Thursday, March 18, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Long-term Recovery Relief for Chile
The Rotary Foundation (TRF) Chairman Estess has asked Rotary International Director and Treasurer, Michael Colasurdo, to advise all Rotarians in Zone 32 of the action taken in concurrence with President Kenny in the aftermath of the earthquake in Chile.
The Rotary Foundation is establishing an account to receive contributions from Rotarians and the general public for longer-term disaster recovery efforts in Chile. Contributions to this account will not receive PHF recognition credit. Funds contributed to this account will be utilized in Rotary Foundation projects to address infrastructure needs in Chile. Districts may donate District Designated Funds (DDF) to this account.
Rotarians wanting to contribute to this account should direct their contributions through the normal means by which they make other contributions.
Friday, March 5, 2010
What's up in District 7890 this weekend
Head to the Convention Center in Hartford, March 5, 6, 7, our district SHINES.
Exhibit the brainchild of Suffield Club, manned/womanned by volunteers from many clubs, thanks to AGs Pam Lupoli and Eileen Rau.
More news about PETS after this weekend.
ROTARY ROCKS1111111
Exhibit the brainchild of Suffield Club, manned/womanned by volunteers from many clubs, thanks to AGs Pam Lupoli and Eileen Rau.
More news about PETS after this weekend.
ROTARY ROCKS1111111
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Relief for Haiti
For those of you who keep telling me you cannot see any evidence of ShelterBox in Haiti
If you go to the East Hartford club's website, www.easthartfordrotary.org, look on left side of the homepage, and under club links, scroll down to rotary on youtube, click link to see Mark Pearson of ShelterBox in Haiti.
The Rotary International youtube videos change fairly frequently; so, please do this at your earliest convenience, assuming you are interested.
Another lively Rotary week. In our district, pre-PETS was on Thursday, February 11th. A very successful meeting thanks to persistence of incoming governor, Prasad Menon. Registration for NEPETS10 opened that afternoon, and that's when all the "fun" began for me as Registration Chair.
As of today, we have 441 Rotarians signed up for this event, 75% of our target, with two weeks to go.
Hope all is well in your Rotary whirled.
If you go to the East Hartford club's website, www.easthartfordrotary.org, look on left side of the homepage, and under club links, scroll down to rotary on youtube, click link to see Mark Pearson of ShelterBox in Haiti.
The Rotary International youtube videos change fairly frequently; so, please do this at your earliest convenience, assuming you are interested.
Another lively Rotary week. In our district, pre-PETS was on Thursday, February 11th. A very successful meeting thanks to persistence of incoming governor, Prasad Menon. Registration for NEPETS10 opened that afternoon, and that's when all the "fun" began for me as Registration Chair.
As of today, we have 441 Rotarians signed up for this event, 75% of our target, with two weeks to go.
Hope all is well in your Rotary whirled.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Gearing up for PETS (the Presidents-elect Training Seminar)
All presidents and presidents-elect have been invited to this Thursday's Pre-PETS (an introduction to the Presidents-elect Training Seminar) and the mid-year Presidents Meeting!
This is an exciting time in the district, an opportunity for the current presidents and their successors to meet with club leaders from all around District 7890.
As District Governor-nominee, I am involved only to support both Governor Herb and incoming Governor Prasad. Among other duties, I serve as Registration Chair for the Northeast Multidistrict PETS Committee in mid-March. This is no small task as there are over 500 attendees plus many senior leaders from around the Rotary world to inspire and train incoming presidents for Rotary year 2010-2011.
If you are a club president-elect, your invitation should reach you via email about 5 PM on Thursday, February 11th. All meals, plenary sessions and breakout sessions for presidents-elect will occur at the Radisson, while most sessions for Assistant Governors will occur at the Courtyard Marriott.
Watch for the invitation from PETS Chair Steve Silverman, open it, and register ASAP for the best chance to room at the Radisson Hotel, one of the two hotels housing attendees at this event. Another way to increase your chances of being assigned to the Radisson, as well as to save some money, is to opt to room with another president-elect.
See you Thursday at the Clarion in West Springfield, then on to PETS, March 11, 12 and 13 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
This is an exciting time in the district, an opportunity for the current presidents and their successors to meet with club leaders from all around District 7890.
As District Governor-nominee, I am involved only to support both Governor Herb and incoming Governor Prasad. Among other duties, I serve as Registration Chair for the Northeast Multidistrict PETS Committee in mid-March. This is no small task as there are over 500 attendees plus many senior leaders from around the Rotary world to inspire and train incoming presidents for Rotary year 2010-2011.
