Enjoying the warmth at Port Douglas. Thanks to VP Dennis Shore for managing along with chairman Kevin Rose the clubs efforts to have a guest speaker via the net. Some success I hear but some good lessons also gained. Special thanks to speaker Margie Ware who persisted wonderfully.
Yet again something different next week. We will be at Auburn High School. Speakers address is scheduled there for 11.30, so 11 am is a good goal for our arrival.
Isn't technology wonderful? Hawthorns Rotary's last lunch time speaker was several thousand kilometers away in Broome.
CEO of Boab Health Services Margie Ware indulged us all by sitting on a phone exposed to some internet style hook up, coping with both limited telecom capacity and a couple of diligent but trainee techos in Kevin Rose
and Noel Halford to tell us of the operations of that group in the Broome-Kununurra region.
The audience got a taste of just how communication technology has evolved and what's to come. That's the scene below.
Margie is a Victorian who hankered for both that outdoor life and a chance to help remote Australian communities in dealing with their health issues. Seven years ago she spent time in North Queensland and perhaps finding that insufficiently remote moved to the Kimberleys. She joined Boab Health and is situated at the first of its two centres Broome, the other is in Kununurra.
Boab Health Services is a not-for-profit accredited primary health care organisation servicing communities across the Kimberley region. Services provided include allied health, mental health, and a ‘Closing the Gap’ team.
The Allied Health team consists of podiatrists, diabetes educators, dietitians and a pediatric nutritionist whilst the mental health team has members from a variety of disciplines including mental health nurses, psychologists, clinical psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists. The ‘Closing the Gap’ team provide care coordination and service access to Aboriginal people with chronic health conditions in the Kimberley.
Margie noted that the above-mentioned health issues on which they focus are heavily interconnected with the social issues of the communities. Each time on seeing the conditions under which many in that region lived was a challenge to the Boab people and always mostly overwhelming particularly to the newer ones. Staff numbers have increased from 4 in 1998 to 47 now, and key relationships with 34 remote communities established with long term connections with their leaders cemented. With that more effective interventions and treatments have developed.
In retrospect it was a always a highlight for Margie and colleagues to observe how their efforts have made a difference to one let alone many.
The clinical and program staff are supported by a corporate team including finance, payroll, HR and health administration. The organisation is a proprietary limited company governed by a board of directors. Boab Health programs are funded by the WA Primary Health Alliance and the Commonwealth Government.
Supporting Salvo Hawks is one of our newer projects, and we are fast approaching the end of this season. So these are the last dates to participate before next winter. And it would be really, really good if we were to muster a strong Rotary Hawthorn presence, especially at the Dinner and the Grand Final. (Ginia and I will be on holiday and sadly we won’t be able to attend.)
Wed 23 August
12.00 Training at Victoria Road Reserve
Tuesday 29 August
6.30pm Presentation Dinner @ Firechief Pizza Restaurant, 169 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn East (Just NW of Camberwell Junction; Melway 45H12.) Approx. $20 per head. Phone Rhan Harris (Salvo Hawks team manager) 0415 541 889 by, say, 2.30pm to let him know you’re planning to attend.
Wednesday 30 August
10.30 Grand Final – Salvo Hawks vs Odyssey (one of several matches over Wednesday & Thursday) – Peanut Farm Reserve, St Kilda (Corner Blessington St and Chaucer St, Melway58A11). All Rotarians and friends are encouraged to attend, admire the new Salvo Hawks jumpers (funded by Rotary Hawthorn) wear a Rotary hi-viz vest, spot the celebrities, enjoy the carnival atmosphere (everyone says it’s truly amazing), watch the local radio going to air, socialise with Salvo Hawks players and hangers on, and even socialise with other Rotarians!
No shortage of IT experts in our midst, or an excess of cooks? The Shadow was most impressed with the plethora of suggestions from the audience : "Double click top right", "scroll up", "scroll right", "click here", "expand", "contract" as Noel Halford and Kevin Rose battled to establish remote connection with the guest speaker in Broome.
The Shadow applauds all but especially Noel & Kevin and speaker Marie Ware for the ultimate deliverance of an interesting talk on remote health services in the far North and a demonstration of the possibilities of modern communication technology.
The Shadow's hearing of the UN's recognition of a members business activity, namely the Habla familys and that "Clean Kiln" was a memorable first. (see story below).
It is clear that member Gibert Habla's recent absences from our club were certainly justified and worthy of many catch ups. Doubtless a topic for a future lunch time address.
A couple of young Lauriston girls one being Maddie Bobeff ( grandfather and HR member is PP Geoff Dumayne) in year 3 set up a project on their own intitative to help support the people of Melbourne who are sleeping rough on the streets of Melbourne. Joined with Year 12 student Lulu Morand their project has been embraced by their school. Amazing that two such community minded students of different ages came up with a similar project initiative. Well done to them.
The projects thrust is to create bags of supplies for these people. Such a bag might contain clean socks, toothbrush, toothpaste, clean wipes, comb, sanitary items deodorant and a blanket. Each bag is envisaged to cost about $30 to assemble.
Our lunch time meeting of the 29th August will be the time at which HR members can bring such things or contribute some few dollars to the project for the acquisition of a bag.
