BULLETIN MARCH 11, 2010

ATTENDANCE:
14 Rotarians attended. For details please refer to below List of Attendance

LEAVE:
Please refer to below List of Attendance.

APOLOGIES:
01. Keith Bell 02. Monty Brown 03. Michael Burchett 04. Jose Luis Calle 05. Axel Kneip 06. Jean-Charles Le Coz 07. Frank Liepmann 08. Jean Philippe Petit 09. Carlos Vinas

ROTARIAN GUESTS & VISITORS
Guests: John Nijman, WA (guest of Werner Gulba), Monica Lusser, Switzerland from Foundation Future for Children (guest of Jon Zuercher)

Guest speakers:
Eni Pilianingsih, Rotaract Bali Nusa Dua, International Service
Dr. Denise Abe MD, Public Health Consultant East Bali Poverty Project        
ANNOUNCEMENT, REPORTS
President Martin Smyth opened the meeting by welcoming the guests and visitors and thanking the members for their attendance. He then asked the board and floor to present or raise points of common interest.

Mercia Inkiriwang
Informed that a training seminar for Future Vision Pilot will be held in Bali on 17 April.

Jo Rosarius
Reported that finally the Paul Harris Fellow medals had been received
and handed them out after the meeting. For details who was awarded with what level of PHF medal please go to the RI website under member access, link The Rotary Foundation-Club Recognition Summary.
Ari Murti
Informed about a festival to be held in June were environmental friendly products will be presented. The festival’s organizer is Prof. Dr. Wirawan who hopes for participation of the Rotary Clubs in Bali.

Eni Pilianingsih
On behalf of Rotaract Bali Nusa Dua gave an update on their activities in March and reported the financial result of the Charity Dinner of
5 February.

Activities:
1. Sunday, 6 March 2010 => Mobile Library at Nusa Dua Beach
2. Sunday, 14 March 2010 => Plant 1000 Mangrove at Serangan Island at 3pm
3. Friday, 19 March 2010 => Have visitor from Australia to help with skin problem
4. Sunday, 21 March 2010 => Coral Conservation at West Bali National Park
5. Sunday, 28 March 2010 => Permanent Library at Petang Village

Financial report from Charity Dinner:
Funds raised: IDR10.750.000,–
Donation to SLBB from painting auction: IDR4.950.000
Total money in bank: IDR 21.701.211

Dr. Denise Abe
is a US trained physician living in Ubud. She gave a presentation on public health in Bali, emphasising specifically the poorer eastern regions. She is engaged in the East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) and the Humanitarian Foundation for Mother Earth (YKIP).

In her estimate 70 % of illnesses and ailments in the poor regions of Bali are self induced rooted in lack of information, cultural behaviour, lack of hygiene, lack of nutrients and minerals. To alleviate this situation improvement in the public heath sector must be made. Here the focus should be on education, training of doctors and nurses, raising of awareness, change of behaviour, knowledge transfer and empowering of woman.

As a sample on basic awareness and information programmes Dr. Denise Abe presented cartoons style drawings with simple sketches illustrating causes of problems and the community-based solutions.

On questions from the floor on the subject Mobile Clinic and Puskesmas Dr. Abe stated:
Working with and supporting existing public structures (like Puskesmas) is beneficial over establishing own systems which may be perceived as a rival organization.

From her experience with a mobile dental clinic a mobile medical clinic may lack effectiveness as the staffing, maintenance and provisioning with medical supplies can not always be provided and funded as required. If there are roads (on which the mobile clinic relies) patients can always be brought to a clinic on a motor bike or other means.

President Martin Smyth thanked Dr. Denise Abe for her interesting presentation and closed the meeting at 14.10.

BIRTHDAYS IN MARCH
14th, Keith Bell

Raffle: 
Tickets for IDR 420.000 were being sold. Priti Kapur won a fine bottle of wine brought by past winner Risto Poskiparta.
Past winners owing prizes are invited not to further delay their contributions.

Fines:
Fines of IDR 70.000,–were being collected.
              
              
Next meetings/events
18.03. 2010          Community Service Committee, 11.30
                                    Luncheon Meeting, 13.00
25.03. 2010          Luncheon Meeting, 13.00

Fun Walk will be on the 30th May 2010

COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING

21 January 2010

Minutes

The meeting commenced at 11:30 am on 21 Jan 2010. 

