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Cairns Mulgrave Rotary Club
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PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
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week.
CHANGEOVER 2003
$65 per person Saturday July 5th
6.30
Champagne and nibbles on the platform at Cairns Central Station
6.45 Board the train for the Freshwater Connection with the Barrier
Reef Jazz Band
7.00 Arrive Freshwater Connection. Enjoy a beautiful 3-course dinner,
dancing and formalities
10.30 Board the train for Cairns Central Station Dance to the Barrier
Reef Jazz Band back to your car It's elegant, fun and different
Theme for the evening
CHICAGO
Please add you name and number of people who will be attending to
the next page
Please note all money has to be paid by Friday 27th June - as it
will be too difficult to collect the money on the platform of the
train!!
Rotary at a Glance
Down Under there are 1, 198 clubs and 36, 333
Rotarians in Australia and Papua New Guinea and 254 clubs and 10,
211 Rotarians in New Zealand and the Pacific nations.
South Australian
Clubs in Action - International Service.
Very Low Cost Shelters project enthuses SA Club
Rotarian
A.B.M. Ziauddin, vice- president of the recently
formed Rotary Club of Dhaka Fort in District 3280, Bangladesh has
developed a project to build Very Low Cost Shelters.
Why? You may well ask why, as Rotary International
already has a mechanism for supporting the building of Low Cost
Shelters under its humanitarian grants program. Ziauddin was concerned
that there were village communities in Rural Bangladesh what were
even poorer than average.
The census showed that only 50 percent of rural
houses have at least a corrugated iron roof, most have mud brick,
jute, bamboo or straw walls, and only four percent have electricity.
The need is unarguable.
The Rotary Club of Dhaka Fort decided to concentrate
on one small poor rural community, the village of Veluapara, near
Chattagong. Being at the head of the Bay of Bengal, Veluapara can
suffer cyclones and severe flooding. Ziauddin and his fellow members
developed a Very Low Cost Shelter (VLCS) about 18ft x 12ft or 5.5
metres x 3.65 metres.
The roof is corrugated iron built on either a bamboo
or steel frame. The walls are either bamboo sheeting or corrugated
iron. Ziauddin determined that these could be built for only $US250.00
each, and promptly put his money where his mouth is and built one.
He then arranged for a further six to be donated.
Because of the great success of their previous joint
venture with Matching Grants he approached Jerry Leech, of the Rotary
Club of Mount Gambier Lakes, S.A., and together they prepared
a draft application. This seemed the obvious way to go as Rotary
International has already approved some 60 Matching Grants for Low
cost Shelters in Bangladesh.
Discussions with R.I. staff and careful reading
of the documentation indicated that the proposed shelters, or VLCS,
were just too low cost. They did not meet the guidelines. Approved
grants have been at a unit cost of $US1, 000 to $2, 000 and for
that amount four to eight lower cost shelters could be built.
Sensibly, R.I. required proof of land tenure although
they would accept formal assurances from the village council. This
prevents the beneficiaries being ejected from their new shelters.
The proposed VLCS avoid this important issue because the shelters
are easy to dismantle and shift, thus stopping absentee landlords
charging exorbitant and extortionate rents. Wherever possible the
VLCS are erected on the farmer's own plots of land.
R.I. requires consideration of safe water and sanitation,
but Ziauddin considers that better shelter for more people was a
more immediate priority in Veluapara. The guidelines recommend common
walls to minimize project costs. To Ziauddin, the villagers need
to be near their plot of land was often far more important than
the advantages to be gained by even partial urbanization. The village
needed more than 50 units.
The other R.I. requirements for proof of need, project
management and the development of a maintenance plan could be easily
addressed. Members of the Rotary Club of Dhaka Fort and the village
council have formed a management committee, the Rotary Community
Corps of Veluapara, to steer the overall development.
Together they are involved in other projects to
improve school facilities and to carry out cataract operations to
correct problems caused by rubella during pregnancy. They hope to
use Veluapara as a model village to showcase development. The R.I.
guidelines limit the number of shelters on a single site to 50.
To date the Rotary club of Dhaka Fort has received
a direct donation of funding from a number of Rotary clubs around
the world. They have built a further 39 units, adding to the seven
donated by Ziauddin and his friends, and a funding for a further
16 is in hand, a total of 62. The participating clubs come from
many Districts including 1060, 1090, 1250, 5000, 6250, 6360 and
6990 apart form their own. They believe that they can meet their
initial target of 200, and hope to build even more as they know
from a survey that some 450 to 500 units are needed.
If your club would like to get involved and make
a direct donation then contact Jerry Leech of the Rotary Club of
Mount Gambier Lakes for more information and to be put in contact
with Bangladesh. A.B.M. Ziauddin will be attending the Brisbane
Convention.
From Rotary Down Under May 2003.
Safeguard your
club's reputation
The reputation of Rotary is in the hands of each
club. As your club is judged by its actions, so is Rotary in general.
Be aware that handing over fund raising to telemarketers,
if not properly controlled can endanger your club's reputation.
We receive more complaints about this type of fund raising by Rotary
clubs than any other.
Telemarketers are in business to make money, not
to protect the image of Rotary or your club. We recently had the
example of an employee of a telemarketer sending a letter signed
by him on a club's letterhead with no indication that he was not
a member of the club.
To the recipient, it appeared to be a letter directly
from the club and no mention we made of the involvement of the telemarketer.
Any club engaging in such a campaign should ensure that it maintains
its reputation by controlling the activities of the telemarketer
or other professional fundraiser it engages and buy insisting on
the right to approve all correspondence, flyers and advertising
issued in its name.
Under no circumstances should any club allow another
person or organisation to use the club's letterhead.
Harley Tarrant.
Rotary International
Rochester Coordinates
Fodder Gift
In regional Victoria, the Rotary Club of Rochester's
15 members coordinated efforts to take fodder to two drought affected
district properties. The hay came through the generosity of David
Hains, new owner of the historic Burnewang North property. T
he Hians family recognised the crisis being faced
by people in the Campaspe Valley in the state's northeast with the
drought. Burnewang North farm manager David Houston contacted Rotarian
Russell Anderson who in turn contacted the Victorian Farmers Federation
to get names of people who needed help. Names were put forward and
two farms received hay.
The 15 member Rotary Club of Rochester were delighted
to be involved, appreciating the generosity of the Hains family.
Rotary Down Under May 2003
From the Sydney
Bacardi Festival
Possible
Rotary Function
7-Piece Multi Instrumental LATIN FIESTA BAND
Sizzling - High Energy - Infectious Check it out:
www.tigramuna.com.au
2002 - SYDNEY FESTIVAL - HEADLINER ACT
2001 - SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
2001 - AUSTRALIAN WORLD MUSIC AWARD
2000 - LATIN PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
1999 - WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD
1998 - ARIA AWARD NOMINATION PARADISE PALMS
The Atrium Monday 16 June 03 @ 7.30pm $45 incl.
Glass of Champs & Food Platter
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - close Friday 13 June Book &
Info:
ENCORE CONCERTS T. 4093 9018 Email: allegro@optusnet.com.au
** Mossman Saturday 1 & Yungaburra Sunday 15
Presented by ENCORE CONCERTS in association with
Musica Viva POB 1600 Cairns 4870
Tel 4093 9018 Email: allegro@optusnet.com.au
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