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TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from District Rotaract Representative
Updates from District Team
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RI Updates
Rotaractors and Rotaractors' family members We're seven months into the year, and we've picked up some new virtual abilities and realized that virtual meetings are here to stay.
The buzzwords or phrases like "virtual meeting fatigue" have worn off, and we've settled into the reality of what has become routine. You and I have both survived, and we are both aware that COVID-19 is here to stay. It is up to us to adapt and keep ourselves secure.
The 2021 District Conference, as you are all aware, will be a physical event that will be both thrilling and worthwhile of your time. Please make sure your club is registered
for
the
14th
Rotary
District
Conference.
We
hope
you
will
join
us,
whether individually or in a group. We will take every precaution to ensure that the
perfect
Conference
is
set
up,
so
that
you
can
create
the
conference
atmosphere by fellowshipping, if permitted by your COVID-19 safety protocols.
Rtr. Summit Bajracharya District Rotaract Representative Rotary International District 3292
Stay safe and stay tuned as we provide more information!
UPDATES FROM DISTRICT TEAM 2021-22 Rotary Scholarship Webinar Rotaract District organized a webinar on Rotary Scholarships where our speaker was Rtn. Karen Eveleigh on Jan 10,2022. Karen Eveleigh is the District Governor for Rotary District 1090 in the Thames Valley in southern England. She joined Rotary in 2009 and focused on club activities for the first two years. She then joined the district Foundation Team and supported the group study exchange program and the vocational training team program, both international programs within the Rotary Foundation.
Topics that were covered: The Rotary Global Grant scholarship program worldwide Other types of Rotary scholarships How we support Rotary Scholars in our district How we work with the universities in our district to promote the scholarships A few options for funding global grant scholarships
UPDATES FROM DISTRICT TEAM 2021-22 Official Club Visits of District Rotaract Representative We had our DRR Visits in three clubs this month. We had an amazing experience interacting with all the members during our visit and appreciate for inviting us to your club.
Rotaract Club of Baneshwor - Jan 3, 2022
Rotaract Club of Central Lumbini - Jan 4, 2021
Rotaract Club of Kopundol - Jan 8, 2021
Rotaract Club of Central Siyari - Jan 9, 2021
Rotaract Club of Liberty College - Jan 11, 2021
Rotaract Club of Swoyambhu - Jan 15, 2021
Reach out to our District Secretary for scheduling the official visit in your club!
ROTARACT DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING #1
RI president-elect announces 2022-23 presidential theme Rotary International President-elect Jennifer Jones wants members to imagine the possibilities in the change they can make to transform the world.
Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, revealed the 2022-23 presidential theme, Imagine Rotary, as she urged people to dream big and harness their connections and the power of Rotary to turn those dreams into reality.
“Imagine, a world that deserves our best,” Jones told incoming district governors on 20 January, “where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference.” Jones, who will make history on 1 July by becoming Rotary’s first female president, gave a live online address
Embracing change also means embracing new club
to precede Rotary’s annual training event for district
models, Jones said, as she asked the incoming governors
governors from around the world, the International
to form at least two new innovative or cause-based clubs
Assembly. The assembly was rescheduled because of the
during their term. “Let’s make sure we engage our
COVID-19 pandemic and will now be held virtually 7-14
members so they love their clubs and their Rotary
February.
experience,” she added.
Jones told the incoming governors about a chance she
Jones also announced the appointment of a Rotaract
took when a member asked for assistance in getting a
member as a Rotary public image coordinator and said
young peace activist out of Afghanistan during the U.S.
that she has included Rotaractors on several committees
troop withdrawal last year. At first unsure how she could
and will assign some Rotaractors as president’s
help, she relied on “that certain Rotary magic” and
representatives.
contacted a former Rotary Peace Fellow she had met a few years earlier. Less than 24 hours later, the activist
“We have been entrusted with leadership in our great
was on an evacuation list, and soon she was on her way
organization,” Jones said. “Now it is up to us to be brave
to Europe.
and intentional in our actions, and let others help us lead.”
Engaging members through meaningful responsibility To better engage members, Rotary needs to “adapt and
Jones noted that Rotary has little time left to achieve the
retool,” Jones said, using her hometown as an example.
RI Board of Directors’ goal of having women make up 30%
Windsor was once the automotive hub of Canada. But
of Rotary’s members by 2023. Rotary has achieved this in
after plant closings left thousands without work, the city
more than 110 countries, she said, but it has a long way to
needed to retool, in the same way an auto plant would,
go. She pointed out that Rotaract has already achieved
preparing for new parts or a new model. Now, Jones said,
50% female members.
Windsor is a leader in agribusiness and medical and aerospace technology.
To raise Rotary’s profile, Jones plans to hold a global impact tour that will include talking with leaders about
For Rotary, “finding the right ‘part’ to engage each
working together to address the world’s most pressing
member should be our core function,” Jones said. “It
challenges. “Rotary opens these doors and we need to
comes down to the comfort and care of our members.”
harness our connections, to deepen these relationships
Engaging members is crucial to retaining members, she
and create new partnerships,” Jones said. “And the best
said, adding that we need to ask members what they want
part is, this can happen at every level of leadership.”
to get from Rotary and give them meaningful
Jones closed her address by saying that although we all
responsibilities.
have dreams, acting on them is a choice we make. When an organization like Rotary dreams about big things like
“It is our offer of hands-on service, personal growth,
ending polio and creating peace, she said, it becomes our
leadership development, and lifelong friendships that
responsibility to make them happen. “You don’t imagine
creates purpose and passion,” Jones said.
yesterday,” Jones said, “you imagine tomorrow.”
RI UPDATES Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation release position statement on COVID-19 vaccination As
the
first
organization
to
envision
a
polio-free
world through mass immunization of children, Rotary believes
that
vaccination
is
a
humanitarian
imperative.
Vaccines
have
advances
of
proved
modern
Eradication
Initiative
vaccine
saved
has
to
be
one
medicine. estimates
more
than
of
The
20
the
greatest
Global
that
the
million
Polio polio
children
from paralysis. Vaccines are safe and effective, and they
are
responsible
for
eliminating
or
controlling
many diseases, including smallpox, measles, rubella, and Ebola. And now they offer an opportunity to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read the position statement
Promote the power of vaccines for World Immunization Week With
their
eradicate role
in
decades polio,
of
Rotary
publicizing
the
experience members
power
working
can
of
play
vaccines.
a
to key
World
Immunization Week, 24-30 April, gives Rotary and Rotaract
clubs
an
opportunity
to
raise
awareness
of the part that vaccines play in saving lives — as well as of the critical need to continue supporting global polio vaccination for children and COVID-19 vaccines for all.
Because worked
Rotary hard
to
members counter
and
our
vaccine
partners hesitancy
have and
reach all children with the polio vaccine, the world has
seen
a
99.9%
reduction
in
polio
cases
since
1988. Our fight against polio is proof that vaccines work.
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