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Dear Rotaracts,
Content RAC Beograd-Dedinje RAC Nis RAC Nis– Naissus RAC Nis– Constantine the Great
By arranging impressions and the results what were achieved in last year, it is a great way to plan the ideas and tasks for new year. Setting the ideas is only the ‘planning’ part. Before all, we should ask ourselves, have we achieved our goals that we have set from the past? Have we learned something from our previous endeavors? If we are serious about accomplishing great things in this year, we should be focused and fired up! And we would keep going at full speed through until we can see the expected positive results. Let’s enhance our social skills by developing our respect, interaction and love for the social and natural environment. Frost and cold are rapidly approaching, snow goes and melts... and ideas, like seasons, come and go if we do not use them. We’d like to introduce you to a great start of programs in January Yours in Rotaract
Special points of interest ∗ Editors view ∗ REM 2012 Report ∗ Clubs actions ∗ Reports Milos Milojevic DRR RID 2483 2011/12 RAC Nis-Constantine the Great
Hristina Kocic District Secretary RID 2483 2011/12 RAC Nis
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Key message: Innovation processes have the potential to stimulate positive change: successful innovations can capture the humanitarian imagination, and provide new ways of delivering assistance to those who need it most. Instead of asking, ‘what went wrong?’, and aiming for incremental improvements in delivery of aid, innovation demands new ways of thinking and the boldness to answer more searching questions, such as ‘how are things currently done, and is this the best way to do
Key message : The process of innovation is neither From the Editors When we think of humanitarian activities we should know that the humanitarian activity is a kind of arts and sciences. The humanitarian endeavour should be adapted to the real needs, should be innovative spirit, what we can find out from the book “Innovations in international humanitarian action” written by Ben Ramalingam, Kim Scriven and Conor Foley (3 – ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action) Existing practices, norms, policies and rationales represent a ‘generative learning’ created and often modulated or even inhibited by a social environment and culture relationships. This book is a study aimed to explore how the members and the wider sector might prioritise humanitarian innovation and risk-taking in policy and practice. The debate about humanitarian innovation is
fixed nor linear, and depends greatly on political and organisational context, as well as chance. However, analysis of the development of innovations across different sectors shows that successful innovation processes are proactive intentional processes, include several common elements, and progress through a number of key developmental stages.
There are many examples of innovation and change in the humanitarian sector – beyond the idea of incremental learning from the past, and towards transformational learning for the future. But many organisations still do not have strategies to manage innovation, making it likely that many ideas are not picked up. A realistic understanding of what is possible can be complemented with learning from past innovations to seek new ways to realise improvements. Phases: Where innovations processes are successful it include the following phases. • Recognition of a problem, challenge and related opportunity for targeted innovation at the level of product, process, position, paradigm or some combination 1 ‘what’ – the focus and scope of innovations thereof. 2 ‘how’ – the processes involved in innova• Invention of a solution or idea which helps to adtions, theoretically and in practice dress the problem, overcome the challenge or take 3 ‘context’ – individual and organisational advantage of the opportunity. capacities, the relationships within and • Development of the innovation through creating across organisations, social, economic and practical plans and guidelines for products, services, political factors that either enable or inhibit processes or new organisational models. • Implementation of the innovation to produce real instances of changed practice in operational settings closely linked to the debate about the current weak- • Diffusion of the innovation to ensure its wider nesses of humanitarian action. The three dimensions adoption for benefits outside the original setting. of innovations are focused: This includes the communications channels by which the innovation is shared, the social system within Instead of paraphrasing the book, we would like to which it is disseminated, and the reflect on some important points and the mayor key process through which innovation is continually demessages. veloped In conclusion, the autors want to point out that we are supWorking definition: Innovations are dyposed to create a culture which encourages real and lasting namic processes which focus on the creation humanitarian innovation. and implementation of new or improved prod- If you would like to read this interesting and imporucts and services, processes, positions and tant book for our future humanitarian activity, please paradigms. Successful innovations are those go to the following link: that result in improvements in efficiency, effec- http://www.alnap.org/pool/files/8rhach3.pdf tiveness, quality or social outcomes/impacts. 2
