dg newsletter issue 3- oct 2014

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Light Up Rotary

OCTOBER- VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH:

Vocational Service is one of Rotarys Five Avenues of Service.

Vocational Service calls every Rotarian to:

aspire to high ethical standards in their occupation; recognize the worthiness of all useful occupations, and; contribute their vocational talents to the problems and needs of society.

When professionals join a Rotary club, they do so as a representative of their

classification their particular business or profession. Rotarians have the dualresponsibility of representing their vocation within the club and exemplifying theideals of Rotary within the workplace.

One of the central goals of Vocational Service is to promote and advance Rotarys high ethical standards. Twouseful tools Rotarians have to assess these standards are The Four-Way Test and The Declaration of Rotarians

in Business and Professions.

I wish you good luck in your vocational success.

Khalil lsharifDistrict Governor

Mr. Khalil Alsharif

District GovernorMr. Gary C K Huang

RI President

Service bove Self

Governors NewsletterDistrict 2452 October 2014

The supreme quali ty for leadership is

unquestionably integri ty. Without it, no real

success is possible.- Former U.S. President Eisenhower

Each Rotar ian is a

connecting l ink between

the ideali sm of Rotary

andhis trade or profession.

- Paul Harris


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PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

GARY C.K. HUANG

PRESIDENT 2014-15

OCTOBER 2014

In October 1914, Jonas Salk was born a man who would change world his-

tory by inventing the first effective vaccine against polio. When the vaccine

was introduced in the United States in the 1950s, polls indicated that polio

was one of the nations two greatest fears, second only to the fear of atomic

war. And with good reason: In the 1952 U.S. polio epidemic, 58,000 cases

were reported, with 3,145 deaths and 21,269 instances of permanent, disa-

bling paralysis. Globally, polio paralyzed or killed up to half a million people

every year.

Soon after the Salk vaccine was created, Albert Sabin developed an oral version, allowing tremendous num-

bers of children to be immunized quickly, safely, and inexpensively. In 1985, Rotarys PolioPlus program was

born, with a simple goal: to immunize every child under age five against this crippling disease. Thanks in large

part to the initial success of PolioPlus, in 1988 the 166 member states of the World Health Assembly unani-

mously set the goal of global polio eradication.

At the time, the idea was breathtakingly ambitious, and many called it impossible. Today, we are closer to this

goal than ever before, with only a few hundred cases of polio reported per year, and just three remaining en-

demic countries. We are on track to achieve full eradication by 2018 if we can keep up the momentum that

has brought us this far.

And this month, we will mark World Polio Day on 24 October, and celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dr.

Salks birth.

I ask you all to Light Up Rotary this month by doing whatever you can to shine a spotlight on our efforts to

eradicate polio. Call your government officials and let them know that polio eradication matters to you. Go to

endpolionow.org for inspiring stories about Rotarys work, and share them on social media. And make the best

investment youll ever make, by donating to polio eradication right on the endpolionow.org website and earn-

ing a two-to-one match on your contribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

When we eradicate polio and we will well have brought the

world into a better future, and Rotary into a better future as well.

We will have proved ourselves, as an organization, capable of

great things. And we will have given our children and grandchil-

dren a gift that will endure forever: a polio-free world.

Governors Newsletter

District 2452 October 2014


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Why Classification is essentialin Rotary membership:

When a lawyer Paul Harris, a coal dealer SylvesterSchiele, a mining engineer Gus Loehr, and a merchanttailor Hiram Shorey first met in 1905 in Chicago, theygave birth to Rotary and, by the nature of their diverseoccupations, also gave birth to the associations mostdistinctive feature the classification principle.

Today, the classification principle, though modified,remains a cornerstone of Rotary. Upon joining Rotary,you are lent a classification by the Board of Directors toreflect your occupation or primary source of income. Bylimiting active membership by classifications, each club

becomes a cross-section of the business and professionallife of the community it serves. Also, the classification

principle makes sure that no one profession or businessbecomes the dominant force within the club.

