Centenary Celebration DinnerThe District Community Impact Expo was held on 3rd June in Bonython Hall, North Terrace. The aim to connect Rotarians and the community was successful with many Rotarians and some community visitors attending. The keynote speakers were excellent and outlined many of the changing trends we are seeing in Australia today. Following the Expo was the Celebration Dinner. Guests at the Dinner included the chair of SAMHRI Board, Hon. Hieu Van Le AC, President Elect of Rotary International, Gordon McInally and the current RI President's Representative, Bryn Styles. The evening was a celebration of the last twelve months and a time to reflect on those Rotarians who have died since our last Conference. We were entertained during the evening with music provided by Dr Kim Burley and later by the Hon. Hieu Van Le AC. MC for the evening was the effervescent Tony Pilkington OAM. As Rotary approaches its Centenary of establishment in SA, a District Committee outlined a Centenary Project to which we are all encouraged to contribute. The Project is to establish a Legacy Program to provide two PHD Scholarship for Aboriginal health workers to provide and promote culturally appropriate health care to our first nations communities with a view to reversing the trend of increasing chronic disease. We will hear more of this over the coming months. |
As you can see in this newsletter, ROMAC is now well and truly back in operation after the Covid hiatus.
On a brighter note, it was great to see so many people visit our ROMAC Information Booth at the Rotary International Convention in Melbourne. Many thanks to Maggie Alexander for designing and producing the display and to Minh Nguyen for setting it up and organising the roster of ROMAC volunteers who serviced the Booth, whom we also thank. Many of our ROMAC supporters from across Zone 8 have visited our Booth as well as many International visitors, who wish they had a similar Rotary program in their countries.
Other interesting visitors to our Booth included past ROMAC Chair Brendan Porter and some of our partners from the Rotary Clubs in our patients' home countries who provide incredible support with all the pre-departures requirements. One such visitor was Lawrence Fatiaki, President-Elect from the Rotary Club of Honiara. Lawrence expressed his commitment to ROMAC and to supporting our long-time and outstanding ROMAC champion in RC Honiara, PDG Wayne Morris.
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