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Rotary Foundation has opened a Disaster Relief Fund for Pakistan. DG Ted believes this is a suitable vehicle for donating to the Pakistan disaster and
if they intend to donate to this cause, to do so by sending contributions direct
to Rotary District 9830 Treasurer, Ralph Hortle, 11 Paradise Place, HAWLEY 7307.
Cheques sent to Ralph should be made payable to "Rotary District 9830".
DG Ted have decided to start the appeal off by donating $5000 from his District Designated Fund on behalf of District 9830.
Further details here
- Members of the International Fellowship of Cricketing Rotarians (IFCR) are preparing for their Tassie tour. Play or interested in cricket? Global Networking Groups (Rotary Fellowships) are a great way to increase fellowship in Rotary. Details here.
- GSE Team members announced
- Gill Whitehouse reports on Australian Rotary Conference
- Tickets are now available for Storm the Stage final .Details here.
- Rotary in Tasmania - Beyond Blue Partnership launch tickets now available.. More details here.
Coming Events
4 September Storm the Stage State Final, Playhouse Hobart Download a flier
A project of the Rotary Club of Hobart City Central - more details here
4 September District Rotaract Training Weekend -Rotarians Invited even dropping in for an hour or two would be great.
30 September Applications for District Simplified Grants due
16 October Beyond Blue partnership launch, Gala Dinner Ulverstone
23 24 October RAWCS Southern Region AGM. Details here.
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Pakistan Disaster Relief
THIS MESSAGE FORWARDED TO ALL DISTRICT GOVERNORS - AUSTRALIA by Bruce Allen Manager, The Rotary Foundation - South Pacific & Philippines Office, 20 August 2010, updated 28 August.
Advice has been received that the Rotary Foundation has opened a Disaster Relief Fund for Pakistan and is happy to accept donations from clubs, individuals and from District DDF funds.
We can offer tax deductibility to individuals and corporations
These contributions will be centrally consolidated in Evanston and used to support matching grant programs specifically designed to relieve suffering and to restore well-being in Pakistan. These will be “second phase” programs and will not necessarily be of an immediate nature. While these personal and corporate contributions are tax deductible, they will not attract PHF points. Club contributions will also not attract PHF credits.
Contributions can be made using the appropriate form which will direct the funds through The Australian Rotary Foundation Trust. This form can be used for a contribution by cheque, direct debit or credit card and the contributor should simply write “Pakistan Disaster Relief” across the top to make his or her intentions known.
RI Announcement of support Link to RI news website 23 August 2010
Operation of Pakistan Recovery Fund (pdf download) August 2010
Beyond Blue - District 9830 Partnership
Rotary Tasmania, District 9830 has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Beyond Blue organisation 
for this Rotary year. The main focus of the joint agreement between Beyondblue and District 9830, is to raise awareness for depression and anxiety, and to remove the stigma from the words Mental Health. The partnership will see events such as health forums and mental heath days held throughout the state.
A "Gala Dinner " at 6 pm on Saturday 16 October at Ulverstone will launch this Community partnership.
Guest speaker Nathan Thompson
Ambassador for beyondblue (Former Hawthorn & North Melbourne Football Champion)
KG’s Function Room at River Arms Hotel, Ulverstone.
MC Jason Purdie- Editor, The Advocate Newspaper
Entertainment: Charles Bobongie
Further details - tickets available on line
A similar function will be held in Hobart and Launceston later in the Rotary year
Half a million working days are lost every month to depression in Australia. See details about Beyond Blue on their website http://www.beyondblue.org.au
Storm the Stage Final
The National Musical and Drama Competition for 16 to 19year olds conducted heats and semis in Launceston and Hobart in late July until the end of August. The State Final is on Saturday 4th September at the Playhouse Theatre in Hobart.
Since 2006, Storm the Stage has gone from strength to strength in Tasmania. Last year, in the national finals in Perth, Lauren Pegus won the drama section of the competition, and Rob Mallet won the Briggs and Gibbs Award for Special Audience Appeal.
Semifinals have now been completed
4th September State Final, Storm the Stage, 2pm Playhouse Theatre Hobart hosted by JOEL RHEINBERGER–
Tickets are now available at Centertainment. www.centertainment.com.au
Hobart: 62345998 Launceston: 63233666 Devonport: 64202900 Burnie: 64305850
Adults $22 Concession & Groups (6+) $18 Family $65 .You are welcome to attend. Download a flier.
The finalists are:
Hobart Area |
Launceston Area |
Devonport/Ulverstone Area |
Alessandro Frosali |
Bart Welch |
Alex Grant |
Bodane Hatten |
Jackson Trickett |
Camilla Best |
Ella Burns |
Chloe Harris |
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Harley Mason |
Elizabeth Sly |
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Lillie Kay |
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Oliver Reading |
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Petronella van Tienen |
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Rebecca Reid |
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Robert Manion |
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Sophie McKibben |
In Tasmania, Storm the Stage is a project of the RC City Central Hobart. For more information,
please contact Kate Nichols on Tel: 6229 2028 or 6211 4962 Mob: 0418 124 369.
Email: kate.nichols@collegiate.tas.edu.au
GSE Programme for 2010 -1011
Team Leader – West Virginia
Glen Woolley – Rotary Club of Howrah
Reserve – Clare Klapche – Rotary Club of Tamar Sunrise
Team Leader – Montana
Graeme Elphinstone – Rotary Club of Spring Bay
Reserve – Andrew Gray – Rotary Club of Salamanca
Group Study Exchange (GSE) is a cultural and vocational program of The R
otary
Foundation - paired districts send and receive four non-Rotarian
professionals and one Rotarian Leader for 4-5 weeks to develop
professional and leadership skills of the team.
