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Rotary Club Diary 1st - 13th August 2011

Happy Birthday!

NIL

Spouse’s Birthday!

Ann Suit Yong (1st. Aug) Ann Lena Chew (3rd. Aug)

Happy Anniversary!

Rtn. Stanley Pereira and Ann Davinder (6th. Aug)

1st August 2011

Issue No : 5/2011-12 PUDUEnjoy your

Programme Today Programme Next Week

Speaker : Pn. Sri Tessie LimSubject : Leaders Are Learners

ON DUTYDuty Table : Rtn. Kertz LauFellowship : Rtn. Tenny LeeFinemaster : Rtn. Patrick LeeIntroduce : Rtn. Edward LeeThanking : PP Dato NK Jasani

Speaker : Mr. Jonathan Avinash VictorSubject : Business Insurance

ON DUTYDuty Table : PP Albert LimFellowship : PP Gary LimFinemaster : PDG Dr. Paul LeeIntroduce : IPP Leong Choy YingThanking : PDG K B Lee

Date Time Programme Venue

AugustMon 1 12.45 pm Rotary Lunch Meeting Shangri-la KL

Tues 2 7.00 pm Fund Raising Meeting Secret Recipe, TTDI

Wed 3 7.00 pm Club Admin Meeting 719, 7th Floor Block A, Lobby B Kelana Centre Point

Thu 4 6.30 pm Membership Com. Meeting Loong Foong Res.

Sat 6 4.30 pm Rotaract Meeting Carmen Rest. Foo Yong

Mon 8 12.30 pm Luncheon Meeting Shangri-la KL 7.00 pm Installation Meeting Loon Foong Res kelana jaya

Tues 9 7.00 pm Fund Raising Meeting Secret Recipe, TTDI

Wed 10 7.00 pm Publicity Com. Meeting Bukit Jalil Club

Thu 11 6.30 pm Rotary Foundation Meeting Solaris Dutamas

Sat 13 7.30 pm Rotaract Club of Pudu Installation Lodge Paradize Hotel, KL

that a key target was missed at the end of last year. By the end of 2010, polio should have been stamped out in countries where there had been a resurgence after elimination. It did not happen. The report shows that polio has reappeared in 14 countries.

“The milestone was conclusively missed and the programme must be judged to have performed poorly in this regard,” it says.

The biggest concerns are for Chad and Democratic Republic of Congo, with 59 and 80 cases respectively this year. “We are deeply concerned by the situation in DR Congo,” says the report. “The worrying picture revealed by vaccination and surveillance data is confirmed by observations of widespread dysfunction on the ground.

“Leadership from the highest level is key for polio eradication and we urge the active involvement of the president in this case. Without his active involvement, we cannot believe that the necessary step-change will occur to interrupt polio transmission in DR Congo.”

Polio in Chad, says the report, is widespread and the situation is “of great concern”. An emergency action plan has been put into place, but not as quickly as the monitoring board had hoped. The World Health Organisation and Unicef have sent in 100 extra staff to boost vaccination efforts. “The difficult and crucial challenge now is to assemble this new surge of staff into a coordinated functioning team with the utmost speed.”Both these countries and 12 others where polio cases have been identified had stopped transmission for at least six months. Four countries have not yet succeeded in doing that – in India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, polio is still endemic.

Excellent progress has been made in India, where mass vaccination days involving more than a million volunteers brought down cases by 94% between 2009 and 2010, from 741 to 42. In the first six months of this year, there has been just one case.

Afghanistan has been doing relatively well in spite of difficulties caused by conflict. Nigeria made excellent progress in 2010, but there has been a loss of momentum following elections, the report says. The leadership is committed, but Kano, in the north, where the Muslim population a few years ago refused immunisation because of false rumours that the vaccine would sterilise their children, “remains a smouldering risk that could yet undermine the whole eradication effort,” the board says.

But in Pakistan, cases are going up, not down and conflict and the dismantling of a national ministry of health in

favour of local control does not help. “It still looks like it will be the last country to stop transmission, putting its neighbours and the global effort in jeopardy,” says the report. “The country needs to muster up relentless energy to really get to grips with the challenges of implementing its emergency action plan.”

Source : Sarah Boseley, health editor, guardian.co.uk,

Today we look at Rotary International as an organization and how they are organized across the world Rotary District, Zone & Rotary International-

District level

A district governor, who is an officer of Rotary International and represents the RI board of directors in the field, leads his/her respective Rotary district. Each governor is nominated by the clubs of his/her district, and elected by all the clubs meeting in the annual RI Convention held in a different country each year. The district governor appoints assistant governors from among the Rotarians of the district to assist in the management of Rotary activity and multi-club projects in the district.

Zone level

Approximately 15 Rotary districts form a zone. A zone director, who serves as a member of the RI board of directors, heads two zones. The zone director is nominated by the clubs in the zone and elected by the convention for the terms of two consecutive years.

Rotary International

Rotary International is governed by a board of directors composed of the international president, the president-elect, the general secretary, and 17 zone directors. The nomination and the election of each president is handled in the one-to-three year period before he takes office, and is based on requirements including geographical balance among Rotary zones and previous service as a district governor and board member. The international board meets quarterly to establish policies and make recommendations to the overall governing bodies, the RI Convention and the RI Council on Legislation.

The chief operating officer of RI is the general secretary, who heads a staff of about 600 people working at the international headquarters in Evanston and in seven international offices around the world.

Rotary Information

FUTURE ROTARY EVENTS

AGs’ Training Seminar : Hadyai 9-11 Sept 2011

Pudu Rotary Club Charity Run, Padang Merbok, KL 25 Sept 2011 Time 7.30 Am

Pre-GDLTS KL 9 Oct 2011

GDLTS Kuantan 11-13 Nov 2011

Zone Bali Institute 2-4 Dec 2011

RI Assembly San Diego 15-21 Jan 2012

Pre PETS Klang 10-12 Feb 2012

District Assembly Ipoh 23-25 March 2012

RI Convention, Bangkok, 6-9 May 2012

District Conference @ Subang 7-9 Dec 2012

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Editorial President’s Message

The theme for the month of August, Membership & Extension Month call on us Rotarians to reflect on the reasons we enrol into this fraternity which practice Fellowship And Self Development through services.

This month we have to re-examine our commitment and achievement and help spread the benefits that we have gained in our involvement with the Rotary Organisation to our friends, colleagues in our professional arena and partners in business.

We want to share the platform with them to assist them to achieve self development and fulfilment while benefit the society in areas they are attached to.

To assist in achieving our goals in Membership & Development, PP Chow Tain who head this department will remind members with write-ups in the Weekly Bulletin, contacts through e-mails and educate the various vehicles previously used in the membership drive, for example the use of sample invitation letter. Articles from PDG Dr. Paul Lee on this subject will be highlighted on this September 5th through a brief at the rostrum by PP Chow Tain.

I sincerely hope that all members will put in their full effort to achieve the minimum quota of recruiting 9 new members. These new members will assist in achieving more physical assistance in events being organised by the club, providing extra financial input, contributing fresh and new ideas, giving our Rotary Program a wider coverage in our reach to assist the less fortunate in our society.