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REPORT WINTER REM 2012 TORINO, ITALY
JANUARY 26-29th
Volume 1, Issue 1 Dear Rotaractor, This year’s winter REM started on 26th of January and it lasted until 29th of January. Three day program included: skiing, touristic tour of a city, night life of a city and off course a Gala night at Fiat Industrial Village. There were around 700 people joining this event. We had 13 members representing our country, and they did a great job! As part of promoting Serbia RTC Novi Sad and RTC Dedinje shared a couple of bottles of rakija, talked about the clubs and projects that are coming in the future as well as sharing ideas of joined projects. They all made great connections with other participants. At the Country Representatives meeting that was held on 28th of January Turkey and Romania had their presentations for next winter REM. After the voting and counting the votes Romania won, it is my great pleasure to announce that Timisoara will be the next meeting place in January 2013. We also had a chance of hearing a little bit more about EUCO in Moscow (soon the waiting list will be opened) and REM in Kyiv 2012 (dates and program will be sent soon). At the meeting CR’s presented their projects and I had an opportunity to present Rotary Summer Camp that will be organized on 19th of July. The election of BESP and TCA is opened and the winners will be known at EUCO. So, until 10th of March all clubs can send me the applications for BESP and TCA.
Marina Šećerov E.R.I.C./Country Representative Serbia, D2483
It would be great if more people could join these events and promote our country and clubs. It is a great opportunity for all of us to meet with other people that are sharing the same Rotary ideals. This year’s REM was amazing and the participants from Serbia made me very proud. Well done guys!!!! 3
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ROTARACT CLUB BEOGRAD DEDINJE
REM – Rotaract European Meeting
JANUARY 26-29th Goal: Blood donations Newsletter Date
for urgent interventions Volume 1, Issue 1
Our club participated at REM (Rotaract European Meeting) held in Turin from 26 to 29 January 2012. Four of our members (Igor Mijatovic, Nikola Stojadinovic, Nikola Stojanovic, Milos Dosen) were part of a large Rotaract family which numbered over 700 participants. We participated in all the activities that were organized, socialized with Rotaractors from other countries and try to represent our club and our country at the best way. During the gala dinner, we opened three bottles of rakia (plum brandy) and invite other participants to join us in tasting our traditional drinks. Despite the fact that organization was not at the highest level, we have a great time and made new friendships. Activity plan was as follow: - to identify club members who are willing to participate in the biggest Rotaract meeting in Europa, - to make new friendships - to introduce our Rotaract club activities to other Rotaracts - to promote our country in the best possible way Participants of REM: - Igor Mijatović, Nikola Stojadinović, Nikola Stojanović, Miloš Došen
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25th JANUARY
Goal: Socializing and cultural rising
Place: Belgrade night club „Stepenice“, Velike stepenice 1, Belgrade
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Instead of regular meeting, members of Rotaract club Beograd Dedinje went to Belgrade night club „Stepenice“, located in Belgrade downtown area, near Kelmegdan, where member of our club, Uros Gavrilovic, plays violin with his band Tom Gan Top Cruise. This was great opportunity for all club members to listen Uros's magnifican know how in playing violin. Activity plan was as follow: -To get gather club members in „Stepenice“ night club -Enjoy the music , food and drinks -Enjoy in friendly talk and meet new friends for new activities.. Major activity coordinator was Kubura Ljubica from RAC Dedinje
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Rotaract club Nis Team Building
JANUARY 20th Newsletter Date
Volume 1, Issue 1
Goal: To improve team spirit
Last year was very successful for our club so we wanted to celebrate it. We talked about our club generally and came up with some new ideas. We also got to know our new members a little better. We laughed, had an amazing time and we are ready for new challenges.
