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Christmas TimeWhat a great festive get-together with many of our Melbourne based RPM members and friends on the weekend!!  We missed those of you who couldn’t attend, but send you all our love and good wishes for Christmas, the Festive Season and 2023!!     |
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RPM Changeover Event We are excited to invite you to our changeover event on Sunday July 3rd!! This year we will be hosting the event through Zoom so that international members and guests from different time zones have the opportunity of participating as it happens.
We will have the pleasure of hosting District leaders from D9800 who will be joining us for this event We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, July 3 at 7.00pm Melbourne time, where we will acknowledge the achievements during the past year and welcome incoming President Aviv Palti and his team. To receive the Zoom link, please RSVP to Maria Hicks by emailing cambodiarep@daysforgirls.org |
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Nepal Toilet Project Report
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Donation Drive at REACH Siem Reap
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Grants Seminar
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Toilets in Cambodia
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Rotary International Conference - Houston
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The latest container to Dili
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This is Your Life - Liz DymockLiz Dymock in Malawi. Commercial composting program- a solution to manage organic waste. Member Liz Dymock made a quick visit to Melbourne from Malawi with her new husband, Kondwani Charula. During a recent RPM meeting, Liz was interviewed by President Jenny and also took the opportunity to share her life and work in Malawi
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This is Your Life - Darrel and Ratana
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ANZAC Wreath
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This is your life seriesIn this latest 'This is your life' interview series, we learn about more of our members!! Sudeep reflects on his life from early days as a new arrival from Nepal. Madhuri is a quiet achiever at RPM who has the tenacity and professional experience to empower girls in Australia and Nepal. A great video of Madhuri bungee jumping is also included within this update! Micheline is passionate about working towards empowering communities. Alice is a social entrepreneur at Smile Stard Days for Girls Enterprise In Nakuru county - Kenya. and Tina shared her background and connection to Days for Girls in Rome, Cambodia and Zambia! |
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Baby newsCongratulations to RPM Charter Member & SolarBuddy International Programme Coordinator Russell Gauld and Bec on the birth of beautiful Sage!!  |
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RPM’s Strategic Planning Session was a great way to start 2022RPMers were fully engaged by President Elect Aviv Palti and workshop facilitator, D9800 Vocational Service Chair. Warwick Cavell during a recent Strategic Planning session on February 5. To watch the recording of the meeting, click here |
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The RPM Timor Leste Team connect with our Member & her Colleagues in Baguia
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Baguia Project in Timor Leste is gaining momentumOur RAWCS Baguia Community Project is powering along. The 9 committee members, including Katrina Flynn from RC Hawthorn are on a mission to empower Baguia school students with the necessary tools for educational success. |
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Safe drinking water for Cambodian Schools
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RPM Thanks Rosemary Kinyua
Rosemary Kinyua : Good bye for now as you develop a new business venture. We always will be grateful for your service to RPM and sincerely hope you will join us again in the future.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas from Baguia - click here to view a special song
SOCIAL SECTION
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Meet our President Elect 2022-2023
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
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RPM This Is Your Life Interviews November
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RPM is 2 years old!
Congratulations to RPM on celebrating our 2nd birthday!! After a toast and celebration, guest speaker Mark Anderson, Senior Coordinator from The Rotary Foundation did not disappoint. His knowledge and presentation in layman terms of how the Foundation operates, impressed all of us and there were many requests for a copy of his slides.
Nepal WASH project is back on track
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RPM AGM
RPM held our AGM on November 6, 2021. A quorum was reached with 26 members in attendance. The AGM endorsed the Auditor’s report. After the meeting closed, President Jenny and Past District Governor Phillip Archer led a Q and A with the focus being, “Start with the Why.” This was extremely useful as the majority of members are new to Rotary and there was a variety of topics covered including governance, history of Rotary and the importance of keeping up to date via the My Rotary website.
Rotary SAFE Families
 | Jenny Nola is now RPM’s Representative (Champion) of Rotary SAFE Families. ‘Rotary SAFE Families’ was established over three years ago to help stop all forms of family violence by addressing its underlying causes. It has evolved into a national program with valuable resources and tools including images and short films to assist every Rotarian in every part of Australia to play their part in stopping abuse in families everywhere.as I am certain that various RPM Members have a real passion & interest to work in partnership with Rotary Safe Families in their campaign to raise awareness. https://rotarysafefamilies.org.au |
Your Rotary Citation for 2020-2021
Dear Rotary Passport Melbourne.
I am pleased to inform you that Rotary Passport Melbourne (RPM) received a Rotary Citation for 2020-2021 for " helping Rotary open opportunities in the lives of people over the world." The Rotary Citation is a significant award that honours clubs whose leaders and members show a commitment to success. In addition, the Rotary Citation recognizes Rotary clubs that support Rotary strategic priorities by completing certain activities.
During a challenging year for many Rotarians worldwide, our club demonstrated a commitment to achieve its goals, which ultimately helps strengthen Rotary and shape our future.
Once again, congratulations to all!
Maria Hicks OAM, IPP
District Governor Dale Hoy shows his support for RPM
Our District Governor Dale Hoy (affectionately known as The Governator) visited RPM and shared his insights on District 9800 and all things Rotary. Dale is our connection to District 9800 and the wider Rotary world.
RPM This Is Your Life Interviews September
Every month at our Monthly meetings, we will feature membership interviews. What a great way for members to get to know each other especially as we are from so many diverse backgrounds and countries.
In September we heard from John Ionnou, and Dr John Salmon.
