Our next meeting will be 6:00pm for 6:30pm Wednesday 23 October 2024
at the Graphic Arts Club, 182 Coward Street Mascot
Visitors are very welcome.
Members are reminded that half-yearly Membership Fees are now due.
President's Message
Welcome to this Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Botany Randwick Inc. Our club has been serving the local and international community since 1948.
Rotary promotes the ideal of service through fellowship. Attending our meetings allows members to enjoy the fellowship of other club members, enrich their professional and personal knowledge, and meet other business leaders in their community.
As a Club we support a wide range of projects. As well as having a broad range of local and international community projects, we are particularly focused on the Rotary projects, Australian Rotary Health, Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) and Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) together with The Rotary Foundation.
We welcome everyone to come along to any of our meetings to join in the fellowship and to learn more about what we do.
Our speaker at this meeting will be Mark McPherson, who many would have met at our recent membership development meeting.
Mark's topic is "What to Do when you Speak so People don't just Listen - they hang on Every Word".
Mark is the creator of the Workplace Harmony Game Plan and Real Life Rehearsals. His Personal Conversation Scripts combine the Verbal, Vocal and Visual Communication Codes and make it easy for you to Master Tough Conversations and Deal with Difficult People.
Mark’s been a Science Teacher, Lecturer in Behaviour Management, Senior Education Officer in Drug and Alcohol and Sexual Health, Team Leader of the Drug Programs Unit, NSW Police, and a researcher, instructional designer, trainer and coach. Mark has formal qualifications in science, health, education and psychology.
As usual we will meet in the upstairs Board Room for our meeting and Mark's talk. We will then adjourn to the Club's dining room for dinner and chat. All welcome, especially any visitors.
Our last meeting
What a night! In a break from our normal meeting routine, we provided a BBQ dinner for the residents at Ronald McDonald House at the Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick.
A big thank you to all our members who turned up to provide 80 meals for the parents of the children, mostfrom rural NSW, with a few from interstate and even Darwin, whose children are undergoing treatment at the Hospital.
Staff at the House have sent a big thank you to the Club, please see the following links CLICK HERE TO VIEW YOUR VIDEO and to see the PHOTOS !
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2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at the Graphic Arts Club,
182 Coward Street,
Mascot.
6pm for pre-meeting drinks and chat. The meeting, with dinner, starts at 6:30pm and normally concludes by 8:30pm.
ROMAC is a Program of the Rotary Districts of Australia and New Zealand that facilitates major surgical treatment, in Australia and New Zealand, for children of the Oceania Region that would otherwise have no access to that treatment. Since inception of the program 35 years ago, over 550 children have received life saving or dignity restoring treatment that has changed not only their lives, but also that of their families and communities.
District 9675 Governor Warwick's video this month introduces Haggai who was born in a remote village in PNG with a large facial growth. You will hear from Warwick how ROMAC and Doctors at the Children's Hospital at Westmead transformed her life. Watch this inspiring story here.
Members Christine and Greg recently met Kim Miller from the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation to hand over some of the foreign currencies collected through our Rotary bins located at Sydney Airport before she goes back to Vietnam next week. We could donate the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao money, which amounted to approximately $500 Australian Dollars.
Kim has been with the Foundation for ten years, and she talked about the positive changes they are making for the Vietnamese people. She told us about how and why the Vietnamese people are lured into places like Cambodia to work for ‘scam factories’; they are targeted because they are taken away into locations where they do not have contact with people who speak the same language and put into areas that they do not know how to escape from or learn how to return to their own countries. These young people are held under guard, beaten and tortured (and sometimes) have their organs removed if they do not comply with what they are told to do.
Kim said that it costs about $1,000 to rescue one person. The cash we gave will be used to purchase petrol, food, drink and emergency supplies like shoes worn during rescues. (At times, people need to walk out of places like Myanmar through jungles at night and hide during the day to get back to Vietnam, and this can take up to 28 days)
Win a great holiday in Fiji and support the local and international projects of the Rotary Club of Botany Randwick.
5 night’s accommodation in a Beachfront Hotel Room
Full buffet breakfast daily
Return Malolo Cat transfers
Complimentary use of non-motorised water sports equipment
2 kids under 12 stay and eat free
1 night in a Deluxe Room at Fiji Gateway Hotel, across from Nadi Airport
Plus AUD1000 cash toward travel or spend as you wish. The prize is valid for 18 months. The prize is transferable to friends - your receipt will have a gift certificate to share.
from rural NSW, with a few from interstate and even Darwin, whose children are undergoing treatment at the Hospital. 
Members Christine and Greg recently met Kim Miller from the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation to hand over some of the foreign currencies collected through our Rotary bins located at Sydney Airport before she goes back to Vietnam next week. We could donate the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao money, which amounted to approximately $500 Australian Dollars. 