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NEWSLINK IW Year 2016-2017 A publication of Inner Wheel District 330 (Malaysia) COMMUNICATION RELATIONSHIP LISTENING INSIGHT EMPATHY UNDERSTANDING DIALOGUE COMPASSIONATE GIVING SPEAK WARMTH SOUL SAFETY RESPONSIVE CONNECT EMOTION COMMUNION MINDFUL CONSCIOUSNESS AUTHENTIC Touch A Heart International Inner Wheel Theme 2016-2017 NEWSLINK 2016-2017 A publication of Inner Wheel District 330 (Malaysia) IIW Theme Touch A Heart “Touch a Heart, gives birth to kindness, being generous with your time, money, resources and willingness to help. Your true wealth is the good you do in the world. Be kind to earth, honour the idea of a global community, that we are each other’s keepers, ensuring safety, security, comfort, wellness, beauty and peace. Be kind to yourself, take care of your body by eating well, it goes through to the heart. Be kind with your words. Words spoken are like a broken egg, you cannot park them back. Be careful your word do not hurt your heart and the heart of others around you. Touch a Heart, applies to our relationship with other people, animal, plants, and the Earth. It may be offering of helping hand, patiently waiting your turn, returning a phone call or favour, or even cheerfully responding with a smile. You can touch a heart by listening, not necessarily giving advice, just listening to someone pouring emotions out, with patience. Giving someone a part on the back, a warm hug, when there is no one to acknowledge, can give the courage to move a mountain. A wink of an eye that means you can do it. Touch a Heart through the way you treat your environment, the trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream, they are all inter connected and what you do to environment ultimately you do to yourself. Touch A Heart Kindness in the way we handle our environment, the oxygen we breathe works through our lungs and fuel our blood through our heart. We can International Inner Wheel Theme give compassion through “Touch a Heart”, an essential part of our life. The smile expressed by the recipient of your kindness is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquitted with touching a heart, one must be prepared to learn new things, and feel new feelings. Touch a Heart 2016-2017 is more than a philosophy of mind, it is a philosophy of the Spirit.” ~ Oluyemisi Alatise, IIW President 2016-2017 CONTENTS District 330 Homepage Executive Committee, Advisors and National Representatives 2 A Memorable Experience Message from the District Chairman 3 Report from the National Representative 4 Message from the District Editor 5 Congratulations to IIW Board Director 5 District Chairman’s Visits to clubs 6 Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve Inner Wheel 8 World Inner Wheel Day 9 Annual General Meeting & Fellowship 12 The 4th South Asia Rally 18 Towards International Understanding 22 Touch A Heart: District Community Service Projects 24 Activities of the Inner Wheel Clubs 26 Snippets from International Inner Wheel 44 © 2018, Inner Wheel District 330 All rights reserved. Inner Wheel is a worldwide non-profit voluntary organisation founded on 10 January 1924, made up exclusively of lady Newslink is a collection of photographs and news which highlights members over 18 years of age. It is run by committees elected clubs and district events of Inner Wheel District 330 for distribution according to a constitution. Inner Wheel is present in 103 countries to their members. Past collections are available for download from with more than 100,000 members in 3895 clubs worldwide. the District 330 website at http://www.innerwheel330.org.my/ Website: www.international innerwheel.org downloads.html www.innerwheel330.org.my Home About us The Clubs Happenings Downloads AGM International District Chairman PARIMALA SATHEESAN [email protected] Vice-Chairman Imm. Past Chairman SAKUNTHALAI KUMARASWAMY [email protected] AMBIKA RAVI MENON [email protected] Hon. Secretary Hon. Treasurer SHANTI MENON [email protected] PEGGY KHOO Touch A Heart [email protected] International Inner Wheel theme 2016-2017 Editor Int. Service Organiser DR RAMANI SUBRAMANIAM [email protected] Extension Chairman KAMALA YEAP [email protected] KRISHNAVENI MUTTHIAH [email protected] JOAN SALLEH, PIIWBM JESSIE WANG, PIIWBD JOY SUNDRAM, PIIWBD National Deputy National Advisor Advisor Advisor SIMONE WIPPERN Representative Representative Joan Salleh Jessie Wang Joy Sundram [email protected] SEETHA LAKSHMI [email protected] The Official Information Platform of Distict 330: www.innerwheel330.org.my ABOUT US = History and development of District 330. THE CLUBS = List of clubs, executive committees and contact emails. HAPPENINGS = Club events (projects, fellowships and announcements). DOWNLOADS = Important documents and references for members and candidate members. AGM = Announcements and events of Annual General Meetings. INTERNATIONAL = Activities of District 330 in fostering international understanding 2 | NEWSLINK 2016-2017 • A