Our Fellowship Chairman today was PP Kishore and our Sergeant-at-Arms was Rtn David. Our Sergeant-at-Arms managed to collect $810 between the raffle and fines.

Acting President Thomas announced that the Wine Tasting organized by PP Gaston would be held on 2nd of November at Kellet Island, Yacht Club. For the Dinner and Wine Tasting at Kellet Island, it is free for member because it will replace the dinner of October. On the other hand, the price is just HK$280 each for the Rotarianne and guests. While our District Rotary Foundation Seminar will be held on Hotel Miramar on 5th November, the District Karaoke Competition will be held on 30th October at the same location. Interested members please contact Lillian.

Our District will have Rotary Open Week from 7th - 11th November, and welcome everyone to visit Rotary Information Centre. Our District will have Tennis Tournament on 27th Nov and 11th Dec, which are opened to all Rotarians. The Charity Fair at Sandy Bay will be held on 5th November, we will have a counter to sell goods to raise fund for the Children, so we need Rotarian to donate goods and help at that date.

The District is organizing a donation to the victims of earthquake at Southeast Asia and hope all Rotarian can send the donation to District. PP Nick and Rtn David gave us some update of the Leprosy Patient Project.

The speaker of today was Dr. Darwin Chen and his topic was "The Fast - Increasing Elderly Population in HK". Dr. Chen was a civil servant. He has retired but has still been working as chairman for several charity organizations. The ageing population of HK will be increased from 810,000 at present to over 2 million at 2030, so the problem for the government will be how to deal with such size of elderly. Now, the elderly only rely on MPF, which are private savings, investments and the safety nets for needy elders, but to face a longer life expectancy, government needs to think about how to have a better plan for the retired people. In addition, the government needs to consider to have integrated care services in Housing Estates and upgrade the private care home to provide better services to the elderly. Further, we need to promote personal responsibility of the ageing people and create a supportive environment as to improve the image of the ageing. So the government should advocate the elderly to get involve in volunteer work and life long learning in order to provide them a meaningful retired life. To prepare for the increasing number of elderly, we need to build an ageless society and age-integrated community by including elder's needs in our government planning. All of the people need to adopt the concept of ageing is a natural, continuous and positive process.