Up Up and Away in our beautiful Balloon
Rotarian Jasper is helping us to get ready to launch our Virtual Balloon Race for 2015. This year we are fundraising for Water and Sanitation projects throughout the world. We hope everyone will help sell the balloons to help water projects in Gambia, India and to help purchase Jompys and Water Barrels. Balloons will cost £1 and you choose the colour and the name.
Help Build our Emergency Fund – When shopping online don’t forget to do it through Easy Fundraising, this will help us build a small fund to be able to donate something to emergency causes.
Let’s Loop Swindon – hopefully everyone will have visited our last News Update ‘I can’t Hear’ which gave an update of this amazing project being undertaken in partnership with our Rotary Community Corps; we had some good publicity from the Swindon Advertiser and The Link Magazine. We are looking forward to our launch event on the 25th February and then our Cheese and Wine on Saturday 14th March, tickets are available from Janice Mason or Jacqui Horn at £10. Quite exciting that we have a number of Click 4 Action eRotary members coming already, Jasper, James and Cindy, Michael, Mary, so please tell your friends about this great night that awaits, including more information on Let’s Loop Swindon, Wine Tasting and a talk from our own Wine Expert Rotarian Jasper Vethaak from Germany.
Women’s Empowerment – Our Indian Click 4 Action eRotary members helped start the New Year with Service working with Inner Wheel club of Delhi. Through the SATARK Consumer Club they organised a seminar at PGDAV College to address women on their empowerment and to understand their rights in the Will being left by their parents. Students of the college were the audience to his seminar and leading advocates / lawyers were the presenters.
Women’s Property Rights, even after a lapse of 68 years since the independence of the country, and the status of Women in general have been a source of serious concern and a major topic of discussion in India. The makers of the constitution, executive and judiciary have been trying to enact and implement laws, but a lot needs to be done regarding spreading awareness in the society. This interactive session held in the college premises on 12th January 2015 commenced with the introduction of the esteemed panel headed by Mrs Mala Rishi. Mrs Priyam Agarwal, Mrs Meera Khanna and Dr. Rakesh Gosain were the key note speakers, who informed the participants about the rights of women as enshrined in the constitution, laws relating to inheritance, enforcement of these laws and the effect of these laws on the society.
Different religions also have different inheritance Laws and these were also elaborated on by the august panel. Preparation and enforcement of Wills were discussed. Finer basis of inheritance such as patriarchy, patrilineal and patrilocal nature of societal norms were dwelled upon. The participants included the Principal- Dr. M.M.Goyal, Rotarian Dr Sunil Prakash, teaching staff of PGDAV College, members of SATARK, as well as students from many streams, with a preponderance of the fair sex.
Naturally there were several questions by the participants which were aptly answered by the panel. This interactive session, apart from raising awareness about the issue of Women’s Property Rights”. also helped to clarify several questions which may not have been possible.
Report by Mr. Vinay Katyal, B.Com- III Year, PGDAV College
Posted by Rtn. Dr. Sunil Prakash, member Click 4 Action eRotary in India.
Congratulations to the young writer – isn’t it exciting that Oliver, a pupil from King’s Hawford School in Worcester, who was a winner in our Young Writer’s Competition has gone on to win the District 1100 Young Writer’s Competition. Oliver’s story is called ‘Light Up the Community’ – he writes about a boy who was abandoned in a chapel in an Abbey as a baby on Christmas Day 1441 – he’s bullied at school and feels safe only in the Abbey. The town is sad because Baron Archibald’s son went missing some years before. The boy volunteers to help folk prune their willow trees and gets ribbon and scraps of fabric with the money he earns, he ‘borrows’ candles from the Abbey and anonymously ‘lights up the community’ for Christmas bringing joy and happiness to the town.
Next week President Janice will be going to the event on the 7th February when the prizes will be presented. So well done to Oliver. Rotarian Polly is now working on our next competition in partnership with the Worcester LitFest & Fringe for their week in June 2015.
Roll Up, Roll Up, to start the New Year are you involved in our eDraw?
For the start of 2015 we’ve made it easier to buy your year’s worth of luck, now you can use Paypal or a cheque, for just £12 per year you are part of our eDraw. 12 chances to win, as each first day of the month the President makes the eDraw. The other winners are the Charities we donate the funds raised to: you can now choose between The Rotary Foundation (Rotary International’s own charity) or SOS Children’s Villages or both.
Looking for a real challenge to start your 2015 Year? Join some of our members who are involved in the Walk for Water exciting walk across the MILLENNIUM DOME, visit the site and get your sponsor form and see London from a new height.
Interesting how our President wants to get noticed!
Great fun was had by our Bog Standard Team from the RCC who took part in the Christ Church Community Hall Event to raise funds for Toilet Twinning. Click 4 Action eRotary wants to provide more toilets across the world, as 2.5 billion people still do not have use of a toilet. The Bog Challenge was a really fun evening and raised over £800 towards more toilets. As you know Rotarians love to play Golf, so President Janice shows her skills while sitting on the toilet! I hope you wiped the golf club after use….
Have you ever been rolled up in toilet paper, well this is Mummy Janice
To remind ourselves about the need for more toilets, please watch the video Mr.Toilet. We will be announcing more initiatives to help with Toilets in the world and our Uplands Interact Club is to work on projects to help raise awareness and funds to help in this work. Watch out for details of our next project to raise funds to twin toilets, planned to run in May.
As we move forward we are in top gear to Light Up Rotary –new people are joining us, we have plenty of projects to get on with and we a planning to change our branding and website. Click 4 Action eRotary is about having fun, learning new things and above all giving Service to help build a better world.
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