istanbul altunizade rotaract club
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istanbul altunizade rotaract club
My Rotaract Family, We are happy to see you all in European Convention of Rotaract Europe in Istanbul. As every year this convention will take place with a great success. We will host 520 European Rotaractors and 100 Turk Rotaractors in this convention. All of us have a chance to make contact with other Rotaractors from Europe or around the world by sharing our Rotaract thoughts. I have gained many friends, learned humanity, society and every thing since i have joined to my Rotaract Club. So why cant all of us gain these? Give your energy and time to Rotaract , make projects and be sure that you will gain more than you will give. I am glad to Rotary for starting Rotaract in 1960s. This year International Rotaract is celebrating its 41. Year . In Turkey ,especially in Anatolia, 41 means “how nice” and we chose “nazar “ bead that is an Anatolian and Mesopotamia `s symbol meaning 41 or “how nice”. So in this “how nice” year of Rotaract , D.2420 makes EUCO 2009 in Istanbul in Turkey. This is a good conincidence , this is a good irony … We are happy for hosting and seeing you in Istanbul, We hope you will enjoy and never forget EUCO 2009 Istanbul… Yours in Rotaract, Rtc. Dr. Guvenc Kockaya D.2420.Rotaract Representative 2008-2009 Dear Rotaractor, This year the European Convention of Rotaract Europe will take place in Istanbul. Rotaract Europe is very happy that they can organize their annual convention in this beautiful city where the different cultures meet each other every day! We would like to invite you to participate this great weekend and live the EUCO experience since every year this convention is a great success. During 5 days 520 European Rotaractors will visit Istanbul, the moment for you to share all your Rotaract thoughts with them and create new friendship bounds as well as international twin clubs. We hope to meet all of you in Istanbul, Yours in Rotaract, ERIC Board 2008‐2009 Dear Rotaractors; On behalf of District 2420, it is a great honour and privilege to host you in EUCO’09 in Istanbul. Besides the meeting, a busy and exciting social program has been developed to give the rotaractors an opportunity to enjoy the unique and varied attractions availablein the magical city of Istanbul along with traditional hospitality which will envelope you throughout your stay. Let’s meet at this timeless city Istanbul, the queen of the cities where a warm welcome awaits you with this magazine named Rotapigeon, “The Eye of Rotaractors”. Yours in Rotaract Rtc. Selin Babacan I.R. D2420 Public Relations Committee Coordinator 2008-2009 About Rotaract establishments have been active in Turkey since 1982. Today, there are 95 Rotaract Clubs in various cities of Turkey with over 2500 active young working members. If we take a look member profile of the Clubs; members in general are recently employed University graduates, mostly with a Masters Degree, who are within the 5% of socio-economic portion of Turkish population and have the potential to become the future leaders of Turkey. Rotaract clubs contribute and raise young people who are sensitive to the problems of their society and eager to resolve them, thus initiating a team work with his/ her colloquies or fellow rotaracts. During the course of their early working life they learn and get experience about the organization procedures, meeting management, project development and implementation, public speaking. Beside these activities, young Rotaract club members get the opportunity to meet elder Rotarian professionals in different line of work who are experts in their fields and benefit from their experiences. About Rotaract in Turkey and its activities: Within the frame work of its foundation purpose, the activities, undertakings, and aids of Turkish Rotaract are mentioned below. They can be classified in 4 main working areas, International Service, Professional Development, International Service, Public Relations Committee. - Butterfly Festival: Sing and dance party held in Kuruçeşme Arena with the participation of 500 disabled friends and their families from private educational companies. - Within the last 3 years, in a joint effort with Turkish Rotary Clubs, distribution of food packages for those student's families who are in need in pilot schools and martyr families during the holy month of Ramadan. - 3000 book donation worthed 10.000 $ to Bosnia- Herzegovina. - 2000 peoples contribution for organ donation with the help of various organizations. - Provide a fund for educational and clothing expenses for over 50 schools. - Construction of multipurpose gymnasium for Fındıklı Primary School. In conjunction with Yörel Vakfı, arrangement of " BABA-ÖĞRETMEN" ( Father- Teacher ) seminars - Coat and winter boat aid and "Atlas sticker" project given to Adapazarı Çaykışla Primary school. - Continuous aid / help to rural areas. - Against the Global heating, In May 2008, we have completed tree planting project by planting 10.000 peanut trees on the fields owned by TÜBİTAK in Gebze