Last Week's speaker
DG Bruce presented us with a interesting and concise review of our wonderful organisation. We all know a little but DG Bruce's talk put in one place some of the facts.
He was most surprised that when he took over he was presented with the official DG registration car number plates.
Differences in NZ and Australia manifests itself with the the names of the DR training sessions here they are DG Training over there they are G-strings - well that's what is sounds like!!
Number of Rotarians in the world - 1.2 million
there are 34,000 Rotary clubs in the world in 200 plus clubs in the world
It is estimated that Rotarians donate 16 million of voluntary hours per year (a figure Bruce felt was far to light)
Rotary is 112 years old
Established by Paul Harris and 3 others.in Chicago, USA
District 9980s newest clubs are the NRG and the e-Club both of which were born out of Dunedin Central.
At the DG training there was over 500 delegates. The breakout session that Bruce was in, had 15 DGs from all corners of the world.
Lunch times were interesting as they had to serve over 1000.
All types of ethnic food was available.
Our Foundation contribution this year was set at $150.00.
Polio Plus - what's the progress???? Well, there were only 6 cases throughout the world in the last 12 months- 4 in Afghanistan and 2 in Pakistan and in the other area of concern, Nigeria, there were no reported cases.
With the project hopefully coming to an end questions were raised at the DG training what the next world project would be.
Every Rotarian planting a tree. 1.2 million trees - just imagine how this could improve our environment.
DG Bruce stated that our Club was the number one club for many reasons, David Black and the effort he has put in overseas, the club's work in fostering an e-Club and NRG.
Every Club is the best club because they all do what we do; 'Make a Difference'.
Do the general public know what we do? Not many do so DG Bruce is giving each club $300 so we can tell the community why Rotary is good for their community.
I AM A PROUD ROTARIAN AND THE WORLD NEEDS MORE ROTARIANS
DG BRUCE'S CONFERENCE IS THE 1ST WEEK IN MAY 2018
A promo video gave us the message - Thank you Bruce.
