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Your Bulletin for 3rd October 2021
 
 
May is Youth Service Month
Convention 21
 
Brindabella Eclub report by Jenny
Rotary E-Club of Brindabella
 
 
“Our Club is meant for individuals who have a passion for both friendship and community service”.  Members are highly motivated to do good in the world but have no time to attend regular meetings. 
 
Accepts members by invitation.
 
Has members throughout the states of Australia and overseas.
 
Its Objective:  supports the ideals of Rotary, supports members’ local communities thru service; support the people of the Western Desert, Dream Cricket with fundraising and community support & enjoy our times together.
 
DreamCricket – some of you may be familiar with it.
 
The E-Club won District 9710’s Award for Youth Project for the Canberra Festival of DreamCricket a while back.
 
Initiated by Dr Riley Bigg of the Movement Disorder Foundation in concert with the Rotary Club of Southern Highlands and the Bradman Foundation.  Other Rotary Districts have joined in by having  DreamCricket Ambassadors who were trained to conduct Gala Days & school clinics.  (2014-15).
 
To provide primary school students with special needs an opportunity to play cricket activities on, for example, Bradman Oval.  It has grown to encompass schools and children throughout Australia and OS.  It enables kids  to develop self-esteem and inspire confidence.  It’s themes are Inclusivity, integrity, accessibility.
 
The Brindabella club adopted DreamCricket as a major project in 2013 and has  run Gala Days with DreamCricket International and Cricket ACT.  At one Gala Day there were 120 students from 10 schools in the ACT and QBN.  10 different activities in rotation with a runout at the end.  In the week before, there were clinics at participating schools to familiarise the students, teachers & carers with the program.  Six CBR clubs helped with the BBQ, donating equipment kits to the schools … so that the schools could continue with the program.
 
Brindabella provided all the assistance to run the event.  (Bruce Harvey bruce.harvey302@gmail.com).
 
One DreamCricket event involved Queanbeyan West Public School – 29 students with special needs, 10 teachers, 12 Rotarians, 9 secondary students from Radford College.  New skills were discovered, challenges met and a run-out to finish the event.
 
Other Rotary Clubs have been involved, eg, Rotary Club of Canberra Sunrise helped organise the DreamCricket Gala Day at Redford College late 2019.  118 children with disability from 7 schools across the ACT.  It involved cricket-based activities, sausage sizzle, fresh fruit lunch, medallions and sun hats being awarded.  One was planned for Nov 2020, too.  
 
Western Desert (NT and WA)
 
In supporting the people of the Western Desert, the E-Rotary Club of Brindabella has helped set up a dialysis unit at Santa Teresa …(Ltyentyre Apurte) about 80 kms SE of Alice Springs. 
 
This was the upgrade of an existing building for use as a dialysis centre.  This followed on from a Rotary project at Kintore (Walungurru).  The Kintore model was successful in building dialysis centres in remote areas and is an example of Rotary working with Aboriginal communities to provide enhanced health, social and financial benefits.  It recognises that Aboriginal people in remote areas can suffer a high incidence of renal failure, requiring dialysis.  Cabrini Outreach says that that incidence in central Australia is such that people are 30 times more likely to suffer from kidney disease and renal failure than average. 
 
The same health community-controlled management team (WDNWPT – now called the Purple House - ) (Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation  had worked with Rotary District 9710 clubs for some time.  It was originally kicked off with $1m raised from the auction at AGNSW of donated indigenous art works that led to the setting up of the Purple House (renal health service) in Alice Springs.  (2000).  Senior Western Desert artists had created  four collaborative paintings for the auction. 
 
The name means:  Making all our families well.  It recognises that people must be able to stay on country to look after, and be looked after, by their families – and not have to travel far away to, say, Alice Springs, receive treatment.  It’s also a more cost-effective model. 
 
Brindabella’s sub-project purchased medical equipment to enable the dialysis centre to open.  It successfully applied for a $4000 grant and, together with Canberra North Rotary, provided 2 dialysis chairs, wheelchair scales, vital sign monitor, defibrillator.  (Approx $14,000).  St Vincent’s Hospitals, Caritas and Cabrini Outreach have helped fund nurses wages. 
 