Two of our HR members Hans Carlborg and David Pisterman are office bearing members of Boroondara Cares. Here's an update on that organisations mission and drive.
Caring for Boroondara “We’re a wealthy city. There’s no need for charity here.”
It’s true! The records show that the people of Boroondara are among the most privileged residents in Australia. Our leafy green streets are pictures of affluence. There are fine private schools, the best of cinemas, eating houses and shopping. It’s a comforting veneer. Charity? Surely that’s for other places?
Scratch that flimsy surface and a much less attractive and more truthful picture is revealed. The same issues that impact every community are alive and well in Boroondara. We have the same full suite of challenges – homelessness, family violence, social isolation, educational disadvantage and drugs abuse. There are more than four thousand kids in Boroondara who are living under the poverty line. We have a serious and growing need for homes especially for women. And there’s much more. Our neighbours are hurting.
Is this “fair to all concerned”? Is there a larger role for Rotary and the eight Rotary Clubs that reside in Boroondara? Absolutely! When Rotary clubs and community organisations get together to address community challenges, bigger and more lasting outcomes become possible. The improvements begin when Rotarians understand the needs in our own backyard.
Boroondara Cares Foundation is an incorporated Rotary charitable body that is focused upon the social challenges in Boroondara. Members are exclusively the Rotary Clubs of Boroondara. The governance board is comprised of Rotarians from the member clubs and community members. The foundation aims to bring together Rotary Clubs and community agencies for larger programs to address the “five pillars of challenge” in our city, and to raise and distribute new funds to support Rotary club led programs. The foundation conducts a monthly forum for Rotarians and community minded people to advance its mission.
“Fear is our daily companion” Violence against women is the leading contributor to death, disability and ill-health in Victorian women aged 15-44 years. There were 645 reported incidents of family violence in Boroondara in the year 2013-2014.
Australian company with a global solution wins 2017 UNAA Business Climate Action Award
UNAA Press Release: 8th June 2017
An Australian-owned company’s successful application of clean, clay brick firing technology in an overseas setting has made it the inaugural winner of the 2017 UNAA (United Nations Association of Australia) Business Climate Action Award.
The Award is one of 10 UNAA World Environment Day Climate Action Awards given out today as part of the UNAA Climate Collaboration Forum in Melbourne.
Some 60 schools, journalists, local councils, environmental organisations and individuals entered the 2017 Awards. Introduced to celebrate the environmental innovation and commitment of Australian organisations and individuals in 2000, the World Environment Day Awards were revamped this year to focus on climate action.
The Climate Collaboration Forum and Climate Action Awards are both key elements of the UNAA’s work to promote the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 Climate Action.
Award judges commended Habla Zig-Zag Kilns for its clear demonstration that Australia has the capacity to offer the innovation and technology to address a major, global climate issue – the widespread use in developing countries of antiquated, polluting brick kilns.
The technology offers developing countries a pathway to a cleaner, economically and environmentally improved future. There is potential to change the current situation where over 300,000 polluting, antiquated kilns operate particularly in South Asia, and the brick remains the pre‐eminent construction material in a booming building industry.
An estimated 87% of global brick production takes place in Asia where brick kilns are a major contributor to climate change and a significant source of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions and short‐lived climate pollutants, particularly atmospheric black carbon.
Judges said Habla had shown how its energy-efficient, low carbon kilns could “change lives and have a real impact in addressing climate change”.
There are special rates for first time attendees (& partners) which includes those that have not attended a District 9800 conference in 10 years and also a special rate for partners to attend the Friday/Saturday evening functions only
Make sure you register your interest with Noel Halford as he is organising the accommodation . There is the option of extending to Thursday and/or Sunday night at special rates.
Lawrence Reddaway always seeks to finalize numbers by Sunday 10pm by collating responses to attendance at the next meeting. So please try the electronic response (or phone) or even carrier pidgeon! Forewarn of any guests at the same time. This minimizes catering costs.
Geoff Wright collates the attendance information. He needs to know of "make up " events.
A Most Compelling and Inspiring Speaker....Note: Meeting At Auburn High School
Please meet in the foyer of Auburn High School at 11a.m
Manny Hendrix Jr gives the 'most compelling and inspiring talks on life skills coaching for young people in both sport and positive lives rather than progression to the ‘dark side’. A high-rated US basketball player, his points included:
# Young people commonly become ‘at risk’ because they are not given key information about life choices. In the US he has even taken youngsters - lacking parental and school advisers - to visit a prison and see first-hand where a life style of being on the streets after 1am can lead
# Young people set themselves facile goals like sporting heroism and rich lifestyles without understanding that the ‘process’ is the important thing, not the goal. He gave examples from his own sport career - like playing basketball in his childhood while almost clinically blind (he could recognise his team and opponents and court positions but no detail. His sight was then restored). Thereafter, he explained in his talk how he went to extreme lengths and sacrifices to out-compete his cohort and rise through the basketball ranks.
Hendrix, who has a 201cm wingspan, made the 2015 and 2016 Division 2 Big V All Star Five and won the 2016 MVP Award. He led Collingwood All Stars into the finals during his first season in the team’s second year. '
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