region. - Placement of collection containers in the Industry, offices and schools for returnable wastes. - Educational seminars arranged on Hepatit-B, Aids, traffic, birth control, reading and writing, given by experts in their field. - Beeing a MGK Coordinator of "First aid" seminar for 2007-2008 season. -Hepatit- B vaccine shot given to 556 children in conjunction with the "Hand to hand for a world without Hepatit." campaign. - Within the frame work of "World AIDS day" distribution of phamphlets and brochures in Taksim square since 2004. About - In 1996 "World Rotaract conference, INTERROTA " held in Antalya, Turkey hosted 300 foreign Rotaract members all around the world. - Representation of Turkey in overseas meetings: Twice a year ( October, January ) REM ( Rotary Europe Meeting ) and once a year( May ) EUCO ( European Convention ) participation for the last 4 years. With the participation of 2430 Regional Rotaract, REM 2007 was held in Bursa in January. Also, EUCO 2009 will take place in Istanbul in April 29- May 3 th. In this event, 2420 Turkish Rotaract regional representatives shall have opportunity to show the Turkish hospitality to 600 foreign Rotaracts. - Occupational development courses, educational tours, vocational training (internship), Starbuck coffee promotion seminars, "Kayra" vines presentation activities. - Domestic and abroad, exchange vocational training programs. - Efforts to develop a computer on line data base programs for the materialization of common International Rotaract exchange projects. - In 1999 Turkish earthquake, collection and distribution of of 1 million $ for those in need. Together with 2420 th regional Rotary clubs help built Elementary school in the earthquake region. - Provide a support and financial aid for Rotary tent towns established on the earthquake areas during the 1999 earthquake. - 2420 th District, Tuzla, Istanbul hearing impaired school building. - Bağlarbaşı-Istanbul disabled sock/ stocking workshop construction. 2420 th District Rotaract representative office Turkey and Turki Republic Rotaract clubs are divided into 3 geographical regions for easier administrative purposes. 2420 th district Rotaract representative office consist of cities, Istanbul, Edirne, Kırklareli, Tekirdağ, Kocaeli. Although Marmora smallest geographical region of Turkey, our District office has materialized many important and successful projects in a short time. There are 48 Rotaract Clubs and over 1000 members in our district. Our web site: www.rotaract2420.com News From ARTİZ MEKTEBİ BY ROTARACTORS Nişantaşı, Gayrettepe and Maslak Rotaract Clucs Present... Wıth the support of Anadolu Hisarı, Beyoğlu, Fındıklı, Galatasaray and Levent Rotaract Clubs... Those three leading clubs collabrated this year for acting one of the most respected cult theatre play of Turkish Theatre History. Artiz Mektebi which was written by Mr. Mujdat Gezen & Kandemir Konduk in 1987 was acted by theatre stars like Perran Kutman, Savaş Dinçel(RIP), Demet Akbağ and many others… 7 months ago 30 rotaractors decided to act this magical play one more time. With one exception… None of those young people was Professional actors/actresses. With a total enthusiasm and belief they made a huge success in District 2420 in a very short time with their EPK(Electronic press kit). With all those precious moments that they shared together and brotherhood which was built mutually they’re waiting May 23rd to be on the stage in front of 600 people. Although the crew hasn’t come from Professional acting background they practiced as Professional. That magical night will be shooted by 5 cameras for a DVD. The revenue of this play will be donated for an organization which is being served for children who has been effected by cancer. News From CONTEST : PHOTORACT II Purpose of the Contest: To support the Art of Photograph and photographers under the age 30, and to emphasize the local culture and its affluence in the world given by the Art of Photograph with contributing the publics culture. Subject of the Contest: Child ( Children ) Publication and Copyrights: The Photoract Team has the all Copyrights and Publication rights of the photos which has seen worthy to be on display or/and earns an award. All the participants accepts these conditions. 1 - JUNE 2009 DEADLINE !!! Person in charge to Join: For all informations; http://photoract.webs.com [email protected] Organizators: Fındıklı Rotaract Club, Istanbul Rotaract Club, Çamlıca Rotaract Club, Gebze Rotaract Club, Dolmabahçe Rotaract Club, Bebek Rotaract Club News From Clubs ISTANBUL ADALAR ROTARACT CLUB As the club of princess islands; we organized the training program of sailing for Rotaractors. In addition to that, we took a part of sailing races under the name of Adalar Rotary Sailing Races. Adalar Rotaract Club has a pilot school which we help every year. In a period of 5 years, we completed the lack of cleaning inventories, replaced the library, set a mini conference hall with sound equipments, and provided the simple student materials for children whose families are under the average income. Every year