Another benefit of the classification system is thatrepresentatives of many fields are brought together,

providing the opportunity for Rotarians to broaden theirknowledge of the contemporary workplace. This, in turn,enables Rotarians to fulfill one of the basic obligationsof vocational service recognizing the worthiness tosociety of all useful occupations.(Source: Rotary District 5340 website)

Creator ofThe Four Way Test RIPP Herbert J. Taylor

Business is the science ofhuman service - he profits most

who serves his fellows best.- Arthur Sheldon

2nd

District 2452 ConferenceManama, Kingdom of Bahrain

From 19th to 22nd March 2015

To register please visit http://www.rotaryd2452.org/

or contact us at:

Tel.: +973 17180688, Fax: +973 17740346,

E-mail: [email protected]

Management is doing things right ; leadership is doing the right things. -

Peter Derucker

CODEOF

Asa Rotarian, I will:

1. Act with and high ethical inmy and

2. Deal fairly with others and them and theirwith

3. Use my skills through Rotaryyoung people, help those special

needs, and improve peoples quality oflife in myand in the

4. Avoid behavior reflects adversely onRotary or other

5. Not seek special orfrom other


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District Governors Visit - Armenia & Georgia18th to 25th September 2014

PETS & Club Assembly of 3 clubs in Armenia, 20th Sept. 2014



PETS & Club Assembly of 2 clubs in Georgia, 22nd September 2014

Fellowship Dinner with the members of 3 clubs in Armenia, 20th September 2014


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Project Visit - Community Service Project by RC Yerevan



Rotary Club of Yerevan partners with European Clubs to change the lives of Armenian children.

It has been almost a decade since RC Yerevan partnered with RC Issy les Moulineaux, Hts-de-Seine, District 1660

(France) and RC Kbenhavn Vesterbro, District 1470 (Denmark) to provide better pre-

school education to 153 Armeniankids at a nursery N16 in the town of Echmiadzin.

The nursery is 5 days a week day-care institution for 3-6 year old children. Thechildren stay at the nursery from 9 in the morning till 5 in the evening until theirparents are at work. At the nursery, the children get three caloric and balancedmeals, take a midday nap and take basic classes in dance, music, arts/crafts, ele-mentary math and languages.

The building of the nursery hasbeen built about 40 years ago andhas never been renovated since. With generous support of French and Dan-

ish Rotary Clubs as well as consolidated efforts of the RC Yerevan and theEchmiadzin municipality, it has become possible to fully renovate the roofto prevent any leaking during rains and snow. Today, children have neatand clean toilets and play and sleep in well renovated rooms, and they en-joy round a clock clean and safe water.

On September 19, 2014 the Bahraini delegation comprised of DG Khalil Alsharif, Bah-raini PDGs and Rotarians paid a visit to the nursery to learn more about one of the projects RCYerevan has currently underway at the nursery. The project is to renovate a totally deteriorat-ed kitchen, furnish and equip it to ensure absolutely safe meal program for the kids. Asstated by the institution principal no matter how hard you work to provide good qualitynutrition, when hygiene and sanitation are not in place, the impact is not high.

Thanks to the consolidated efforts and decade long Armenian/French/Denmark friend-ship, the successful end of the project is anticipated later in the fall.

The Bahraini delegation committed to support the kindergarten and the first gift would be to purchase a piano as the oneavailable is broken and no longer good for use. RC Yerevan is thankful to the guests and will keep the District team andRotarian counterparts informed on the progress of this particular as well as other endeavors.

District 2452 Membership SeminarBeirut, Lebanon, 18th October 2014

Venue: Hilton Habtoor Hotel Sin El Fil

Time: 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

YOUR ATTENDANCE IS VITAL


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RI President Gary C. K. Huang chal-

lenges us to energize our communi-

ties and strengthen our membership,

fellowship, and service efforts by light-

ing up Rotary. Through vocational ser-

vice initiatives, we can be championsfor high ethical standards in our work-

places, use our professional expertise to

serve others, and have a positive impact

on local and international communities.

