Rotary Hawthorn Weekly Meeting at Kooyong
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15 Oct 2024 |
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 Hawthorn
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The speakers this week include Katrina Flynn and Jemma Frew who will be introducing Police Legacy and the forthcoming "World of Difference" trip.
In November 2024 Victoria Police Young Adult Legatees (VPAL) are participating in a Victoria Police Legacy (VPL) humanitarian tour of Cambodia facilitated by Rotary’s World of Difference.
VPAL Police Legatee Jemma Frew is one of the tour participants, Jemma will talk about Victoria Police Legacy and how the legatees are preparing for the trip and how they plan to assist people in remote rural Cambodian villages..
Rotary World of Difference (WOD) responds to local areas of needs in Cambodia with continuous, sustainable projects, providing safe water, sanitation, education and maternal child and health. WOD has been takes participants on combined cultural and volunteering trips to Cambodia. WOD is a project of several Rotary Clubs including Hawthorn. Project work employs local Cambodians and will be monitored continuously and sustainably year after year, tour after tour. On this tour, Club member Katrina Flinn is joining the tour, leading a group of “retreads”, a group of legatees that are returning to Cambodia to concentrate more on the project work in local villages and schools.
Following this will be the induction of Mark Pinoli who will present "Member behind the Badge" with his talk on "Ten Years in Nepal"
Mark has worked with not-for-profits and universities for over 25 years.
Currently, he is a consultant and lends his expertise as a member of RMIT’s Human Research Ethics Committee.
His love of the Himalayan region began in 1997 when he spent six months travelling through Northern India and Nepal. Since then, he has returned numerous times to travel and trek in the remote mountain regions of India, Tibet and Nepal.
These experiences motivated Mark to devote 10 years to helping Nepali children. He founded the Logged On Foundation Ltd, which provided computer centres and education programs to rural schools. The Foundation has helped thousands of children in 30 villages in eight Districts of Nepal, including several women’s cooperatives.
He completed a documentary about the 2015 Nepal earthquake, its impact on rural communities, and their struggles to provide quality education for their children. The film won a film award and was screened at the ACMI and at UK, US, and Nepalese film festivals.
Mark also created pathways for volunteers to spend time in Nepal. This has included placing teachers from RMIT, Standard, Finders and La Trobe Universities into Nepalese schools to deliver student and teacher training programs.
MC: Katrina Flynn