Place: “Restaurant Citaonica”
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Rotaract club Nis-Naissus
National treasure
National treasure chest continued its journey through Serbia and arrived to the capital. This time the host was Rotaract club "Belgrade Sava", which gave our club "NisNaissus" the warm welcome. With some small talk inside the lovely atmosphere of the restaurant new friendships were made. Once again we would like to thank our friends for the wonderful time and we look forward to seeing you again.
JANUARY 21st
Goal: Handover of the National treasure chest to Rotaract club ˝Belgrade Sava˝
Place: Restaurant
˝Lipov Lad˝ Belgrade
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Rotaract club NisConstantine the Great
200th
Club meeting
DECEMBER 27th
On our journey to helping people, changing the values’ system of modern society, making our community a better place as well as making ourselves GOAL: Celebration better people and friends, RTC “Nis – Constantine the Great” reached the milestone 200. It was a great cause to organize a celebration together with our friends from Rotaract Clubs Nis, Naissus, Prokuplje and Pirot. On this occasion RTC Prokuplje passed the National treasure chest on to RTC Naissus. Since it was close to the New Year’s Eve, we all decided to unify the Place Restaurant events into one great party. We all “Gral” had a great time that lasted till the early morning hours. Our President Milan Mladenovic took the opportunity to commend some of our members for being most active and helpful in running the Club: Jovana Perovic, Marija Perovic, Milena Balovic, Misa Petkovic and Stefan Mrsic.
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Rotaract club Nis-Constantine the Great Professional development lecture – “Types of personality and A.I.D.A. method of sale”
RTC “Nis – Constantine the Great” in the normal course of 203rd meeting had guest -lecturer Nikola Pejovic, coming President of Rotary Club “Nis – Center” and Regional Director for Corporate business at Erste Bank. This time we hosted over 40 dear friends from Rotaract clubs Niš, Naissus and Prokuplje. Since previously announced speaker Boban Mancev was unable, for justified reasons, to give the presentation, it turned out that this project has another good side and it is the possibility to rotate lectures. We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank Nikola, who after Boban’s withdrawal, in the spirit of a true Rotarian, immediately accepted and confirmed his arrival. Mr. Pejovic held a lecture titled: Personality types and A.I.D.A. method of sale, and we are especially pleased that, even though the lectures was planned to last a hour, we had the opportunity to enjoy a phenomenal lecture and discussion that lasted two hours. We hope that other, future lecturers will follow this example of "selfless service" and as Mr. Pejovic give their best to share their professional experience with all members of Rotaract and Rotary family. We thank all our guests for visiting us, and in the spirit of Rotary we share with you a part of the atmosphere from our meeting as well as Nikola's presentation and impressions. LINK: http://www.facebook.com/
JANUARY 30th
GOAL: Professional development
Place Regional Center for Education
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RTC “Nis – Constantine the Great”, in cooperation with other Rotaract Clubs from Nis, initiated for the first time in our city series of lectures on professional development.
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During regular Club meetings, every month Clubs will rotate organization of lectures, with other Clubs as guests. Themes of lectures will be useful to all members, regardless of their profession. First lecture will be held by Nikola Pejovic – member of Rotary Club “Nis – Center”. He works as Regional director for corporate business at Erste Bank. Theme of the lecture: “Types of personality and A.I.D.A. method of sale”. It is important to underline that the lecturers will be members of Rotary Clubs. Apart from the obvious gain for all members who attend the lectures and learn something new and useful, this project has a secondary goal: to increase cooperation between members of Rotary and Rotaract Clubs and their mutual acquaintance; to increase cooperation between Rotaract Clubs (coordination of lecturers and organization of common meetings); members of Rotaract Clubs will, once a month, have meetings outside of their regular meeting offices.
