Last week's Proceedings -
24th June, 2009
Last week's Proceedings -
24th June, 2009
President Andy started the meeting at 1.12 p.m. with warm welcome to all our attending club members and especially to our guest, AG Wendy Mung, from the Rotary Club of Peninsula and thanked her for the handsome contribution to our Red Box together with those from our members as reported by our Hon. Treasurer Rudy as amounted to HKD 2,100.
Pres. Andy chaired the final Club Assembly for this Rotary year by starting for the service projects:-
Community Service projects:- In charge by Hon. Sec. Heman
-- Choi Jun School Swimming Project: The objective of this project is to provide financial subsidy and moral support to the financially inadequate mildly handicapped youth in building up their self-esteem through swimming. The project being granted the District Simplified Grant and was a joint project with RC of HK South.
-- Choi Jun School Bakery Making Project: With an aim to provide bakery training to students, hopefully develop into working skills. The produce would be used to trade necessities for home showing their care for the family. Such act would boost up their self-esteem and develop their self-confidence for their future.
Pres. Andy thanked PP Hubert Chan's full financial support & Hon. Sec. Heman for looking after in these two projects. Both projects have awarded the "Best Community Service Project" and "Best Vocational Service Project" in the District. Hon. Sec. Heman also thanked IPP Laurence & PP Paul for bringing this meaningful project to our Club.
International Service Project:- In charge by Dir. Dr. Eric Chin
This project joined with Rotary Club of Osaka Jonan: This project served 2,000 child patients in the pediatric wards of Princess Margaret Hospital and Caritas Medical Centre. Through reading and playing the games designed by the Hospital Play Specialist (HPS) as published in the booklet, the hospitalized children would have more fun and pleasure which hopefully result in easing the stresses of illness and expedite their recovery.
Pres. Andy congratulated Dir. Dr. Eric Chin of his successful leadership in the project by presenting the District Award Certificate to him. The project has awarded the "Best International Service Project" in the District.
Literacy and Education Project: - In charge by PP George Leung
Hebei Educational project for the underprivileged girls: Through educational funding of HK$150,000, we have sponsored 150 poor female primary school students in the mountain area in the Hebei province of the People's Republic of China to complete their primary school education so that they could continue to improve their literacy level and are more positive in their life.
Pres. Andy congratulated PP George and presented him the District Award. This project has awarded the "Outstanding Literacy and Education Project" in the District.
Water, Health & Hunger Project
A Mountain Clinic project joined with Rotary Club of HK South for Amity Foundation: This project aims to improve the basic clinics facilities in having four separate rooms which are used for diagnosis, therapy, and medicine storage and on-duty staff, and hopefully could benefit at least 2471 villagers in Central of Guizhou province.
Afterwards Pres. Andy announced our English website & weekly bulletin have awarded the "Outstanding Club Website (English)" and "Best Club Bulletin (English)" in the District. Pres. Andy presented the awards to PP Uncle John & IPP Laurence for thanking their effort.
A net gain of 3 extra members has awarded the "Best District Membership Growth Award in Area 3". There are 10 members achieved the 100% attendance and Hon. Sec. Heman was asked as the representative to received these 100% attendance souvenirs from Pres. Andy.
Hon. Tres. PP Rudy then has given a brief outline for the club's financial status which is extremely in good shape. Pres. Andy thanked Hon. Tres. PP Rudy for the past 3 years' hard work as the Club's Treasurer.
Pres. Andy continued to share the Club activities and some photos with the members including:-
1) Vocational Visit
- Aug 2008 - Visit to Chiaphua Industries Ltd in Shenzhen, China
- Mar 2009 - Visit to HK Vessel Traffic Centre & Maritime Museum
2) Rotary Flag Day - Oct 2008
3) Wah Yan Speech Day - Nov 2008
4) X'mas party - Visit to Duchess of Kent Children Hospital
5) 55th Anniversary - 03 APR 2009
This Rotary year, our Club has joined two District projects:-
1) Children Home Safety Project with HongKong Paediatric Foundation
2) District Adopt - A - School Program with Choi Jun School
Also our Club has achieved the goal of getting 5 Paul Harris Fellows contributed to The Rotary Foundation. This year our Club has received 12 District Awards including 7 Best District Awards and the details as follows:-
Outstanding Club Website (English) PP John Kwok, IPP Laurence & Annie Outstanding Water, Health and Hunger Project Guizhou Mountain Clinic Project - With RC of HK South District New Adopt A School Adopt Choi Jun School Outstanding Literacy and Education Project PP George Leung- Hubei Mountain Girls studies
Best International Service Project Dir. Eric Chin- Playright Playful Booklet - With RC of Osaka Jonan Best Vocational Service Project Hon. Sec. Heman - Choi Jun School Bakery Project - Sponsor by Dr PP Hubert Chan Best Community Service Project Hon. Sec. Heman - Choi Jun School Swimming training project - With RC of HK South Best Child Mortality Project District - Childhood Injury Prevention Program Best Club Bulletin (English) Team work with PP Stephen, IPP Laurence & Annie Best Area Co-operative Award The Board of Directors Best District Membership Growth Award PP Paul Chan RI Presidential Citation Award Pres. Andy Wong On behalf of the District Governor Albert Wong, our Assistant Governor Wendy Mung, presented the RI Presidential Citation Award and the respective district awards to Pres. Andy followed by a big round of applause from our members.
Pres. Andy thanked all the members including PDGs, PPs, Directors, Rotarians and their families' contributions and support in this Rotary year. He enjoyed the fellowship since he joined Rotary. Specially thanks to IPP Laurence to bring him into such good Rotary Family. Finally he announced the next Rotary Year theme is "The Future of Rotary is in YOUR hands" and he added "The Future of RC of HK Island East is in OUR hands" to concluded his presentation.
We all gave a big round of applause again to thank Pres. Andy 's great leadership and hard works through out the Rotary Year and the meeting was adjourned at 2.08 p.m. with a toast to RI coupled with RC of Peninsular and RC of HK Island East followed by a group photo.
Rotary PotpourriAnother New Rotary Club
During the governorship of D.G. Albert Wong (2008-2009) he had established another new Rotary club in our district known as Rotary Club of Central. The admission date as a member to Rotary International was 17th June, 2009. The sponsoring club is the Rotary Club of Tai Po. Charter members of this new Rotary club are mainly from Alumnus of The Rotary Foundation, such as Rotary Scholars, Group Study Exchange teams and ex-Rotaractors.
Charter President - Fonia Wong (Tel. 8100-0804) Hon. Secretary - Thomas Chiu (Tel. 9868-9334) Meeting Place - The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong Meeting Date - 1st & 2nd Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. - 3rd Wednesday at 1.00 p.m. - 4th Wednesday (Pending)
In the reign of D.G. Albert, he had established four new Rotary Clubs in our district, namely,
The Rotary of Tamir, (in Mongolia)
The Rotary Club of Lion Rock, (in Hong Kong)
The Rotary Club of Kowloon Tong (in Hong Kong) &
The Rotary Club of Central. (in Hong Kong)
It is gratifying to note that Rotary in district 3450 is growing when compare with the figures, some 28 years ago, which read as 19,159 Rotary clubs worldwide with a membership of 887,250 in 156 countries. These figures were released from PDG Peter Hall governor's letter in 1981-1982.
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