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 26 28th December 2009 - 3rd January 2010
Reopening the door to German Rotary Clubs Five years after the District 9455 Program for January Rotary Foundation
learning in Indonesia help Sri Lanka Tsunami Round-up of the plans What is the club doing Thought of the Week
Rebuilding Aceh after Recover How is Rotary helping for the new District. in the New Year? This week’s thought is
the Tsunami. Recovery in Sri Lanka to rebuild lives since the Page 3 Page 4 about people going to
Page 1 following the Tsunami. Tsunami. extraordinary lengths.
Page 2 Page 2 Page 4
March, raising about US
Reopening the $16,000.
Door to “Starting from the district
conference in October [2008],
Learning in we were able to go to
[Rotary] intercity meetings,
Indonesia New Year’s parties, and club
By Dan Nixon meetings to pitch our sales,”
Rotary International News says association president Jun
23 December 2009 Takahashi, a 1993-94
Ambassadorial Scholar to the
Natural disaster and civil United States. “In addition to
conflict have made receiving selling tickets, we received
an education all but many suggestions and kind
impossible for children living words from Rotarians who
in Indonesia’s Aceh Province. encouraged us to move
forward.”
The tsunami that struck in
2004 claimed more than The concert, themed
200,000 lives in South Asia. “Children, Dreams, and
And although the central Hope,” featured
government and a separatist performances by four former
movement signed a peace Rotary Scholars who had
accord in 2005 after 30 years studied in Italy: sopranos
of fighting, facilities for Rosa Watanabe (2000-01) and
learning in Aceh have been Masako Watanabe (2001-02),
slow to materialize. pianist Yuko Takahashi
(1992-93), and vocalist
The plight of the province’s Kosuke Tsuji (1997-98), who
children moved The Rotary led a VisMelodica (a mix of
Foundation Alumni early European, jazz, and
Association of District 2780 ethnic music) that he had
(Japan). The alumni decided composed. It was sponsored
to help establish children’s by the District 2780 Rotary
libraries in Aceh after Foundation Committee;
considering a query from the Rotary Club of Zushi,
Indonesian nongovernmental Kanagawa; Zushi Board of
Education; Indonesian Top: The library project team in Indonesia: alumni Jun Takahashi and
organization Komunitas
Embassy; Japan Foundation; Maho Sato; interpreter Urara Numazawa; Hiroko Yunoki, of the
Tikar Pandan.
and many other Rotarians Rotary Club of Kanagawa Shonan (1972-73 Ambassadorial Scholar to
and alumni. France); and Masanobu Miyagaki, of the Rotary Club of Isehara
The group funded the effort
Heisei. Bottom: Children in the village of Matang Sejuk welcome the
by holding the Aceh Charity
With the help of Komunitas Japanese project team. Photos courtesy of Jun Takahashi
Concert in Zushi, Japan, in
Tikar Pandan, the project
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equipped libraries in three screaming, 'The water is
villages with books, coming!' "
bookshelves, desks, and BBQ @ The Forsdyke’s
chairs. In July, two Rotarians Stepping outside, from the
and two alumni visited the safety of their elevated perch,
Sunday, 10th January, 2010
project site. Jeska-Zimmermann and her 12:00pm for 12:30pm at 144 Brookmount Drive, Ellenbrook.
husband saw locals and
“The villages went through a tourists running from the Cost is $10.00 per person to be donated to the Club Charity
great deal of hardship during beach uphill to a Buddhist Account.
the conflicts,” says Maho temple on higher ground, Maps will be provided for those members that require them!
Sato, a 1994-95 many bleeding, others Otherwise just follow your nose to the Swan Valley!
Ambassadorial Scholar to carrying children in their
England. “Children in all arms. You could even make a day of it, by visiting the local wineries
three villages were severely for tasting...
traumatized. [The libraries] "We and our Sri Lankan staff
will function as spaces for immediately invited some of
the development of the the worst injured inside, equipment, operating tents, firsthand our global
villages and the children’s giving first aid to about two tables, and tools for the humanitarian network in
growth.” dozen people," she says. devastated hospital. action."
In the days following, as
German Rotary Jeska-Zimmermann and her
In the aftermath of the
tsunami, German Rotary Five Years after
husband tried to grasp the clubs in 12 districts raised
Clubs help Sri scope of the devastation, they more than €1.5 million (US the Tsunami
joined a group of Sri Lankans $2.1 million) in donations
Lanka Recover attempting to discover the and equipment.
