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The Bulletin of The Rotary Club of Kelana Jaya, District 3300, Malaysia
BEYOND
November 2015
Volume 25, Issue 9
Look Beyond Yourself
Contents
• President’s Message...........................1
• Club Calendar.......................................2
• News in Pictures .................................3
• District Governor’s Message............6
• RI President’s Message......................7
• Rotary International News ..............8
• Did you know about... The Rotary
Foundation’s Beginning..................10
• Club Members and Info..................11
President’s Message
On 1st November, the Club participated in
the Bentong Health Carnival held at Sekolah
Menengah Kebangsaan Khai Mun, Kampung
Chamang, Bentong . This was organized by
My Kasih Foundation and the event was
graced by the Guest of Honour, the Minister
of Transport / Bentong MP, YB Dato’ Sri Liow
Tiong Lai. Tan Sri Dr Ngau the Chairman and
Mr Jeffrey Perera the Managing Director
from My Kasih Foundation were present.
In support of the event DG Siti Subaidah,
AG Wong and PP Dato’ S Kulasegaran from
Rotary International District 3300 were also
present.
It is a mini medical camp cum eye screening
for 300 families residing in and around
Bentong. Others who took part include RC
Lake Gardens, RC Pahang West, RC Sentul,
Ministry of Health and Segi University
College.
The Club was involved in the de-worming
of children and basic medical consultation
followed by treatment. Ms Alice of Top
Vision Optical (Service Partner) and her
team including her husband and son, were
present to carry out the eye screening
for the adults. Other activities at the
carnival by other participants included
eye examination, dental care, pap smears
and blood donations. Children activities
included colouring competition and singing
and dancing led by the Clown Stanley .
Eleven (11) Rotarians from RC Kelana Jaya
and 7 family members participated in this
carnival. It was like a family day event for
the club members and its service partner
who adjourned for a fellowship lunch at
Restaurant126 after the event. Thanks all for
the much appreciated participation .
On 5th November, AG Wong Tze Hoong
made an official visit to the Club. In his
address to the Club he reminded us to
submit documents to the District Governor
for her visit on the 19th November 2015.
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President’s Message (continued)
This year, Deepavali was celebrated
on 10th November 2015. We wish our
Hindu members, friends and their
families a Happy Deepavali. May the
colours of the season shine brightly
and spread Happiness, Peace and Good
Health in your lives.
Club Calendar
November
5 Nov
AG Wong TH Visit
12 Nov
Business / Board Meeting
19 Nov
Club Assembly DG Visit
26 Nov
President and members
attending RC Bang Rak’s
Anniversary in Bangkok
December
3 Dec
Reschedule to 5th Dec Banquet Dinner with
RI President K R Ravindran
10 Dec
Club AGM / Board Meeting
17 December
Reschedule to 19th Dec - Project
Visit to KK3 Ward, Kuala Lumpur
General Hospital followed by
Christmas Fellowship Dinner
24 Dec
Christmas eve
31Dec
New Year Fellowship Dinner
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On16th November, books were
presented to the Head Teacher Mr Allen
Yong of Sekolah Menengah Stella Maris
Medan Damansara at Bukit Damansara
during the school assembly. This is
the school at which the new Interact
club was inaugurated in August 2015
witnessed by the Principal Ms Mystrical
Rose and teacher advisor Ms Christina .
Forthcoming Events
The District Governor, Siti Subaidah Adil
will make her official visit to the Club on
19th November 2015 .
To commence we will proceed to the
Limbs for Life Prosthesis Centre, and the
Chairman Mr Chiam Swee Ann will be
there to receive, host and brief us on the
Centre’s activities. At the Centre, we will
watch and witness the actual casting
cum fitting of an artificial limb onto an
amputee.
The Club will then present a cheque for
a sum of RM4500.00, being an approved
District Grant to the Centre to sponsor
artificial limbs for 3 more amputees. The
group will then adjourn for lunch.
After the lunch, the District Governor
will continue her official visit and
meet with the Board members of the
Interactors, Rotarians and Roteractors
at Oriental Pearl Bukit Kiara Equesterian
Club. In the evening, the Club Assembly
will commence and follow by the club
meeting during which the District
Governor will address the members.
First lady, May Wah, has informed that
she will personally donate RM5000.00
for another 10 limbs for the support of
the project - Leg for Legless in Sri Lanka.
