-sand filter: $32 If that’s too pricey, Heifer
for about five years. The adults have learned to read The numbers are astonishing: International also can provide a
insecticide also is safe for all: A through the concentrated One in three people worldwide starter flock of 10 to 50 chicks for
mosquito is a million times language encounter (CLE) lacks access to clean water, 3.5 $20. The birds can thrive on
smaller than an infant. method. million people die each year small plots and survive on table
from drinking it, and one child scraps and insects, making them
Population Services Schools in more than 30 dies every 15 seconds from ideal for impoverished
International, a global health countries have adopted the waterborne illnesses. Recently, communities.
nonprofit based in Washington, approach, developed by Rotarian 19,000 bio-sand filters – simple,
D.C., will install the nets. “It’s a Richard Walker more than 30 cost-effective tools for purifying A good hen can lay 200 eggs a
hot and dirty job,” Youlton says. years ago, and the literacy water – were installed in homes year. Ray White, Heifer
“I know, because I’ve been there booklets have been translated in the Dominican Republic, International spokesman, says
and done that. You’re climbing into a multitude of languages, funded by 30 Foundation that with 25 roosters and 25
around on the top of double and among them Afrikaans, Arabic, Matching Grants to clubs in hens, a family starts eating a lot
triple bunks. They’re doing it all Bangla, and Turkish. Canada, the Dominican better. “Suddenly there’s protein
for free.” Republic, and the United States. in the diet,” he says, “and if there
And it’s cheap. The basic is space for a garden, the
Cataract surgery: $25 supplies are paper, cardboard, The HydrAid bio-sand filter homegrown vegetables do better
When Pennsylvania Rotarian crayons, and twine, to create removes all parasites and 95 with the application of the
Robert Walton talks to Rotary books that the classes write percent of bacteria and viruses. It manure.”
clubs, he doesn’t plead for together. The Rotary clubs of uses gravity as a power source,
thousands of dollars. Instead, he Pasig North, Philippines, and has no moving parts, and lasts With a flock this size, White says,
asks, “How many eyes do you Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, recently for at least 10 years. Made of a family can bring both eggs and
want to restore?” completed a two-year CLE plastic, it weighs just 8 pounds. meat to market and still increase
program for four elementary For $32, you can buy yourself the overall number by allowing
Then he tells them that for $6.75 schools in Pasig City, two bottles of water a day for some eggs to hatch. A family in
– when combined with Philippines. about two weeks, or you can buy Burkina Faso, for example, could
contributions from Rotarians in one bio-sand filter and deliver triple its annual income,
Karachi, Pakistan, and Matching With $10,000 raised by the two pure water for a decade to an sometimes in a matter of months.
Grants from the Foundation – clubs and a Matching Grant of entire family. “Now they can afford the $3 to
each person in the audience equal size from The Rotary send a child to school for a year.
could save someone from Foundation, the program Polio vaccine: 60 cents They can afford what they call
blindness. reached 2,337 students, at a cost Unless you joined Rotary ‘iron sheets’ for the roof, so the
of $8.56 each. And that’s just the yesterday, you’ve heard this home is dry for the first time.
Cataracts, the clouding of the eye first class: The grant also funded before: Drops of the oral polio They can afford a little medical
lens, have many causes, among training for 51 teachers. vaccine in the hands of Rotarians care, and a little goes a long way
them aging, diabetes, have changed the world. But when children are dying of
hypertension, eye trauma, and Vitamin A: 2 cents we’re not done yet. Without measles, dysentery, and malaria.
long-term exposure to ultraviolet Consider this the next time you dusting off your passport, you
light. According to the World walk past a penny on the could help eradicate the disease
Health Organization, age-related ground: The leading cause of from the four nations where the
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5. N E W H O R I Z O N S
Lar das Criancas Children’s Tanabi Rotarians have seen
The Rotary Home in Tanabi, Brazil. This the student’s interest in
Foundation institution provides free
extracurricular activities and
learning and participating in
activities improve as well as
much needed daycare for low the children’s sense of self
Week 20: This week’s Rotary income families. worth after the uniforms and
Foundation Thought is about equipment arrived.
how a Matching Grant can A matching grant was used
make a difference. to help the Home purchase This is just one of the many
uniforms for all of the examples of how the
Last year Rotary clubs in children. Each student also Foundation’s humanitarian
Brazil and Mexico and the received school supplies, grants programs can make
United states joined together gym shoes, swimsuits and positive changes for children.
in a matching grant to aid the caps.
Program for November / December
Introduction
Date Details
Date Name
16th November The Dr Ken Collins Address, Golden
26 November Claire Forsdyke Nugget Room, Gloucester Park.
Tickets must be pre-purchased!
3rd December TBA
19th November Committee Meeting
Vote of Thanks 26th November Waist Disposal Challenge - Exercise -
Simone Carot Collins
Date Name
3rd December TBA
26 November Elizabeth Bain
10th December TBA
3rd December TBA
Welcoming Roster Board Club Details
Rotary Year 2009-10
Date Name Di Collins — President Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au PO Box 168,
Nedlands,
19th November Lyn Packer Ken Collins — Vice President / Western Australia, 6909
Membership Director
26th November Peter Symons vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Thursday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
3rd December TBA Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
Simone Carot Collins — President Elect / Queenslea Drive
10th December TBA Club Administration Director
Claremont
presidentelect@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
17th December Simone Carot Collins clubadmin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Email
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer Phone
treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au 08 9385 0471
Fax
Bulletin Contributions Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary
secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
08 9385 0472
Website
Contributions for the weekly bulletin are Rob Rohrlach — Projects Director
www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
sought from members of the club. projects@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Why not use the bulletin to update the club Facebook
Claire Forsdyke — International Director
on the projects your committee is working http://www.facebook.com/group.php?
foundation@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
on or promote the clubs next fundraising gid=47737002646
event. Toni James — PR & Marketing
Committee Director Chartered 19 December 2008
Please forward articles and photos to
daniel.forsdyke@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au publicrelations@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
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6. White Ribbon Day Soirée
Perth 2009
Young UNIFEM The evening will be hosted by Shadow Treasurer
Ben Wyatt MLA, White Ribbon Ambassador, and money
Australia’s Perth raised will be donated to the White Ribbon Foundation of
Australia and used to support community and educational
Chapter cordially programs directed towards necessary culture change
invite you to the White around violence.
Ribbon Day Soirée. The evening will feature a screening of the 20 minute
documentary “Yajilarra, To Dream: Aboriginal women
leading change in remote Australia,” and musical
entertainment. Finger food and drinks will be provided.
Date & Time
6.30pm-9.00pm on Wednesday 25 November 2009,
the International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women.
Venue
So please join us The Sunken Gardens, The University of Western Australia
in saying no to
violence against Cost
woman and $25 unwaged, $30 waged
supporting the work
of UNIFEM and RSVP
the White Ribbon By Friday 20 November to UNIFEM.Perth@gmail.com or
Foundation. call Holly Ransom on 0412 249 628.
PEV94223