Here are a just a few ideas for activities

your club can undertake:




Fellowship Dinner with the

members of RC Gyumri,

Armenia, 23rd Sept. 2014

Project Visit - Trees Plantation Project

by RC Yerevan International

Project Visit to the Elemen-

tary School sponsored by

RC Yerevan International

Light Up Rotary

through service

Sponsor a career dayin which club members

bring young people to their places of business.Host a Rotary Daycelebration to connect with pro-fessionals in your community who might be good candi-dates for Rotary membership. (Completing this activity

can help your club qualify for the 2014-15 PresidentialCitation.) - Rotary News

Start a career counseling or vocational

training program and invite non-Rotarian commu-

nity members to attend.

Organize a discussion or workshop on work-

place ethics and invite local non-Rotarian business

leaders to attend.


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Charter Ceremony of Interact Club of Bahrain SchoolSponsored by RC Manama- 14th September 2014

Board of Directors 2014-15 & Members of Interact Club of Bahrain School

A new Interact Club, sponsored

by RC Manama was formed in

Bahrain School. PP Hussain

Tadayon presented the charter

to the new president, in thepresence of DG Khalil Alsharif,

on 14th September 2014 at Gulf

Hotel, Zahle Restaurant

Improving communities through

vocational service

Your club can practice vocational servicein a variety of ways, from small-scale

events such as recognizing people in yourcommunity for their work, to large inter-

national initiatives such as microcredit programs andvocational training sessions.

Here are examples of several clubs activities:

The Rotary Club of MoapaValley (Logandale), Neva-da, USA, will hosta breakfast in August tocelebrate the start of a newschool year and to expressthe communitys apprecia-tion for teachers, adminis-trators, and support staff at the communitys fourschools.

Last September, the Rotary Club of Indore Professionals,Madhya Pradesh, India, hosted a Career Guidance Semi-nar for 200 girls in the 11th and 12th grades.

To recognize and honor outstanding local employees, theRotary Club of Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Aus-tralia, hosted a Pride of Workmanship Awardseventhonoring workers whose managers had nominatedthem for recognition.

Over the past year, the Ro-tary E-Club of Houston,Texas, USA, partneredwith the Houston Commu-nity College system ona vocational training pro-gram to teach inmates atthe Harris County jail howto repair bicycles. The clubprovided tools, supplies, and broken bicycles; the refur-bished bikes were given to low-income children in the

community.See more examples of vocational service projects thatyour club can learn from and replicate in Rotary Show-case. (https://map.rotary.org/en/project/pages/project_showcase.aspx)

For more information, visit www.rotary.org or con-

tact RI staff at [email protected]

http://www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellowship/

StartAProject/AvenuesOfService/Pages/

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RC Tripoli-Maarad organized FIFA World Cup

Final Match on a Giant 40 sqm LED Screen at Ra-

chid Karameh International Fair.

I t was amazing, Rotary is always dif ferent, thi s is why I

always li ke to participate in their projects and events,R.K. a non-rotarian spectator at the end of the event

On July 13, 2014,

Rotary club Tripoli-

Maarad (District 2452- Lebanon) organizeda huge event in Tripo-li Lebanon in whichthe club did broadcastthe FIFA World Cup2014 final match on agiant 40 sqm LEDscreen at the Floating

Theater of the Rachid Karameh International Fair in the pres-ence of more than 600 attendees who came from all over thecountry. Attended this event The Governor of North Lebanon

District Ramzi Nohra, Dr. Zahida Darwiche Jabbour, SecretaryGeneral of the UNESCO Lebanese National Commission, WafaKhoury President of Social ways association and many repre-sentatives of the civil society. From Rotary attended PDG JamilMoawad, DDG May Monla Chmaytelli, AG Randa Zaouk, Pro-ject leaders RC Tripoli-Maarad President Chawkat Houalla -AG Ahmad Husseini - Secretary Abdallah Ziadeh, Presidentsand Members from Rotary Clubs, Rotaract Clubs & interactclubs in Lebanon, in addition of most of RC Tripoli -Maaradmembers. Seventeen local business firms sponsored the event bythe way of Financial & In-kind contributions.

