NZ Patrons: Bill Boyd RIP 2006-07/ Anand Satyanand AS Patrons: Ian Riseley, RIP 2017-18
PROUD TO BE ROTARY
THE GLOBAL LEADER IN HUMANITARIAN SERVICE
Dark Days with Silver Linings
-(Rotary lessons from the Depression/ War Years)
• Never has Rotary been needed more
More clubs / more members / more projects
• Must not lose the ideal of serving others, nor the four-way test
• Clubs changed – pack lunches etc
• Engaged youth/ work / scholarships / health camps
• Established Plunket / Karitane Nursing / Crippled Children (1935) /
Milk in Schools / JR McKenzie Trust
• 1943 – 1946: 25 new clubs formed
U Tube - Dr Stephen Clarke – Rotary Resilience
Local / Cluster/ District Set goals, e.g.
• A Centurions Club • Grow the club • Peace Builder Club
• Carbon Zero Certification • Club and District Funds –
multiyear commitments to projects, (Rotary Give every Child a Future) Environment
• Taupo Swamp
• Forest at the Heart of Wellington • 9940: Wellington Regional Children's Hospital Trust National (NZ) / Multi-District
Mana Tangata – People of Action
• Book
• Exhibitions
• Tiki Wiki WebSite • Monthly Themed
Public Meetings • Radio / TV etc
Rotary Peace,
Remembrance and
Community Forests Trust Forum(s) on the Future of Rotary in NZ
Celebrations Fri 18 June – Auckland War Memorial
Zone / Int / Foundation • End Polio Now
• Rotary Give Every Child A Future (Eliminating Cervical Cancer in the Pacific)
• Baton Relay - Theme Children?
Rotary Centennial /COVID Crisis: an opportunity – What will RCoP do?
New ideas
• Social impact Forum
• $1M Social Enterprise fund • East Timor Library
• Transmission Gulley • Featherston
MANA TANGATA – ROTARY PEOPLE OF ACTION
History of Rotary in NZ and the Pacific. Patrons: Bill Boyd/ Anand Satyanand
• Historian Dr Stephen Clarke • On track for 2021
• Final Chapter being drafted – Looking to the Future.
• Author funded by RCA and RCW • Oral history Bill Boyd
• Annual internships to help historian • Tiki Wiki site for all clubs (ROZOps) • There will be:
• U tube clips
• Travelling exhibitions in 2021 • Themed Public Meetings
Foundation Meeting of the Rotary Club of Wellington, 7 June 1921, YMCA dining room
Update
• Books available March 2021
Rotary
Peace, Remembrance and Community Forests Trust
• Congratulations to RCoP (Bill McAulay/ Euon Murrell) / PCC / Friends Taupo
Swamp and Catchment with Taupo Swamp (10K Trees over three years)
• Are you up for Mitchell Stream?
Aim - Rotary at the Heart of a Community
• Partnership with One Billion Tree Fund | Te Uru Rākau -Forestry New Zealand. Approved. Year 1: 200,000 trees, approximately 15 sites. Multi-year submission to follow. • Operational Partner Conservation Volunteers NZ
• Partnership with the Royal NZ Returned and Services
Association (RNZRSA), Conservation Volunteers NZ, Scouts NZ, NZDF Cadet Forces, Corrections, Fire and Emergency NZ, Iwi • To plant millions native trees, in perpetuity
Rotary
People of
Action
Monthly
Themed
Public
Meetings
(Rotary
global public
image
campaign)
• Next 5 to 7 years: 1921 - Wellington, Auckland; 1922 – Christchurch; 1923 Dunedin, Hamilton (December); 1924 -Invercargill, Whanganui, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North; 1925 - Hawera, New Plymouth, Oamaru,
Whangarei; 1926 – Gisborne; 1927 - Blenheim, Nelson, Gore, Dannevirke, Rotorua, Timaru; 1928 - Thames
• Pick a public Venue: Publish year plus series meetings to all Rotary Clubs, coordinated by a cluster? and open to the public
• Themes based on Rotary history could include: • Arts, culture and heritage
• Child health in New Zealand
• Environment and community facilities • Health and the general population
• International development and relief support • Philanthropy
• Poverty and economic development • Social Enterprise
• Vocation – changing nature of work • Women and Rotary
Centennial International Project: four clubs made a pitch: • Auckland: Emergency Housing for Pacific
• Melbourne; Eliminate Dengue in the Pacific
• Sydney: A Pacific Vaccination Programme to eliminate cervical
cancer
• Wellington: Potable water for every child in the Pacific
Rotary Down Under Theme – Making a difference in the Pacific
Centennial International Project
‘To help eliminate cervical cancer and save the lives of
generations of Pacific children.’
Rotary Give Every Child A Future (RGECAF)
• Rotary partnership with UNICEF. Project to immunize 100K children with three vaccines in 9 Pacific
countries over next 3 years
• Aligns to Rotary’s key goals: disease prevention, and treatment and maternal and child health
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) financing the introduction in four countries: Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Rotary will fund regional and other supporting activities in these four countries
• Rotary will fully fund the program in the other five countries: Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau • RI matching funds and DDFs. Please commit as a Club
for three years. Need $100K by end June.
Other Activities
• R100 Baton of Service Relay. Baton relay
planned to run throughout Australia, State by State, District by District, Club by Club, as part of a vision to have every club participate and involve their communities.
NZ to plan our own ? – Volunteers? • Volunteers to help