This District will send teams (Team Leader and four Team Members) to District 7570 West Virginia USA in February 2011 and District 5390 Montana USA in April 2011.
Pictured are some of the members of the 2010 GSE team to visit France at the Parthenay District Conference
Her voice may not be loud, but Laura Richardson certainly intends to make it heard.
Recently offered the experience of a lifetime, the Ulverstone osteopath is gearing up to speak at a conference at the United Nations.
Returning home from New York two weeks ago after taking part in the five-week Rotary International Group Study Exchange Program, the 27-year-old was humbled to be invited back to speak at this year's UN Rotary Conference in November. Read the Advocate news story.
More details of the GSE program, including recently announced team members..
Rotary Youth Driver Awareness in Tasmania
RYDA (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) is a road safety education program aimed at reducing death and injury amongst young people on Aust
ralian roads. The Program in Tasmania targets grade 10 students who are at the stage of their lives where they are close to starting to drive or ride in a vehicle driven by their peers.
RYDA is a community-based initiative of Rotary Clubs, partnering those organisations in our community that have a responsibility for, or interest in, road safety for youth.
A programme involving over 2400 students was held betwen April 19 and May 5 2010 at the Hobart Showgrounds and at Huonville.. Over 1100 students were involed in a an event at Devonport in May and June.
Similar programmes will be held at Launceston, Smithton and Queenstown.
Report on the 2010 Southern Tasmania event
Report on the 2010 North West Program
Learn ♦ Grow Team presenting at Montreal
The Learn ♦ Grow project continues to create international interest within and without Rotary internationally. There are now four Rotary districts involved in the development of Learn ♦ Grow programs assisting developing nations address malnutrition and food security.
Three of these districts are Australian but we are pleased to have one district in the USA also involved.
Learn ♦ Grow helps developing countries find the best food to grow in their area.
Find out more about Learn ♦ Grow.
View the Learn ♦ Grow video presentation.
Paul Harris Society for our District launched
A Paul Harris Society for our District was launched at a special Paul Harris Fellow breakfast at Wrest Point during District Conference in 
March 2010.
The Paul Harris Society recognizes Rotarians and friends of The Rotary Foundation who annually contribute US$1,000 or more to the Annual Programs Fund, PolioPlus, or the Humanitarian Grants Program.
Pictured are the inaugral members of the Society.
More details of the Paul Harris Society here.
Haiti Earthquake Recovery Appeal
On 20th January 2010 DG Ian Shuey accepted an offer from The P
remier of Tasmania to match any funds raised by our District over the next six weeks. toward assisting the people of Haiti. This appeal closed on 16 April 2010.''
Rotary District 9830 has raised $96,710 for the Rotary Haiti Appeal through working with local corporates and businesses, local community groups and individuals. The Tasmanian Government has matched this meaning $193,240 will be channelled through Rotary to Haiti towards recovery projects selected / identified at our discretion. Lions raised $30,000 and Apex $2000.
Funds will be divided equally to the Rotary Foundation Haiti Appeal and a wheelchair program for those people badly injured by the earthquake. Three containers containing 260 wheel chairs are to be delivered in August 2010 to Les Cayes, Cap Hatien and Pignon in Haiti,distributed by Rotary Clubs in those areas. They are part of the 840 chairs to be purchased by Tasmanian Rotary.
More detail on this program here.
- Get Rotary news direct from Haiti - District 7020's website
- Blog updates from Task Force District 7020 the only official website for Rotary-Haiti-Disaster-Relief information. (update 13 June 2010)
Samoan Tsunami Disaster Project
District 9830 raised $17 000 in an appeal to help in this disaster. The money will be used to assist in rebuilding a school which was totally destroyed in the Tsunami which occured at 6:50 AM on Tuesday 29 Septembe 2009. 2009.
More details will be available shortly.
Six schools were either totally or partly destroyed on the island.
Download before and after photos of Samoa Disaster (700 kb pdf)
Rotary's Polio challenge hits the halfway mark
As of 31 December,2009, US$105 million has been raised for Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge. Achievement of the fundraising milestone was announced at the Concert to End Polio.
It is proposed to hold a major public fund raising activity in Tasmania in February 2011.
Follow Kick Polio out of Africa campaign.
The journey began in Cape Town, South Africa, one of the host cities for the 2010 World Cup. The ball will travel through 22 polio-affected countries en route to the RI Convention in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in June.
The final Inch
The film on the struggle to eradicate Polio, "The Final Inch" is now for sale as a DVD on Amazon.com. It costs US$7.50 and US$2 of each sale goes to the PolioPlus. View a trailer and find out more here.
Fiji Rotahomes - "The real work has begun
PDG Lew Pretorius(
District Grants Chair and Chair 3H Grant Fiji International Committee ) has indicated that a contract has been signed by NZAID with R.C Lautoka ready for commencement of the infrastructure for the new K2 village in Fiji. 
It has been a testing time for all concerned and I thank the District for it’s patience to date. Congratulations must go to Peter Drysdale (R.C Lautoka) and his team for their monumental effort and perseverance to get to this stage. As Peter has said “now the real work will begin”!
Many Tamanian Rotarians have participated in stage 1 of this Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) project which builds low cost homes in Fiji..
Read the Fiji Rotahomes press release
Building has now started in the K2 village .