The Club's current project is: "Providing clean drinking water in the desert of Egypt using sustainable solar power"
The Club has also recently been involved in:
- The Freesia School in Bangalore, India
- The Leefkringhuis in Amsterdam
- ARCA, Brazil
- Clean Water, Thailand
- Fish & Ships, Sri Lanka
- Happy Home Orphanage, Thailand
- Hellabeem, Sri Lanka
- Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi
News from Members
Mark,minutes from last week's Board Meeting attached.Catching up with potential new member next week who showed interest at the BBQ.
Owen has issued a draft set of Accounts for last financial year for comment
Andre,visiting from Chatswood Club advised of Octoberfest Dinner being set up by Chatswood-Roseville plus Parramatta Clubs at Terry Hills on Friday,the 30th of September.$75/head for food and drink.All in aid of Shelterbox for Ukraine.
Angelo making great progress on the Trifecta,although he will be travelling for a few months(not back until October),Mark will be continuing with the mail out,Ross will be collecting the tickets from the printer and mailling out and Bill will organise the collection,stapling and distribution amongst our Club Members,who will be receiving 100 tickets each.
Sue advises that the District Grant for Marys House is now with Foundation,which is currently being reviewed and hopefully approved.This project involves the setting up of special communication devices between the various houses that the Organisation operates.
Ian advised members that effective from September we will have a new Meeting schedule.involving a face to face Meeting at Lunchtime for the first Monday in the month and an evening Meeting for the last Monday in the month .In between we will have one Zoom Meeting,which will mean for a four week month there will be one week's break and for a five week month,two weeks break.For actual dates refer above under "Next Meeting"
Howard advised that with our last BBQ,although turnover was down,with the one dollar rise in the price of the sausage sizzle,our profit was up to $1688 for the day.
Next BBQ,this coming Saturday ,the 13th,and the next a fortnight later,the 27th.