This major sporting event was a real celebration for the regain-ing of peace and prosperity in the city of Tripoli especially thatone of its goals was to push forward the economical cycle in thiscity. Club members, Rotarians, officials and friends took a bigpicture holding a #SayNotoRacismbanner in support of the

FIFA campaign to fight racism, a value that Rotary shares withFIFA. This picture and hashtag were shared on social mediathrough Rotary, FIFA and Personal Rotarian pages. This eventwas also used as an opportunity to showcase Rotarian achieve-ments and raise awareness about Polio disease through the useof End Polio Now wall projection, movies showed on Screen,Social media, and huge banners reflecting the message of Rota-ry.

On the other hand, having Rebranding Tripoli as Motto forthis Rotary year, the very active new Rotary club Tripoli Cos-mopolis that RC Tripoli-Maarad sponsored during Rotary year2013-2014, joined its sponsoring club by taking the responsibil-ity of providing & selling food and beverages during the event.

The project was preceded by an advertisement campaign con-sisting of flyers, posters around the city and a remarkable inter-view with Chawkat Houalla, President of Rotary club Tripoli-Maarad, on Future TV (an international channel) who coveredthe event.

The project was deemed a huge success especially in raisingfunds, in the Rotary Awareness aspect, in showing impressive

teamwork among the club & Rotary members & in achieving allthe goals the club wanted to achieve through this event.

A Major part of the Funds raised during this event shall be usedto fund the Water filtration Mega-project which aims to supplyclean water to public school in Tripoli and Lebanon. The otherpart shall be used to fund other service projects to be conductedby the club.



Governors Official Visits to Clubs in District 2452

Armenia & Georgia : 17th

- 25th

September 2014

Bahrain : 28th

, 29h

Sept. & 1st

Oct. 2014

Cyprus : 29th October-

8th November 2014: 1 & 2 November 2014 Country Seminar

Jordan & Palestine : 22nd

- 30th

November 2014: District Foundation Seminar- 29

thNov 2014

Lebanon : 6th

- 12th

October 2014: 18

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rdOctober 2014

: 18th October District Membership Seminar

Sudan : January 2015- TBA

UAE : 7th

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& 10th

December 2014

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- but this I do know - the only ones who will find true happiness in life are those who

have searched and found how to serve others. - African philosopher and physician Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Rotary Club of Amman West and Rotary Club of Amman Citadelco-hostedMinister of Labor and Public Works, His Excellency Engineer Sami Halasa andhis wife, on Wednesday, 10/9/2014 at Landmark Hotel.

During quite an interactive session, His Excellency highlighted the mainconstruction projects that are currently in the pipeline in Jordan; he also talkedabout the construction sector, mentioning that Jordan has the highest percentageof Engineers, worldwide, compared by the number of its citizens, amounting to

137.000 Engineers.

The session was followed by a dinner where Rotarians benefited from theopportunity to talk to the Minister and learn more about potential opportunitiesand the latest in this sector in Jordan.



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Community outreach by Bethlehem Rotarian

The Rotary Club of Bethlehem on their pr ogra m of community

outreach, on August 14th, the members visited the SOS Childrens

Villages in Bethlehem and met Mr. Mohammad Shalaldeh the National

Director who introduced the different programs of SOS in Palestine and

the region. As a gesture of connection, Bethlehem Rotarian delivered

school bags before the start of the new academic year.

The July outreach event for the club was an Iftar meal to the residences

of House of Hope.

RC Bethlehem

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