Speaker: Dr. David Suzuki
Date: Sep 04, 2006
Sustainability is an important part of many Rotary projects. Sustainability of the Earth is of course paramount. If anybody reading this has a program counterpoint they would like to see, please send it to me.
Our virtual speaker today is Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and chair of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is professor emeritus of Sustainable Develpment Research at the University of British Columbia, an officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for science. For more information, visit the David Suzuki Foundation at www.davidsuzuki.org.
Speaker: Rev. Fr. Stephen, Vice Chairman, Centre for Handic
Date: Aug 28, 2006
Dear Rotarians,
We introduce our selves as the Centre for Handicapped a Non Profit Making Organization devoted entirely to the care of the disabled (otherwise abled) and approved / registered with the Social Services Dept. of the Government of Sri Lanka under Registration No. MSS/7/8/NSPD/R/123.
Our centre was born in the year 1992. It was substantially upgraded due to the initiative taken by Rotary through a matching grant between the Rotary Club of Encoping in
One serious constraint in utilizing the capacity we have to provide artificial limbs is funding to cover the raw material cost and other inputs in providing these limbs to poor persons. We are straining at our financial budgets even to provide the 50 limbs a month mentioned above. If we have funding by way of sponsors, who would sponsor a limb recipient, we could provide many more limbs to poor otherwise abled persons who need same because we have the production capacity.
The purpose of this inquiry is to ascertain whether your Rotary Club, District or any other donors who you may be aware of will be interested in sponsoring one or more limb recipients. The cost of one limb ranges from US$ 150 for a below knee type to US$ 300 for an above knee type limb. The above knee type limb is more complicated as it includes the knee joint. The donor will receive a photograph of the limb recipient both before and after including brief details of the recipient and how he or she lost the limb.
Please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned if you require any further information or clarifications on the above programme in service to poor physically handicapped and underprivileged persons. If any Rotary Club would like to engage in a humanitarian grant programme for either of the projects mentioned above, we could request a Rotary Club in
We also invite you to browse our website - www.cfhsrilanka.org which will give you more information about our activities and humanitarian programmes.
We appreciate that you may like to have independent verification on the authenticity of what we state above preferably from another Rotary Club in
In a separate e-mail we will forward to you case studies of poor physically handicapped persons who are provided relief through this programme. Thank you for taking the time to read this appeal.
Yours in service to the otherwise abled
Rev. Fr. Stephen
Vice Chairman
Centre for Handicapped
Speaker: Rotary Action Group for Population and Development
Date: Aug 21, 2006
Today’s program was submitted by a visitor to our club and as such I would remind all visitors to contact us with programs of interest. This one comes from Karl G. Waechtler of the R.C. of Rome, GA # 127,
himself a Life member of RFPD.
You can learn more about RFPD on their excellent web site at http://www.rifpd.org/ .
Speaker: Rotary International
Date: Aug 14, 2006
This week’s program is one that will be very familiar to many members of our club and to many visitors as well.
Nevertheless, it is hard to know where you are going if you don’t know from whence you’ve come. Here are some simple questions that you will soon have the answer to if you read this week’s program and follow its embedded links:
By when was Rotary on six continents?
When was the Rotary Foundation officially created?
What two items of significance occurred in Rotary in 1989?
What two RI Foundation programs began in 1965?
What was Paul Harris dog’s name? Ok, you might not find that, but there is an important reason to be knowledgeable about Rotary and that is to be fluid and fluent when speaking with friends and colleagues about Rotary. The number of people who still know nothing about Rotary is staggering. They don’t all have to join Rotary, but there are many ways to support our efforts.
Learn and enjoy. For more historical Rotary information, please visit:
http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/
Speaker: Darol Kubacz
Date: Aug 07, 2006
One of the great things about Rotary is our opportunity to meet unique people on a regular basis. What I mean by that is your fellow Rotarians. And through them, you meet other special folks, and through them, others. These are not always Rotarians, but often embody the spirit of Rotary in their everyday lives and actions.
Such was my opportunity in speaking with this week's speaker. He will be the first to tell you that he is no more special than any of us, yet in his every action he challenges that concept. Darol Kubacz is no ordinary person. He has had the opportunity on many occasions to simply sit down and say 'enough'. No one would challenge his decision. Far from it, many people would condone it, saying 'You should take it easy!' 'Let us help you take it easy!'
But not so with Darol Quite the contrary. I could have simply pointed you at their website, www.uhuruascent.com
Quoting the narrator "Red" (played by Morgan Freeman) from Darol's favorite movie, 'The Shawshank Redemption' (one you should see if you have not!):
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
Sometimes we meet people that, while we don't know where they get the strength to do what they do, nor do we understand precisely how they decide to do those things, when they do them, it makes us freer for at least one brief moment, and hopefully longer. It is with an honest desire that you someday get to make his acquaintance that I introduce Darol Kubacz.
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