Welcome to Rotary District 9930 ~ New Zealand

District 9930 lies in the heart of the North Island.   It is a land rich in history, in agriculture, in tourism, and in technology.   
 
The little village of Maketu is the site of one of the earliest Maori settlements in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Many towns of the East Cape region of our district share these Maori cultural roots, as do most communities in our district. The Coromandel Peninsula towns of Thames and Paeroa witnessed the gold rush fever of the 19th century.  Tourism flourishes in Rotorua, Mt Mauganui, Hawkes Bay, and Taupo. Agriculture abounds from the kiwifruit orchards of the Bay of Plenty to the dairy farms of the Waikato, to the vineyards of Hawke's Bay, to the vast forests of the central region. Our largest city Hamilton is a hub of technology and higher education, and New Zealand's largest port, Tauranga, drives the economy of our entire region.
 
And in every one of the areas, you will find Rotary clubs that serve their local communities as well as Rotary's global mission. We are 50 clubs powered by nearly 1,500 Rotarians.
 
Take time to explore District 9930. and see how Rotary "Connects The World".
 
   
Help Launch Rotary's New Global Ad Campaign, "People of Action"
While many people have heard of Rotary, few people actually understand what Rotary clubs do.
 
In fact, 35 percent of the public is unfamiliar with any Rotary program, including their local club. That’s why Rotary has created a new global ad campaign called “People of Action.”
 
The ads are available for download at Rotary.org/brandcenter, where you’ll also find guidelines on how to use and localize each element, making it easier for clubs in any part of the world to tell their story in a consistent, compelling way.
 
Work with local print media ad representatives to place these full-color ads in community magazines and newspapers.
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Rotary establishes new Peace Center in Africa
Rotary in partnership with Makerere University has established a new Rotary Peace Center in Kampala, Uganda.
 
The peace center will offer a postgraduate certificate program to peace and development leaders who are from or who have worked in Africa to address the underlying challenges to peace in the region. 
 
From human rights violations to the impacts of climate change, Rotary and Makerere University are offering a postgraduate certificate program to peace and development leaders who are from or who have worked in Africa to address the underlying challenges to peace in the region.
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Would You Join Your Club if You Were Joining Rotary?
Siting in my doctor's waiting room the other day I was thinking of the importance of having health checks. Just as routine doctor’s visits help us identify health risks before they become serious, a club health check can diagnose problem areas and prescribe remedies.
 
By using this health check, you’re taking a step to maintain your club’s health and preserve its value for members and the community. Rotary clubs also need to perform “health checks” on themselves and Rotary International have a great tool to do this with and guess what it’s called Rotary Club Health Check.
 
Click on the link below which will take you to it.
 

Rotary is Introducing Programs of Scaled Grants
Our district can be one of the first to try a new type of Rotary Foundation grant that’s designed to support sustainable, evidence-based methods to address a need that a community has identified and to measure the impact of the project on the community.
 
Beginning January 2020, Rotary International is introducing a highly selective, competitive grant model that empowers Rotarians to implement large-scale, high impact projects with experienced partners.
 
In support of Rotary’s Action Plan, Rotary International’s Programs of Scale grants will award $2 million to one approved project each year that responds to a community-identified need. These projects will benefit a large number of people in a significant geographic area using a sustainable, evidence-based intervention with measurable outcomes and impact. Each grant will support, for three to five years, activities that align with one or more of Rotary’s areas of focus.
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Four Ways to Get Involved With Rotary's New Toastmaster's Collaboration
After decades of avoiding public speaking, Rotarian Terry Beard decided to confront his fears head-on.
 
A friend introduced him to Toastmasters, where he learned to be comfortable in front of an audience, while also enhancing his leadership skills. Wanting to create a safe harbor for others to grow as he had, Beard launched the Portland Rotary Toastmasters club which includes members of the Rotary Club of Portland, Oregon, USA, but is also open to the public.
 
“We started it to help members develop their voice and grow in leadership skills,” he says. “But we got so much more than we anticipated.” Rotary International and Toastmasters International are now collaborating to give Rotary members increased opportunities for personal and professional growth. Rotary members have access to explore public speaking tips, videos, podcasts, and more from Toastmasters
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Big Christmas Feast at Rotary Wairoa
Tonight's Meeting:  Wednesday 12 th December: Christmas Dinner    
Last week’s meeting in brief:            
Christmas Dinner   
Lots of excellent munchies and dinner      
Quick meeting to pass the new constitution   
Annette: RFE group from Wales in Wairoa for nights of  Feb 6/17/18
Nigel has RYLA candidate   
Segeant’s fines for local foodbank as well as donated groceries  
Deidrè & Sue won beautiful baskets of goodies from John’s quiz   
Rotary Whakatane and Riding for the Disabled
Happy New Year fellow Rotarians – my last bulletin of 2019 was a bit of a disaster, some of you may have received it, but I do hope everyone had a safe and happy Christmas and you’re looking forward to a fantastic year of Rotary. See you all on the 20th    at    Scotties & Jill’s.    
 
A heads up for our first working bee of 2020 at Riding for Disabled. The volunteers there have requested we change the date to   1st and 2nd February – I hope this suits most of you, as all hands on deck will be required. They want us to build a Sensory Trail – the idea is that children on horseback will be led around a circuit of obstacles which the children have to try to complete.    Pictures below are similar to what we will be erecting. 
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Rotary District communications read far and wide.
Imagine my surprise when I received an email from the Prime Ministers Office this morning.
 
Dear Mr. Maxwell,
 
Many thanks for your email, advising us that Past District Governor, Peter Parr, passed away on 6 January.
As someone who has been very deeply involved in the community, Mr. Parr will be missed very much, and I will let the Prime Minister know the sad news.
 
