Our Fellowship Chairman today was Rtn Danny and our Sergeant-at-Arms was our new member, Rtn Stephane who managed to collect $640 between the raffle and fines.

President Angela, IPP Peter and PE Tobias were in Chicago for the International Convention, so PP Bernie was the Acting President today.  PP Bernie announced that the District Installation on 12^th July will be replaced to our regular lunch meeting on 14^th July. Also, Club 888 now has collected about 30 prizes for 2005-2006 lucky draws, but we still need about 20 more, we hope all members can help. Today we have celebrated PP Gary’s Birthday by presenting him with a bottle of wine as a birthday gift.

PP Nick has just returned from China and he said our Leprosy Patients Project is making good progress. The Centre is now open, they have just purchased a vehicle for transportation and are now starting to educate doctors on Leprosy. Our Leprosy Patients Project partner Handa’s office in Guangzhou has just been broken into and they lost a lot of electronics appliances including their laptop, so if any member has a laptop which can be donated to them, please contact PP Nick. PP Nick also hopes members can donate bedding for the Leprosy Patients.

The speaker today was Father Patrick Taveirne and the topic was “The Shuwuu Project in Mongolia”. Father Patrick has been a missionary in Hong Kong for more than 30 years; he can speak very good Cantonese. Recently he published a book on Sino-Mongol contacts and co-organized several international symposia on cultural exchange with the PRC and Mongolia. He came today to introduce us the Shuwuu Project in Mongolia. Our Club have supported this project for two years and the project is trying to help the unemployed Mongolian to find work at the farm and bakery organised by ICM Sisters. With the education given, help from the sisters and farmland given by the government they have had a good harvest. The project also provides education and computer classes for them, the main aim of the project being to educate them to think and solve their own problems. Father Patrick brought us a lot of photos and shared this meaningful project with us.