we organize a boat trip to princess islands of Istanbul with Rotaractors. Trip consists of 2 parts; swimming and short tour of one of the islands ISTANBUL ALTUNIZADE ROTARACT CLUB Istanbul Altunizade Rotaract Club of District 2420 successfully accomplished “II. Ağva Beach Cleaning Project” in 9th -10th of August, 2008 as a joint project with Ankara Koru Rotaract Club of District 2430. The first one of this project was performed in 2005-2006 period and İstanbul Altunizade Rotaract Club is planning to make it a conventional project of the club. This year two rotaract clubs from different districts strengthened the relationship between each other working side by side and also were inspired for coming joint projects. Apart from the devoted members of two rotaract clubs, rotaractors from both districts were also there to support the project in the best way. Mission of this project was to clean Ağva beach which was polluted by garbage and waste materials. Beach cleaning action started early in 9th of August and performed by 22 rotaractors through a framework of friendship and service. We collected garbage filling 20 pieces of trash bags. These wasted materials had been sent to municipality to be exterminated. Besides cleaning the beach we had a barbeque party sponsored by Efes Pilsen and Maret on Saturday night and had so much fun by swimming in Ağva's cool water during the day. On Sunday we had a boat tour after delicious meals by the river of Ağva. All participants of the Project shared good memories and made brand new friends which will last forever.We are sure that the third of this project in 2009-2010 period will also be a means of service through friendship and close collaborations. On 13th of March, the day first Rotaract Club was founded, we visited Covidien Office whose General Manager is the secretary of İstanbul Altunizade Rotary Club. This project was a joint project with Istanbul Beyazıt Rotaract Club. The department managers of Covidien, which is a leading medical firm made presentations about Covidien and workflow in their own departments. ISTANBUL ALTUNIZADE ROTARACT CLUB The participant rotaractors had the opportunity of asking questions about the firm, departments, medical sector and could present their CVs to Human Resources department directly. The project aiming professional developments of rotaractors and encouraging them accomplished sowing the seeds of hope for future. In January, 2009 Istanbul Altunizade Rotaract Club founded “Cultural Development Committee” to contribute the cultural developments of the club members and strengthen the friendship between them. The Committee has organized every month various cultural activities and museum tours and this program is carried out perfectly. According to the program; Dali Exhibition in Sabancı Museum was visited in January; in February Toy Museum was visited and after that we attended Jozi Levi Rio Carnival. Rahmi Koç Industry Museum was visited in March. In the coming months all members of the club will go to the theater, Cartoon Museum and Dolmabahçe Palace together and will keep having fun. ISTANBUL ATAKÖY ROTARACT CLUB Our hepatit project started in 2002 and until now we have organised the vaccination of 600 handicapped children. With three more continuing cure, 600 children’s hepatitis B vaccines were implemented. We have taken the second rank in BESP 2004 awards held by Europe Rotaract Union with this project. ISTANBUL ATAKÖY ROTARACT CLUB Our main aim was to raise awareness in society about Aids, how to avoid it and its possible outcomes. Starting from 2004, on Aids week we have been distributing handouts and condoms at Taksim Square, in the most crowded place of İstanbul. With this project we have taken the second rank in BESP 2005 awards held by Europe Rotaract Union. ISTANBUL BEBEK ROTARACT CLUB In 2008-2009, we as Bebek Rotaract Club leaned mostly on performing Community Services. We have been visiting Rotary’s Kids Home perodicly. Rotary has gathered the kids working on streets to this building and us Rotaractors thought that the kids would be happy if we spent some time with them. During this past year we have been wathcing movies, handing out snacks and trying to get to know eachother with the kids. We were really glad to be able to see the kids with a smile on their faces as we left. Every year our sponsor Rotary Club, Bebek Rotary Club organizes an International Sailing Camp under IR’s Short Term Youth Exchange Programs. This year we are going to have the 8th camp here in İstanbul. Every year, we try to break the prejudices of our visitors and make them see the real Turkey and Turkish people. This year as Bebek Rotaract Club we decided to prepare a visual presentation for our guests so that they could take it back home to share with their Rotary Club, Rotaract Club, family and hopefuly friends. Attached to the presentation we want to give them letter written to our great anchestor, leader Atatürk by elementary school students to be able to show our love, respect and aspiration. ISTANBUL BEYAZIT ROTARACT CLUB Like every year, The Beyazıt Rotaract Club joined