ROTARY CLUB BALI NUSA DUA
District 3400/Club No. 28992
CONRAD BALI RESORT
BULLETIN NOVEMBER 18, 2010
ATTENDANCE
14 Rotarians attended. For details please refer to the List of Attendance.
LEAVE
Please refer to the List of Attendance.
APOLOGIES
12 Rotarians were absent with an apology. For details please refer to the List of Attendance.
VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS
Visiting Rotarians
Wendell Christoff of RC Lowell, Michigan, USA, Mark Savage Rotary club of Bali, Seminyak, Patrick Van Kempen Rotary club of Bali, Seminyak, John Gennip Rotay club of Bali, Seminyak, Barbara Jones Rotary club of Collie, WA, Raelene Heston Rotary Club of Colle, WA, Judy Smythe Rotary Club Of Freemantle Port, WA, Marie Wilson Rotary Club of Freemantle Port, WA, George Booth Rotary Club of Freemantle Port, WA, Jill Binning Rotary Club of Freemantle, WA, Maxwell Binning Club of Freemantle, WA, Josephine Booth Club of Freemantle Port, WA, Maxwell Coxall Club of Freemantle, WA, Margie Coxall Club of Freemantle, WA, Vicki Passmore Club of Freemantle, WA, Kim Passmore Club of Freemantle, WA
Guests
Dona Poskiparta guest of Risto Poskiparta, Peter Bruchett guest of PP Michael Bruchett, Greg Moore guest of Gary Phair, Natan Christoff guest of Wendall Christoff, Dr Reno Riandito guest of Patrick Van Kempen, Greg Butcher guest of Patrick Van Kempen
ANNOUNCEMENTS, REPORTS
President Bruce Jellard
President Bruce Jellard opened the meeting welcoming the visitors and guests and thanked the members present for their attendance.
He announced that the golf tournament funds were being counted but he estimates that it rased appx USD 32.000,-.
PP Edward Naus was congratulated on winning his first trophy in 10 years of competing!
He then asked the board and floor to present or raise points of common interest.
Visitors and guests introduced themselves as the microphone was passed around.
PP Wes Nieman
Has heard from Hyatt regarding this year’s Orphans Christmas party, and will email around the information, looking for contributions to the “goody bags”.
Gary Phair
Annouced that the Tennis tournament would be het 8 to 15 May 2011 and that Press releases would be sent out shortly.
He introduced his guest from Melbourne, who though not a Rotarian has been involved in the RYL program.
PP Jo Rosarius
Informed that 2 Cleft lip operations had been performed since our last meeting.
PP Mercia Inkiriwang
Grand Hyatt has 80 children invited to the orphans party and RCBND may invite 220. Younger children were requested by the Grand Hyatt, instead of children in their late teens.
PP Michael Burchett
Requested members to let him know if they could arrange a guest speaker for next week’s meeting.
He introduced Brad Little, of Bali Life, this week’s guest speaker.
Brad shared his story with us
In 2005 Brad met a 9 year old boy living on the streets of Kuta, begging for money.The boy asked Brad if he could come and live with him, get away from the streets and start going back to school.
At the time his wife,Siska was pregnant with their first baby and they were living in a small house. They both felt it was unwise to take the boy in.
Brad met with him again and heartbreakingly had to explain that they couldn’t help. This left Brad & Siska with a deep desire to find a way in which they could help, not just this boy, but all the street children of Bali, Indonesia.
Brad returned to Australia and shared at his home Church his desire to set up a children’s home in Bali. A visiting businessman just passing through was challenged by what was said, wrote a cheque for AU$ 17.000,- and BaliLife was born!
A suitable property was found and the first two children, two boys aged 8 and 5, arrived in November 2006. The BaliLife family has grown steadily over the years. The home now houses 21 children from a variety of backgrounds and places in Indonesia, and four Indonesian staff.
The home has been developed to be as self sustaining as possible and in 2008 they set up their own farmland and chicken coup aiming to provide and egg every day for each child.
Recognizing the need to provide the practical skills to the children, that will allow them to gain good jobs when the time comes to leave, They developed a training workshop program where the children learn English, IT, agriculture, cooking, music, art, dance and sport.
By the start of 2010 the house had 20 children and one emergency bed.
PP Bruce Jellard
Exchanged Club banners with:
Raelene Heston of the Rotary Club of Collie, WA
Judy Smythe of the Rotary Club of Freemantle Port
Kim Passmore of the Rotary Club of Freemantle, WA
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Jean Phillippe Petit – 11 November
Priti Kapur – 15 November
Raffle
Tickets for IDR 600.000,- A bottle of wine was won by Josephine Booth. Past winners owing prizes are reminded not to forget to make their contributions at the forthcoming meetings.
Fines
No fines were collected.
Next meetings/events
25.11.2010 – Weekly meeting, 13.00
02.11.2010 – Weekly meeting, 13.00
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