Rotaract District Newsletter | February 2022 | Issue 8

LEADERSHIP . INTERGRITY . DIVERSITY . ADAPTABILITY . LEARNING

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from District Rotaract Representative

Updates from District Team

Our collaborations

RI Updates

Rotaractors and Rotaractors' family members We're seven months into the year, and we've picked up some new virtual abilities and realized that virtual meetings are here to stay.

The buzzwords or phrases like "virtual meeting fatigue" have worn off, and we've settled into the reality of what has become routine. You and I have both survived, and we are both aware that COVID-19 is here to stay. It is up to us to adapt and keep ourselves secure.

The 2021 District Conference, as you are all aware, will be a physical event that will be both thrilling and worthwhile of your time. Please make sure your club is registered

for

the

14th

Rotary

District

Conference.

We

hope

you

will

join

us,

whether individually or in a group. We will take every precaution to ensure that the

perfect

Conference

is

set

up,

so

that

you

can

create

the

conference

atmosphere by fellowshipping, if permitted by your COVID-19 safety protocols.

Rtr. Summit Bajracharya District Rotaract Representative Rotary International District 3292

Stay safe and stay tuned as we provide more information!

UPDATES FROM DISTRICT TEAM 2021-22 Rotary Scholarship Webinar Rotaract District organized a webinar on Rotary Scholarships where our speaker was Rtn. Karen Eveleigh on Jan 10,2022.

Karen Eveleigh is the District Governor for Rotary District 1090 in the Thames Valley in southern England. She joined Rotary in 2009 and focused on club activities for the first two years.

She then joined the district Foundation Team and supported the group study exchange program and the vocational training team program, both international programs within the Rotary Foundation.

Topics that were covered: The Rotary Global Grant scholarship program worldwide Other types of Rotary scholarships How we support Rotary Scholars in our district How we work with the universities in our district to promote the scholarships A few options for funding global grant scholarships

UPDATES FROM DISTRICT TEAM 2021-22 Official Club Visits of District Rotaract Representative We had our DRR Visits in three clubs this month. We had an amazing experience interacting with all the members during our visit and appreciate for inviting us to your club.

Rotaract Club of Baneshwor - Jan 3, 2022

Rotaract Club of Central Lumbini - Jan 4, 2021

Rotaract Club of Kopundol - Jan 8, 2021

Rotaract Club of Central Siyari - Jan 9, 2021

Rotaract Club of Liberty College - Jan 11, 2021

Rotaract Club of Swoyambhu - Jan 15, 2021

Reach out to our District Secretary for scheduling the official visit in your club!

ROTARACT DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING #1

RI president-elect announces 2022-23 presidential theme Rotary International President-elect Jennifer Jones wants members to imagine the possibilities in the change they can make to transform the world.

Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, revealed the 2022-23 presidential theme, Imagine Rotary, as she urged people to dream big and harness their connections and the power of Rotary to turn those dreams into reality.

“Imagine, a world that deserves our best,” Jones told incoming district governors on 20 January, “where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference.”

Jones, who will make history on 1 July by becoming Rotary’s first female president, gave a live online address

Embracing change also means embracing new club

to precede Rotary’s annual training event for district

models, Jones said, as she asked the incoming governors

governors from around the world, the International

to form at least two new innovative or cause-based clubs

Assembly. The assembly was rescheduled because of the

during their term. “Let’s make sure we engage our

COVID-19 pandemic and will now be held virtually 7-14

members so they love their clubs and their Rotary

February.

experience,” she added.

Jones told the incoming governors about a chance she

Jones also announced the appointment of a Rotaract

took when a member asked for assistance in getting a

member as a Rotary public image coordinator and said

young peace activist out of Afghanistan during the U.S.

that she has included Rotaractors on several committees

troop withdrawal last year. At first unsure how she could

and will assign some Rotaractors as president’s

help, she relied on “that certain Rotary magic” and

representatives.

contacted a former Rotary Peace Fellow she had met a few years earlier. Less than 24 hours later, the activist

“We have been entrusted with leadership in our great

was on an evacuation list, and soon she was on her way

organization,” Jones said. “Now it is up to us to be brave

to Europe.

and intentional in our actions, and let others help us lead.”

Engaging members through meaningful responsibility To better engage members, Rotary needs to “adapt and

Jones noted that Rotary has little time left to achieve the

retool,” Jones said, using her hometown as an example.

RI Board of Directors’ goal of having women make up 30%

Windsor was once the automotive hub of Canada. But

of Rotary’s members by 2023. Rotary has achieved this in

after plant closings left thousands without work, the city

more than 110 countries, she said, but it has a long way to

needed to retool, in the same way an auto plant would,

go. She pointed out that Rotaract has already achieved

preparing for new parts or a new model. Now, Jones said,

50% female members.

Windsor is a leader in agribusiness and medical and aerospace technology.

To raise Rotary’s profile, Jones plans to hold a global impact tour that will include talking with leaders about

For Rotary, “finding the right ‘part’ to engage each

working together to address the world’s most pressing

member should be our core function,” Jones said. “It

challenges. “Rotary opens these doors and we need to

comes down to the comfort and care of our members.”

harness our connections, to deepen these relationships

Engaging members is crucial to retaining members, she

and create new partnerships,” Jones said. “And the best

said, adding that we need to ask members what they want

part is, this can happen at every level of leadership.”

to get from Rotary and give them meaningful

Jones closed her address by saying that although we all

responsibilities.

have dreams, acting on them is a choice we make. When an organization like Rotary dreams about big things like

“It is our offer of hands-on service, personal growth,

ending polio and creating peace, she said, it becomes our

leadership development, and lifelong friendships that

responsibility to make them happen. “You don’t imagine

creates purpose and passion,” Jones said.

yesterday,” Jones said, “you imagine tomorrow.”

RI UPDATES Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation release position statement on COVID-19 vaccination As

the

first

organization

to

envision

a

polio-free

world through mass immunization of children, Rotary believes

that

vaccination

is

a

humanitarian

imperative.

Vaccines

have

advances

of

proved

modern

Eradication

Initiative

vaccine

saved

has

to

be

one

medicine. estimates

more

than

of

The

20

the

greatest

Global

that

the

million

Polio polio

children

from paralysis. Vaccines are safe and effective, and they

are

responsible

for

eliminating

or

controlling

many diseases, including smallpox, measles, rubella, and Ebola. And now they offer an opportunity to end the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read the position statement

Promote the power of vaccines for World Immunization Week With

their

eradicate role

in

decades polio,

of

Rotary

publicizing

the

experience members

power

working

can

of

play

vaccines.

a

to key

World

Immunization Week, 24-30 April, gives Rotary and Rotaract

clubs

an

opportunity

to

raise

awareness

of the part that vaccines play in saving lives — as well as of the critical need to continue supporting global polio vaccination for children and COVID-19 vaccines for all.

Because worked

Rotary hard

to

members counter

and

our

vaccine

partners hesitancy

have and

reach all children with the polio vaccine, the world has

seen

a

99.9%

reduction

in

polio

cases

since

1988. Our fight against polio is proof that vaccines work.

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