LINK: http://www.facebook.com/ events/293935853997632/
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Rotaract club NisConstantine the Great “Types of personality and A.I.D.A. method of sale”
Nikola Pejović Regional Head Corporate division Erste Bank
SALES TECHINQUES The little workshop that I had the pleasure of doing this Monday was really quite a thrill for me, reminding me just how much power and enthusiasm lies within our rotaract friends, reminding me once again what it felt like to be a rotaractor (which wasn't so long ago, to be honest, just a few years now). I was thrilled to be invited by RAC Nis and Constantine the Great to do the lecture/workshop about something that I consider myself to be rather good at....SALES. The point of the whole lecture was to do few things. First of all, it was essential to make these young people understand that sales are nothing that one should be ashamed of. It is true that due to various factors, sales people and sales in general have been quite negatively profiled in this country (something like Rotary, to be sincere), but it doesn't actually mean that it is something bad. It is unfortunately common view that sales man has to do what in games theory is being called a "game with zero sum". In this theory ones gain depends only on loss of another. If you put it that way, then it's true, sales people are wicked and want to sell you something that you did not want in the first place. But, real sales have got nothing to do with that. Okay, it is true that sometimes even those things happen, but the lecture was completely opposite from it. In fact, the point of good sales lies in a fact that you can not sell something that people DO NOT WANT !!! ner, or the encyclopedia that your mom was telling you about :)))
Therefore, it is essential to find the people that actually do care about your products/services/ whatever it is that you are selling. One more thing that I tried to point out is that in order to make good sales, you have to understand the needs of people. And in order to do that, you should ask them what they need....but guess what...they wont tell you... because they don't trust you, and they think that you are just one of those wicked sales people that wants to sell them something they don't really need (for example Kirby vacuum clea For that reason, it is essential to gain their trust. And the workshop was about all those small things that make them change their minds and shift into more favorable one, both for you and your product/service. Because, there is the expression that says: "you will never get a second chance to make a first impression", we were trying to understand what it is that leaves a good first impression. Further more, we focused on how to draw clients attention, how to make him become interested in what you have to offer. Afterwards, we would move into an area where we would do our best to make the client have the desire for what we have to offer, upon which the real final action would follow, and that is, of course the sale itself. Although it sounds easy, it isn't, not at all, give it a try, and you will see :)
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So we discussed the whole process of Attention - Interest Desire - Action, which among sales people is often called AIDA sales technique. I was trying to fill this theoretical lecture with as many practical examples as possible, and I had quite a few during my business career, since I have been in sales for quite a long time. Actually, among other things I also work as a freelance trainer for companies, so these trainings aren't exactly new to me. And what I always try to emphasize is the fact that EVERYTHING IS SALES. For that purpose with all those things that I have showed, I also tried to make a parallel how it can be implemented into everyday life situations. I concentrated on girls-boys relationship, and tried to show that when you go on a date with a girl/guy, you are actually selling yourself, your image, your "brand"....
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I personally believe that these bright young people understood what I had to say. What is even better, some of them were having examples of their own, making this workshop a "two way street" which is the real point of this whole action. Of course, all of this with loads of humor laughs etc. Just the perfect way to start the week (since I did it on Monday). I once again thank the RAC-ors for having me, and as it happens when people get carried away, instead of 45 minutes, the workshop lasted for almost 2 hours. Hopefully it wasn't a waste of time. I know it wasn't for me.
