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Member presentations at last Tuesday's meeting: Alison Chan  Alison was born in New Zealand and came to Australia in 2001, initially for a holiday before taking up contract work with a number of major companies. Alison’s parents were market gardeners and she had an adventurous youth in rural northern New Zealand. Her initial career was as an accountant and auditor and was a CPA in New Zealand. She then worked in a start up giftware company and in management in Mary Kaye Cosmetics. That led to her developing skills in beauty services and since then in alternative health. She now works in that area and part time with Interplast. She likes the people and team work she finds in Rotary and has an ambition to follow in her father’s footsteps in humanitarian service. Rana Ebrahimi  Rana was born in Tehran, Iran and moved back to her father’s village during the Iran / Iraq war. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and initially worked in grant writing . In 2003 there was an earthquake in Bam in Kerman province that killed 40,000 people. Rana became an interpreter and assistant in the recovery effort. Subsequently she worked for NGO’s and local government. She then established her own NGO focusing on public health for women, promoting breast cancer awareness. Not long after, Rana became a breast cancer survivor in her own right. Rana has also worked for the UN Development Program and the UN High Commission for Refugees, providing services to refugees in remote areas of Iran. Coming to Melbourne, which she rates on a par with Istanbul and Berlin, Rana is now working as a multi-cultural policy adviser to Senator Richard Di Natale, the Leader of the Greens in Federal Parliament. |
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Hanna Weigl and Jim Overton
Club members can assist with the hosting of Flavia and Hannah by providing transport and experiences, both on the weekends but also during the week. 
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