BULLETIN Oct 1 (Sep 29, 2019)

WHAT'S IN THIS BULLETIN

1st October 2019

Next Meeting - Guest Speaker
PolioPlus Update
Bernies Train Set
26th October Social
Paul Harris Breakfast
Sausage Sizzling Returns
Meeting report 17th September
Gallery

NEXT MEETING - GUEST SPEAKER

Posted by Bruce HERON

Cameron Glover

Interplast Australia & New Zealand
Interplast is a fully accredited non-government organisation (NGO) with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Interplast is registered by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission (ACNC) and is a signatory to the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Code of Conduct.

Interplast was initially established in 1983 by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in partnership with Rotary and is a company limited by guarantee.

For 35 years, Interplast has brought together teams of volunteers that have performed 26,000 lifechanging operations for 45,000 patients in 1,000 programs across the Asia Pacific region. Their volunteers include; plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and nurse educators, and allied health professionals such as occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech pathologists. Together, they use a multidisciplinary approach across the full patient journey. Increasingly, Interplast’s key focus is on training and mentoring local medical professionals so that they can continue to deliver safe and effective surgery, post-operative care and rehabilitation in their communities for the benefit of future generations.

Local partners are at the centre of everything Interplast do. They have well established partnerships in the 17 countries in which they work to support repairing bodies and rebuilding lives.

As Deputy CEO, Interplast Australia New Zealand, Cameron’s role is responsible for overseeing fundraising and community engagement activities, strategic and operational planning and fostering lasting partnerships to ensure safe, timely and accessible reconstructive surgery and associated health services across the region.

PolioPlus Update

My fellow Rotarians:

I’m pleased to share the important news that as of today, 21 August 2019, it has been three years since a child in Nigeria was paralyzed by the wild poliovirus. This means that the entire World Health Organization (WHO) African region could be certified as wild poliovirus-free as soon as mid-2020.

Along with our Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners and the Nigerian government, we’ve strengthened immunization and disease detection systems, and we are now reaching more children than ever in some of the hardest-to-reach places in Nigeria.

We can take pride in this progress, but it is not time to celebrate quite yet. We still have work to do and we must continue making it a priority to reach every child in Nigeria—and other polio-threatened countries—with the polio vaccine, and build strong levels of immunity to fully protect the entire population against polio.

Bernies Train Board

Bernies Train Board is coiming along just fine.

	It's taking shape with plenty of room.
	All the boxes underneath contain train scenery, buildings, tracks etc for the layout and all the rolling stock in stored in the cabinets.
	...and yes the car does it in the garage

26th October Social Lunch

Date: Saturday 26 October for lunch
Time: From midday
Place: 3 Outlook Drive, Eaglemont (Rebecca and Neville's home)
If you are travelling from the West, head along the Eastern
Freeway and take the Burke Road exit. Head left along
Burke Road North and at the main roundabout, keep going
straight (it becomes Maltravers Road) and in 200 metres
turn right into Outlook Drive. Number 3 is third house on the
left from the corner.
Cost: It’s a social gathering so no cost.
Meat and bread will be provided but BYO refreshments.
What else can you bring? - bring a salad; dessert or
whatever else to share or talk to Neville if you have other
ideas.
RSVP Neville John by 4th October on email
nrjohn@iprimus.com.au, or mobile 0417 387216
If you are coming, please let Neville know what
food you to plan bring so that we don’t all end
up eating dessert for lunch. Also advise any
dietary restrictions.

27th Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Breakfast

27th Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Breakfast

GUEST SPEAKER

Dr Andrew Browning

Maternal health care in Africa- an Australian intervention

Dr Andrew Browning spent 17 years living with his family in Ethiopia and Tanzania amongst some of the poorest people in the world.

He specialises in treating a devastating birth injury called obstetric fistula. This results from women giving birth at home, without medical help. In labour for four or five days they deliver a stillborn child and the tissues in their pelvis are destroyed, leaving them with large holes (fistula) to their bladder and bowel. Leaking continually they are shunned, depressed and suicidal.

