Speaker @ Lunch – 31 March 2016

Day

Reception & Welcome

MC

Grace

Fines Sergeant

4 Way Test & Thought for Day

7/4 Lunch

Hlubi H-Coleman Linsley Pudney

Liezel Haarhoff Hlubi Hewitt-Coleman

Kas Kasongo Bertie Kommel

14/4 Supper

Tony Moors Thandi Ndzombane

Regina Kasongo Linsley Pudney Nancy Nhliziyo Flip Potgieter

DUTIES FOR APRIL 2016

INSIDE ISSUE

Speaker @ Lunch 1

Thought for the Day 2

Charter Dinner 2

Meeting Schedule 2

Rotary Club of Plett. Bay 2

BULLETIN 31 MARCH

GUEST SPEAKER ON:

BIRTHDAYS IN APRIL

7/4 Lisa Tailor - The Forest School in Madagascar.

14/4 Wayne Bolton - One Land, Love it

12 Terry Jooste

4

None in April

9 Mazoe Nopece

PARTNER BIRTHDAYS

ANNIVERSARIES

San Asato and Christopher Lamb from Minnesota, USA, visited us today. San, who is a financial advisor in his day job, and a Past District Secretary in his Rotary District, gave us an overview of life in the USA and his Rotarian involvement.

San’s Rotary Club in Edina has 170 members, and is actively involved in many projects on the Eastern side of Africa. They established a Centre in Kenya for children with disabilities. Their last Rotary project was in Uganda where the focus was to provide safe water and sanitation. This project had a value of $60 000, and they had another $450 000 programme

in Guatemala. These projects are part of Global Matching Grants from the Rotary Founda-tion. There is leverage between Rotary Foundation and Club Foundation and hence a lot of funding available for these programmes.

Currently they have a local (USA) project providing permanent housing for young adults with Autism, where some learn vocational skills in the hospitality industry. 8 of the residents do the gardens and tours, and others take people for horse rides, amongst other things.

Christopher Lame has been in PE for 8 weeks already, together with 29 students. There is a long standing agreement with our NMMU and the University of Minnesota. The study abroad programme between these two institutions allows the international students to become involved in local projects in the Metro, to create an awareness of the needs of the impoverished community, and to experience a cultural exchange. The students thus make a concrete contribution to various projects and contribute to the alleviation of some of these needs. The idea is that any project that is initiated by the students must be sustainable in the long term. Minneapolis is one of the ‘twin cities’, together with Saint Paul.

San came to SA to visit his friend Chris, and it is their first visit to South Africa. They took the students to spend a week in Cape Town, which they all thoroughly enjoyed. They said they have been very pleasantly surprised by what they have seen and experienced here. They do not hear anything about SA back home – neither good nor bad! Africa as a whole might as well not exist as far as their TV and news is concerned.

San was very impressed by the President’s chair and chain, as they have nothing like that in their Rotary Clubs!

Venue: PE St Georges Club, 12 Bird Street. Tel: 041 585 1919 Day: Thursday - Time: 13.00 — 14.00 Website: www.rotaryportelizabeth.co.za

Bank Name: Standard Bank Account Name: PE Rotary Club Account Number: 080 280 870 Branch Code: 050417 Branch Name: Rink Street Reference:Your name + what for.

Bank Details

In Partnership with Rotary Club of Port Elizabeth Meetings

Rotary Club of Port Elizabeth Details

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Save the Date

President: Denise Pudney: denisepudneyproperties@gmail.com Secretary: Linsley Pudney: ldpudney@hinet.co.za Editors: Jill v d Marwitz & Denise Pudney: denisepudneyproperties@gmail.com General Enquiries: info@rotaryportelizabeth.co.za Website: www.rotaryportelizabeth.co.za Twin Club: Rotary Club of Singer Island, Florida, USA www.singerislandrotary.org

Meeting Schedule for April

Bayanda Mbambisa quoted C.S. Lewis: “You are never too old to set another goal,

or to dream a new dream.”

Thought for the Day

7 Lunch = R50

14 Supper @ normal venue 5 for 5:30 - 6:30 = R50

21 Lunch = R60

26 Charter Dinner @ President’s Suite 6:30 for 7:00pm

We look forward to our Rotary Club’s 91st

CHARTER DINNER

on Tuesday, the 26th April

Please put this date into your diaries.

Prof Derrick Swartz the Vice Chancellor of NMMU

will be our guest speaker.

If you have not received an invitation to this event, and you would like to join us, please contact the

Secretary, Linsley Pudney.

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News from the Rotary Club of Plettenberg Bay There was a great article in the local Plettenberg Bay newspaper recently about the Calendar that the Rotary club of Plettenberg Bay had produced. Many tourists have said that they chose to visit the town after seeing the calendar.

Evidently the Rotary Club made over R75 000 from the sales of the calendar - to be used for their charities!

The Bitou Mayor has been inducted as an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Plettenberg Bay.

This makes him - together with each one of us - part of an organization whose membership has included people such as President Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis, Neil Armstrong, Sir Winston Chur-chill, Prince Philip and Prince Charles of England, American Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, and Chancel-lor Engela Merkel of Germany, to name but a few.

Every Rotarian has access to all Rotary Clubs around the world, where we can visit at any time, and know that we will be welcomed by like-minded people. We should be proud to invite prospective members to our club!