We have seen and achieved self development in our association with this esteemed organisation and I hope all of us can get more people to come and experience and to achieve their self development by associating with the club and its members.

Let us all go forth and diligently work towards enriching our circle of friends and partners.

Yours in RotaryPresident Steven OonRY 2011/12

INCREASING OUR NUMBERS

In last week’s fining session which was conducted by PP Sam, he mentioned that President Steven had targeted at least 9 new members nett. However we had not inducted anyone so far and thus our numbers remained the same as end last year.

It must be pointed out however, bringing in new members is not as easy a task as it makes out to be. In the first instance, candidates are invited to join, no walk ins, and there are various criteria and procedures to follow. The prospective member must first of all attend at least 3 regular meetings within 2 months besides being able to meet the classification requirements. He/she must then decide whether they could meet our attendance rules and the financial obligations. Then when things are made clear, their names must be proposed in confidence and approved by the board for circulation to members for their approval or objection. If there is another member with similar classification, his approval must be seek so as to avoid any future embarrassment.

The above is a just a simplified version and in if fact there are other procedures.

It is increasingly difficult to identify prospective members nowadays as there are many other competitive NGOs around town. Not to mention that travelling within KL town has been made increasingly difficult by the heavy traffic jams and that meals have become increasingly more expensive. Although our attendance rule has been relaxed somewhat it is not so easy to attract younger people to be interested in Rotary. No doubt they are aware of the good of Rotary but lifestyle, obligations like attendance and finances remain a constrain.

Nevertheless, we must not give up. Of late we have many visitors and some of them have shown interest in the Rotary movement. The Membership Development committee members must work doubly hard on this matter if we are to reach our year’s target. With hard work and hard sell there is a good chance we can achieve our goal.

Good Luck!

with acquaintances over the years. Now is the time to reconnect with them by inviting them to share Rotary.

Most of us will never do GREAT things, but we can do small things in a GREAT way. Can we do a small thing by sharing Rotary with prospective Rotarians in a GREAT way?

By PP Chow TainProject Chairman

Rotary Invitation letter to Monday meetings

………………..(Insert your company name or your name, address, phone, email………..)

………………..(Insert date)

Dear……………(Insert name of person you are inviting)

Re: Personal Invitation to Rotary Club of Pudu Meeting

My warmest good wishes to you and your family. Allow me to share with you something which I hope will be of interest to you. I refer to the Rotary Club of Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, where I am a member for the past ……….. years (Insert the number of years you are a member).

Rotary Club of Pudu like all other Rotary Clubs consist of professionals, business and community leaders and executives like you and me who join hands to help the less fortunate in our community. Our Club has 60 men and women members. In fact there are over 1.2 million such service-minded men and women belonging to over 34,000 Rotary clubs worldwide. In Malaysia alone we have more than 3,000 members belonging to 250 clubs. A Rotary Club is a non-political, non-religious and non-racial service organisation . Rotary Club members meet every week to enjoy each others’ fellowship, friendship and networking as an active service organization. I have personally benefited from such an association. I meet my fellow Rotarians every week on MONDAY from 12.45pm to 2.00 pm at the SHANGRI-LA HOTEL, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur.

You can access our website at www. Rotarypudu.org.my to know more about us, but better still attend personally at our meeting without any obligations for Rotary membership. You can contact me at …….. (Insert your handphone; email etc.) for further information.

Sincerely,

(Insert your name)

Visit to Jenjarom Old Folks Home

Dear PDGs, PPs and Fellow Rotarians

On behalf of the Organising Chairman, Rtn Mok Sin, I am pleased to inform you that our bi-annual visit to Jenjarom Old Folks Home is scheduled for 14 August 2011 (Sunday), 10.30am-1pm. We planned to have

brunch with the residents, so food contribution is welcomed (something that is easy to bite and swallow).

At the last visit on 21 July 2011 (Rtn Mok Sin, PE Heng, Rtn Jeff Yap and myself), the Home has requested for a dvd player (which will be taken care of by Rtn Mok Sin) and a fridge. Your kind donations will be greatly welcomed. Cash donations are welcomed but no foodstuff such as rice, cooking oil, 3-in-1s, instant noodles as there are plenty of such in their store. But stuff like towels, bathing soaps, shampoo will be greatly welcomed.

After the visit, we were head towards our own fellowship lunch (assured 100% finger licking food). PE Heng will be organising this and will inform you the venue and menu closer the date.

Please reply on your contributions & attendance.

I look forward to your participation, towards to a day of meaningful community service, fun and fellowship and eat all the way!

Thank you

ThanksDaisy ChiuDirector - Service (RY2011/12)Mobile: +6012-9364844 Tel : +603-7957 8309

Polio resurgence casts doubt on global eradication hopes

Chad and DR Congo among 14 countries on brink of health emergency, warns former UK medical chief.

The hope of eradicating polio from the planet by the end of 2012 is in serious doubt, a monitoring committee is warning, because the virus is resurgent in places where it had disappeared and cases continue to rise in Pakistan, one of four countries where it is endemic.

“It is on a knife-edge,” said Sir Liam Donaldson, the UK’s former chief medical officer who now chairs the independent monitoring board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. “Success would be a terrific achievement. To eliminate only the second global epidemic disease [after smallpox] would be a tremendous public health triumph, but failure to do so would have enormous consequences. It is a disease that not only affects individuals and families but erodes economic prosperity in some of the countries affected.”

Donaldson considers the continued transmission of polio to be “a global health emergency”. Eradicating the disease, he said, “is still feasible but more urgency is needed to complete it. The plan to stop transmission by the end of 2012 is not on track.”

The latest report from Donaldson’s board, set up last year to monitor and guide the eradication effort, shows

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Guest Speaker : PP DATUK M MUSLIM AYOB Subject : MY 4X4 TRIP TO AFRICA

Pudu News

Acting SAA Rtn. Lawrence Annies called the meeting to order at 1.10 pm on behalf of President Steven Oon. He introduced all the visiting Rotarians and guests. He later led in the singing of the National Anthem and proposed the loyal toast.

The finemaster for the day was none other than PP Choo Jee Sam. He started his fine session by first fining PP Datuk Muslim who was the guest speaker and for his numerous 4 x 4 travels and being only aged 72.

President Steven was reminded about his net target of 9 new members by the end of the Rotary Year and was fined RM2.

All the members who sat at the last table were each fined RM1 and Rtn. Tenny for having come back from Vietnam was fined RM2.

PDG K B Lee and PP Tan Sri Soong were welcomed back to the club were each fined RM1.

Birthday boys included Rtn. Aaron Ong, PP Phang and Rtn. Robert Tan each paid a small fine.

PP Tan Sri Soong and PP Robin Tay paid a small fine for their spouses’ birthday respectively.

Members whose photo appeared in the bulletin were fined RM1 each.

The following activities were carried out last week:

1) The Fund Raising Committee chaired by VP Aaron Ong met on 19th July 2011, 7.00 pm, at Secret Recipe, TTDI.

