Major initiative for the club - Turkish Student Nurse Fundraiser
All members are encouraged to participate in some way in this initiative. Hold a fund raising event, visit a local Rotary Club and give a presentation, donate a recipe for the e-recipe book we will produce, promote our initiative on your social media in your workplaces. We will establish a Go Fund me link.
Below is the first video that we have produced which we can use to promote what we as a Rotary Club are doing to assist our Turkish student nurse colleagues.
Our next Club Meeting will be Tuesday 23rd May, commencing at 1830hrs. Zoom room opens at 1800hrs AEST for meet, greet and fellowship. Guest presenter is Maria Lisa Clemente 'Understanding negligence in nursing / midwifery in order to avoid it'.
Zoom link: (Please note: this zoom link will be used for all
education sessions every 4th Tuesday of each month )
President Mavis will induct President Elect Sally to the Club President role which Sally will officially commence on the 1st July 2023. We will also announce Paul Harris Fellow Recognition from the club for this current Rotary year.
Nursing Essentials Conference on the 20th & 21st July
Here is the link for the fund raiser that is being organised by Sue (thank you) and as you know some of our members have volunteered their time to be involved over the 2 days. For those of you who live in Qld especially please forward this link to colleagues and invite them to come along.
We also now have a page on our website dedicated to the fund raiser and I invite all of you to invite colleagues to share the link and reason for the conference.
Link for conference - copy and paste into your server
Global Nurses & Midwives Rotary Club - GNMRC e-Cook Book - a project all members of the club can participate in
Our writing team Maria, Shehla, Dolly and Wendy are delighted to say we are now ready to do the next step in our GNMRC e-cook book. Please open the attachment below to find out more information and also to see the information that the writing time invite you to present to us in order to create the e-book. We envisage our readers with be Rotarians, nursing & midwifery colleagues and more general public who like cooking and stories.
Gold Coast Benji
Some members met Gold Coast Benji at one of our meetings in 2021.
Benji has raised millions of dollars for various charities over a number of years.
Benji and his handler Karin Kolenko have volunteered to assist us. Rotarian Jules will liaise with Karin re same https://goldcoastbenji.com.au/
We need you, our members, to make this the best Rotary Club possible.
Two other fundraising possibilities. We would appreciate if someone can volunteer to coordinate the following:
Gold Coin Donation day
The role would require a member to contact universities / hospitals / professional bodies about our Turkish Student Nurse Fundraiser and the club and invite them to have a Gold Coin Awareness Day to assist our colleagues in Turkey.
Project Portfolio leads are Louise Webber & Jules Aitken. Louise and Jules are open to suggestions from members. At last meeting, Louise and Jules presented a number of suggestions raised by members of our club to support student nurses in Turkey. At present, the decoupage and pot painting day at Maggie's house has been planned and a seminar arranged by fellow member, Sue has been planned for July 21st and 22nd. A number of our members will present and all profits will go to this cause.
Education Lead
Nicole Purcell has the role of Education Lead for the club. Nicole is looking forward to ensuring quality education / information sessions for our members on the 4th Tuesday of each month.
If you have an idea for a presenter / topics please let Nicole know, she would love to hear from you. Nicole can be contacted at kelsoqueen29@gmail.com.
Club Projects
We are a very busy Club - below is a snapshot of the projects that we are currently involved in.
Hello Rotarians As you are aware the Three C’s Cafe Check in Connect Chat is one of our major projects. The Three C’s Cafe offers a virtual space for colleagues to come into for a chat about professional matters of interest to them / and a space in which to be supported. The cafe is open to colleagues where ever they are in the world. The cafe is open to members of this club and non members.
Wendy commenced an 8 week training course for new facilitators on March 1st.
Shelter Box is an exceptional organisation that our Club has partnered with. They provide emergency relief to people around the world who have been made homeless by natural disasters and conflict.
We have pledged to fund five Shelter Boxes each year for the next 3 years. The cost is $1000 per Shelter Box and we raise funds for this through raffles and events held at Education Conferences conducted by the Nurses for Nurses Network and Education at Sea.
