Vanguardclub Bulletin 2020-21 RID 3170 PP Rtn. Dr. Satish Yalgi
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VANGUARD 25 September 2020 | Issue: 12 Club Bulletin 2020-21 RID 3170 Rtn. Holger Knaack RI President Rtn. Sangram Patil Dist. Governor PP Rtn. Dr. Satish Yalgi Has Successfully Completed 50 Years of Practice in The Medical Profession. See Page 58 Rtn. Dr. K. M. Keluskar Rtn. Ganesh Deshpande Rtn. Amit Sathaye President Secretary Treasurer All Four Combined Issues of the Month Editor : Rtn. Vishal Kulkarni VANGUARD Trustee chair's message - September 2020 In late 1914, Europe was divided by hundreds of miles of trenches. Brish and French forces on one side were within shoung distance of German troops on the other. The pope made a plea for a Christmas truce, but the shoong connued. Then, on Christmas Eve, soldiers from behind Brish lines heard an unexpected sound — not gunfire, but singing. Next, they heard a single voice shout out, "English soldier, merry Christmas!" followed by "English soldier, come out to join us!" Both sides cauously emerged over the parapet into the no man's land between the trenches. Before long, the soldiers realized that it was a real truce. They fraternized, singing Christmas carols, exchanging souvenirs and whiskey, and even taking up a friendly soccer match. The cease-fire connued only two days before the troops returned to their trenches, resuming bloodshed for nearly four long years. But the story of the Christmas truce reminds us that peace is possible, if we choose to accept it. If peace can last a few days, could it not also last months or years? And how do we prevent conflict in the first place? In his Nobel Peace Prize lecture in 1964, American civil rights leader Marn Luther King Jr. said, "We must concentrate not merely on the negave expulsion of war, but on the posive affirmaon of peace." With Posive Peace, our society's structures, policies, and everyday atudes and acons promote jusce at all levels, sustaining a peaceful coexistence. It's an answer to the calls for jusce and peace we have heard on the streets in protests from Minneapolis to Paris this year. Posive Peace, studied at our Rotary Peace Centers around the world, is not just an 8 8 2 8 8 Club Bulletin academic idea for the Rotary Peace Fellows. Through Rotary's partnership with the Instute for Economics and Peace, the Rotary Posive Peace Academy offers free training to every Rotary member on how to wage Posive Peace in every project we do at the grassroots level, including Foundaon grants. Posive Peace resonates at all levels of The Rotary Foundaon. Our literacy projects help children gain equal access to literacy, so opposing sides on an issue can understand each other beer. Through our Foundaon grants that provide clean water, communies gain stability, as more children stay in school rather than fetching water for hours on end. Our role as civil society leaders who wage Posive Peace will connue to expand, not only through partnerships and more grants, but also through our hearts, minds, and hands as we offer our gis to make the world a beer place. K.R. Ravindran, Trustee Chair 2020-21 Contributed by: Rtn. Niranjan Sant 8 8 3 8 8 VANGUARD Past RI President Luis Vicente Giay (1996 - 97) is no more. A Rotarian since 1961, he is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Arrecifes, Buenos Aires Province. He has served Rotary Internaonal as district governor, Informaon Instute counsellor, Internaonal Assembly instructor and moderator, member and chairman of numerous commiees, Director (1987-89), Treasurer (1988-89), Aide to the RI President (1990-91) and Rotary Foundaon Trustee (1990-93). He is survived by his wife, PRID Celia Vicente Giay and four sons. May his soul rest in Peace 8 8 4 8 8 Club Bulletin Rotary members feed thousands in Cape Town By Vanessa Rousseau, Rotary Club of Newlands, South Africa Hall full of food purchased by the Rotary Club of Newlands for distribuon to 17 Early Childhood Development Centres in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa. As members of the Rotary Club of Newlands in Cape Town, South Africa, we could not stand by watching the devastang effects of COVID-19 on food security in our country and our city. Soon aer the inial lockdown period was announced, we jumped into acon to do what we could to alleviate the suffering. To ensure that we provide what is needed to those most in need, we have drawn on our longstanding relaonships with community leaders who have worked with us on projects over many years. One of our members started a fundraising campaign for our club to raise funds for food relief on BackaBuddy, a South African crowdfunding plaorm. With the donaons to this campaign and the assistance of various partners, we raised about 1.4 million South African Rand (more than US$80,000). 