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CONNECTS THE WORators’ Newsletter
Rotary Coordin April 2020 Volume 10 - Issue 9
‘RECHARGING YOUR ROTARY BATTERY’
Article by RC PDG Adrian Roach
While it has been a very busy month attending two awesome multi
district PETS in Creswick, VIC and Auckland, and taking a quick
trip to my Club’s project in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, it
has been time well spent reviving and recharging my Rotary
battery.
In this issue: It was exciting to be with the
enthusiastic
President’s
Elect and assist them all
with their planning. My
Recharging Your Rotary personal thanks go out to the
1 Battery many people behind the
put
scenes that training these
days
successful
together. To bring together
Regional Membership the presenters, keynote
2 Officer Update speakers and attendees is an
amazing feat. Having multi district events allows us to bring in speakers of the
calibre of Jennifer Jones and husband Nick Krayacich. Jennifer and Nick not only
- Engage Members in captured the attention of attendees with stories of their Rotary work, they provided
our COVID-19 World ideas for extending our own work.
3 - During the Coronavirus I believe the most important parts of both weekends were the networking and
Pandemic fellowship, learning from each other and exchanging ideas. It was pleasing to learn
- Replies to the Article of that many Rotarians are using https://my.rotary.org/en and especially accessing
Rotary’s learning and reference materials https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-
page 3 reference . Now with many Rotary and other community events cancelled, we all
4 - COVID-19 and have some extra time to “poke around” and learn some more.
Meetings Deepening our impact by expanding membership is a top priority for Rotary. I’d like
- Connecting to pose a challenge for everyone to use the resources below to help your Club grow:
- Connect with • Assess your club • Follow your membership leads
5 Prospective Members • Engage current members • Make new members feel welcome
- Rotary Video • Connect with prospective members • Develop your club
- Taking your Club Having just visited my Club’s, Paul Tunn Dental Project in Papua New Guinea, I was
Online for Meetings again enthused to see the positive impact being made for the people of the Jiwaka
6 - Business Casual Province in the PNG highlands (https://www.facebook.com/jiwakadental/). It was
so pleasing to witness the support from the Rotary Club of Nondugl in assisting the
300,000 community (60,000) children access oral health care with modern up to
- Prepare your First date facilities, and how Rotary has enabled a local Dentist to improve his skills
Zoom Meeting through training with a Gold Coast based Dentist working with the project.
7 - Great ABC Article
- Ways to Connect I am a firm believer that people join Rotary
to help a cause or community. Ask members
of the community to be involved in your
- Embracing Virtual Club projects, they will want to join and
Meetings current members will want to stay.
8 - The Team
I know after spending a week in PNG
working with such a talented, dedicated
team, and experiencing the leadership at the
multi district events, my Rotary battery is
charged and ready again for action.