Kind regards
 
Dinah Okeby
Office of the Prime Minister
 
Authorised by Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings  Wellington 6012
 
 
Ed.
Our District Governor's January Message
 
Congratulations to those who have been honored in the New Year’s Honors list – I am aware of PDG Leonie Tisch and PDG Paul Wright.  but I am sure there will be others.
Mary and I would like to wish all Rotarians and their families in District 9930 a very Happy New Year and hope that 2020 will bring you all a fruitful year.
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Congratulations Rotarian Leonie Tisch QSM
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District 9930 congratulate Leonie Tisch for her New Year's Honor of a Queen's Service Medal for services to health and the community

Mrs Leonie Tisch has contributed to a range of community organisations, across the health, education, community and governance sectors.

As Publicity Chair of Waikato Heart Trust she organised a telephone appeal which raised $750,000. She has been a member of the charitable Pohlen Hospital Trust Board since 2005 and as Deputy Chair since 2011 has played a key role in developing Pohlen Hospital towards a "one stop shop" community health facility.

She was involved with Waikato Community Trust (now Trust Waikato) from 1997 to 2001, during which time she was a member of the education, CEO/Chairperson Performance Review, and investment sub-committees.

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Congratulations Rotarian Paul Wright Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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New Zealand Order of Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) recognises outstanding service and was awarded to Paul Wright for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand and the forestry industry. 

Paul started working in forestry in 1966 and in the last 11 years of his career moved to the fire risk management world.  
 
He was the principal rural fire officer of Pumicelands from 2007 to 2017 and chief executive from 2015 to 2017, leading the amalgamation of the Central North Island rural fire districts under the new agency, Fire and Emergency N.Z.
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Rotarian Robert Martin Named Knight Companion

Robert Martin was a keynote speaker at our District 9930 Conference back in May 2010.

Robert has now spent more than 30 years advocating for the rights of disabled New Zealanders.

He has a learning disability and spent much of his childhood inside institutions and living with foster parents.

In 2018, he became the first person with learning disabilities to chair a United Nations meeting during a session.

He served on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the 2017-2020 term, and is seeking re-election.

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Havelock North Rotary assist with securing a $US 32,000 Global Grant
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Just once in a while, you can meet someone who is absolutely passionate about a community need. 
 
During a recent Rotary Friendship Exchange to Brazil, the small team from District 9930 met a very special person with a very defined goal.  This was Rotarian Dr. Cassiano Alves Ferreira Neto, who is a dentist employed at a cancer hospital in the small city of Jaù.  Cassiano was concerned that the cancer patients who had lost an ear, a nose, an eye or a palate during cancer surgery were, due to their disfigurement, tending to withdraw themselves from society and this often led to severe depression. 
 
Cassiano started moulding prosthetic ears, noses, eyes, and palates from resins, with the hospital funding him to fit facial prosthetics for 40 patients each year.
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The Value of Rotary Volunteering
A special report prepared for Rotary International by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies estimated the value of Rotary member volunteer hours at $850 million a year. 
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A report by Johns Hopkins University prepared for Rotary International estimated that Rotary members provide about 47 million hours of volunteer effort a year at an estimated value of $850 million.
 
That Rotary members log a lot of volunteer hours should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the organization. 
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Protect the Rotary Logo
I recently saw a story on television about a West Papuan woman who received life-changing facial surgery to fix a deformity which had caused her a lifetime of struggling to eat, drink and speak.
 
Members of the Rotary Club of Liverpool West and Bendigo Strathdale flew the woman to Australia for the surgery. I was instinctively moved to share the story immediately with my network, congratulating the team involved and expressing how truly proud I was at that moment to be a Rotarian.
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Rotary's Echoes of Polio 
Thousands of people who overcame polio as kids are feeling the disease's effects as they age.
 
It took Anne Fitzpatrick a while to make the connection between her worsening fatigue and the fact she'd had polio as a baby during one of New Zealand's last epidemics of the disease in 1953.
 
Polio had a big effect on Fitzpatrick's childhood, temporarily paralysing her right leg below the knee. She wore a caliper until she was 10, and although she regained her mobility - and was very active as a teenager, taking part in competitive swimming, diving, netball, and tennis - she walks with a limp.
 
That eventually caused arthritis in her right ankle, which has been operated on three times. 
 
She'd always experienced some tiredness but it wasn't until she joined Polio New Zealand (an organisation that supports polio survivors) that she realised the deep fatigue she was feeling was a symptom of what's known as the late effects of polio (LEoP) or post-polio syndrome.
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Rotary Partners with Toastmasters

Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that helps its members become more effective public speakers, communicators, and leaders. Like Rotary, it has a worldwide network of clubs.

By working with Toastmasters, Rotary and Rotaract members will have more opportunities to improve their leadership and communication skills, broaden their networks, and increase their impact.

Clubs and districts can get involved in this alliance by learning more about Toastmasters, exploring its resources and public speaking tips, visiting a local Toastmasters club, or watching a video to learn what happens at a Toastmasters meeting.

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Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation extending fundraising partnership to eradicate polio

Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation extending fundraising partnership to eradicate polio Partnership will infuse an additional US$450 million into global polio eradication

Rotary and the Gates Foundation extend funding match for polio eradication

Rotary and the Gates Foundation extend funding match for polio

Rotary establishes peace center at Makerere University

Rotary establishes peace center at Makerere UniversityInaugural 2021 class will focus on shaping peace and development in

Toastmasters and Rotary partner to help members grow professionally and make a difference in their communities

Toastmasters and Rotary partner to help members grow professionally and make a difference in their communitiesENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 7, 2020 — Members of Toastmasters and Rotary will enhance their skills, broaden their