2) The 1st TRF Committee meeting was held at Jeffrey Yap’s office at Solaris and then was followed by the 1st Service Committee meeting chaired by Rtn Daisy Chiu.

3) The 1st New Generation Committee chaired by Rtn George Heng met on 21st July 2011, 6.30 pm at my residence.

4) We have started the 1st Board of Directors Meeting for RY2011-2011 on 21st July 2011, 7.00 pm at my residence. Attended by the full board of directors.

After the meeting, we celebrated Aaron Ong’s and PP Ng Sim Bee’s birthday.

5) Last Friday on 22nd July 2011 our members, PP Gary Lim, Vice President Aaron Ong, Rtn Laura Lee, Rtn Patrick Lee, Rtn Arvin, my Ann Boon Kee and my-self attended the Installation Dinner of RC Temerloh at SMK Hwa Lian Grant Hall.

On District Matters:

1) Membership Development & Retention Seminar 2011/2012 (for Klang Valley’s Seminar @ Selangor & Kuala Lumpur)

Date : Sunday, 7th August 2011. Time (Duration ) : 9:00 am – 5:15 pm Venue : Holiday Villa Ampang, D-Villa Residence KL,

6th Floor, Deck 2, Jalan Ampang, KL. Host Club : Rotary Club of Danau Desa. Fee : RM40 per pax Recommended participants : Presidents, MDR Chairs

& Pres-Elects. All other keen Rotarians are welcome.

VISITING ROTARIANS Name ClubNil

GUESTSName Host Allarawa Carlo PDG Dr. Paul LeeDonna Luciana PDG Dr. Paul LeeHor Kean Seng President Steven OonAriel Chew PP Robin TayJoanne Ting Rtn. Laura Lee

STATISTICSVisiting Rotarians : Guests : 5Club Members : 33Total Present : 38

COLLECTIONSBirthdays / Anniversaries / Fines : RM 33.00Paying Diners : RM 210.00Raffles & Others : RM 83.00

Total : RM 326.00

Record of Meeting on 25th july 2011

President’s Announcement

Club Proceedings

We did have a sandstorm that night. It lasted four hours from 11 pm to 2 am in the morning. No tents were blown off but fine dust did get into the tents and cars. Wow, that was some experience. Quite scary, in fact.

Wadi Halfa is the terminal and exit point to Aswan, Egypt. It’s a “cowboy” town with no decent hotel. So we stayed at “Maza House” that belongs to Minhat’s brother. The passenger ferry that plies the Lake Nassir is a weekly affair. You miss it and you’ll have to wait another week. For cars and other bulky goods, there is a barge that is also a weekly affair. It arrives on Mondays, while the passenger ferry arrives on Wednesdays. So we have to be at Wadi Halfa on the Sunday to put the cars on board on Monday while the passengers hang around till Wednesday. That’s the way it is; not a very tourist-friendly arrangement.

Article by PP Dato Muslim Ayob

Rotary Club of Pudu Membership Development & Retention Project RY2011/12“SELF DEVELOPMENT THROUGH FELLOWSHIP AND SERVICE”

Dear Pudu Rotarians,

“You join Rotary for many reasons. You stay in Rotary for the right reasons!” ....Unquote PDG Dr. Paul Lee. You must have stayed in Rotary because of the fellowships and because you can make use of Rotary as an avenue to serve society. Base on these reasons, you must have participated in Rotary’s many activities and these activities must have also helped you in your self development by acquiring skills such as leadership; communications; decision making; public relations; interpersonal; organizational ; time management and business networking skills among many others. And all these can be encapsulated in these short six words - “Self Development Through Fellowship And Service”.

Why not NOW share Rotary with more non-Rotarians with the above Project theme in mind ? Why not NOW at this instance act on the Project theme by you “must do something” about it instead of on “something must be done” about it and may not get done? Your reality check will be – “so far as a Rotarian, how many non-Rotarians have I shared Rotary with and have made Rotarians out of them?” The Project Committee members will WALK the TALK and assist you.

The Project Committee will first assist you with a sample invitation letter (Please see sample) which you can use when you are inviting prospective members to our Monday Club luncheons or other Rotary functions. You can email; facebook; LinkedIn etc or post your invitations to many prospective members through your network. You can make the necessary changes to the sample to suit your needs and base on how familiar you are with your prospective members.

You should NOT be surprised that you are actually surrounded by a mass of people who like to achieve “Self Development Through Fellowship and Service” during your family, work and leisure hours interactions with them. You can share Rotary with these four generalized categories.

1st category are those whom you spend money on to maintain yourself; your family or your home. Examples: - Principals of colleges or tutorial centres where you send your children for their music lessons or education. Owners or senior managers of motor car showrooms; home appliances; furniture where you buy things for your family’s comfort. Others where you personally use their services could include pharmacists; fashion designers; interior designers; jewelers; financial consultants; personal coaches; veterinary surgeons; medical specialists………….

2nd category are those who provide business services to yourselves or to your company. Examples:- Senior bankers who provide banking services; management consultants who help your company in the management processes; those young IT entrepreneurs who provide software and hardware to your company; those owners and senior managers whom you dealt with in the purchase and sales of good and services; owners of logistic companies; pest control companies; safety equipments; labour and recruitment agencies ……..

3rd category are those whom you spend your social and leisure hours with like with those members of social, NGOs; sport; professional, trade and business networking clubs you belong to.

4th category of prospective members can be picked from the hundreds of business cards you have collected and have exchanged with whilst attending seminars; participating in events; professional and trade shows and in your many personal and business dealings

Finally we made it to Wadi Halfa and stayed at Minhat’s brother’s house. He was kind enough to vacate the premises to let us use it. His compound was large and quite breezy. The rooms were hot and stuffy.

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2) District 3300 TRF (for Klang Valley’s Seminar)

Date : Sunday, 21st August 2011 Time (Duration) : 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Venue : Holiday Villa Ampang, D-Villa Residence KL,

6th Floor, Deck 2, Jalan Ampang, KL. Host Club : Rotary Club of Sentul Seminar Fee : RM40 per person (includes Seminar

Kits and Meals) Recommended participants : Presidents, MDR Chairs

& Pres-Elects and Club TRF Chairman.

Highlights of the upcoming Club events:-

a) The Fund Raising Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011, 7 pm at Secret Recipe, TTDI.

b) On the Wednesday, 3rd August 2011, the Club Administrative Committee meeting will be held at Kelana Centre Point.

c) The Membership Development committee meeting will be held on Thursday 4th August 2011, 6.30 pm at Loong Foong Restaurant, Kelana Jaya.

d) The Rotaract Club of Pudu will be holding their 38th Club Installation Dinner on 13th August 2011, 7 pm at Lodge Paradise Hotel, Bukit Bintang with the theme “Saturday Night Fever”.

PP YK Chew was invited to introduce the speaker who was none other than our own Rotarian PP Dato Muslim Ayob. Dato, aged 72, is a retired Major General of the RMAF and had been interested to travel round the world in his favourite mode of transport, 4 x 4 since 2002 when he went on a 4 x 4 journey from KL to London. Having been bitten by the travel bug he has since then been from Istanbul to Tehran, a Trans Africa 4 x 4 from Cape Town to Mombasa, and a South America trip from Lima to Cartagena. His latest one was from Dar e Salaam to Cairo, a trip which was the subject of his talk today.