The cheque will be presented to PP
Magandran Muthiah, the chairperson of
the project. This project has a target of
200 limbs and will be launched by the RI
President on 13th Dec 2015 in Sri Lanka.
With the official function ending, dinner
and fellowship will begin and continue
into the evening.
News in Pictures
Bentong Health Carnival Activities
Blood Donation
Eye Screening
Nursing
Exercise with Clown Stanley
Setting up deworming station
Deworming children
Taking blood sugar
Mini medical outreach
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News in Pictures
Bentong Health Carnival Group Photos
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News in Pictures
Books Donation to SM Stella Maris Medan D’sara
Celebrations
BIRTHDAYS
President Chow with Head Teacher Mr Allen Yong
23 November
PP Dr Hari Yanasakaran
ANNIVERSARIES
24 November
Pres Chow Chee Phing
&
Ann Yeong May Wah
25 November
PP Leslie Yeap
&
Ann Yuriko
30 November
IPP Michael Chong
&
Ann Wong Ai Mei
Students of SM Stella Maris Medan Damansara
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District 3300 Governor’s Message
November 2015
Dear Fellow Rotarians
November is designated as The Rotary Foundation Month, a month
to reflect the good work Rotarians
do to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through
the improvement of health, the
support of education and the alleviation of poverty. TRF is supported
solely by voluntary contributions
from Rotarians and friends of the
Foundation who share its vision of
a better world.
Rotarians in our District have over
the years been very supportive of
the Foundation and your generous
annual contributions have benefitted millions of people, children and
adults whom we have never met
but helped in improving their lives.
Rotary clubs have also benefitted
in your giving through the various
TRF grant programs to carry out
significant projects.
give, the gift of meaningful lives.
Your US$100 or RM420 a year to the
foundation goes beyond boundaries.
I take this opportunity to recognise all PHFs, Major Donors, our
Arch Klump-Trustee Circle member, PDG Dato’ Jimmy Lim and all
Rotarians who have contributed to
TRF for your kindness in giving. In
this special month Club Presidents,
1. End polio, now and forever.
do recognise your PHFs, and Major
2. Strengthen Rotarians’ knowl- Donors during your club meetings.
edge, engagement, and financial Please also invite speakers from
support of The Rotary Foundation. the District to learn more about
3. Increase the quality and impact our Foundation and appreciate the
of Rotary’s humanitarian service work of the Foundation.
effort through Foundation grants
and the six areas of focus.
As the work of The Rotary Founda4. Enhance the image and aware- tion continues to improve lives, we
ness of the Foundation’s record of too have an obligation as Rotarians
achievements, particularly the suc- to continue in our giving. The EREY
cess of PolioPlus and its 100-year (Every Rotarian Every Year) is anrecord of doing good in the world. other program for Rotarians to
US$300,000.00 is an achievable
amount if we all combine our resources together. It was a joy to
have received this envelop from RC
Temerloh during my club visit on
Tuesday.
At their October 2014 meeting, the
Trustees in the spirit of the RI strategic plan outlined four priorities
to stay in place for the next three
years:
Upcoming District 3300 Events
1. A Day With RI President
2. 48th Interact District Conference
Visit http://rotary3300.org/ for more info.
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Our Foundation giving goal for our
District this year is:
Annual Fund
Polio Plus
Endowment
: US$250,000.00
: US$ 25,000.00
: US$ 25,000.00
My friends, if we belief in the work
of our foundation, if we belief in the
good work Rotarians do and if we
are proud to be Rotarians, support
our Foundation. Giving is a joy and
comes from within ourselves. We
are indeed gifted.
Thank you
Warm regards
Siti
RI Presidential Message
November 2015
One sunny morning at the end of June 1991, a van drove through the busy, rush-hour
streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Winding through traffic to a northern suburb, the van
arrived at the Forward Command Headquarters of the Defense Ministry. Security guards stopped it for inspection.
When they did, the two suicide bombers driving the van detonated their cargo: thousands of kilograms of plastic
explosives.
The roof of the building was blown off completely. Debris was strewn for blocks. In total, 21 people were killed and
175 people injured, among them many pupils of the girls’ school next door. More than a kilometer away, the blast
shattered every window in my home. My wife raced toward the sound of the explosion – toward our daughter’s
school.
Our daughter was then nine years old. That morning, she had forgotten her pencil case at home. At the moment of
the blast, she was coming out of a stationer’s shop, admiring her new pencils. Suddenly her ears were ringing, the air
was filled with sand, and everywhere around her people were screaming, bleeding, and running. Someone pulled
her into the garden of the badly damaged school, where she waited until my wife arrived to bring her back to our
home – its floors still covered with broken glass.
