A big welcome to 2023, fellow Rotarians. We trust that you enjoyed your Christmas and New Year with family and friends. This year promises to be another successful year for our club and we look forward to working together to support our colleagues across the world and making positive changes for people in many communities.
Past president, Wendy, is currently working in Cambodia for two weeks. Wendy is not sure how reliable the internet will be, but hopefully will be able to join us for the meeting on the 10th January. Enjoy your trip, Wendy and no doubt you will be able to enjoy some down time exploring this wonderful country.
Treasurer Jeff is heading overseas for holidays with his family. We hope you have a great time, Jeff.
Travel safely, Wendy and Jeff.
First meeting for 2023 Our first get together as a club in 2023 will be on Tuesday the 10th January and our guest speaker will be Craig Fitzpatrick from the World Continuing Education Alliance. We look forward to welcoming back all our members to the new year. See the link below.
President Elect Sally will be demonstrating a dish from Tanzania to welcome us into the new year. The recipe is now available in this bulletin.
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.
End Polio Now
The Three C's Cafe
Hello Rotarians, welcome to 2023 and the fabulous news that we will be reopening our Three Cs Cafe commencing on the 23rd February 2023. The cafe will open twice a month on Thursdays 1800-1900 AEST. I will be providing more training for those members who wish to be Cafe facilitators. The more facilitators we have, the more cafes we can open in different time zones. I will be commencing the training in March 2023.
Please watch the video below for more information and give me an email if you wish to become a cafe facilitatory. Wendy Mac..PP GNMRC
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 Pakistan currently due to the major flooding that has caused devastation recently.
Project lead Cecelia Flomo invites members of the club who are interested in being involved in this project to contact her and then, as a team, they can determine future progress for the project
The Florence Nightingale International Foundation (FNIF), the charitable arm of ICN, launched the Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF) in 2005 with the mission of supporting access to education for the orphaned daughters of nurses in developing countries.
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.
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
January's Recipe
Song & Dance Fundraiser Update
2023
24th-26th March - District 9620 Conference Leadership Hands, Mind Heart & Mind Brisbane Australia. The conference will be celebrating 100 years of Rotary in Qld. There is a great line up of speakers (see link below). Registration for the conference is also in the link. It would be great to have a good representation from our club attend the conference and a great change for us to catch up in the same space together.
27th-31st May - Rotary International Conference - Melbourne Australia
11th-14th June - ICM Triennial Congress - Bali Indonesia
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.