publication of Inner Wheel District 330 A Memorable Experience Message from District Chairman Parimala Satheesan HAVING JOINED the vibrant Inner Wheel movement in 2004, I felt great honour and privilege to have been entrusted with the responsibility of District Chairman for the year 2016-2017, filled with enthusiasm, new vision and courage. It has been an eventful year with great memories. When I enjoyed official visits to each club, joining in their you serve as District Chairman it becomes obvious that you celebrations, installations and other significant cannot run the office alone, nor should you try. We have events. A big thank you to all members for your to count on others, especially our Advisors, Past District warm welcome and the kind hospitality extended Chairmen, Executive Committee members and Inner Wheel to me throughout the year. You helped to make members at large—to competently and confidently help us my year in office very enjoyable and extremely carry the load. satisfying. I thank you for all the support and contributions. The IIW President Oluyemisi Alatise’s theme for the year was “Touch A Heart”. The theme itself speaks volumes of our Many of you have commented that my year as commitment as Inner Wheel members. District Chairman has gone very fast. And yes, it has. It has been a lot of fun, very rewarding and, I Accomplishments: must say, it has been a very affirming experience. I y Club Visits want to thank all Inner Wheel members in District y Regional Training Programmes 330 for giving me this opportunity. I have found y District 330 International Inner Wheel day celebration that the District Chairman is always fully supported, y Hosted The 4th South Asia Rally (Friendship Rally) with sincere and enthusiastic assistance in all y District 330 & 331 General Meeting 2017/2018 endeavours. It is just so satisfying and it makes the y A Trip to Sri Lanka, fostering International effort very worthwhile. Understanding y Attended the 14th Triennial Conference of the Thank you once again to all of you. As I hand over Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in India, in Kolkata, the baton to Kumaraswamy Shakkunthalai, I will fostering International Understanding be there for her, as the Immediate Past District y Donated one dialysis machine to the National Kidney Chairman, ready to serve as many Chairmen did Foundation—Touch A Heart before me. The wheel of Inner Wheel will forever y Contributed RM15,000/- to enhance the facilities go on. at children home at National Cancer Society of Malaysia—Touch A Heart Congratulations to the newly elected Executive Committee members of District and clubs. I wish I could not have been more pleased with our accomplishments. you all a very very successful year. However, I certainly cannot take full credit for them. The credit also belongs to the hard-working, passionate and innovative District Executive Committee members. I would Parimala Satheesan also like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my Advisors District Chairman IIWPBM Datin Joan Salleh, IIWPBD Jessie Wang and IIWPBD 2016-2017 Joy Sundram for their guidance and advice. IIW Theme 2016-2017 Touch A Heart | 3 Report from National Representative Simone Wippern REPORT SUMMARY OF INNER WHEEL PROJECTS 2016-2017 RIGHTS OF THE CHILD y Fundraising projects for underprivileged children in schools and homes are y the main aims of the two Districts. y Back to school project donations of stationary, Books, School Shoes, Uniforms and Bags. y Frequent visits to orphanages organised by Clubs are NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S REPORT 2016-2017 ongoing, distributing food supplies and gifts to the Name of Country Malaysia & Singapore children Number of Districts Two (2), 330 & 331 y Inner Wheel Members organised The 6th Pan-Disability Number of Disbanded Districts 0 Futsal Championship, participants with disabilities such Number of Clubs Twenty-six (26) as cerebral palsy, dwarfism, autism, amputees and the deaf and dumb were invited to play, all competitors Number of newly formed Clubs 0 received prizes. Number of Disbanded Clubs 0 y 30 Children from an orphanage were invited to attend Number of merged Clubs 0 an IWC Installation Function at a Hotel, each received a Simone Wippern, cash donation from the Club. National Representative Your Name Districts 330 & 331, FAMILY 2016 -2017 Date of submission 8th May 2017 Mothers’ Day was celebrated by most of the Inner Wheel Clubs throughout Malaysia and Singapore with a luncheon at member’s home. AGEING STATUS OF WOMEN y Kemunyan Welfare Home for the ageing y Donations of cash and household goods were was visited by the Inner Wheel Club of distributed to single mothers in Kuala Lumpur. Sibu, donating a Microwave Oven and a y A cooking class was organised at the Teenage Crisis Pensonic oven, and a Goodie Centre in Hulu Klang run by the Sisters of the Good y Bag containing toiletries, and a bath towel Shepard house some 17 women, and a visit was made were given to each woman.