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Club’s Fellowship Walk – By Director Rajkumar Perumal Suppiah

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for Best Bulletin in District 3310

Volume 56 Issue No. 9

2 September 2019

3 LAST WEEK

Report on Wed. 28 Aug

2019 Meeting

Club’s Fellowship Walk – 17.8.19

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Director Raj

From left: PP Perlita Tiro, Rtns Suresh Hathiramani, Atul Merchant (partially hidden), VP See Mee Lee & Director Raj

In Focus

Club’s Fellowship Walk By: Rotary Spirit Director Rajkumar “Raj” Perumal Suppiah

On the 17th of August 2019, the Rotary Club of Singapore organised its second fellowship walk at Lower Peirce

Reservoir. Members assembled at the car park adjacent of Casuarina Curry. The walk commenced at 8am sharp

with about 34 Rotarians from our Rotary Club of Singapore and other Rotary Clubs in Singapore. Members walked

through Lower Peirce Reservoir and the trail led us through the forest and along the edges of the lake. Along the

900m boardwalk, Rotarians were greeted with captivating views of regenerating secondary forests that lines the

reservoir as well as a variety of flora and fauna. After an hour of walking, participants had a well-deserved Prata

breakfast. Rotarians were overall happy and highly commended the well planned event. We look forward to more

such fellowship events in the near future.

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Thumbs up for a great walk!

Warm up exercises before the walk

Club’s Fellowship Walk…contd





Director James Lee

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Members joined President Deepak in wishing the week’s birthday celebrants who were present at the meeting - PPs Chiang Shih Fang, Perlita Tiro and Rtn Dr Claus Dusemund (from left to right)

President Deepak with Rtn Sanjeev (right)

Rtn Sanjeev with President Deepak

Last Week – Report on the Meeting – Wednesday 28 August 2019 OPENING REMARKS PP Stan Low was tasked as the Sergeant-at-Arms once again as he called the Meeting to order and invited President Deepak Nagrani to take the Chair. President Deepak welcomed members, particularly Rtn Sanjeev Shah, an Ambassador member but who has now returned to Singapore permanently.

WELCOME Welcome of guests of members and visiting Rotarians was performed by Director James Lee: Guests: Speaker Mr Roy Lai, 1st Lady Bianca Nagrani, Mrs Dolores Low, Ms Jessie Ang, Ms Kathleen Chu, Ms Juanita Woodward, Mr Ramaa Nair, Mr Christian Bie, Mr Ujjal Nandi, Mr Miha Hribernik

TOAST As there were no visiting Rotarians at the meeting, Toastmaster Rtn Sanjeev Shah called on members to join him in raising a toast to Rotary International.

Last Week





Community Service Committee’s (CSC) Dine in the Dark project with Singapore Association of Visually Handicapped was held on 22.8.19, as reported by CSC Director Dr Chan Siew Luen, it was an eye-opener (pun intended) experience.

PDG Dr Ivor Thevathasan & Rtn Yong Poh Shin

Signing of the Sister Club agreement at RC Kuala Lumpur DiRaja’s Installation Dinner on 23.8.19

The Club’s delegation also visited the BRDB Rotary Children’s Residence whilst in Kuala Lumpur. Seen here are PP Keith Harrison and Rtn Sylvia Chung interacting with the Residence’s children.

RECAP OF FELLOWSHIP AND SERVICE EVENTS FOR THE WEEK

Last Week





Vocational Service Committee’s (VSC) Junior Engineering programme was held on 24.8.19, seen here is Rtn Michelle Pearce with the budding engineers

At the Global Indian International School Campus Interact Club’s installation on 26.8.19 which was attended by about 35 people including Guest of Honour Rotarian Advisor Uttam Kripalani, Rotarians, Teacher Advisors and parents

Rtn Joseph Chia with Rtn Dr Irina Francken just prior to the

weekly meeting on 28.8.19

We wish Rtn Irina a speedy and complete recovery from her surgery

RECAP OF FELLOWSHIP AND SERVICE EVENTS FOR THE WEEK…contd

Last Week





PP Alan Tan

From left: Mr Roy Lai, President Deepak & VP Mee Lee

Signing of the Sister Club agreement at RC Kuala

Lumpur DiRaja’s Installation Dinner on 23.8.19

President Deepak called upon Co-Chair of The Rotary-ASME Entrepreneur of the Year Award (EYA), PP Alan Tan to introduce the Speaker, Mr Roy Lai who was the 2018 EYA Winner of the New Entrepreneur of the Year Award and EYA Social Contribution Award. Mr Roy Lai is a veteran in technology, financial and block chain industry. In 2015, he established InfoCorp Technologies to provide infrastructure for accelerating financial inclusion to unbanked

communities through the use of block chain technologies. In 2018, he founded Sentinel Chain, a blockchain-based international on consortium market place for cross-border business-to-business financial services and the world’s first platform to accept the use of livestock as collaterals. Mr Lai is also a Research Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences where he teaches blockchain programming and smart contracts.