His latest trip from Dar e Salaam to Cairo took his group of 11 4 x 4s with about 35 participants to 5 countries from 24 May to 20 June 2011. The cost per person was about RM50,000 and it cost that much because they stayed in many 5 star hotels. His trip started from Tanzania and then to Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and ended in Egypt.

Tanzania- his group started from Dar e Salaam and they did some charity work there by distributing books, food

and medical supply. Initially he was disappointed as he did not get the pictures he wanted to take but finally he managed to get some pictures of some lions.

Kenya- He displayed some pictures of the founder of the country a Jomo Kenjata. Out of Nairobi the capital there were a lot of road works and the traffic as a result was chaotic. He had a picture of himself at the Equator. There were a lot of camels there and they were free ranching. At North Kenya the roads were extremely bad and many of their vehicles broke down. Fortunately they had their own mechanic and had spares.

Ethiopia- at Ethiopia, the weather was dry and he had a picture of a dried up river bed. The Nile river receives part of its water from this country although other sources in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the Congo also contribute. There were political problems and inflation was rampant and he managed to get some money from the country to display. One such note was for TZ$100 billion and with this you could buy only 3 eggs! The reason for such high value notes was because they did not pay for fuel bought from overseas and because the lower valued notes were too much to carry around. Often Ethiopia is known as the roof of Africa as the country is mountainous and many of its mountains are high some as high as 4 to 5 thousand meters. They visited a place called Lalibela which was an out of the way place and only 4 x 4 could reach it. There they witnessed churches being carved out of rocks and they were still functioning and well preserved.

Sudan- next they travelled to Sudan which had heavy Petronas presence with about 400 petrol stations. They visited a town at Meroe which was the site of the black pharaoh, the pharaoh who had his empire in the 3rd Century when Egypt was in the decline. Though the roads were fairly good, generally the journey was rough. They had to stay in tents and even experienced a sand storm. To get to Egypt they had to stay for 3 days at Wadi Halfa which had a ferry to Aswan. The weather was hot at 45 to 55 decrees centigrade and at night they had to sleep outdoors. The journey to Aswan by ferry took them 20 hours.

Egypt- At Aswan they stayed in luxury hotels and went sight seeing at Kom Ombo, a place of ruins, on their way to Luxor. According to Dato the best way to see Egypt was by a river cruise. They saw more ruins and even the pyramids and the sphinx. They reached Cairo by the Red Sea Highway. The trip ended there but Dato stayed on another 3 days on side trips.

Rtn. Alex Chang on behalf of the Club thanked PP Datuk M Muslim Ayob for his well prepared presentation.

The Speaker

The Talk

Thanking of Guest Speaker

Secretary’s Announcement

When we left the Matema Immigration & Customs, it was already getting dark. I managed to catch a beautiful flight of birds against the sunset. That made my day.

We departed this hotel in El Garaf at 09:00 hrs on 9 Jun for the Sudanese capital Khartoum where the Blue Nile (from Lake Tana in Ethiopia) and White Nile (from Lake Victoria in Uganda) meet to form the Nile. Along the way, to our surprise we saw many Petronas petrol stations. And sure enough at the Malaysian Embassy reception the next day, the Petronas guy said there are more than 400 Petronas petrol stations all over Sudan. In fact we refuelled at Petronas stations most of the time.

We stayed in Khartoum for two nights, but I was not in the mood to go out in the scorching heat that sometimes peaked at 55 °C. Even the aircon at the hotel lobby struggled against the heat, so I stayed in the room and took the opportunity to do some blogging and updating RC Pudu’s website with the Berita Pudu files that Corrine Siu emailed to me. Wifi and cable LAN at the hotel were free – what luck. On the 11th June, we moved on to Wadi Halfa some 900 km away northwards. A camping in the desert was scheduled with a side trip to Meroë where the Black Pharaoh pyramids were found.

Lovely sight. Tarmac road but with quite a few potholes. As per Ethiopia, Sudan (and Egypt) drive on the right.

The Black Pharaoh (c 3rd Century BC) of the Kush Empire in Sudan exerted its authority over most of Sudan during the decline of the Egyptian Pharaoh’s reign.

Petronas is in Sudan in a big way.

Camping in the desert; cars in a circle.

Stayed at this rather basic hotel for the night. But everything works; aircon, shower and flush toilet.

Many pyramids were built here but not as grand as the ones found in Egypt. It was hazy that day because of the persistent sand/dust storm prevailing.

Malaysian Embassy in Khartoum.

Proper pegging to avoid being blown off.

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Sudan

Sandstorm and 50 degree heat

Crossing the Ethiopian border at Matema into Sudan on the bridge over a dried up river bed was easy. We were even met by Minhat, our handler for Sudan, with a welcome banner. Minhat was a good organiser and he brought his own Land Cruiser with driver and cook. He was very thoughtful and regularly supplied us with bottled water, food and even toilet paper.

The Sudanese Immigration and Customs were quite busy since they were doing most of the paperwork manually. There was a lot of bureaucracy too such that we had to spend almost 7 hours to clear Customs. The scorching heat didn’t help; we simply had to grin and bear it. There were two German couples of big bikers crossing into Ethiopia who apparently had worse luck – they had to spend 2 weeks in Aswan to wait for the ferry to take them to Wadi Halfa and enter Sudan from Eqypt. So we took the hint; especially about the ferry at Wadi Halfa that we need to make it in time to secure a booking for all of us and the cars.

Pudu Club News

Dried up riverbed. There’s a drought in Eastern Africa and Somalia on the Horn is receiving the brunt of it.

Security checks were frequent. Fortun-ately Malaysians were well regarded in Sudan, thanks to Petronas’ presence.

Welcome to Sudan. Our group was the first Malaysian group to cross this border since it was opened last year (2010)

Stopping to cool off man and machines were also frequent. Khartoum, however, seemed to be quite a long way away.

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Dato Ir. Hiang of RC Temerloh and PDG Leslie Salehuddin was there too.

PP Richard Tow, President Peter Boyd RC Kuantan and President Steven Oon.

President Leong RC Bentong (first on left standing) & IPP Liew RC Temerloh (first on right standing)

President Harvinder Singh RC Temerloh

and RC Bahau members.

RC Temerloh installation ceremony.

Dr. Siva Ananda and Joyce RC Gombak were seated at the same table.

Rotarians with YB Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah, Deputy Minister of Higher Education II.

President Steven, President Joyce RC Gombak and President Peter Boyd RC Kuantan.

1ST TRF CoMMITTEE MEETING AND FoLLoWED BY 1ST SERVICE CoMMITTEE MEETING – 20 JULY 2011 @ SoLARIS

INSTALLATIoN DINNER oF RoTARY CLUB oF TEMERLoH – 22 JULY 2011 @ SMK HWA LIAN GRAND HALL

1ST BoARD oF DIRECToR MEETING FoR RY2011-2012 - 21 JULY 2011 @ PRESIDENT STEVEN’S RESIDENCE

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Dato Ir. Hiang of RC Temerloh and PDG Leslie Salehuddin was there too.

