ROTARACT NEWS SPRING 2016 what‘s going on in the World of Rotaract A NEW YEAR IN ROTARACT Dear Rotaractors! Dear Friends! A lot of clubs also sent us great inputs to their latest social projects. Have a look at their reports and the Spring is a very busy season in Rotaract. The board pictures! and the organizers from Rotaract Club Tuzla’99 are We also got a new so called „district project“ named working very hard to make the upcoming MDPC (Multi „Intarconnect“. The initiators are very busy to present it District Presidential Conference) the best ever. So if to clubs all over Austria or abroad and will present it for you did not book your ticket yet, you should do so asap the first time at the MDPC to our bosnian Rotaractors. at www.mdpc2016.com. But not only the MDPC is In addition to Intarconnect we will have on the 29th keeping us up all night. Next week will be the Rotaract of May the 6th (!!!) „Ich Helfe Laufend“ Charity Run Pets/Sets (President & Secretary Elect Training in Vienna. The coproduction of several viennese Seminar) in Seggau/Stmk for all austrian Rotaracters, Rotaractors from different clubs will be even better, right after Tuzla a lot of us are coming together at bigger, more culinary than before. the Rotaract European Convention in Milan and also And do you know already the concept of the Rotaract clubs in the districts KidsCamp? To be honest…it was not us who invented have major news the idea of this great project…it were our german to tell. Therefore colleagues. But thanks to an ambitious Rotaractor of you can read in this our multi district who brought the idea to us, we will newsletter about the have the 3rd Rotaract KidsCamp the upcoming August Charter of the new in Austria with a new organizing team from Styria. Rotaract Club Bihac So make sure you have enough time to read all about in January, the Charter of the new Rotaract Club whats old and whats new in our multi district. Brcko in March and we will have a third Charter this We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the year of the new Rotaract Club Weinviertel on the 23rd one or another event! of June. So we will have 3 new clubs chartered within And do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have 6 months!!! any further questions. Besides new clubs we celebrated charters of „old“ Yours rotaractly, Judith clubs like RAC Wien-Oper, RAC Wien-Graben and on MDRR 1910/1920 the 4th of June RAC Salzburg will follow. [email protected] [email protected] page 1 rotaract.at ROTARACT MULTI DISTRICT NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 MDPC TUZLA 2016 RAC TUZLA ‘99 After the summer break Rotaract club Tuzla ’99 started with new projects and activities. As you already know MDPC Conference 2016. is taking place in our town and that we are the hosts. Facing a huge task Rotaract club Tuzla ’99 with many planned project, aims and activities gave most attention and time to the organization of MDPC Conference.Glad as we are that after 3 scientific, cultural, educational, health and tourist years MDPC conference will be held in Bosnia and centre of northeast Bosnia.[ After Sarajevo and Herzegovina.We work hard to make your arrival Banja Luka, Tuzla is the third largest city in Bosnia and your visit as convenient and enjoyable. Our and Herzegovina. Preliminary results from the desire is to have a good time with you, to present 2013 Census indicate that the municipality has a tu you our city, our culture and way of life. population of 120,441. MDPC Conference 2016 will be held in Tuzla on Tuzla is an educational center and is home to two 15-17 April 2016. universities. It is also the main industrial machine and one of the leading economic strongholds of TUZLA Bosnia with a wide and varied industrial sector Tuzla is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is including an expanding service sector thanks to the seat of the Tuzla Canton and is the economic, its salt lake tourism. The city of Tuzla is home to Europe’s only salt lake as part of its central park and has more than 100,000 people visiting its shores every year. The history of the city goes back to the 9th century; modern Tuzla dates back to 1510 when it became an important garrison town in the Ottoman Empire. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuzla is also regarded as one of the most multicultural cities in the country and has managed to keep the pluralist character of the city throughout the Bosnian War and after, with Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats and a small minority of Bosnian Jews residing in Tuzla. [email protected] page 2 rotaract.at ROTARACT MULTI DISTRICT NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 WE WANT YOU!! NEW BOARD MEMBERS WANTED! Here are the candidats for the next MD-Board: MDRR: Multi District Rotaract Representive RER: Rotaract Europe Representative: B&H Bernhard Pribyl Vojislav Gligic MDICO: Multi District Information & ADRR AUSTRIA WEST: Assistant District Coordination Officer Rotaract Representative Johannes Steininger Simon Georg Schrüfer ADRR AUSTRIA SOUTH EAST: Assistant RER: Rotaract Europe Representative: Austria District Rotaract Representative Claudia Fallmann Markus Brunner [email protected] page 3 rotaract.at ROTARACT MULTI DISTRICT NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 ADRR AUSTRIA NORTH EAST: Assistant ADRR B&H: Assistant District Rotaract District Rotaract Representative Representative #1 Elisabeth Krassnigg Davor Pavlic ADRR B&H: Assistant District Rotaract Representative: #2 Tijana Bjeljac PLEASE VOTE NEWS FROM THE CLUBS RAC Wien Oper Rotaract Vienna Opera is a Vienna-based club with currently 52 members. Most of its members are studying in Vienna, however there are also several young professionals participating. The member’s professions cover many different fields including pharmacy, business and engineering. Therefore, the discussions during Tuesday eve- ning meetings in Hotel Regina are usually very [email protected] page 4 rotaract.at ROTARACT MULTI DISTRICT NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 interesting. in need could profit from our project. We want to An important part of the club is the social com- thank the CARITAS a lot for their support, be- mitment of its members. Rotaract Vienna Op- cause it would have been too much for one Rot- era aims to support children with special needs. aract Club. Also we want to say thank you to our Therefore, the walk-in clinic of St. Anna Chil- Rotary Club Partner (Rotary Club Wien-Nordost) dren’s hospital and MOKI Vienna, a mobile chil- which supported our Project with a very gener- dren’s nurse service, are among the social proj- ous donation. ects. However, there are also regular “outdoor meet- RAC Wien Belvedere ings” such as field trips or skiing weekends in Louise-Bus other regions of Austria. Guests are always wel- Due to the fact that our Club celebrates soon its come to attend a meeting. The meetings and 35th-years anniversary, we proudly announce their topics are usually announced on facebook that we support on a weekly basis the so called or on our webpage. „Louise Bus“ since 20 years. This bus contains medical care for homeless people in front of the RAC Wien Seccession Viennese „Gruft“ in co-operation with doctors and Our Winter-Social-Project this year was dedicat- Caritas. Because of our long term involvement ed to homeless people in Vienna. with this project we therefore donated money for We collected donations and money and orga- a new „Louise“-model. nized giftbags that were distributed to home- less people all over Vienna through the CARI- Christmas-hut TAS. We started our project in the beginning of Our „Adventstand“-„Christmas-hut“ - takes place December and collected donations for about a every year from last weekend in November till month – we did not only collect scarfs, hats and New Years Eve (daily from 11am – 9pm) and is sanitary products like tooth brushes and tooth based on selling delicious hot wine, snacks and paste, but also money, with which we bought a Rotarian goodies like cups next to the famous lot of items fort hem. We promoted our project in Albertina Building. person but also via social media. Therefore we Concerning current world affairs, our Partner Ro- could reach far more people and a lot of people tary Club „Wien-West“ an we donated this year [email protected] page 5 rotaract.at ROTARACT MULTI DISTRICT NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 the whole money which we raised for education Charter ceremony RAC Brcko of refugees. 1 TURNOUT OF GUESTS So this project helps to improve the connection Rotaract club of Brcko B&H belongs to Rotary between the Rotaract and Rotary Club because district 1910 eastern Austria with Bosnia and of the mixed teams serving in shifts. Herzegovina. Brcko is located at the northeast part of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the coast of Hospice-trip to Schloss Mühlbach Sava river. This summer a trip with patients from the „Hos- Charter ceremony took place in Hotel “Evropa” pice Rennweg“ in a wheelchair bus to the pittor- which is 2-3 km away from the cities center. esque Schloss Mühlbach will take place for the Guests are invited from all Rotary clubs in Bos- fourth time in a row. We `re going to stroll around nia along with guests from Croatia, Serbia, the landscape with the elderly people, having Montenegro, Slovenia as well as district Gover- a good day and going to make them laugh in nor Gerhard Hellmann and secretary Dijana a beautiful surrounding.