Mr Lai highlighted the problem for smallholder cattle farmers to create a sustainable livelihood has been the lack of integration and engagement with formal livestock and financial services institutions. He added that this matter was compounded by the fact that existing fin-tech and agri-tech solutions have tended to work in silos. He noted that unbanked cattle farmers were not necessarily poor; however they lacked the ability to convert the intrinsic value in their cattle asset into liquidity; a “Dead Capital” problem rather than a poverty problem. He informed members of InfoCorp’s development of the world’s first platform – FarmTrek, that brings together, and cuts across, the livestock and financial services industries, to serve the smallholder cattle farmer population. He also spoke of the company’s successful pilot with two Myanmar government agencies launched in 2019. Following this success, Mr Lai advised that InfoCorp has partnered with the Rwanda government to launch another project. He added

that the company’s innovation has been acknowledged as one of 10 winning business models for women entrepreneurs, co-funded by the United Nations to improve access to finance for Women micro, small and medium enterprises via the UN FinTech Innovation Fund. The Club’s vote of thanks to Mr Lai was extended by Vice President See Mee Lee is also a member of the Club’s EYA Committee.

Speaker: Mr Roy Lai, Founder & CEO, InfoCorp Technologies

Topic: “Redefining financial inclusion by integrating livestock

& financial services ecosystems on blockchain”

Last Week

Speaker, Mr Roy Lai





RC sends best wishes to Birthday celebrants this week:

Atul Merchant

Horst Hagemann

Joseph Chia

Hassan Moosa

September Basic Education and Literacy Month 1 Sept – Mooncake Celebration for the

needy at Blk 79 Indus Road 6 – 8 Sept – Help the Children Project in Malang and Batu, Indonesia* 21 Sept – CSC Event – River Safari

Tour with Society for the Aged Sick* 28 Sept – Family Zumba

*Service Events

October Economic and Community Development Month

8 Oct – District Rotary Foundation

Dinner @ S’pore Marriot Tang Plaza 30 Oct – District Governor Jeff Yong’s

Official Visit to the Club & the 2nd

Club Assembly

November Rotary Foundation Month

Coming Rotary Events

RC sends best wishes to Wedding Anniversary celebrants this week:

Joseph & Maria Chia Mandy & Sari Pascual Gunter Stockmann

Anniversary Celebrants

Birthday Celebrants

This Meeting

Next Meeting

Committee

Meetings

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Pres Garry hands a Club banner to Rtn Rodrigo

4 September 2019

Reception Desk duty: Varun Gulati & Horst Hagemann Sunshine Box: Jayant Gadgil & Anne Marie Gutierrez Speaker: Ms Christina Michael, Principal, Canossian School Topic: Students with Hearing Loss – the Silenced Minority

11 September 2019

Reception Desk duty: PPs Dr Shahul Hameed & Keith Harrison Sunshine Box: Michael Haughey & Asheesh Khaneja Speaker: Mr Gene Chua Topic: Brain Health

GIFT OF LIFE Children with cardiac problems

to get help from Rotary’s District 3300 & 3310

A full set of 3 editions - Book of Humour, Best of Humour & Bank of Humour, come in a beautifully designed box housing this set for only $25.00 Please order a few sets of books for the Gift of Life Project, and place your orders with : Hon. Member Rtn Rewa Mirpuri @ tel: 6241 9157 or email: [email protected]

All Service Committee Meetings at Grand Hyatt Singapore From 7.00pm to 8.00pm

COMMUNITY SERVICE: Wednesday, 4 September VOCATIONAL SERVICE: Wednesday, 11 September INTERNATIONAL SERVICE: Wednesday, 18 September YOUTH SERVICE: Wednesday, 25 September



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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2019/2020

President Deepak Nagrani

Immediate Past President Mark Wang

President Elect Dinesh Sharma

Vice President (Community & International Service) See Mee Lee

Vice President (Vocational & Youth Service) Bala Venkatesan

Hon. Secretary (Administration) Shamin Vaswani

Hon. Treasurer (Finance) S “Mali” Malaiappan

Directors

Chair, Community Service Dr Chan Siew Luen

Chair, Vocational Service Stuart Pearce

Chair, International Service Mamta Shahani

Chair, New Generations Service Ronald Wong

Director (Club Rotary Foundation) James Lee

Director (Rotary Spirit) Rajkumar Perumal Suppiah

The Guide to Daily Living

Before doing the things we want to do, consider first, the

Precepts of the guide. Ask ourselves these 4 questions and

act upon them:

First: Have I spent some time in self-examination?

Second: Have I spent quality time with my family?

Third: Have I given my best to my work?

Fourth: Have I given some time to someone near and far?

The Guide, in fact, encompasses the 4 parts of the Object of Rotary.

The Four-Way Test

Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the truth?

Is it fair to all concerned?

Will it build goodwill and better friendship?

Will it be beneficial to all concerned?



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