If you are a club president-elect, your invitation should reach you via email about 5 PM on Thursday, February 11th. All meals, plenary sessions and breakout sessions for presidents-elect will occur at the Radisson, while most sessions for Assistant Governors will occur at the Courtyard Marriott.
Watch for the invitation from PETS Chair Steve Silverman, open it, and register ASAP for the best chance to room at the Radisson Hotel, one of the two hotels housing attendees at this event. Another way to increase your chances of being assigned to the Radisson, as well as to save some money, is to opt to room with another president-elect.
See you Thursday at the Clarion in West Springfield, then on to PETS, March 11, 12 and 13 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Rotary Leadership Institute on youtube
Copy and paste the url here below into your browser for a good overview of the Rotary Leadership Institute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okvXmwiOkCc
If you have never attended a session of the Rotary Leadership Institute(RLI), consider signing up for one this spring.
For more information as well as a schedule of sessions in our area, go to
http://www.rlinea.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okvXmwiOkCc
If you have never attended a session of the Rotary Leadership Institute(RLI), consider signing up for one this spring.
For more information as well as a schedule of sessions in our area, go to
http://www.rlinea.com/
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Update from Haiti; biggest deployment in four years
The Biggest Deployment of ShelterBoxes in Four Years, Saving Lives One Box at a Time -- Emergency shelter for more than 20,000 people is now in Port au Prince and surrounding areas with small camps in Delmas, Petion-Ville, Carrefour and Leogane. More ShelterBoxes containing disaster relief tents and other life-saving
supplies are being sent to the Haiti in the next few days from Miami, Curucao and France with enough for an another 11,000 people.
“Nearly 100 tons of additional aid is being flown to Haiti this week as thousands of people who lost their homes in the devastating earthquake are being given the chance to start rebuilding their lives in ShelterBox tents” said Veronica Brandon Miller, Executive Director of ShelterBox USA.
“The need in Haiti is massive. Our team in Port au Prince is working with Dutch marines to ensure the safe and effective delivery of disaster relief tents and hundreds of these are already being used in four different locations,” John Leach, Head of Operations for ShelterBox. “Distribution of aid by our highly-trained ShelterBox Response Team members is underway but the need for emergency shelter
is still desperate.”
A number of ShelterBoxes have also been used at an orphanage and at two hospitals in Port au Prince where tents are being erected to help save lives.
Speaking from Bernard Mews Hospital in Freres, a suburb of Port au Prince, ShelterBox Response Team member Wayne Robinson (volunteer from Tennessee ) said, “Right outside the hospital there have been hundreds of people who have been laying in the sidewalks, on the streets and in blankets right on the ground in unbelievable conditions. They are bleeding, they have missing limbs and there are even women giving birth. We felt this was a good use of the initial boxes that we had here on the ground and we’ll be bringing more here and using them as a transitional point to get people out of the elements while they are waiting for treatment at the hospital.”
Public donations are vital to ShelterBox’s continuing work around the world. To make a donation go to www.shelterboxusa.org to donate online and get the latest updates on the charity’s response to the Haiti earthquake.
supplies are being sent to the Haiti in the next few days from Miami, Curucao and France with enough for an another 11,000 people.
“Nearly 100 tons of additional aid is being flown to Haiti this week as thousands of people who lost their homes in the devastating earthquake are being given the chance to start rebuilding their lives in ShelterBox tents” said Veronica Brandon Miller, Executive Director of ShelterBox USA.
“The need in Haiti is massive. Our team in Port au Prince is working with Dutch marines to ensure the safe and effective delivery of disaster relief tents and hundreds of these are already being used in four different locations,” John Leach, Head of Operations for ShelterBox. “Distribution of aid by our highly-trained ShelterBox Response Team members is underway but the need for emergency shelter
is still desperate.”
A number of ShelterBoxes have also been used at an orphanage and at two hospitals in Port au Prince where tents are being erected to help save lives.
Speaking from Bernard Mews Hospital in Freres, a suburb of Port au Prince, ShelterBox Response Team member Wayne Robinson (volunteer from Tennessee ) said, “Right outside the hospital there have been hundreds of people who have been laying in the sidewalks, on the streets and in blankets right on the ground in unbelievable conditions. They are bleeding, they have missing limbs and there are even women giving birth. We felt this was a good use of the initial boxes that we had here on the ground and we’ll be bringing more here and using them as a transitional point to get people out of the elements while they are waiting for treatment at the hospital.”