Andrew is one of only a handful of surgeons in the world who have dedicated their lives to helping treat and prevent this. His charity has now built three maternity hospitals in Africa and aims to build many more.

All funds raised will be used to support Rotary Foundation projects

that make lives better in your community and around the world

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International has received 12 consecutive 4-star ratings, the top rating, from Charity Navigator as at January 2019.
Charity Navigator also rates The Rotary Foundation as Number One in their list of the 10 of the Best Charities Everyone's Heard Of.
It also received an A+ from Charity Watch its highest rating in 2017 (the most recent rating).
The Association of American Fundraising Professionals named The Rotary Foundation as the outstanding Foundation for 2016.

We look forward to welcoming all Rotarians, partners, friends and colleagues to this special event

BOOKINGS: www.trybooking.com/BEYTZ

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Marjorie Gerlinger

Email: marbern@bigpond.net.au • 0419 302 109

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

When

Thursday, 21st November 2019

Where

The RACV City Club

Level 17, 501 Bourke Street

Melbourne

Tickets

$70.00 per head

$650 for a table of ten

(incl. GST)

RSVP

7th November 2019

Time

7.15 for 7.30 till 9.00am

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SAUSAGE SIZZLING RETURNS

Posted by Peter DURAS

A new Rotary year and suddenly the first Bunnings sausage sizzle at Port Melbourne was successfully completed on Friday 12th July.

If you are able to help on any of the future dates listed below, could you please email me at peter.duras@bigpond.com indicating your preference for morning, lunchtime or afternoon? We'll run from shortly after 8am to 4.

Remaining dates for Port Melbourne this calendar year are:

Friday 30th August

Friday 1st November

Friday 15th November

Sunday 22nd December

MEETING REPORT 24th September

Posted by Rohan WILLIAMS

Minutes RCM Weekly Meeting Tuesday 24^th September 2019

President Warwick Cavell opened the meeting by inviting Chair Rana Ebrahimi to propose a toast to Rotary International then welcoming the following guests

Francesco Fedele
Steven Turner
Jenny Foster
Steven Mullins
Bianca
James Garland
Grenville Wise & Andrew Gai (guest speakers)

Announcements:

Rohan Williams stated that the Board, in consultation with Heather, Mercedes and Simon plus Steven Wells from Austin Health, had funded a permanent memorial to the late Kevin Walklate at Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Hospital. Steven recently shared the following photo and commented that the sculpture is a fitting tribute to Kevin and symbolic of the longstanding partnership between Rotary, Austin Health and the sensory gardens. Tim Read and Rob Hayley constructed the sculpture.

Russell Rolls stated that the next DIK Working Bee is planned for Saturday 26^th October at 9-12pm. Members interested in volunteering should contact Russell.
President Warwick shared the following milestones:
- Birthdays for Martin Langton and Elias Lebbos
- Wedding anniversary for Sarah Overton and David Duncan
- Rotary anniversaries for Rebecca John, Therese Robinson and Bruce Heron

Guest Speakers – Grenville Wise and Andrew Gai from Anglicare

Grenville outlined how the A Better Way program commenced to address some of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into family violence.

The program seeks to collaborate with both the victim and perpetrator of family violence to identify the harm done and develop an individual treatment plan.

Grenville described the 3 stages of the program:

Engagement – discuss most recent example of violence, how it impacted perpetrator’s relationship with victim and other family members and what warning signs occurred before the violence
Accountability & Responsibility – identify behavior changes and measures to track
Generative & Reparative – identify actions to strengthen the relationships between the perpetrator and his/her family

Andrew shared 3 case studies to demonstrate the positive impacts the program has on perpetrators and their families.

Since January 2019, 41 cases had been referred to Anglicare, with 85% completing the Engagement stage and 10% successfully completing the program.

Chair Rana thanked Grenville and Andrew for sharing their work then presented them with a handmade gift from the Kor Timor project in Timor Leste as a token of our appreciation.

The Social Enterprize raffle was drawn with Mary Voice, Francesco and David Jones winning.

President Warwick closed the meeting by thanking Grenville and Andrew for their presentation and all visitors then challenging all members to continue to look for opportunities to Connect the World.