REACH Siem Reap - A multi faceted approach with community involvement
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Donated Ultrasound machine arrives in Papua New Guinea
Monash IVF were delighted to donate one of their perfectly maintained ten year old ultrasound machines to Port Moresby Hospital, Papua New Guinea.
So, how do we get an ultrasound machine from Monash IVF to Port Moresby General Hospital? Laurie Fisher at Footscray Rotary DIK organised the collection from Monash IVF and packed it up on a pallet ready for transport. Due to Covid19 restrictions in Victoria, DIK Footscray were not in a position to send goods to Port Moresby, however DIK Brisbane had a container with some space available. And so Maria Hicks from Rotary Passport Melbourne reached out to her friends from TFMXpress who sponsored the road logistics from Footscray to Brisbane where it was loaded into the container.
We have it on good authority, that the obstetric team at Port Moresby are delighted to have such a quality ultrasound machine at their beck and call and it is already being put to great use. Thank you to all involved!
Walk with us to END POLIO
Be part of something special: Walk With Us this October for those who can’t. Be part of the end game strategy and raise funds to help make Polio history so that no child ever again suffers paralytic poliomyelitis.
Inaugural RPM Evening International Meeting
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Quality Education Nepal
Written by RPM Member, Peter Hall
Asked to write a few words about QEN for the newsletter, I pondered what I might say of a project with origins dating back to 1993. I have chosen to focus on three Nepalese for whom I have immense respect, and who have been the inspiration for all that I have done for Nepal. Click here to Read More
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While trekking in Nepal with a group of friends in 1993 we met Gyan Bahadur Pun at Khopra Danda, a vantage point on the slopes of Annapurna South. Many years late I recorded his recollections of his life which you can find here on YouTube
Engagement News!!
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SEPTEMBER IS ROTARY INTERNATIONAL BASIC LITERACY AND EDUCATION MONTH
Basic education and literacy are one of Rotary’s areas of focus. Our members understand that education and literacy are essential for reducing poverty, improving health, encouraging community and economic development and promoting peace.
To highlight “Education Month” we feature some RPMers who are committed to Education by either accessing private resources or through Rotary supported projects. RPM is a service club that offers more volunteer opportunities and fewer meetings. The projects and members featured in this newsletter demonstrate that volunteerism is at the heart of RPM as well as practical knowledge of Education issues in the countries they serve.
RPM This Is Your Life Interview Series
Every month at our Monthly meetings, we will feature membership interviews. What a great way for members to get to know each other especially as we are from so many diverse backgrounds and countries.
In August we heard from Allison Troth, Partnerships Manager at Destiny Rescue and Jenny Nola, Deputy Vice President of Country Women’s Association of Victoria
RPM Changeover Event
Members & friends of Rotary Passport Melbourne gathered on Saturday 3rd July 2021 at a luncheon event where we saw the club's presidential role change hands from Maria Hicks (Charter President) to Jenny Foster (2nd Club President).
In accepting the club leadership, President Jenny Foster thanked past President Maria for a stellar job in leading the club 2020-2021. President Jenny Foster spoke a few words, sharing her passion for Rotary, in the same token, thanked the club membership for the opportunity to serve as the 2nd club president of Rotary Passport Melbourne.
President Jenny also took the opportunity to also introduce her club 2021-2022 officers.
The event marked the beginning of a New Year of service and leadership in Rotary inspired by the theme, "Serve to Change Lives". "The theme serves as an inspiration for all Rotarians and a rallying call for our efforts in 2021-2022, to do more and grow more"- 2021-22 Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta
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Rotary at the Start of the United Nations
Rotary and the United Nations have a shared history of working toward peace and addressing humanitarian issues around the world.
During World War II, Rotary informed and educated members about the formation of the United Nations and the importance of planning for peace. Materials such as the booklet “From Here On!” and articles in The Rotarian helped members understand the UN before it was formally established and follow its work after its charter.
Many countries were fighting the war when the term “United Nations” was first used officially in the 1942 “Declaration by United Nations.” The 26 nations that signed it pledged to uphold the ideals expressed by the United States and the United Kingdom the previous year of the common principles “on which they based their hopes for a better future for the world.”
First Club in Philippines Opens Door to Rotary in Asia
In early 1919, Rotarian Roger Pinneo of Seattle, Washington, USA, traveled to the Philippines to try to organize a Rotary club in Manila. Leon J. Lambert, a Manila business leader helped Pinneo establish the club. Several months later, on 1 June 1919, the Rotary Club of Manila was chartered and became the first Rotary club in Asia.
The club would be the only one in the country for more than 12 years. Eventually, Manila club members organized Rotary clubs in the Philippine cities of Cebu (1932) and Iloilo (1933). Iloilo club members then started a club in Bacolod (1937), and Rotary continued to expand across the country.
Young Inventor Eco-Friendly Bricks Come Full Circle
Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 years old when the entire journey started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated TV series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers. Desai can still recite the show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our hero / Gonna take pollution down to zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help Captain Planet.”
Rotary’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic
An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.
This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year.
The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic.
Photo by Edwin J. McCullagh, 1931-32 club president. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Berkeley.
History of Women in Rotary
Women are active participants in Rotary, serving their communities in increasing numbers and serving in leadership positions in Rotary. The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary.
“My fellow delegates, I would like to remind you that the world of 1989 is very different to the world of 1905. I sincerely believe that Rotary has to adapt itself to a changing world,” said Frank J. Devlyn, who would go on to become RI president in 2000-01.
The vote followed the decades-long efforts of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.