A big thank you to the work of Sue, Jason and Louise to make this happen. Shelterbox is very active in Turkey and Syria due to the recent devastating earthquakes. Wendy, charter president, donated $2 000 to shelterbox this February after the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
The Rotary Solar Case has been developed, first and foremost, to provide light in remote health centres, aiding health workers where the availability of electricity is problematic at the best of times. The ability to provide portable lights for village birthing assistants is a major priority in areas where women often give birth in village huts or village health centres where the light from kerosene lanterns or mobile phones is otherwise the best available alternative.
Rotary Solar Case Pilot - Phillipines - first case has arrived safely.
The Solar Case Pilot Study has now been sent to Mialem, Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. Please see attached photo and video for the documentation, together with the map that pinpoint the location of Mialem.
Rotary of Ozamiz North through the effort of PP Princess Suico, reached Mialem and met with the Barangay (Suburb) Captain and Councils together with the Public Midwife and provided information session on how to operate the Solar Case and given the items together with it.
The Barangay Captain, Councils, Midwives, together with their constituents are very thankful and appreciative of this great help in their community, especially, they have no electricity and the recent damages they sustained from the last Storms during December.
Social Media & Website
We would like to thank Sue for the work she has done in developing our Public Relations and social media portfolio.
New Rotarian & member to our club Zoe (from Mexico) is taking up the portfolio from Sue and we look forward to seeing the ways in which she can continue to raise our club profile out there in the world.
LinkedIn
It is great to see that gradually our followers on LinkedIn are increasing.
Fabulous to see that some of our LinkedIn posts are also being posted on Rotary International LinkedIn which has over 197,000 followers.
Facebook
Big thanks to Sue for the fun and informative daily posts on our club Facebook.
Remember follow and share our links as you see them.
May is Youth Service (formerly called New Generations) Month when Rotary Clubs, around the world focus on youth services, Rotaract, Interact, RYLA, Youth Exchange.
Imagine Rotary, the theme for 2022-2023
The theme graphic was designed by an Australian indigenous artist to link with the Melbourne convention in 2023. Circle - connections to one another.
If you want to know the date of any of the Club Meetings or Events then go to the events page on the website.
Meeting agendas and minutes are sent out by the club Secretary attached to an email a few days before the meeting takes place. If you are not receiving those emails then contact the Club Secretary on secretary.gnmrotaryclub@gamail.com
2023
27th-31st May - Rotary International Conference - Melbourne Australia
13th June - 2nd Club Changeover
11th-14th June - ICM Triennial Congress - Bali Indonesia
1st - 5th July - ICN - Congress - Montreal Canada
20th & 21st July - 2 day conference Nursing Fundamentals on the Sunshine Coast Qld - Major event for the Turkish Student Nurses Fund raiser - all members invited to attend
9-11th August - Australian College of Nurses National Nursing Forum, Adelaide Convention Centre. PP Wendy has had a presentation about the Three C’s cafe accepted and we hope to have a booth to showcase our club.
Our Club Information Brochure
We have created a Global Nurses and Midwives Club Brochure that we can use to give out to people in they are interested in joining us or want to know what we are about.
Please have a look at the Brochure and distribute it to Nurses and Midwives who you think would be interested in Joining our Club.
If you would like to present to other Nursing colleagues or to other Rotary Clubs in your area about the Global Nurses and Midwives Rotary Club Wendy and her team have created a Powerpoint presentation and notes to assist you.
As with all the documents that are referred to in the Bulletin these resources are available for you to download from the website. Just log in to the Member's area and choose the documents tab. Our website address is https://gnmrotaryclub.com/
Have you accessed the Members Website?
The Members area of the Global Nurses and Midwives Website houses a lot of information about our club.
You can find all the documents that are discussed at meetings and in the Bulletin, plus check your own details, communicate with other Members and there is an App you can download so you can access info anywhere, anytime.
