NEWSLETTER ISSUE 29
September – October 2002
European Rotaract Information Centre
EDITO: A new Rotaractian year begins, it’s the time to thank all the past responsible and to encourage the actual . We are really happy to send you the first Issue of ERIC. We also want to remind you that it’s your newsletter and that we can’t make it without your articles, your photos, yours files, your information, and your comments. So Good Reading, and don’t forget to send us some news for the next Issue. Yours in Rotaract, I-C Team.
How to contact us? i_and_c@rotaract-eric.org
CONVENTION OF BARCELONA! What is the most amazing in a convention of the Rotary International ? In my opinion, it’s the atmosphere. It’s crazy how the Rotary invaded Barcelona. We were two Rotaractors taking the plane in Paris, and a man arrived in front of us in the airport, where we were waiting the plane. And he said to us: “ how are you , hey Rotaractors?” This man was a Rotarian from Brasil , he recognized us thanks to our pin’s and I thinked at this moment that is the Rotary International. My opinion was confirmed with the opening ceremony. When all the flags of the rotarian countries appeared on the wall and flashed by, I understood what is the capacity of the Rotary International and what we can together build. It’s crazy: when you visited Barcelona or when you just took for a walk over the streets o the city, you couldn’t make a step without meeting a rotarian. You can recognize them with their rotarian’s cap, or pin’s or with the RI’s convention bag. All the convention proved to myself that the Rotary International is a big organization, but the most important is that it’s the biggest family in the world. You can’t imagine the atmosphere of friendship in the convention. Everybody speak with everyone. Anybody cared about the religion, the nationality, the colour. In our time, with the terrorism and the war, it’s the most important image that we have to convey all over the world. The Rotaract Convention started on Tuesday with a intervention of Rick King, the president of the Rotary International. He spoke about our youth and our dynamism and he sung as he knows to do. It continues with different workshop about public relation, DDR’s formation. The convention finished in joy and in music with a classical concert. Let’s have an appointment next year in Brisbane!
Sunday morning: ERIC’s meeting:
Tuesday & Wednesday : Rotaract Convention
SPECIAL REPORT The ROTARAC T in Europe in 2002!
In the beggining of September, the I-C’s team sent you a questionnary about your Rotaract. We just want to know how is the Rotaract in Europe. We want to make a picture of the Rotaract in Europe. Thanks for all your answers! Let’s see what we receive !
This report includes only the countries which answered us : Deutschland, France, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, England and Ireland, Yugoslavia and Italy.
NUMBER OF ROTARACT'S MEMBERS 80 297
Belgium
515
1657
Bosnia
284
Deutschland 3100
England France
6206
Italy Netherlands
3000
703
Spain Yougoslavia
NUMBER OF ROTARACT CLUB Belgium 52
36 6
73
17
Bosnia 152
Deutschland England France
367
Italy 67
300
Netherlands Spain Yougoslavia
NUMBER OF DISTRICT Belgium 7
2 1
3
1
14
10
Bosnia Deutschland England France Italy
18
Netherlands 29
Spain Yougoslavia
NATIONAL ROTARACT WEBSITE : Country Belgium Bosnia Deutschland England & Ireland France Italy Spain The Netherlands Yugoslavia, Greece, Macedonia
Website www.rotaract.be underconstruction www.rotaract.de www.rotaract.org.uk www.rotaract.asso.fr www.rotaract.it www.rotaract.nl No
NATIONAL PROJECTS :
Country
Project
Belgium
No
Bosnia
They had the first District project – Tour The Borders Together
Deutschland
Help for Kindergarden in Schlotwitz (flood-help) and Rotaract for Kids (at 06.12.02 Santa Claus national Cinemaevening for poor Kids, the money that will be collect will be spend for polio plus) Who can the others countries contact? Robert.Zydek@rotaract.de
England & Ireland
Polio Plus, Stroke association, Rotaract Overseas Projects - Tanzania Who can the others countries contact? Jason Stoyel - jason@stoyel.co.uk
France
The national action run by the Rotaract club of Reims (D-1750) is collecting plastic tops to manufacture wheelchairs. who can the others countries contact? SĂŠverine DROUOT (RotaractReims@aol.com)
Italy
Polio Plus: fundraising and improving the awareness of people regarding Polio Plus and Rotary action.
Spain The Netherlands
No Project for Warchild
Yugoslavia, Greece,
No
Macedonia
CONTACTS :
Country
Name of MDIO
Chairman & CONTACT
ERIC Rep & CONTACT
BELGIUM
Arnaud De Schryv
BOSNIA....
Ivana Bedenikovi
branko.bedenikovic@k DEUTSCHLAND
DAS
Marie-Christin Schwake MarieChristin.Schwake@rotaract. de
ENGLAND & IRELAND
RGBI
FRANCE
CN
Vicky Wood Vicky@stoyel.co.uk
Hervé PIGLOWSKI Herve.piglowski@rotaract.or g
ITALY
The NETHERLANDS
Under constructio n
CRN
Robert Zydek
Robert.Zydek@rotara
Lara Anderson
jimand@btconnect.c
Hervé PIGLOWSK
Herve.piglowski@rotara
Valentina Dell’Ac
valentinadellacqua
Jeroen Schuuring
Edgar Vissch
jeroen@rotaract.nl
edgar@rotarac
SPAIN No communicated
YUGOSLAVIA
Tamara Daj
dajch@neobee.