to the Democracy Convoy that was organized by the municipality of Kadiköy territory at the Bagdat Street in 29 October 2008, which was also the 86th anniversary of the Turkish Democracy. With the contribution of Beyazıt Rotaract Club’s members and their guests, we all celebrated our republic and the secular democracy which was founded by the great leader and the father of the Turkish Nation, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his friends in 29 October 1923. The modern Turkey was founded after the Turkish Independent War (1919-1922) which was occurred against the nations who tried to invade the Turkish homeland after the collapse of Ottoman Empire, in many hard conditions and with great sacrifices. Besides like every year, we all promised to secure and protect the legacy of democracy that raised Turkish Nation to the status of modern world nations. Next year, again we will be there to celebrate the values of our free democracy and also glad to see you with us. ISTANBUL BEYOĞLU ROTARACT CLUB Beyoğlu Rotaract Club made second short film festival as annually with Topkapı, Yesilkoy, Ataköy and Sarıyer Rotaract Clubs. People especially university students all over the country can join this Project with their films which they joined before another festivals. Toprak Sergen who is a famous artist in Türkiye made a big contribution with festival . With well-chosen jury elected films in 5 different major and we watched elected films on 28 march in Levent Kültür Merkezi sponsoring with Besiktas Municipality and Beyoglu Rotary Club. Toprak Sergen presents the day and rotaractors went to ‘MTV’ show for introducing the Project. ISTANBUL BEYOĞLU ROTARACT CLUB As Beyoglu Rotaract Club we made a drawing contest with our sponsoring Rotary Club called as “1.Beyoglu Rotary-Rotaract Drawing Contest” The primary school “Sehit Ogretmen Nese Alten”students draw their dreams. We choosed the first four paintings and gave each of succesfull student camera as reward. Also the other paintings were sold by an auction and the earning money is used for schools demand. We made interviews with the people, who are successful in their job professions. The subject and the name of the project is; ‘ How do they get succeed’. We made a booklet where these interviews exist and we are going to distribute these booklets to high school students so they can find the way to choose their jobs and get succeed. ISTANBUL BOSTANCI ROTARACT CLUB There were so many children at ‘The Cardiac Catheter Laboratory for Children’ who were lack of artificial cardiac pacemaker. In November 2008, Professor Levent Saltik contacted with Rotaract Club of Bostanci. After long discussions between the Rotaractors of our club, we decided to implement this as a project. We hold two donation activities a) ticket sales of a theatre b) made a lottery among the Rotarians and Rotaractors at District 2420 to whip-round for subscription. In the middle of January 2009, we brought all the money that we had collected to Rotary Club of Bostanci. We asked them for help to import this device from overseas. Finally, we gave the artificial cardiac pacemaker to Professor Levent Saltik from Department of Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty in a charity meeting in 23rd of February and completed the project. CORLU ROTARACT CLUB We have a afforestation field named ‘Mrs.Hatice Talay Park’. She is one of our old presidents who passed out 6 years ago. We planted special walnut tree on that park with our sponsor Rotary Club. Walnut tree is special kind of walnut of our region. At the end of every year, we visit Kırklareli Society for the Protection of Children as the traditional activity of Çorlu Rotaract Club. We have a beautiful day with children in a loving environment. In order to make the children happy and motivate them, we give gifts, food and play games with them. ISTANBUL ETILER ROTARACT CLUB Etiler Rotaract Club, funded in 2009, has been creating projects aiming awareness on the consumption of natural resources, importance of literacy, professionalism and intercultural sharing. Below are two examples for our projects: We aimed to create consciousness on the irresponsible consumption of clean water and came up with this project in 2008.. In March 2009, we performed the project for the 2nd time and continue to perform it in the coming years. On March 21st, on a sunny Saturday, we gathered up in Besiktas square (one of the most crowdd ones) as Rotaractors and Interactors. ISTANBUL ETILER ROTARACT CLUB We distributed our brochures which gives drastic data on how fast the water is used up and what we should do to overcome the extinction. We also gave samll bottles of water as a present by saying 'This is a gift from us, drink it with appetite now. But tomorrow you may not find it that easily. Be aware and protect your water. Apart from the social responsibilty purpose the project served to promote Rotaract and develop members for sponsorship interviews since we got the waters by sponsorship. www..rotaractive.com is an online bulletin composed of articles from Rotaractors in English. The