Sri Lanka today is peaceful and thriving, visited by some two million tourists every year. Our war now is only a
memory, and we as a nation look forward to a promising future. Yet so many other nations cannot say the same.
Today, more of the world’s countries are involved in conflict than not; a record 59.5 million people worldwide live
displaced by wars and violence.
In Rotary we believe, in spite of all that, in the possibility of peace – not out of idealism, but out of experience. We
have seen that even the most intractable conflicts can be resolved when people have more to lose by fighting than
by working together. We have seen what can happen when we approach peace-building in ways that are truly
radical, such as the work of our Rotary Peace Fellows. Through our Rotary Foundation, peace fellows become experts
in preventing and resolving conflict. Our goal is that they will find new ways not only to end wars but to stop them
before they begin.
Among the hundreds of peace fellows who have graduated from the program, two from Sri Lanka, one from each
side of the conflict, studied together. In the first weeks of the course, both argued passionately for the rightness of
their side. Yet week by week, they grew to understand each other’s perspective; today, they are good friends. When I
met them and heard their story, they gave me hope. If 25 years of pain and bitterness could be overcome by Rotary,
then what, indeed, is beyond us?
We cannot fight violence with violence. But when we fight it with education, with understanding, and with peace,
we can truly Be a Gift to the World.
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SIX WOMEN RECOGNIZED AT UNITED NATIONS
FOR LEADERSHIP, HUMANITARIAN SERVICE
Six Rotary Global Women of Action were honored during Rotary Day at the United Nations
on 7 November in New York City. They are, from left: Lucy H. Hobgood-Brown, Dr. Hashrat A.
Begum, Stella S. Dongo, Kerstin Jeska-Thorwat, Dr. Deborah K.W. Walters, and Razia Jan
The six Rotary Global Women of Action for 2015
were recognized during Rotary Day at the United
Nations on 7 November in New York City for their
dedication and service, which have improved the
lives of thousands around the world.
Dr. Hashrat A. Begum, of the Rotary Club of Dhaka
North West, in Bangladesh, who has implemented
several large-scale projects to deliver health care to
poor and underserved communities.
Stella S. Dongo, of the Rotary Club of Highlands,
“The women we are honoring here today are leaders in Zimbabwe, who leads the Community
in Rotary,” said Rotary President K.R. Ravindran. Empowerment Project in the city of Harare. The
“They are pushing the boundaries of Rotary service, project provides basic business and computer
pushing us all to do more, be more, and achieve training to more than 6,000 women and youths
more.”
affected by HIV/AIDS.
Lakshmi Puri, assistant secretary-general of the
United Nations and deputy executive director of UN
Women, praised Rotary for its acknowledgment of
the crucial role women play.
Lucy C. Hobgood-Brown, of the Rotary E-Club of
Greater Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia,
who co-founded HandUp Congo, a nonprofit that
promotes and facilitates sustainable communitydriven business, educational, social, and health
“I’m very pleased you have picked this team of initiatives in underprivileged communities in the
gender equality and women empowerment,” she Democratic Republic of Congo.
said.
The six women, who were selected by Rotary senior
leaders and staff from more than 100 nominees
from around the world, are:
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Six women recognized at
United Nations for leadership,
humanitarian service (continued)
Razia Jan, of the Rotary Club of Duxbury, in
Massachusetts, USA, who has spent decades fighting
for girls’ educational rights in Afghanistan. An
Afghan native, she is the founder and director of
the Zabuli Education Center, a school that provides
free education to more than 480 girls in Deh’Subz,
outside Kabul, Afghanistan. She was also recognized
as a CNN Hero in 2012.
Kerstin Jeska-Thorwart, of the Rotary Club of
Nürnberg-Sigena, in Germany, who launched the
Babyhospital Galle project after surviving the 2004
tsunami in Sri Lanka. With a budget of $1.8 million and
the support of 200 Rotary clubs, the project rebuilt
and equipped the Mahamodara Teaching Hospital,
in Galle, Sri Lanka. The hospital has served more than
150,000 children and more than 2.2 million women.
Dr. Deborah K.W. Walters, of the Rotary Club of Unity,
in Maine, USA, a neuroscientist who has served as
director of Safe Passage (Camino Seguro), a nonprofit
that provides educational and social services to
families who live in the Guatemala City garbage
dump.