By Arnold R. Grahl
Rotary International News
By Sandra Prufer and Arnold fate of patients at the 21 December 2009
R. Grahl Mahamodara Hospital in Jeska-Zimmermann also met
Rotary International News Galle, about 12 miles with former German Five years after a powerful
22 December 2009 southeast of their resort, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, tsunami devastated
where 40-70 who was vacationing on the communities along the coast
babies were same island, and the Kohl of the Indian Ocean, Rotary
born daily. Foundation agreed to projects continue to
Mercifully, all provide €9 million ($12.9 contribute to long-term
the patients million) to construct a new recovery.
had been maternity hospital about 9
evacuated to miles inland of the Shortly after the tsunami hit
the Karapitiya Mahamodara facility. on 26 December 2004, The
Te a c h i n g Workers broke ground on the Rotary Foundation
Hospital project on the one-year established a Solidarity in
further inland anniversary of the tsunami, South Asia fund,
before the but work was subsequently coordinating US$5.9 million
s e c o n d , delayed by Sri Lanka's civil in donations toward recovery
stronger wave war. efforts throughout the region.
hit. The Foundation also
In early 2010, German clubs, awarded more than $480,000
Seeing dozens in partnership with the in humanitarian grants in
of women in Rotary Club of Colombo, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka,
labor lying on Western Province, plan on and Thailand. Many
cardboard on providing about $300,000 to individual Rotary club and
A mother holds her baby at the maternity hospital in the floor of equip the old Mahamodara district foundations also
Sri Lanka a year after the tsunami. Photo courtesy of t h e hospital building with two contributed from their own
District 1950 overcrowded new delivery rooms and two funds.
teaching operating rooms.
hospital, Jeska-Zimmermann RI President John Kenny
Kerstin Jeska-Zimmermann, vowed to help. She faxed a Jeska-Zimmermann will visited Banda Aceh,
2004-05 governor of District handwritten list of urgently travel to Sri Lanka in January Indonesia, in late November
1950 (Germany), was needed medicine and to oversee the effort. to inaugurate one result of
vacationing with her supplies, along with a plea those recovery projects: a
husband in Sri Lanka's for help, back home to be "Our tsunami project in Sri health center that is part of a
Hikkaduwa resort town in distributed to all club Lanka -- which is only one of larger $1.9 million youth
December 2004 when the presidents in her district. hundreds of Rotary recovery complex on about an acre of
powerful tsunami hit. projects -- shows the donated land.
The first, 2-ton shipment of tremendous speed, efficiency,
"All of a sudden, there was emergency medical supplies and flexibility of the Rotarian "The work you have done
absolute silence, as if nature left the Frankfurt airport network," she says. "This here in Indonesia is a vivid
was holding her breath," within two weeks of her powerful sentiment was example of how Rotary
Jeska-Zimmermann recalls. appeal, followed shortly after echoed by the medical staff comes together to achieve so
"After a few minutes, we by a second, 7-ton shipment and mothers who saw much," Kenny said. "In the
heard people frantically that included sonogram
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volunteers in the days nears its end, 22 schools session.
after the tsunami. The are back in service,
facility joins an orphanage providing education for Assistant Governors will also be
that opened three years about 12,000 children. invited to attend PETS. There
ago, dedicated to child Read more. Get this will be separate training for
survivors of the disaster. story in the latest RVM: Assistant Governors during the
A two-story dormitory for The Rotarian Video weekend. In addition, Assistant
university students is Magazine. Governors will have an
under construction. Water opportunity to meet their
purification and treatment 4 The Solidarity in South President Elects and to
systems serve the entire Asia fund supported a participate in the development of
complex. rehabilitation center for Club Plans during the weekend.
tsunami victims in the
Rotary's impact extends Khlong Nakha Wildlife District Assembly
from Indonesia to India, Sanctuary in Thailand, It is proposed that the Perth
Sri Lanka, and Thailand, providing food, Assembly for metropolitan and
where projects have rebuilt lodging, education, and nearby country Clubs will be
schools, provided counseling for those held on Sunday 2 May 2010. A
classroom supplies, who lost loved ones or preferred venue has been
secured boats and fishing whose homes were identified but has not yet been
equipment to restore local damaged or destroyed. confirmed.
economies, and helped
construct and furnish Your donations to The Rotary A number of country Assemblies
hospitals and shelters for Foundation help make recovery will be held to reduce the cost for
the homeless. projects like these possible. Learn the Boards of remote Clubs
more about how to give. participating in this training
Here are a few of the opportunity.
