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Mike's Musings
It was rewarding to see another good turnout of members at this week’s meeting and committees were able to discuss their upcoming programmes.
Malcolm was a much happier man this week to receive a good selection of raffle prizes and members buying up a good number of raffle tickets-remember they are $5 each or 5 tickets for $20. The proceeds of the raffle allow the club to buy hams and other foodstuffs so that families that would otherwise miss out can have a great Christmas dinner. Please continue to bring items for the next few weeks by bringing them along at the next few Rotary meetings, the Glascow residence or the Hobman residence
 
Finally, please respond to your invitation to attend the Christmas lunch on November 20th at Maxwells. Cost is $50.00 per head.
 
See you all next week-it is speakers reporting back about their MUNA experience.
 
Mike's Musings
Mike’s Musings
Another great turnout to this week’s meeting to hear an interesting and informative presentation from a wonderful bunch of young men from the Clevedon Venturers group. This group is heading off on a trip of a lifetime to South Korea in July to attend a World Venturers Jamboree. They have a lot of fundraising still to complete and we all wish them well in their efforts to get to Korea.
Malcolm was disappointed with the first week’s haul of donations for the Christmas raffle so please make amends this week. He would like products such as chutney, cheeses, chocolates, wine, and other such goodies. Please drop the goods off at the next few Rotary meetings, the Glascow residence or the Hobman residence. Tickets are now available at $5 each from the next meeting. The proceeds of the raffle allow the club to buy hams and other foodstuffs so that families that would otherwise miss out can have a great Christmas dinner.
I did mention that I am looking for members to take up the challenge of being a director of our club in my year.
Finally, please respond to your invitation to attend the Christmas lunch on November 20th at Maxwells. Cost is $50.00 per head.
See you all next week-it is committee meetings.
Xmas Raffle

TO ALL MEMBERS 

 

Well it is that time of the year again.

We would like to invite members to bring a Xmas goodie of some description for Raewyn and Dawn to put together and make up Xmas raffle prizes, as they have done in previous years. Raffle tickets will be sold to members and others who would like to purchase them and the raffle will be drawn on the day of the Rotary Xmas function in November. 

For those of you who not know, the monies from these raffles is used to purchase hams and some other Xmas edibles to be delivered by Rotary members to people who have children they are unable to provide any Xmas dinner for. These people are sourced by 2 or 3 Rotary members who are in the know of where to source these families names and addresses. These people must reside in the Papakura area.  Please help us out once again and you can either bring goodies to our Rotary meeting or deliver to either Malcolm or Barry at their homes. Dawn and Raewyn will be working on these raffle prizes on 17th and 18th November. 

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Mike's Musings
Mike’s Musings
Great to see another good attendance at Rotary this week and we were privileged to hear from Danielle Bergin, our guest speaker, who talked about her long-term project The Island Child Charitable trust. Danielle spoke with real passion about her journey from being homeless herself to setting up a village to set up many others into a life with a much better future. I have added a couple of links that detail her work.
This coming week there is a change in venue. On Wednesday 19th October we will be meeting for breakfast at Melba in Karaka at 7.00am. Please email me if you are coming as the restaurant would like an indication of numbers-Anne will be back to run the meeting but only arrives back in NZ a day or so before.
We will then be back at the Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club on the 26th October.
The club has been successful in gaining the additional funds to run the Santa Parade which is encouraging and hopefully with the paperwork completed it is all go for December 4th. Please make yourself available on this day-all leave is cancelled.
Have a great week
Mike
Musings from Mike
 
I hope you all had a great weekend-it was certainly better weather than the previous one.
Firstly, my sincere apologies for the delay in getting meals to several members. A bit of a communication breakdown-I did not realise I had to contact the Cosmopolitan Club to advise we were attending so when they did not hear from us, they were not ready for the 29 members that attended. I have confirmed we will be attending this week so there will not be the same issue.
On dinners-a thought. If you are looking for a meal apart from carvery, it might be a good idea to order the meal when you arrive at the club and ask for it to be ready for 6pm-hopefully this will speed things up as far as getting dinners out to members.
Thanks to Andrew and Kelvin for their presentation about the progress on the Xmas Parade. What a mission to get all of the requirements sorted but hopefully all the paperwork will be ticked off and the best ever Xmas parade will take place.
A good round of committee meetings were held and judging by the time they ended, some good discussions must have taken place.
We have a very interesting guest speaker this week-Danielle Bergin from Island Child Charitable Trust-I have supplied a bio for you to read.
See you all Wednesday
Best wishes,
Mike
 
This week’s guest speaker
CEO Danielle Bergin founded Island Child Charitable Trust-the original aim was to provide medical aid to families in the Pacific, hence the name. In 2008 Danielle established an organisational base in Tāmaki. Her own experiences of homelessness led her to reach out to homeless Māori and Pacific whānau.
Over the next decade, Island Child developed a hardworking team, organisational infrastructure, wide-ranging networks, and funding relationships to support an evolving 12-week residential programme. Earning Child, Youth and Family Services accreditation status led to government contracts.
In 2018 they purchased and began renovating three neighbouring properties, with support from a variety of agencies and were able to triple their transitional housing capacity.
Since then, they have partnered with Tāmaki Regeneration Company to increase transitional housing service delivery in Tāmaki. They now manage a TRC transportable housing village at Tripoli Road in Panmure.
 
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Papakura (Inc)

We meet In Person
Wednesdays at 5:30 PM
Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club
6/10 Alfriston Road
Manurewa
Auckland,  2102
New Zealand
We have 1 breakfast meeting on a Wednesday morning at 7.00am at: Melba Karaka 47 Harbourside Drive, Karaka, Auckland 2580 Please contact the president to confirm the weeks venue and start time
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Richard Duncan - Niue Honey
Jan 25, 2023
The Pacific Bee sanctuary
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