Each of the women addressed attendees and led
discussions on topics related to her work.
More than 1,000 Rotary members, UN officials, Rotary
youth program participants, and guests gathered at
this year’s annual event, which celebrated 70 years of
partnership between Rotary and the UN. A morning
youth session was open to high school students,
including members of Rotary’s Interact and Youth
Exchange programs.
Guest speakers included Fabia Yazaki, acting chief
for evaluation and communications in the UN’s
department of public information; Karin Ryan, senior
project adviser for the human rights program at the
Carter Center; Ambassador at-Large Susan Coppedge
Amato, director of the Office to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking in Persons for the U.S. Department of
State; Melissa Russell, vice president of strategic
partnerships for the International Justice Mission;
Jeffrey Kluger, Time magazine editor at-large; and
Archie Panjabi, Emmy Award-winning actress and
Rotary polio ambassador
Rotary and
The United Nations
Rotary’s relationship with the United Nations dates
back to 1945 when some 49 Rotary members acted
as delegates, advisors and consultants at the United
Nations Charter Conference. Today, Rotary holds the
highest consultative status possible with the United
Nations as a non-governmental organization.
Rotary and the United Nations have a long history
of working together and sharing similar visions for a
more peaceful world.
In 1942, Rotary clubs from 21 nations organized
a conference in London to develop a vision for
advancing education, science, and culture after
World War II. That event was a precursor to UNESCO. In
1945, 49 Rotarians went to San Francisco to help draft
the UN Charter. Rotary and the UN have been close
partners ever since, a relationship that’s apparent
through PolioPlus and work with UN agencies.
“The invitation to Rotary International to participate
in the United Nations Conference as consultant to the
United States delegation was not merely a gesture of
good will and respect toward a great organization.
It was a simple recognition of the practical part
Rotary’s members have played and will continue to
play in the development of understanding among
nations. The representatives of Rotary were needed
at San Francisco and, as you well know, they made
a considerable contribution to the Charter itself,
and particularly to the framing of provisions for the
Economic and Social Council.”
Rotary currently holds the highest consultative status
offered to a nongovernmental organization by the
UN’s Economic and Social Council, which oversees
many specialized UN agencies. Rotary maintains and
furthers its relationship with a number of UN bodies,
programs, commissions, and agencies through its
representative network . This network consists of
RI representatives to the United Nations and other
organizations.
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Did you know about....
The Rotary Foundation’s Beginning
Evolution of
Foundation Programs
1947
The first program established Fellowships for Advanced
Study (later renamed to
Ambassadorial Scholarships)
1965 - 1966
Three programs launched :
1. Group Study Exchange
2. Awards for Technical Training
3. Grants for activities in keeping
with The Rotary Foundation
(later renamed Matching Grants)
1978
Health, Hunger and Humanity
Grants (3-H). First 3-H Grant
funded to immunize 6 million
Phillipine children against polio
1985
Polio Plus Program
1987 - 1988
Rotary Peace Fellowships
2013
New district and global grants
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Arch C Klumph
Some magnificent projects grow from very small seeds.
In 1917 RI President Arch Klumph told the delegates to the Atlanta Convention that it seems eminently proper that we should
accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world.
The response was polite and favorable, but the fund was slow to
materialize. A year later the “Rotary Endowment Fund,” as it was
first labeled, received its first contribution of US$26.50 from the
Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, USA, which was the balance
of the Kansas City Convention account following the 1918 annual meeting. Additional small amounts were annually contributed,
but after six years it is reported that the endowment fund had only
reached US$700. A decade later, The Rotary Foundation was formally established at the 1928 Minneapolis Convention. In the next
four years the Foundation fund grew to US$50,000. In 1937 a US$2
million goal was announced for The Rotary Foundation, but these
plans were cut short and abandoned with the outbreak of World
War II.
In 1947, upon the death of Paul Harris, a new era opened for The Rotary Foundation as memorial gifts poured in to honor the founder
of Rotary. From that time, The Rotary Foundation has been achieving its noble objective of furthering “understanding and friendly
relations between peoples of different nations.” By 1954 the Foundation received for the first time a half million dollars in contributions in a single year, and in 1965 a million dollars was received. It
is staggering to imagine that from those humble beginnings, The
Rotary Foundation is now receiving more than US$65 million each
year for educational and humanitarian work around the world.
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