Some news from the NETHERLANDS... By Edgar Visscher Eric-rep for The Netherlands On June 29 I officially took over the tasks of Annet Stoffels. Before that I have been president of the National Dutch Rotaract Board for three years. I will be combining this task this year with the organisation of the EUCO 2003 in Amsterdam. My details: Edgar Visscher Edisonstraat 43a 2811 EM Reeuwijk The Netherlands Phone: +31 6 5149 4168 E-mail: edgar@rotaract.nl
Rotaract in The Netherlands The member status is updated on July 1. The official count is 515 members and 52 clubs. 4 new clubs are starting up this year, so we foresee a growth during 2002-2003. Hopefully we reach 600 again. Besides this we receive many new questions through our website, mainly by people who ask for the address of the club near them. The relation with Rotary is still improving on National and District level as we have many contacts. Now there are of course extra contacts because of the EUCO. The main activities I will do for improving the awareness for European affairs are in the organisation of the EUCO. The EUCO should be the start of full European and international awareness on Rotaract and ERIC.
EUCO 2003
The organisation is going pretty ok so far. Many clubs are integrated in the committee, which consists of 20 people now, both experienced and new. The basic outline of the programme is ready, as you can find on our website (www.rotaract.nl/euco). We are now very busy getting the official registration page ready and getting sponsors in. Main sponsoring should come from the side of Rotary. We have set up the ‘Euro for the EUCO’ action, which should generate € 1,- of each Rotarian in The Netherlands (we have about 20.000). The promotion for EUCO 2003 is going very well. We had promo events in Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, on German conferences and we will go to the conference in France and to the districts in Belgium in October. We certainly do not worry on the participants as we expect to reach our goal of 350 Rotaractors easily. We are also busy in finding a project to launch during the EUCO 2003. We really want to launch a project for which all Rotaract Clubs in Europe can generate money and actions during 2003-2004. We think a real pan-European project can revive the spirit for all clubs and for the meaning of ERIC too. On the price we still try to achieve € 125,- including all dinners, but of course that depends on the sponsoring. If we will not achieve this we will for sure offer dinners at very cheap prices. Of course we would like to know from you on a very short notice what ERIC’s plans are for the Saturday conference. We already received a request from Russia to have a presentation on Rotaract in Russia and perhaps that is something to put in Saturday’s programme, but that is of course up to you. If you want to get updates on the organisation each month, please register for our newsletter on our website. And please do go on promoting EUCO 2003 as we want to have participants
Italy’s Message : Dear Rotaractors from all over the world, It is my pleasure to invite You all to apply for the "Rotaract Roundtrip in Piedmont 2003" that will be held from italian District 2030 (Italy), from Apr 4 to Apr 13. Fill the attached application form AS SOON AS YOU CAN then, and apply for the italian holiday you've ever dreamed!!!
You have the chance to apply for an italian trip starting from Turin and then going on through San Remo, Genova, Alba, Casale Monferrato, Novara, Biella and Stresa, before returning to Turin again. Fill the attached application form AS SOON AS YOU CAN then, and apply for the italian holiday you've ever dreamed!!! In all the towns you visit, members from local Rotaract Clubs will be both your "guides" and "hosts". You will move on a bus or on cars driven by italian Rotaractors and completely reserved to You. Fill the attached application form AS SOON AS YOU CAN then, and apply for the italian holiday you've ever dreamed!!! THE TRIP WILL BE COMPLETELY FREE FOR ALL GUESTS. Fill the attached application form AS SOON AS YOU CAN then, and apply for the italian holiday you've ever dreamed!!! Your only expenses will be for the plane ticket (You can both arrive to Milan "Linate" or to Milan "Malpensa" airport on Apr 4 and leave back on Apr 13 - we pick You up at the airport you will communicate to us) and, of course, for italian shopping...! Fill the attached application form AS SOON AS YOU CAN then, and apply for the italian holiday you've ever dreamed!!! As the program is very intense, we will be able to manage only a 10 people group. Fill the attached application form AS SOON AS YOU CAN then, and apply for the italian holiday you've ever dreamed!!! (SEND YOUR APPLICATIONS piedmont2003@yahoogroups.com)
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AGENDA: September 2002: ♦ 06-07 : First ERIC meeting in Cluj.
October 2002 : ♦ 12th : Dutch National Convention (Landdag) in Zwijndrecht ♦ 18-19-20 : French National Convention in Montpellier (D. 1700) contact : Pierre Therond – Pierre.therond@rotaract.org
January 2003 :
♦ 24 – 25 – 25 : 2nd ERIC’s Meeting in Salerno (Italy) contact : Valentina Dell Acqua- valentinadellacqua@tin.it
April 2003 : ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
11-12-13 : German National Convention in Mainz (D 1860) 18 -19 – 20 : British National Convention in Birmingham 23 – 27 : EUCO 2003 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) End of april : Italian National Convention in Castellaneta Marina (TA) in Puglia.
June 2003 : ♦ 1-4 June 2003 : Rotary International 94th Annual Convention— Brisbane, Queensland, Australia