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District Corner - The Allied Health Training Activity

The Allied Health Training activity to be held in Kiribati during May 2020 (dates to be confirmed) will run alongside a surgical team visit who are travelling to Kiribati through the generous support of another donor. This will be the second allied health training activity to Kiribati following an inaugural visit in May 2019. The program will be delivered at the Tungaru Central Hospital in Tarawa, Kiribati.

Why am I a Rotarian?

I started going to Rotary with Steve in mid 2014. Steve was a member of the Porirua Sundowner club, a small but very friendly club Steve had joined a couple of years earlier. I was warmly welcomed and they did lots of social activities so it was very easy to fit in. The big fundraiser each year was Christmas wrapping at the Porirua Mall, which was a lot of fun. So when we moved to Auckland during 2015 we agreed that we'd join a local club as a way to become part of the local community and to continue all the good things we'd enjoyed at the Porirua Club, helping in the community and being with other positive socially minded folk. I enjoy working with and helping people - as I do working at Starship hospital. When I am required and available, I love helping with the Breakfast in Schools programme. I also really enjoyed helping with the youth camp at Kokako Lodge. My shift work at Starship Children's hospital means I am not able to attend as many weekly meetings as I want to so would like to thank you all for your understanding on this.

Karen

Welcome to Lars Lundo-Nielson

Lars Lundo-Nielson is welcomed into the Club by President Grant Matheson

Born in Denmark 1967, Lars spent much of his childhood living a nomadic lifestyle rarely spending more that 2 years in one place. During the 1st 10 years, he lived in 3 different cities in Greenland.

Lars attended high school but decided this was not for him and switched to Tech to have a dabble with electronics.

During this time he heard about the Navy looking for people to join their electronics and computing courses. Thinking this sounded great, Lars applied to join and spent the next 7 years training, graduating and working at various positions as a computer technician.

Lars met Nicky in 1992, on a holiday to the Greek islands and started a long distance relationship (UK and DK) which eventually took him to the UK for a few years, working in various computing roles starting in retail then big corporates.

In 1996 the couple visited NZ and got married. They fell in love with NZ so went back to UK to save up a bit of money.

Late 1998 Lars and Nicky arrived back in NZ and Lars got a job with a computing company for a couple of years. He moved to Merck Sharp and Dohme (multinational pharmaceutical) where he has been for the last 18 years, now working for them as a self employed contractor.

Along the way Lars and Nicky had 2 lovely daughters, Katrine and Pia. Katrine is currently away on Rotary Exchange to Denmark, sponsored by Pukekohe Rotary club and Pia is in year 12 at Rosehill College.