Nikola Pejović Regional Head Corporate division Erste Bank Rotary Club Niť-centar President 2012/2013 Honorary member RAC Nis
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Rotaract club Nis-Constantine the Great Visit to Rotary International day at UN Convention
Once again, the Rotary Day at United Nations had a lot to offer to over 1400 Rotarians from around the world that came for the weekend. It was especially helpful to younger population because it showed how to deal with some problems, proposed some solutions, and generated many ideas for developmental improvement of this world. Everyone gathered by 9 am in one of the conference rooms at United Nations headquarters in New York City. The program was organized into different sections: Opening panel, health panel, water panel, am closing panel, RI representatives’ panel, youth panel, and literacy panel. The discussions were led by RI representatives at UN but the main word had interesting speakers from different areas of expertise. Mr. Sakuji Tanaka, RI President-elect started the day welcoming Rotarians and pointing out to the main problems in the society. He then introduced others to show some ongoing projects across the globe. Some of the experts on the stage were: Timothy E. Wirth – President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund Dr. Jacob Kumaresan – Executive Director of the World Health Organization Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta – Professor at Aga Khan University Andrew Trevett – Senior Advisor, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Section, UNICEF John Hewko – RI General Secretary William B. Boyd – Chairman of the Rotary Foundation Ginny Wolfe – Senior Director of US Communications “The ONE Campaign”
Marko Zivkovic
PLACE: UN Headquarters, New York City
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MONTHLY REPORT OF ACTION JANUARY There were many other professors and Rotaractors who showed the initiative on some global projects. To summarize all of the discussions, Rotary International has 3400 clubs around the world with over 1.2 million Rotarians. The most successful and sustainable service they do falls within one of the following six areas: · Peace and conflict prevention/ resolution · Disease prevention and treatment · Water and sanitation · Maternal and child health · Basic education and literacy · Economic and community development PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION 6000 civilians are maimed or killed by land mines each year 42 million people are currently displaced by armed conflict or persecution 90% of casualties in armed conflicts are civilians, at least half are children 300000 child soldiers (boys and girls under 18) are believed to be involved in conflicts around the world Some of the ideas how to help are to offer support to marginalized groups, help children who have been orphaned, injured, or traumatized by conflict, provide relief to refugees, participate in fellowship and service activities, recruit candidates for a Rotary Peace Fellowship, and address underlying causes of conflict like disease, illiteracy, hunger, and poverty.
The Rotarians can prevent this by improving sanitation facilities, promote good hygiene habits, implement rainwater harvesting, and promote low-cost solutions such as chlorine tablets to improve water, provide point of use home water filters, or build water wells.
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MONTHLY REPORT OF ACTION JANUARY MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH − 9million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation − 40% of women in developing countries do not use contraception − 53 million unintended pregnancies could be prevented through family planning − 1 in 22 women will die during pregnancy and childbirth in Africa − 80% of maternal deaths could be prevented with access to reproductive health services and trained health care workers In this area, Rotarians can provide immunizations and antibiotics, promote good nutrition, prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, provide access to family planning, provide birthing kits, or support accredited training programs for health professionals.
BASIC EDUCATION AND LITERACY − 31% of secondary school teachers in low-income countries are not professionally trained − 75 million children worldwide - 41 million of them girls - have no access to education − 677 million people over age of 15are illiterate
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Some solutions can be seen in providing teacher training, sending a vocational training team, developing adult literacy programs, serving as mentors, volunteering in classroom, supporting concentrated language encounter, and promoting student enrollment.
ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT − 1.4 billion people - nearly half of them employed – live on less then US $1.25 a day − 190 million people have accessed microcredit funds Rotarians can partner with local microfinance institutions, provide equipment or supplies, expand vocational training, or send a vocational training team to teach business leaders how to maintain accurate financial accounting. Also, they can promote the development of mobile banking resources. Rotary International reminded us again this year of the Millennium Development Goals:
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MONTHLY REPORT OF ACTION JANUARY Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day Target 2: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people Target 3: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Target 1: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 1: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Target 1: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate Goal 5: Improve maternal health Target 1: Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio Target 2: Achieve universal access to reproductive health
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After the long day of talking, all the Rotaractors went to a cocktail party held at the nearby bar. All the profit from entry tickets will be used for donations and charities. The unofficial and more relaxed part at the bar was even more interesting. We finally had a chance to meet each other, chat, share ideas and experiences. This was the best opportunity for getting and establishing most of the contacts. It was great to hear stories from clubs from Washington DC, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and even couple of clubs from Canada. I also saw again Rotaractors that I met before and after the cocktail party, we headed to enjoy the beauty of New York City and Manhattan. To conclude the story, the trip was again enormous experience for me and the club. I saw a lot of new things and found out some ways to be more creative. It made me think of new approaches to generate some ideas for possible actions. Marko Zivkovic 17
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