MINUTES
ROTARY CLUB of LIVERPOOL WEST – SATELLITE CLUB
Meeting commenced 1:00pm, 10 August 2010
Venue: Bar Luck Restaurant, Cabramatta.
Attended by: Dr Phouc Vo, Mr Trung Chinh Dang, Dr William Trinh, Mr Thuan Chuong, Dr Le Duc Hong, Mr Tim Wong, Mr Charles Hili, Mr Ted Mlynarz.
Apologies: Mr Joe Cauchi, Dr Hien Tran, Duc Thang Chuong, Bach Dang Vo.
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Cabramatta BBQ – 1. to be held Sunday 26 September 2010. Council has approved the event to place and will provide written confirmation.
2. All planning proceeding to enable equipment and provisions to be available. Project planning taking place.
3. The event will also provide an opportunity for both Rotary and VVP to conduct public and community awareness and education programs. Fundraising to be conducted.
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1.Chinh Dang
2. Ted Mlynarz
3. Rotary & VVP
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Children’s Lunar Moon Festival – to take place Sunday 19 September 2010. A stall has been booked and times for the event will be confirmed. The occasion will be used as a public awareness and community education opportunity. Sales of bottled water and soft drinks only to take place with free balloons to be distributed. Project planning is taking place.
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Rotary & VVP
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Police Officer of the Year Awards – to take place at the Liverpool Catholic Club on Tuesday 21 September 2010. $45.00 per person includes dinner, wine, beer, soft drink and entertainment by popular comedian Vince Sorrenti. Bookings required by 7 September 2010. Tickets available from John Gibbs on 0425340190 or
Four (4) confirmed from satellite club.
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Satellite club members
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Rotary Annual Golf Day – to take place Wednesday 20 October at the Camden Lakeside Country Club. For details refer attached brochure and nomination form.
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Satellite Club members
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VVP SWOT Analysis – a reminder that comments are required before the next VVP meeting on 26 August 2010, contributions from all VVP members welcome.
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VVP
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Meeting closed: 2:20pm
Next Meeting: 1:00pm Tuesday 17 August 2010
Venue: Bar Luck Restaurant, Cabramatta.
NOTICE -To enable awareness of work conducted by Rotarians, experts from a Rotary publication providing an overview of major programs available to Rotary clubs will appear each week. The programs are those with which the club of Liverpool West has involvement. The first of these programs is described below.
ROTARY OCEANIA MEDICAL AID FOR CHILDREN (ROMAC)
(The recent fundraiser in Melbourne contributed toward this program, as well as VVP)
“ROMAC began, like many other worthwhile humanitarian activities, as a an idea of one person, a Rotarian from Bendigo, Victoria. In 1985, as part of an outreach team of volunteer surgeons and backup staff which went to Fiji to treat local children with cleft lips or palates, he found that there were many seriously ill children who were simply too sick to be treated by their own visiting surgeons.
It soon became apparent that this was a problem throughout the developing countries of SE Asia and the south pacific. These ‘forgotten children’ had life-threatening conditions, or were so severely disfigured by accident or congenital disorders that they were often kept hidden from society.
ROMAC, a significant Rotary program, was born when Rotary clubs in Victoria began sponsoring some of these children to be bought to Australia for treatment by some of our most eminent surgeons who generously volunteered their skills to transform these young lives.
The idea grew so that by 2001, up to 25 children were being treated each year in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Every Rotary district in Australia agreed to ROMAC being recognised by Rotary International as a ‘multi-district program’. Shortly thereafter the New Zealand Rotarians joined in, so now all 29 Rotary districts throughout Australia and New Zealand are involved in the program.
Now recognised throughout the region as Rotary Oceania medical Aid for Children, ROMAC uses the skills of numerous (volunteer) surgeons in many fields of activity to transform, and often save, the lives of up to 50 children each year in all the major cities of Australia and New Zealand.
Well over 300 children from more than 20 countries have benefited from treatment they couldn’t otherwise have received, all due to the generosity of Rotarians who give of their time and resources to raise funds, our sponsors and host families, and the wonderful work of the surgeons and surgical teams in nearly all the major paediatric and specialist hospitals in the region.”
Acknowledgement: An Introduction To Programs Of Rotarians ‘Down Under” March 2010.