projects aim is to reach all Rotaractors and contribute to intercultural sharing. This year, the 5th bulletin has been published with the subject of “ Istanbul: 2010 Capital of Culture”. The articles focus on all aspects of Istanbul making it a capital of culture: history, art, beliefs, cultural communities, relgions, food etc. All EUCO participants should read the bulletin to experience Istanbul fully. Just click www.rotaractive.com ISTANBUL FINDIKLI ROTARACT CLUB As Fındıklı Rotaract Club, we formed a small library in Karabük for visually-impared people with the donations of Teknosa, Technological Retailer, and also with the income of our traditional bowling tournement. With this library, visually-impared citizens of Karabük will be able to listen to many kinds of books in mp3 formats. Maintaining our educational support, we had been financing uniforms and yearly stationary goods for twenty one students who have just started their educational life. On the other hand, we helped to those students who are in need in Tuzla Mevlana Primary School with clothes and the scarves and hats that we had knitted ourselves. As one of the main goals of the Rotaract, we're organising meetings with the proffesionals of various sectors in order to help our selfimprovement . Some of our guests: Aret Vartanyan (Vodafone Brand Executive), Prof. Dr. Gülseren Akyüz, Alp Alper (National Geographic Photographer) and also some of our office visits were to: John Hopkins Hospital and Turkcell. ISTANBUL GALATASARAY ROTARACT CLUB The Rotaract and The Rotary Clubs of Galatasaray organize a Youth Forum every May for high school students from all over Istanbul. The purpose of this forum is to involve high school students in the activities of presenting, sharing and discussing ideas on a specific subject. This year, The Rotaract and The rotary Clubs of Galatasaray will be performing the 13th Youth Forum with the subject “Traffic Problem in Istanbul”. Some of the subjects from the previous years include “Social Problems Caused by Substance Abuse”, “Turkish Youth in the Mirror”, “Turkey in Your Dreams”, “What Does EU Mean to You?”. The goal of our project begins with the motto of “making dreams real”. We aimed to “make dreams real” by considering the ones that are not fortunate enough to obtain the necessities for a living. These include both the children facing poverty and the refugees in our country that do not have the opportunity to maintain regular conditions for a normal life. Each of more than 500 hundred children aged between 8-12 in 15 primary schools have been given a set of first-hand apparel which included a pair of boots, a pair of socks, a t-shirt, a coat, a pullover and jeans. The distribution was done right before the religious bairam in Turkey. More than 500 pieces of apparel were also sent to the regional support organizations in Istanbul and to the city of Ardahan in order for distribution to the ones in need. 180 pieces of jeans were donated to the Rotary Children House in Istanbul. In addition, second-hand clothes were collected by our club members and were packed in a suitable way. After our meeting with the commissionals from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, we have decided to enlarge our project; therefore these second-hand clothes were sent to the in order for the commission to distribute them to the refugees in need. During this project, our sponsors include LCWaikiki, Hey Textile, Cross Jeans and personal donations. Also, all of our club members were involved in the collection and arrangement of second-hand clothes. For detailed information about all our projects, please visit www.galatasarayrotaract.org/en ISTANBUL GAYRETTEPE ROTARACT CLUB As Gayrettepe Rotaract Club, we organized a visit to Bakirkoy Mental Hospital on 1st of February, 2009. The aim of our visit was to get informed about the needs of the patients and to start a project that would trigger some sensitivity to the issue. It was observed that the patients needed clothes, therefore Gayrettepe Rotaract Club members initiated a campaign among their families, acquaintances and other Rotaract Clubs. In less than two weeks 20 bags of unused clothes were collected and handed to the authorities in the hospital to be given to the ones in need. We visited Yedikule Animal Shelter on 12th of October 2008, as Gayrettepe Rotaract Club. We delivered the three parcel packages of pharmaceuticals and newspaper that were gathered by our club members to Meral Olcay. The first visit to this animal shelter was organized last year and was planned to develop consciousness and continue each year as a tradition so that our support can be long lasting. ISTANBUL GEBZE ROTARACT CLUB Gebze Rotaract Club was established at 1999 in Gebze, Kocaeli and belong to 2420 District. In this term, we would like to focus on the health projects. There will be continuous projects for the upcoming years with a name of “Acceleration for health”. In our last two terms we understood that we can share our power as monetary or voluntary to have a healthier community. ISTANBUL GEBZE ROTARACT CLUB We started this project by analyzing the public health organs and support their shortages. This analysis showed us that our public organs need so many support to get more powerful. Our first project has started with the Wheelchair support. It was done in the special week for disabled people. In this week 20 wheelchairs were given. 