PP Richard Tow, President Peter Boyd RC Kuantan and President Steven Oon.

President Leong RC Bentong (first on left standing) & IPP Liew RC Temerloh (first on right standing)

President Harvinder Singh RC Temerloh

and RC Bahau members.

RC Temerloh installation ceremony.

Dr. Siva Ananda and Joyce RC Gombak were seated at the same table.

Rotarians with YB Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah, Deputy Minister of Higher Education II.

President Steven, President Joyce RC Gombak and President Peter Boyd RC Kuantan.

1ST TRF CoMMITTEE MEETING AND FoLLoWED BY 1ST SERVICE CoMMITTEE MEETING – 20 JULY 2011 @ SoLARIS

INSTALLATIoN DINNER oF RoTARY CLUB oF TEMERLoH – 22 JULY 2011 @ SMK HWA LIAN GRAND HALL

1ST BoARD oF DIRECToR MEETING FoR RY2011-2012 - 21 JULY 2011 @ PRESIDENT STEVEN’S RESIDENCE

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Sudan

Sandstorm and 50 degree heat

Crossing the Ethiopian border at Matema into Sudan on the bridge over a dried up river bed was easy. We were even met by Minhat, our handler for Sudan, with a welcome banner. Minhat was a good organiser and he brought his own Land Cruiser with driver and cook. He was very thoughtful and regularly supplied us with bottled water, food and even toilet paper.

The Sudanese Immigration and Customs were quite busy since they were doing most of the paperwork manually. There was a lot of bureaucracy too such that we had to spend almost 7 hours to clear Customs. The scorching heat didn’t help; we simply had to grin and bear it. There were two German couples of big bikers crossing into Ethiopia who apparently had worse luck – they had to spend 2 weeks in Aswan to wait for the ferry to take them to Wadi Halfa and enter Sudan from Eqypt. So we took the hint; especially about the ferry at Wadi Halfa that we need to make it in time to secure a booking for all of us and the cars.

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Dried up riverbed. There’s a drought in Eastern Africa and Somalia on the Horn is receiving the brunt of it.

Security checks were frequent. Fortun-ately Malaysians were well regarded in Sudan, thanks to Petronas’ presence.

Welcome to Sudan. Our group was the first Malaysian group to cross this border since it was opened last year (2010)

Stopping to cool off man and machines were also frequent. Khartoum, however, seemed to be quite a long way away.

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2) District 3300 TRF (for Klang Valley’s Seminar)

Date : Sunday, 21st August 2011 Time (Duration) : 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Venue : Holiday Villa Ampang, D-Villa Residence KL,

6th Floor, Deck 2, Jalan Ampang, KL. Host Club : Rotary Club of Sentul Seminar Fee : RM40 per person (includes Seminar

Kits and Meals) Recommended participants : Presidents, MDR Chairs

& Pres-Elects and Club TRF Chairman.

Highlights of the upcoming Club events:-

a) The Fund Raising Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011, 7 pm at Secret Recipe, TTDI.

b) On the Wednesday, 3rd August 2011, the Club Administrative Committee meeting will be held at Kelana Centre Point.

c) The Membership Development committee meeting will be held on Thursday 4th August 2011, 6.30 pm at Loong Foong Restaurant, Kelana Jaya.

d) The Rotaract Club of Pudu will be holding their 38th Club Installation Dinner on 13th August 2011, 7 pm at Lodge Paradise Hotel, Bukit Bintang with the theme “Saturday Night Fever”.

PP YK Chew was invited to introduce the speaker who was none other than our own Rotarian PP Dato Muslim Ayob. Dato, aged 72, is a retired Major General of the RMAF and had been interested to travel round the world in his favourite mode of transport, 4 x 4 since 2002 when he went on a 4 x 4 journey from KL to London. Having been bitten by the travel bug he has since then been from Istanbul to Tehran, a Trans Africa 4 x 4 from Cape Town to Mombasa, and a South America trip from Lima to Cartagena. His latest one was from Dar e Salaam to Cairo, a trip which was the subject of his talk today.

His latest trip from Dar e Salaam to Cairo took his group of 11 4 x 4s with about 35 participants to 5 countries from 24 May to 20 June 2011. The cost per person was about RM50,000 and it cost that much because they stayed in many 5 star hotels. His trip started from Tanzania and then to Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and ended in Egypt.

Tanzania- his group started from Dar e Salaam and they did some charity work there by distributing books, food

and medical supply. Initially he was disappointed as he did not get the pictures he wanted to take but finally he managed to get some pictures of some lions.

Kenya- He displayed some pictures of the founder of the country a Jomo Kenjata. Out of Nairobi the capital there were a lot of road works and the traffic as a result was chaotic. He had a picture of himself at the Equator. There were a lot of camels there and they were free ranching. At North Kenya the roads were extremely bad and many of their vehicles broke down. Fortunately they had their own mechanic and had spares.

Ethiopia- at Ethiopia, the weather was dry and he had a picture of a dried up river bed. The Nile river receives part of its water from this country although other sources in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the Congo also contribute. There were political problems and inflation was rampant and he managed to get some money from the country to display. One such note was for TZ$100 billion and with this you could buy only 3 eggs! The reason for such high value notes was because they did not pay for fuel bought from overseas and because the lower valued notes were too much to carry around. Often Ethiopia is known as the roof of Africa as the country is mountainous and many of its mountains are high some as high as 4 to 5 thousand meters. They visited a place called Lalibela which was an out of the way place and only 4 x 4 could reach it. There they witnessed churches being carved out of rocks and they were still functioning and well preserved.

Sudan- next they travelled to Sudan which had heavy Petronas presence with about 400 petrol stations. They visited a town at Meroe which was the site of the black pharaoh, the pharaoh who had his empire in the 3rd Century when Egypt was in the decline. Though the roads were fairly good, generally the journey was rough. They had to stay in tents and even experienced a sand storm. To get to Egypt they had to stay for 3 days at Wadi Halfa which had a ferry to Aswan. The weather was hot at 45 to 55 decrees centigrade and at night they had to sleep outdoors. The journey to Aswan by ferry took them 20 hours.

Egypt- At Aswan they stayed in luxury hotels and went sight seeing at Kom Ombo, a place of ruins, on their way to Luxor. According to Dato the best way to see Egypt was by a river cruise. They saw more ruins and even the pyramids and the sphinx. They reached Cairo by the Red Sea Highway. The trip ended there but Dato stayed on another 3 days on side trips.

Rtn. Alex Chang on behalf of the Club thanked PP Datuk M Muslim Ayob for his well prepared presentation.

The Speaker

The Talk

Thanking of Guest Speaker

Secretary’s Announcement

When we left the Matema Immigration & Customs, it was already getting dark. I managed to catch a beautiful flight of birds against the sunset. That made my day.