The Santa Teresa Dialysis Room was set up for patients who had worked hard to become self-carers and to learn how to do their own dialysis.  The NT Government provided the machines and water treatment. 
 
The Kintore model has grown to deliver approx 16 services across remote NT, WA and SA and includes mobile services delivered by the Purple Truck. 
 
The Purple Truck is a self contained, two chair dialysis unit that travels thru indigenous communities in WA and the NT providing dialysis treatment.  It enables dialysis patients to return home to their communities for family, cultural or sorry business. 
 
As well as allowing family support and social connection, the service acts as an education tool for younger people.  They see first hand the consequences of lifestyle choices, the cycle of ill- health that can end in kidney disease.
 
Perhaps worth mentioning that the aboriginal controlled health services have received credit for preventing the leakage of Covid in to their communities during the pandemic. 
 
So, there’s some insight into two of the projects supported by the ERotary club of Brindabella. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
DGE Mina and her Shelter Box Trek
Larapinta Trek for ShelterBox
District Governor Nominee Mina Howard is undertaking the Larapinta Trek in July this year.
 
On this once-in-a-lifetime adventure, she will trek through the Australian outback on one of the most spectacular walking tracks in the world—the Larapinta Trail. 
From the old Alice Springs Telegraph Station to the peak of Mount Sonder, the trail stretches 223 kilometres.The track will follow Aboriginal Dreaming tracks and explore the beautiful mountains, valleys, rivers and the dramatic desert landscapes of the Red Centre. By day, the group will trek through the ochre-landscapes of the outback, witnessing the sacred sites of the Arrernte people and by night the group will camp under the stars, falling asleep to the sounds of native wildlife.
 
If you would like to Support Mina in her fund raising efforts for ShelterBox, please go to https://shelterbox-larapinta-2021.raisely.com/minahoward. (click, copy, paste)
 
Invitation from Terrigal RC to hear RIP Ravi
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INVITATION TO UNVEILING OF R100yr PLAQUE – Mt PENANG FESTIVAL GARDENS.
INVITATION TO UNVEILING OF R100yr PLAQUE – Mt PENANG FESTIVAL GARDENS.
 
On behalf of the organising subcommittee I have the pleasure to  invite you to the unveiling of the plaque commemorating the 100 year anniversary of Rotary in Australia. The plaque has been installed in the Rotary Puddle Garden within the Mt Penang Festival Gardens, Kariong.
 
Invitations have been extended to all the State and Federal politicians from the Central Coast.
 
The details of the unveiling are as follows.
 
Date :                                                    Wednesday 2nd June 2021
 
Time:                                                     1.300-1.45 pm Meet at The Waterfall Café, Parkland Road            
1.45-2.00 pm to walk to the gardens to the Rotary Puddle Garden.
2.00pm Unveiling of plaque
                                                                Followed by afternoon tea at Phillip House, 21 Old Mount Penang Road Kariong [Kariong Somersby Rotary Club House]
R100 bus in Central Coast
R100 In Ettalong
 
 
 
R100 in Kincumber
 
District Changeover
DG David Clark and DGE Lindsay May invite you to attend the District Changeover for 2021.
The details are:
 
DATE:     SUNDAY, 4th July
VENUE:  CASTLE HILL RSL, 77 CASTLE St, CASTLE HILL.
TIME:     12.00 for 12.30 pm
DRESS:  Colourful (Bollywood)
COST:     $50 per head  (two-course lunch)
 
 
Registrations are now open. Please click on the link below:
 
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School For Life Silent Auction. Reminder
Annabelle's unbelievable silent auction is now open.
 
The information about her fantastic effort is too long to fit in here (Characters limit by Club Runner)
 You can read it here - just click. This takes you to the School for Life webpage - you'll have to scroll through to find out about what is being done.
You can also click here for the Silent Auction information
 
What Do You Know
 
Diversity of Rotary International Presidents.
1922-23 Raymond M. Havens (Stationery Products Manufacturing) 
Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, USA
 
Rotary vision: Vocational ethics, as practiced by Rotarians, as the building blocks of world civilization
"As a harbinger of business ethics, Rotary sends its message around the world that true service means personal responsibility for peace on earth and goodwill toward men"  - Bethlehem - and Twenty Centuries. The Rotarian, December 1922
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