9 wheelchairs to the Darıca Public Hospital, 9 wheelchairs to Fatih Public Hospital, 1 wheelchair to Presidential of Gebze Group Health and 1 wheelchair to a depended person on 16th May in 2008. Our following project for the “Acceleration for health” is to plant 250 threes in Fatih Public Hospital in April 2009. Which will provide a better environment to the hospital so that it will effect the healing process of the patients in a positive way. We are accelerating ourselves for better health conditions and for a healthier environment. We have started our term 2008-2009 with our Rotaract International goal “ Make the dreams real”. Our children are really important for us, the only thing that we can do to make them happy is to provide them better conditions. We found a small step to help the children which will be the beginning of a long journey. 90 packages of food support were given to Gun Gelişim Rehabilitation and Education Center to be transferred to families of children in need. This was not the last step of our project, apparel aids followed the first project and we have dressed 35 children. We are a small team with big hearts. We believe “service is prior than ourselves”. It will be our pleasure to welcome you on our website www.gebzerotaract.org and to see you in our projects. ISTANBUL ROTARACT CLUB The Rotaract Club of Istanbul was established by sponsoring Rotary Club of Istanbul in 1982. It has been known by the international Rotary since 1985. The club’s main aim is to provide solutions to important problems of the society such as poverty, infrastructure and children care. ISTANBUL ROTARACT CLUB During the last term, Rotaract Club of Istanbul raised funds for a small village named Orhaniye in the city of Bursa. The village lacked an infrastructural water system, which the Club sponsored the construction of the system and supplied the village with water. The Rotaract Club of Istanbul has completed all the projects which were determined at the beginning of each Rotaract term. Also the Club tries to participate in the international Rotaract and Rotary organizations especially in the Rotaract Europe Meetings and EUCO, because building new relations, interacting with different cultures and creating new friendships are essential for both Rotaract Club of Istanbul and Rotaract International. This year’s main project concerns the village of Damal in Ardahan, Turkey. We are aiming to build a computer laboratory in Damal village, so that students can get a more modern education and benefit from using computers. Moreover, we will encourage families to send their girls for primary education, which still is a serious problem in the rural parts of Turkey. Our project with the village of Damal will also consist of helping 102 girl students who cannot afford to buy their own school uniforms. You can also participate in this project by helping us assemble ready-to-use computers for the village, any help is appreciated! Our second main project concerns the village of Balaban in town of Demirköy in Kırklareli. The Rotaract Club of Istanbul aims to help to solve the education problem in the villages in Turkey. For this project, our community services committee made a research in Thrace Region. According to the result of the research The Rotaract Club of Istanbul gave decision to support the village of Balaban primary school in the village Balaban in the town of Demirköy in Kırklareli. In this primary school, there are thirty- five (35) students. The aim of this project is providing these children have a better education standards and the healthy environment. For example, the Rotaract Club Istanbul decided to build-up the toilets again because they have too many unhealthy conditions and also this circumstance is dangerous for the children’s health. Moreover, these children don’t have a sport hall for playing sports. For this reason we decide to build a sport hall and also with the club activities we provide all the needs of the children in this project. Any help is appreciated! Let us remind you that if you want to get more information about us. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18723385856 [email protected] http://www.istanbulrotaract.org ISTANBUL ISTINYE ROTARACT CLUB We made periodical visits to Şişli Schizophrenia Club, during these visits we realized that schizophrenic suffer from false judgements of people in their daliy lives, these judgements ultimately leads them not having a social life and they become isolated. In order to eliminate these ideas, we organized an assembly with four different Rotaract Clubs and we tried to attract attention of the society and Rotaractors to the problems of the schizophrenia. ISTANBUL ISTINYE ROTARACT CLUB One of our members-Müge Erbay who is doing master in Clinical Psychology - made a presentation about schizophrenia and all participants listened carefully her. Furthermore, we have guests; Board Members of the Şişli Schizophrenia Club, so we had an opportunity to raise our questions to them, it provides us an interactive meeting and moreover it creates a sincere atmosphere. At the end of the meeting, all participants are clear about the schizophrenia which is an indicator that we reached our goal. We went to the theater regularly with 35 children between the age of 7-12 from The Educational Volunteers Foundation (TEGV), whose mission provide formal educational opportunities for children and youth in need throughout Turkey. Our aim is to make these small kids get acquainted with the any type of the art and enhance their imaginations. ISTANBUL LEVENT ROTARACT CLUB Levent Rotaract has been organized a general healthiness control for 66 students of U.R. 2420 District Rotary TUZLA School for the Deaf.The control has been done by doctor Yalcın Antment on 10.02.2009. ISTANBUL LEVENT ROTARACT CLUB The organization has been realised with participation of former presidant Emre Tuncer, vicepresident Serdar Budur, nominee members Betul Yorgun and Neriman Koc.The information about the situation and the needs of the school has been taken in order to be able to be more helpful on the future. Rotary Child House is founded in order to improve psychological,social side and support academic education of children which are living and working at Beyoglu aged between 8-15.Levent Rotaract president Tahsin Budur, secretary general Onur Kazanasmaz, vicepresident Serdar Budur and members Betul Yorgun, Didem Kul and Nil Budur are participating to the personal computer and tabletennis classes every Saturday from month of December 2008. 38 children are participating to the classes.Levent Rotaract club members are really willing to more participate these classes in case of need. ISTANBUL SARIYER ROTARACT CLUB Sarıyer Rotaract Club, for the second time this year, contributed twelve parcels of stationary material to the Beşçatak Elementary School in Malazgirt in Muş. This aid Project aimed to encourage our little students to show more eagerness to school. They respond to support with full enthusiasm and apprecciation for the fact that it is almost impossible to get a proper education in the place they live and our club helped them to provide their lack at least to some extent. Their joy multiplied our inspiration. Sarıyer Rotaract Club gives thanks to all the contributers of the aid project. ISTANBUL SARIYER ROTARACT CLUB Sarıyer Rotaract Club also visited the Fatih Municipality Vivarium. There our members embraced the lovely animals that are kept there. The Club also took all the income that was provided by selling the postcards and the calenders given by the vivarium. Sarıyer Rotaract Club gives thanks also to all the animal lovers who contributed to our fund and enjoyed the visit. Origin of World Rotaract Day (March 13th) The proposal of establishing a "World Rotaract Day", to be celebrated annually by all Rotaractors, was presented to Rotary International by Derya Sensoy, DRR 1989-90 of District 2420, Turkey, on 23rd February 1990, by the following letter: "Being the young generation of the 'Service Above Self' philosophy, we would like a certain day to be celebrated as 'World Rotaract Day' which would give us a chance for our voice to be heard with a common activity. This day will also be an opportunity to make us approach each other sharing the happiness of being Rotaractors and will motivate us to create new ideas. An activity shared by World Rotaractors will attract world attention and will enhance recognition of Rotaract. This activity should be at least at district level and it should have a group activity characteristic such as blood donation, public service campaigns etc. It should be kept in mind that the higher the rate of participation, the more successful the activity. On the other hand, a declaration by the President of Rotary International about that day emphasising the humanist side of Rotaract and stating its philosophy will play an active role in the development of the Rotaract programme. Moreover, it is important for the recognition of Rotaract to prepare a bulletin about the activities undertaken and to distribute it to related institutions, local authorities and the Press. Based on the foregoing facts, we are requesting RI to accept the foundation day of the first Rotaract Club as the official "World Rotaract Day" and to celebrate it each year." This proposal was brought to the attention of all Rotaract Clubs as one of the "Items for Consideration" prepared by the 1990-91 Rotary International Rotaract Committee (Group II, item 11). Following the discussions of Rotaractors, the proposal was put forward by the RI Rotaract Committee as a recommendation. Then, after the Rotary Convention held in Mexico in June 1991, the Board of Directors of RI approved this proposal as a project to be implemented. And in 1993, due to the 25th anniversary of the Rotaract Program, World Rotaract Day was extended to World Rotaract Week.