Public donations are vital to ShelterBox’s continuing work around the world. To make a donation go to www.shelterboxusa.org to donate online and get the latest updates on the charity’s response to the Haiti earthquake.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Governor-elect Prasad Menon planning for 2010-2011
The International Assembly, final training for all incoming district governors, has ended. Now, the DGEs are armed with their theme for 2010-2011 -- important as it helps the district and our clubs establish goals for the year.
Go to www.rotary.org to find out more about the theme, incoming Rotary International President Ray Klingensmith's goals, articulated in the theme, the Presidential Citation brochure, and many of the emphases at the International Assembly.
If you are a current club president or a president-elect, be sure you are signed up for pre-PETS, morning of Thursday, February 11th. There, you will find out more about the upcoming year and be inspired by Past Rotary International Vice-president, Mike McGovern, to achieve this year's goals and work on next year.
Go to www.rotary.org to find out more about the theme, incoming Rotary International President Ray Klingensmith's goals, articulated in the theme, the Presidential Citation brochure, and many of the emphases at the International Assembly.
If you are a current club president or a president-elect, be sure you are signed up for pre-PETS, morning of Thursday, February 11th. There, you will find out more about the upcoming year and be inspired by Past Rotary International Vice-president, Mike McGovern, to achieve this year's goals and work on next year.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Update from Haiti; witness to Boxing Day says, "worse than the tsunami."
ShelterBoxes are being packed around the clock. Hundreds of ShelterBoxes that were dispatched from the prepositioned stock in Curacao on Wednesday are due to touch down in Haiti late this afternoon, Haitian time. More ShelterBoxes are set to arrive in Port au Prince, Haiti later this week.
Since ShelterBox is the largest Rotary Club project in world – local Rotarians in Haiti have played a vital part in obtaining clearance for ShelterBox to land and get the life saving aid into the country.
ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) members David Eby (US), Wayne Robinson (US) and Mark Pearson (UK) have been in Port au Prince since Thursday and have been working nonstop assessing the most effective ways to distribute the much needed aid.
[To view a recent video of Wayne Robinson on the ground in Haiti, copy and paste this URL into your browser --
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3969588/shelter-boxes-distributed-in-haiti/?playlist_id=87249
PLEASE BE PATIENT. It takes a couple of minutes to download.]
A second Response Team, consisting of SRT members Mark Dyer (IL) and John Lacquey (FL) are in Miami, coordinating the ShelterBox logistical effort into Haiti from there. They will be joined later today by SRT member Ian Neal (UK) who will be traveling with the ShelterBoxes which are being shipped through Miami.
‘So much destruction’
SRT Mark Pearson, who was one of the first on the ground after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, said: “This is worse than the tsunami. It’s utter chaos at the airport. Buildings have been completely destroyed, the hospital has been destroyed. It’s a full scale emergency, there’s so much destruction.”
For those of you who like youtube videos, here is a short one from shelterboxusa.org
(copy the line below and paste into your browser).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19-2PJWqqU
Since ShelterBox is the largest Rotary Club project in world – local Rotarians in Haiti have played a vital part in obtaining clearance for ShelterBox to land and get the life saving aid into the country.
ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) members David Eby (US), Wayne Robinson (US) and Mark Pearson (UK) have been in Port au Prince since Thursday and have been working nonstop assessing the most effective ways to distribute the much needed aid.
[To view a recent video of Wayne Robinson on the ground in Haiti, copy and paste this URL into your browser --
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3969588/shelter-boxes-distributed-in-haiti/?playlist_id=87249
PLEASE BE PATIENT. It takes a couple of minutes to download.]
A second Response Team, consisting of SRT members Mark Dyer (IL) and John Lacquey (FL) are in Miami, coordinating the ShelterBox logistical effort into Haiti from there. They will be joined later today by SRT member Ian Neal (UK) who will be traveling with the ShelterBoxes which are being shipped through Miami.
‘So much destruction’
SRT Mark Pearson, who was one of the first on the ground after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, said: “This is worse than the tsunami. It’s utter chaos at the airport. Buildings have been completely destroyed, the hospital has been destroyed. It’s a full scale emergency, there’s so much destruction.”
For those of you who like youtube videos, here is a short one from shelterboxusa.org
(copy the line below and paste into your browser).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19-2PJWqqU
Friday, January 15, 2010
Haiti -- can you help?
Emergency disaster relief and shelter provision for more than 19,000 people is en route to earthquake-struck Haiti. Tens of thousands dead, even more left homeless and scenes of chaos; this is the picture coming out of the Caribbean island of Haiti.
If you want to help, first go to www.shelterboxusa.org and www.shelterbox.org find out for yourself, what is being done and what you can do.
In District 7890, a fund has been established to support sending both medical supplies and shelter -- the most immediate needs. Ask your club president for details.
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