ongoing projects:
RI District 9455 District Changeover
1 Two buses have been Re-Districting in Western
converted into mobile Clubs Australia means we will see
classrooms in the Aceh The Clubs that will form the new three Districts (9450, 9460 and
Province of Indonesia, District are determined by 9470) winding up and two new
bringing primary and Rotary International. Whilst it is Districts (9455 and 9465) being
secondary education to possible that there could still be established. It has been decided
Top: Betty Muliadinata, assistant governor
students across the further changes in the number of that we will hold a joint District
of District 3400, RI President John Kenny
region. Each bus stops Clubs in either of the two new Changeover on 3 July 2010 so
(second from right), and Natalia Soebagjo,
at designated locations Western Australian Districts, that all Rotarians can recognise
past district governor, in front of a mobil
a few hours a day, those that are presently listed by their outgoing District
library during the dedication of a health
giving students free RI as being part of District 9455 Governors and celebrate together
center at the youth complex in Aceh.
access to a librarian, are listed on this Website. We the start of the two new Districts.
Bottom: The entrance of the health center.
books, and multimedia hope to include contact details Rotary International Director
Photos courtesy of Natalia Soebagjo
materials. The project is on the website for all Clubs in Elect, Stuart Heal and Adrienne,
supported by the the near future. will preside over the event.
first hours and days after the Solidarity in South Asia
tsunami, Rotary volunteers were fund and the SIKIB, an I am looking forward to working
Board, Assistant Governor and
among the first to respond on- organization made up with the Clubs and Rotarians of
Committee Chair Appointments
site. In the days, weeks, and of the wives of District 9455 during 2010-11 to
Board appointments have been
months to follow, Rotarians the ministers in the continue the great work of
settled and it is intended to have
world over rallied to send all I n d o n e s i a n Rotary. I wish you all a very
all Assistant Governors and
manner of assistance. government. merry Christmas and a happy
District Committee Chair
appointments confirmed before New Year.
"One thing that impresses me, 2 In India, the Solidarity
the end of this month. The aim is
over and over, is how these in South Asia relief Ian Hutton and Jan
to appoint a leadership team that
programs focus not on short- committee approved Governor Elect 2010-11
is representative of the whole
term satisfaction, or reward for $30,000 to send a team District.
the giver, or recognition," Kenny of fishermen to Vietnam
said. "The best Rotary programs for advanced training in President Elect Training
and projects focus on helping fishing, sea farming, Seminar (PETS)
build for the future -- and fish processing, and PETS will be held in
making lives better for marketing. Northam on the
generations."
weekend of 12 – 14
3 District 3220 raised March 2010. A single two
The two-story health center more than $12 million day PETS will be held,
occupies 5,860 square yards of to build 25 schools in rather than two one day
land in the nearby village of Sri Lanka to replace sessions, to make it
Khaju, set aside by government ones that were easier for remote Clubs
officials who were impressed by destroyed by the to be represented at this
the mobilization of Rotarian tsunami. As the project important training
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of sports headlines. But rewarding than anything I Glidden’s challenge went to
The Rotary racking up that distance in have ever done. Many support The Rotary
Foundation three days staggers the
imagination.
Rotarians that had never
given before contributed and
Foundation.
supported me, that was
Week 26: This week’s Rotary Jeff Glidden did just that definitely one of my goals”
Foundation Thought is about through his Ultra Distance Corporate sponsors helped
a Rotarian going the distance Triathlon Challenge, raising fuel Glidden’s mega-
for the Foundation. $100,000 and counting, as of triathlon challenge by each
June 2007 for the Annual contributing at least $1000.
Running, biking and Programs Fund.
swimming 482 miles in the Local media coverage also
course of a year or even a “It was difficult” said raised overall awareness of
month is hardly the marvel Glidden, “but it was more Rotary. All the proceeds from
Program for December / January
Introduction
Date Details
Date Name
31st December No Meeting
14th January TBA
7th January No Meeting
10th January BBQ Lunch @ The Forsdyke’s
Vote of Thanks 14th January 1st Meeting for 2010
Date Name
14th January 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,
14th January TBA Ken Collins — Vice President / Western Australia, 6909
Membership Director
vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Thursday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
Simone Carot Collins — President Elect / Queenslea Drive
Club Administration Director
Claremont
presidentelect@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
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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