Items discussed:

1. Nunie proposed a project for a mobile clinic (details in attached).  The proposed project is for a mobile clinic to address a severe need for medical services in an area of Bedugul that has very limited access to lifesaving facilities.  She confirmed that 4 doctors have volunteered to staff the mobile clinic and the community will help support the operational costs of the clinic.

There were a number of questions regarding the funding of the project and ‘if’ the community could sustain the project as indicated.  Nunie was asked to come back to the committee after doing further research.

 She will present her findings at the next CS committee meeting to include – 1. a financial comparison of the total costs of the clinic compared to the income generated by the community.    (Chart a comparison of vehicle cost, operations and running expenses (oil, gas, maintenance, etc), replacement of medical supplies, payment for driver and others needed to fully function as a clinic, etc…. To…. Actual amounts that can be collected from the village). and 2.  she will provide a description of the medical services and use of the clinic as described by the doctors.

Nunie….please have 10 copies so members can review your findings.

1. Frank proposed support for a local orphanage. (see details attached)

The intent of this project is to provide funding for a one-off renovation of the orphanage in Semarapura.  The approximate cost is 50 mm Rp to be used for physical renovation of the orphanage building and facilities. 

There were several questions regarding the status of the orphanage.

Before making any decision, Frank will come back to the committee with information regarding the legal ownership of the orphanage and property, the status of children in the orphanage, who manages the orphanage, and the registration information for the foundation. 

1. Update from Ari on the HIV project status

After Ari and Dave presented the MOU and project overview to the head of the KPA, the KPA reviewed the documents and recommended several changes.  These changes will be reviewed by Ari and Georges who will revise the MOU.  If there are no conceptual changes, this new document will be presented to the KPA for signing. 

In addition, the milk feeding portion of the project will be separated from the original project and managed separately since the funding will not go through the KPA.  Ari and Georges will structure this part of the project. 

Ari will present these completed tasks to the committee at the next meeting in approximately 30 days. 

1. Open discussion

One additional project was presented for ‘research’.  Mimi volunteered to research the feasibility of helping support a local community in a recycling project.  The project would involve purchase of equipment to facilitate recycling plastic waste into useable plastic material that could then be sold for profit. 

Mimi will research and report back at the next meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 12:45 pm.

COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING

MINUTES

DATE:  18 February 2010

TIME:  11:30 AM

VENUE:  Nikko Hotel

Meeting Minutes

The meeting was called to order at 11:35 am

1. Nunie sent an email saying she could not attend so her follow-up was not presented
2. Frank provided follow-up information to the previous discussion on the orphanage project. 
   1. It appears the orphanage is legally registered with an Indonesian foundation that exists and is recognized by the government.  He provided numerous documents to support the legal status of the orphanage, but they were not legible because of poor document quality.  He will attempt to acquire better copies.
   2. The open item is the legal ownership of the ‘property’.  Both Frank and Georges will attempt to review the documents and learn more about the ownership of the property. In addition, they will attempt to acquire a copy of the ‘land certificate’.
   3. Regarding the status of the children; The orphanage is for resident children who attend school at other sites.  Once the resident reach the age of 18 they must leave the facility. 
   4. A brief discussion was held regarding funding presuming that after we get the ownership issue resolved the Committee will approve the project.  Jo advised that there are sufficient funds in the budget for this project. Frank also mentioned that no cash will be dispersed to the orphanage; only materials specific to the project that will be purchased under his supervision.

3.  Mimi provided some details from her research into the possibility of a recycling project.  However, there are still many questions to be answered regarding the ‘concept’ of the project.

a. Dave will provide a specific list of questions to be answered and Mimi will pursue these before the next meeting.

b. In addition, it was suggested that Mimi contact Jeff Andersen who may be willing to assist her since he has a keen interest in Bali environmental issues.

4.  Ari did not attend the meeting so she could not provide details on the status of the HIV project.  However, Georges did indicate that changes had been made to the MOU and he needs Ari to review and discuss with the KPA.  The MOU is apparently ready for signing by RCBND president and the KPA.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:40 pm