We departed this hotel in El Garaf at 09:00 hrs on 9 Jun for the Sudanese capital Khartoum where the Blue Nile (from Lake Tana in Ethiopia) and White Nile (from Lake Victoria in Uganda) meet to form the Nile. Along the way, to our surprise we saw many Petronas petrol stations. And sure enough at the Malaysian Embassy reception the next day, the Petronas guy said there are more than 400 Petronas petrol stations all over Sudan. In fact we refuelled at Petronas stations most of the time.

We stayed in Khartoum for two nights, but I was not in the mood to go out in the scorching heat that sometimes peaked at 55 °C. Even the aircon at the hotel lobby struggled against the heat, so I stayed in the room and took the opportunity to do some blogging and updating RC Pudu’s website with the Berita Pudu files that Corrine Siu emailed to me. Wifi and cable LAN at the hotel were free – what luck. On the 11th June, we moved on to Wadi Halfa some 900 km away northwards. A camping in the desert was scheduled with a side trip to Meroë where the Black Pharaoh pyramids were found.

Lovely sight. Tarmac road but with quite a few potholes. As per Ethiopia, Sudan (and Egypt) drive on the right.

The Black Pharaoh (c 3rd Century BC) of the Kush Empire in Sudan exerted its authority over most of Sudan during the decline of the Egyptian Pharaoh’s reign.

Petronas is in Sudan in a big way.

Camping in the desert; cars in a circle.

Stayed at this rather basic hotel for the night. But everything works; aircon, shower and flush toilet.

Many pyramids were built here but not as grand as the ones found in Egypt. It was hazy that day because of the persistent sand/dust storm prevailing.

Malaysian Embassy in Khartoum.

Proper pegging to avoid being blown off.

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Acting SAA Rtn. Lawrence Annies called the meeting to order at 1.10 pm on behalf of President Steven Oon. He introduced all the visiting Rotarians and guests. He later led in the singing of the National Anthem and proposed the loyal toast.

The finemaster for the day was none other than PP Choo Jee Sam. He started his fine session by first fining PP Datuk Muslim who was the guest speaker and for his numerous 4 x 4 travels and being only aged 72.

President Steven was reminded about his net target of 9 new members by the end of the Rotary Year and was fined RM2.

All the members who sat at the last table were each fined RM1 and Rtn. Tenny for having come back from Vietnam was fined RM2.

PDG K B Lee and PP Tan Sri Soong were welcomed back to the club were each fined RM1.

Birthday boys included Rtn. Aaron Ong, PP Phang and Rtn. Robert Tan each paid a small fine.

PP Tan Sri Soong and PP Robin Tay paid a small fine for their spouses’ birthday respectively.

Members whose photo appeared in the bulletin were fined RM1 each.

The following activities were carried out last week:

1) The Fund Raising Committee chaired by VP Aaron Ong met on 19th July 2011, 7.00 pm, at Secret Recipe, TTDI.

2) The 1st TRF Committee meeting was held at Jeffrey Yap’s office at Solaris and then was followed by the 1st Service Committee meeting chaired by Rtn Daisy Chiu.

3) The 1st New Generation Committee chaired by Rtn George Heng met on 21st July 2011, 6.30 pm at my residence.

4) We have started the 1st Board of Directors Meeting for RY2011-2011 on 21st July 2011, 7.00 pm at my residence. Attended by the full board of directors.

After the meeting, we celebrated Aaron Ong’s and PP Ng Sim Bee’s birthday.

5) Last Friday on 22nd July 2011 our members, PP Gary Lim, Vice President Aaron Ong, Rtn Laura Lee, Rtn Patrick Lee, Rtn Arvin, my Ann Boon Kee and my-self attended the Installation Dinner of RC Temerloh at SMK Hwa Lian Grant Hall.

On District Matters:

1) Membership Development & Retention Seminar 2011/2012 (for Klang Valley’s Seminar @ Selangor & Kuala Lumpur)

Date : Sunday, 7th August 2011. Time (Duration ) : 9:00 am – 5:15 pm Venue : Holiday Villa Ampang, D-Villa Residence KL,

6th Floor, Deck 2, Jalan Ampang, KL. Host Club : Rotary Club of Danau Desa. Fee : RM40 per pax Recommended participants : Presidents, MDR Chairs

& Pres-Elects. All other keen Rotarians are welcome.

VISITING ROTARIANS Name ClubNil

GUESTSName Host Allarawa Carlo PDG Dr. Paul LeeDonna Luciana PDG Dr. Paul LeeHor Kean Seng President Steven OonAriel Chew PP Robin TayJoanne Ting Rtn. Laura Lee

STATISTICSVisiting Rotarians : Guests : 5Club Members : 33Total Present : 38

COLLECTIONSBirthdays / Anniversaries / Fines : RM 33.00Paying Diners : RM 210.00Raffles & Others : RM 83.00

Total : RM 326.00

Record of Meeting on 25th july 2011

President’s Announcement

Club Proceedings

We did have a sandstorm that night. It lasted four hours from 11 pm to 2 am in the morning. No tents were blown off but fine dust did get into the tents and cars. Wow, that was some experience. Quite scary, in fact.

Wadi Halfa is the terminal and exit point to Aswan, Egypt. It’s a “cowboy” town with no decent hotel. So we stayed at “Maza House” that belongs to Minhat’s brother. The passenger ferry that plies the Lake Nassir is a weekly affair. You miss it and you’ll have to wait another week. For cars and other bulky goods, there is a barge that is also a weekly affair. It arrives on Mondays, while the passenger ferry arrives on Wednesdays. So we have to be at Wadi Halfa on the Sunday to put the cars on board on Monday while the passengers hang around till Wednesday. That’s the way it is; not a very tourist-friendly arrangement.

Article by PP Dato Muslim Ayob

Rotary Club of Pudu Membership Development & Retention Project RY2011/12“SELF DEVELOPMENT THROUGH FELLOWSHIP AND SERVICE”

Dear Pudu Rotarians,

“You join Rotary for many reasons. You stay in Rotary for the right reasons!” ....Unquote PDG Dr. Paul Lee. You must have stayed in Rotary because of the fellowships and because you can make use of Rotary as an avenue to serve society. Base on these reasons, you must have participated in Rotary’s many activities and these activities must have also helped you in your self development by acquiring skills such as leadership; communications; decision making; public relations; interpersonal; organizational ; time management and business networking skills among many others. And all these can be encapsulated in these short six words - “Self Development Through Fellowship And Service”.

Why not NOW share Rotary with more non-Rotarians with the above Project theme in mind ? Why not NOW at this instance act on the Project theme by you “must do something” about it instead of on “something must be done” about it and may not get done? Your reality check will be – “so far as a Rotarian, how many non-Rotarians have I shared Rotary with and have made Rotarians out of them?” The Project Committee members will WALK the TALK and assist you.

The Project Committee will first assist you with a sample invitation letter (Please see sample) which you can use when you are inviting prospective members to our Monday Club luncheons or other Rotary functions. You can email; facebook; LinkedIn etc or post your invitations to many prospective members through your network. You can make the necessary changes to the sample to suit your needs and base on how familiar you are with your prospective members.

