around Ed. 12 of 2008/09 • Dec 10-23, 2008 A R OTA RY C LU B O F B E L I Z E N E W S L E T T E R How to Get Rotarians Involved It’s a surprise! It’s a surprise! It’s a surprise! Diary Dates Interact Gift Giveaway December 11th, 2008 Senior Citizens Dinner December 14th, 2008 Scholarship Raffle December 17, 2008 Rotary’s BIG Raffle February 14, 2009 From RI Website: You’ve noticed that the new member in your club is never sure where to sit and often ends up sitting at an empty table. What can you do to help this member get to know other club members? their time often raises interest and participation from other club members. This can be done during a club meeting or (and) as part of our club newletter. Idea 3: Not all Rotarians ‘sign up’ to serve on committees. We may want to create a new committee called RSVP...Rotary Service Volunteer Pool...and place all members, who have not volunteered to serve on a committee, on the RSVP committee. That is the first committee chairs will turn to, when they need volunteers for a particular service project. We might be surprised how eager and willing RSVP committee members are, because, perhaps for the first time, they have been personally asked to pitch in and help. Idea 1: If the club is comprised of older members who are very active in club projects. Have them explain the new project and its benefits to the newer members plus talk about past projects that we have done and the benefits to our club and the community. Once we start a project, we try to make it as fun as possible. We take breaks and eat and we have members that entertain us. Everyone has a good time and before you know it the project is over and everyone is in the mood to start another project. After the project is over, we have the newer members report about the project and what they felt about Idea 4: First, ASK them what turns them on it , the good and the bad. This feedback helps and then find the task that fulfulls it. Secus with setting up the next project. ond, let them know that they are NEEDED to make the project successful. Third, make Idea 2: The best way to get club members it FUN. Talk it up and include activities that involved is through creating a vision of the will make it a CAN’T MISS event. desired outcomes. What ever the service Paparazzi Corner project, make sure members are aware of the benefit created when they participate and are envolved. It is also important to understand that not all members are equally interested in all service activities. Therefore, it is necessary to have an on going list of projects in which members can participate. The more opportunities for service created, the more different members participate. Finally, pubDon’t we look cute? lically recognizing those that have given of w w w . r o t a r y b e l i z e . o r g Absent? Make It Up! Rotary Clubs Belize Sunrise Radisson, Tue Belize City, 7:30am Orange Walk The Diner Wed @ 7:30pm Belmopan G. Price Center Tue @ 12:00pm Corozal Hokol KIn Tue @7:30 pm Placencia Yoli’s Tue @ 12:30pm Dangriga Southern Reg. Hosp. Thur @ 7pm San Ignacio San Ignacio Hotel Thur @ 7am Punta Gorda Grace’s Reataurant Thur @ 6pm Rotaract: Belize City Helpage Bldng Fri @ 7:30 pm San Ignacio San Ignacio Hotel Mon@ 7pm Belmopan Belmopan Library Sun @ 6:30 Interact: Belize City (2) SCA Thr @ 3: 20pm SJC Tue @ 3:30pm San Ignacio Sacred Heart Coll. Mon @ 3pm Interact Xmas Project The Interact Clubs of SCA and SJC will be having a Christmas Event at the Mina Grant Preschool in Majestic Alley this Thursday. The Interactors have had to get special permission to leave school during the day in order to facilitate the schedule of the kids. Santa will be there to give away giftsto the kids and a snack will be served. Rotaract will also be arranging for Dora the Explorer to make a special appearance for the kids. The Interactors have plans to adopt the school and to return in January to paint the fence and clean the yard. All of this is made possible through the support of your Rotary Club. More Bollywood Pics Kelly! please keep quiet! Is that Bob’s Scarf you’re wearing? Rotarian Sight-Ems Is that Paul Hunt’s Shirt you’re wearing? Menzies w w w . c r i m e s t o p p e r s b e l i z e . o r g Wierd Rotary Games! Find the Rotarian.... Fundraising Chances Tickets for the Rotary Club of Belize’s DREAM Raffle with a 1 in 1000 chance of winning a Nissan Navara Truck or a property at University Heights in Belmopan are out. They cost $100 each. Drawing is Valentine’s Day. You will not find a raffle in Belize with Better odds or a Bigger Prize! A group of Rotarians are selling Raffle tickets to help Jamie Thompson (from the Rotary Plays) with his education expenses. The Raffle is for a new Split Unit Air Conditioner. $5 per chance. Rotaract Reminder John Oliver - Dec 12 Lynn Young - Dec 19 TEL: 223-0896 Interact Liaisons SJC: Santiago & Maria SCA: Anthony & Ellison Jim’s Clean Joke Corner BEVERAGES • AUTO CARE PRODUCTS • PAINTS & HARDWARE Online ordering now available WWWKARLMENZIESCOM w w w . g i f t o f l i f e b e l i z e . o r g Shelterbox Emergency Appeal ShelterBox has issued an urgent appeal for funds to help provide aid to tens of thousands of displaced people in four countries following a succession of humanitarian crises. Response teams from ShelterBox reacted quickly to distribute emergency aid to victims of the 29 October earthquake in Pakistan. And worsening humanitarian situations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Honduras, and Swaziland have stretched operations to the limit, What’s for Lunch? Dec 10 Dec 17 Buffet: Plated: Green Garden Salad, Stewed beef Bar B Que Fish Fillet, Split peas Grilled Chicken with white rice Salad, Fresh Steamed cilantro tomato salad Vegetables, Tomato coconut pie Rice & fresh fruit Special Dietary Requirements Please contact Pat Lamb or Rotarian Jim Scott at Radisson Got Breaking News, Updates, Gossip, Announcements? Email your AROUND Editor at yellowtail@btl.net. We pay CASH !!!!!! ShelterBox representatives say. “This is a life-or-death situation. Families who have lost their homes are in desperate need of shelter and warmth,” says Sally Grint, ShelterBox communications and fundraising manager. “Donations are urgently needed to fund further deliveries of aid.” In southwestern Pakistan, a ShelterBox response team provided 1,000 containers to families left homeless after a powerful earthquake rocked impoverished regions there. Each container provides a tent, a stove, a water purification kit, blankets, tools, and other necessities to help a family of 10 survive for six months. Mark Pearson, response team leader on the ground in Pakistan, says winterized tents are desperately needed to shelter an estimated 15,000 displaced villagers trying to withstand frigid nighttime temperatures. Pearson praises the logistical support provided by local Rotary clubs.“The clubs in Quetta and Karachi are invaluable in the operations here, providing flights, security, accommodations, interpreters, and local knowledge,” he says. In Congo, an estimated quarter-million people are seeking refuge from fierce fighting between rebels and government forces. ShelterBox has provided 200 containers and has committed to deliver 200 more. A response team also distributed 200 containers to residents of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, after heavy rains and flooding forced 22,000 people from their homes on 22 October. And a ShelterBox team in Swaziland is distributing aid to children orphaned by AIDS in an ongoing program with the National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS. Your Leaders The ShelterBox program was President launched in 2000 by Tom Hender- Ellison Flowers son, a British Rotarian and former Past President Royal Navy search-and-rescue Sandra Bedran diver, who is the charity’s CEO. President Elect/ Membership Maria Price Secretary Cynthia Awe Treasurer Tessa Usher Fund Raising Dennis Johnson Club Admin. Dir. Sylvia Cattouse Service Projects Sandra McKay Foundation Dir. Giovanni Heredia Public Relations Dir. Alberto Young Design © 2008 Yellowtail Design & Rotary Club of Belize