8 8 2 8 8 8 8 5 8 8 VANGUARD This translated to meals for thousands of children, families, and the elderly. So far these funds have assisted the following beneficiaries in the greater Cape Town area: The families of 780 children from Early Childhood Development centres in Langa, including food parcels and food vouchers for a total of 12 weeks, amounng to around 200, 000 meals. More than 250 children, other local community members, and the elderly via two Early Childhood Development centres in Masiphumelele (near Noordhoek) and Mbekweni (near Paarl). Bot centres have well-managed community food kitchens which have provided meals for 12 weeks. This has helped many families survive. More than 3,000 children per day and many elderly people received meals from twelve Philisa Abafazi Bethu(PAB) community kitchens and feeding distribuon points. These are superbly managed by the indefagable Lucinda Evans who is the CEO of PAB and with whom Newlands Rotary has been working for many years. Watch this video to see the work of PAB in the Lavender Hill community. While we are delighted with the support we have received and the relief this has enabled us to provide thus far, our efforts cannot stop here. The South African economy is at an all-me low and the unemployment rate at an all-me high. The crisis connues in Cape Town and the rest of the country. We will connue to raise funds to feed the hungry. To this end our Rotary Club of Newlands BackaBuddy campaign remains open for further donaons. Find more details how you can help. Contributed by: Rtn. Pradeep Kulkarni 8 8 6 8 8 Club Bulletin What Rotary has to offer expand their skills while they serve. young members Rotary does more than help during a crisis like COVID-19; it provides experiences that translate into a beer By Tory Paxson, vice president, future in any career. Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club, District 7780, Maine, USA The Rotary Club of Boothbay Harbor created a new membership level to make joining more accessible for those under What’s life like for people between the the age of 35. In addion, generous club ages of 18 and 35 in the Boothbay members have chosen to pay the first Region of Maine? Through Rotary, young year membership costs for the first five people take on leadership posions that new members in this category. Tory Paxson and her family 8 8 7 8 8 VANGUARD We call it the Rule of 35 and it reduces speaker and learned to use my voice to dues by more than 50% for those under create change both in Rotary and in my the age of 35. It’s a commitment by our career. I used that voice to convince my club to keep growing and learning, and fellow members to support our new club to keep inving young people to see membership level for other young what skills they can develop and add to professionals like me, the first of its kind their own resumes. It’s an invitaon to in our Rotary district. make a difference. At age 25, joining Rotary changed the Through Rotary, I have discovered what trajectory of my life. Now 30, I am vice is possible when a group of like-minded president of our club and have individuals get together to make a discovered the many ways that I can difference. It maers not at all that we make a difference. come in many shapes and sizes, backgrounds, or age-ranges. Aer a More than that, I joined a family of short few years, it’s apparent to me that people who have rich histories, have a what we have in common is more lot of love to give, and are commied to important than our differences. We their community. Many of them are believe in Service Above Self. business leaders with fascinang careers. I learn and laugh with them at It’s more than a moo, it is what our meengs, taking a break from my compels our club. While we’re known for busy life to connect with people that I our annual benefit aucon (on hiatus, would have never had the chance to get due to the pandemic), our club works to know otherwise. It’s the reset buon I year-round to help our local community need aer a challenging day. Some of my and communies around the world. We best friends are twice my age, and my have given out bikes to seasonal and life is twice as rich for having them in it. internaonal workers, organized the Soup Bowl Supper and Derby Party Contributed by: fundraisers, run mock job interviews for Rtn. Pradeep Kulkarni high school seniors to pracce for future careers, and created care packages for veterans, among many other things.