You should NOT be surprised that you are actually surrounded by a mass of people who like to achieve “Self Development Through Fellowship and Service” during your family, work and leisure hours interactions with them. You can share Rotary with these four generalized categories.

1st category are those whom you spend money on to maintain yourself; your family or your home. Examples: - Principals of colleges or tutorial centres where you send your children for their music lessons or education. Owners or senior managers of motor car showrooms; home appliances; furniture where you buy things for your family’s comfort. Others where you personally use their services could include pharmacists; fashion designers; interior designers; jewelers; financial consultants; personal coaches; veterinary surgeons; medical specialists………….

2nd category are those who provide business services to yourselves or to your company. Examples:- Senior bankers who provide banking services; management consultants who help your company in the management processes; those young IT entrepreneurs who provide software and hardware to your company; those owners and senior managers whom you dealt with in the purchase and sales of good and services; owners of logistic companies; pest control companies; safety equipments; labour and recruitment agencies ……..

3rd category are those whom you spend your social and leisure hours with like with those members of social, NGOs; sport; professional, trade and business networking clubs you belong to.

4th category of prospective members can be picked from the hundreds of business cards you have collected and have exchanged with whilst attending seminars; participating in events; professional and trade shows and in your many personal and business dealings

Finally we made it to Wadi Halfa and stayed at Minhat’s brother’s house. He was kind enough to vacate the premises to let us use it. His compound was large and quite breezy. The rooms were hot and stuffy.

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Editorial President’s Message

The theme for the month of August, Membership & Extension Month call on us Rotarians to reflect on the reasons we enrol into this fraternity which practice Fellowship And Self Development through services.

This month we have to re-examine our commitment and achievement and help spread the benefits that we have gained in our involvement with the Rotary Organisation to our friends, colleagues in our professional arena and partners in business.

We want to share the platform with them to assist them to achieve self development and fulfilment while benefit the society in areas they are attached to.

To assist in achieving our goals in Membership & Development, PP Chow Tain who head this department will remind members with write-ups in the Weekly Bulletin, contacts through e-mails and educate the various vehicles previously used in the membership drive, for example the use of sample invitation letter. Articles from PDG Dr. Paul Lee on this subject will be highlighted on this September 5th through a brief at the rostrum by PP Chow Tain.

I sincerely hope that all members will put in their full effort to achieve the minimum quota of recruiting 9 new members. These new members will assist in achieving more physical assistance in events being organised by the club, providing extra financial input, contributing fresh and new ideas, giving our Rotary Program a wider coverage in our reach to assist the less fortunate in our society.

We have seen and achieved self development in our association with this esteemed organisation and I hope all of us can get more people to come and experience and to achieve their self development by associating with the club and its members.

Let us all go forth and diligently work towards enriching our circle of friends and partners.

Yours in RotaryPresident Steven OonRY 2011/12

INCREASING OUR NUMBERS

In last week’s fining session which was conducted by PP Sam, he mentioned that President Steven had targeted at least 9 new members nett. However we had not inducted anyone so far and thus our numbers remained the same as end last year.

It must be pointed out however, bringing in new members is not as easy a task as it makes out to be. In the first instance, candidates are invited to join, no walk ins, and there are various criteria and procedures to follow. The prospective member must first of all attend at least 3 regular meetings within 2 months besides being able to meet the classification requirements. He/she must then decide whether they could meet our attendance rules and the financial obligations. Then when things are made clear, their names must be proposed in confidence and approved by the board for circulation to members for their approval or objection. If there is another member with similar classification, his approval must be seek so as to avoid any future embarrassment.

The above is a just a simplified version and in if fact there are other procedures.

It is increasingly difficult to identify prospective members nowadays as there are many other competitive NGOs around town. Not to mention that travelling within KL town has been made increasingly difficult by the heavy traffic jams and that meals have become increasingly more expensive. Although our attendance rule has been relaxed somewhat it is not so easy to attract younger people to be interested in Rotary. No doubt they are aware of the good of Rotary but lifestyle, obligations like attendance and finances remain a constrain.

Nevertheless, we must not give up. Of late we have many visitors and some of them have shown interest in the Rotary movement. The Membership Development committee members must work doubly hard on this matter if we are to reach our year’s target. With hard work and hard sell there is a good chance we can achieve our goal.

Good Luck!

with acquaintances over the years. Now is the time to reconnect with them by inviting them to share Rotary.

Most of us will never do GREAT things, but we can do small things in a GREAT way. Can we do a small thing by sharing Rotary with prospective Rotarians in a GREAT way?

By PP Chow TainProject Chairman

Rotary Invitation letter to Monday meetings

………………..(Insert your company name or your name, address, phone, email………..)

………………..(Insert date)

Dear……………(Insert name of person you are inviting)

Re: Personal Invitation to Rotary Club of Pudu Meeting

My warmest good wishes to you and your family. Allow me to share with you something which I hope will be of interest to you. I refer to the Rotary Club of Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, where I am a member for the past ……….. years (Insert the number of years you are a member).

Rotary Club of Pudu like all other Rotary Clubs consist of professionals, business and community leaders and executives like you and me who join hands to help the less fortunate in our community. Our Club has 60 men and women members. In fact there are over 1.2 million such service-minded men and women belonging to over 34,000 Rotary clubs worldwide. In Malaysia alone we have more than 3,000 members belonging to 250 clubs. A Rotary Club is a non-political, non-religious and non-racial service organisation . Rotary Club members meet every week to enjoy each others’ fellowship, friendship and networking as an active service organization. I have personally benefited from such an association. I meet my fellow Rotarians every week on MONDAY from 12.45pm to 2.00 pm at the SHANGRI-LA HOTEL, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur.

You can access our website at www. Rotarypudu.org.my to know more about us, but better still attend personally at our meeting without any obligations for Rotary membership. You can contact me at …….. (Insert your handphone; email etc.) for further information.

Sincerely,

(Insert your name)

Visit to Jenjarom Old Folks Home

Dear PDGs, PPs and Fellow Rotarians

On behalf of the Organising Chairman, Rtn Mok Sin, I am pleased to inform you that our bi-annual visit to Jenjarom Old Folks Home is scheduled for 14 August 2011 (Sunday), 10.30am-1pm. We planned to have

brunch with the residents, so food contribution is welcomed (something that is easy to bite and swallow).

At the last visit on 21 July 2011 (Rtn Mok Sin, PE Heng, Rtn Jeff Yap and myself), the Home has requested for a dvd player (which will be taken care of by Rtn Mok Sin) and a fridge. Your kind donations will be greatly welcomed. Cash donations are welcomed but no foodstuff such as rice, cooking oil, 3-in-1s, instant noodles as there are plenty of such in their store. But stuff like towels, bathing soaps, shampoo will be greatly welcomed.

After the visit, we were head towards our own fellowship lunch (assured 100% finger licking food). PE Heng will be organising this and will inform you the venue and menu closer the date.

Please reply on your contributions & attendance.

I look forward to your participation, towards to a day of meaningful community service, fun and fellowship and eat all the way!

Thank you

ThanksDaisy ChiuDirector - Service (RY2011/12)Mobile: +6012-9364844 Tel : +603-7957 8309

Polio resurgence casts doubt on global eradication hopes

Chad and DR Congo among 14 countries on brink of health emergency, warns former UK medical chief.

The hope of eradicating polio from the planet by the end of 2012 is in serious doubt, a monitoring committee is warning, because the virus is resurgent in places where it had disappeared and cases continue to rise in Pakistan, one of four countries where it is endemic.

“It is on a knife-edge,” said Sir Liam Donaldson, the UK’s former chief medical officer who now chairs the independent monitoring board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. “Success would be a terrific achievement. To eliminate only the second global epidemic disease [after smallpox] would be a tremendous public health triumph, but failure to do so would have enormous consequences. It is a disease that not only affects individuals and families but erodes economic prosperity in some of the countries affected.”

Donaldson considers the continued transmission of polio to be “a global health emergency”. Eradicating the disease, he said, “is still feasible but more urgency is needed to complete it. The plan to stop transmission by the end of 2012 is not on track.”

The latest report from Donaldson’s board, set up last year to monitor and guide the eradication effort, shows

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Rotary Club Diary 1st - 13th August 2011

Happy Birthday!

NIL

Spouse’s Birthday!

Ann Suit Yong (1st. Aug) Ann Lena Chew (3rd. Aug)

Happy Anniversary!

Rtn. Stanley Pereira and Ann Davinder (6th. Aug)

1st August 2011

Issue No : 5/2011-12 PUDUEnjoy your

Programme Today Programme Next Week

Speaker : Pn. Sri Tessie LimSubject : Leaders Are Learners

ON DUTYDuty Table : Rtn. Kertz LauFellowship : Rtn. Tenny LeeFinemaster : Rtn. Patrick LeeIntroduce : Rtn. Edward LeeThanking : PP Dato NK Jasani

Speaker : Mr. Jonathan Avinash VictorSubject : Business Insurance

ON DUTYDuty Table : PP Albert LimFellowship : PP Gary LimFinemaster : PDG Dr. Paul LeeIntroduce : IPP Leong Choy YingThanking : PDG K B Lee

Date Time Programme Venue

AugustMon 1 12.45 pm Rotary Lunch Meeting Shangri-la KL

Tues 2 7.00 pm Fund Raising Meeting Secret Recipe, TTDI

Wed 3 7.00 pm Club Admin Meeting 719, 7th Floor Block A, Lobby B Kelana Centre Point

Thu 4 6.30 pm Membership Com. Meeting Loong Foong Res.

Sat 6 4.30 pm Rotaract Meeting Carmen Rest. Foo Yong

Mon 8 12.30 pm Luncheon Meeting Shangri-la KL 7.00 pm Installation Meeting Loon Foong Res kelana jaya

Tues 9 7.00 pm Fund Raising Meeting Secret Recipe, TTDI

Wed 10 7.00 pm Publicity Com. Meeting Bukit Jalil Club

Thu 11 6.30 pm Rotary Foundation Meeting Solaris Dutamas

Sat 13 7.30 pm Rotaract Club of Pudu Installation Lodge Paradize Hotel, KL

that a key target was missed at the end of last year. By the end of 2010, polio should have been stamped out in countries where there had been a resurgence after elimination. It did not happen. The report shows that polio has reappeared in 14 countries.

“The milestone was conclusively missed and the programme must be judged to have performed poorly in this regard,” it says.

The biggest concerns are for Chad and Democratic Republic of Congo, with 59 and 80 cases respectively this year. “We are deeply concerned by the situation in DR Congo,” says the report. “The worrying picture revealed by vaccination and surveillance data is confirmed by observations of widespread dysfunction on the ground.

“Leadership from the highest level is key for polio eradication and we urge the active involvement of the president in this case. Without his active involvement, we cannot believe that the necessary step-change will occur to interrupt polio transmission in DR Congo.”

Polio in Chad, says the report, is widespread and the situation is “of great concern”. An emergency action plan has been put into place, but not as quickly as the monitoring board had hoped. The World Health Organisation and Unicef have sent in 100 extra staff to boost vaccination efforts. “The difficult and crucial challenge now is to assemble this new surge of staff into a coordinated functioning team with the utmost speed.”Both these countries and 12 others where polio cases have been identified had stopped transmission for at least six months. Four countries have not yet succeeded in doing that – in India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, polio is still endemic.

Excellent progress has been made in India, where mass vaccination days involving more than a million volunteers brought down cases by 94% between 2009 and 2010, from 741 to 42. In the first six months of this year, there has been just one case.

Afghanistan has been doing relatively well in spite of difficulties caused by conflict. Nigeria made excellent progress in 2010, but there has been a loss of momentum following elections, the report says. The leadership is committed, but Kano, in the north, where the Muslim population a few years ago refused immunisation because of false rumours that the vaccine would sterilise their children, “remains a smouldering risk that could yet undermine the whole eradication effort,” the board says.

But in Pakistan, cases are going up, not down and conflict and the dismantling of a national ministry of health in

favour of local control does not help. “It still looks like it will be the last country to stop transmission, putting its neighbours and the global effort in jeopardy,” says the report. “The country needs to muster up relentless energy to really get to grips with the challenges of implementing its emergency action plan.”

Source : Sarah Boseley, health editor, guardian.co.uk,

Today we look at Rotary International as an organization and how they are organized across the world Rotary District, Zone & Rotary International-

District level

A district governor, who is an officer of Rotary International and represents the RI board of directors in the field, leads his/her respective Rotary district. Each governor is nominated by the clubs of his/her district, and elected by all the clubs meeting in the annual RI Convention held in a different country each year. The district governor appoints assistant governors from among the Rotarians of the district to assist in the management of Rotary activity and multi-club projects in the district.

Zone level

Approximately 15 Rotary districts form a zone. A zone director, who serves as a member of the RI board of directors, heads two zones. The zone director is nominated by the clubs in the zone and elected by the convention for the terms of two consecutive years.

Rotary International

Rotary International is governed by a board of directors composed of the international president, the president-elect, the general secretary, and 17 zone directors. The nomination and the election of each president is handled in the one-to-three year period before he takes office, and is based on requirements including geographical balance among Rotary zones and previous service as a district governor and board member. The international board meets quarterly to establish policies and make recommendations to the overall governing bodies, the RI Convention and the RI Council on Legislation.

The chief operating officer of RI is the general secretary, who heads a staff of about 600 people working at the international headquarters in Evanston and in seven international offices around the world.

Rotary Information

FUTURE ROTARY EVENTS

AGs’ Training Seminar : Hadyai 9-11 Sept 2011

Pudu Rotary Club Charity Run, Padang Merbok, KL 25 Sept 2011 Time 7.30 Am

Pre-GDLTS KL 9 Oct 2011

GDLTS Kuantan 11-13 Nov 2011

Zone Bali Institute 2-4 Dec 2011

RI Assembly San Diego 15-21 Jan 2012

Pre PETS Klang 10-12 Feb 2012

District Assembly Ipoh 23-25 March 2012

RI Convention, Bangkok, 6-9 May 2012

District Conference @ Subang 7-9 Dec 2012