This Week - A Business Meeting

 There's not much you can say about a Business Meeting, only speculate only that the new projects, Sichaba and assisting with employment and training for New Jerusalem Orphanage will be discussed.  Maybe a cartoon is the only answer.

On Sunday many Club members will be assisting Retina SA's Ride for Sight as marshals.....followed by a social breakfast all ably organised by PP Mike de Beer and his team.

Last Week

Though only one of our new members, Nivash Singh, was able to be present and talk it certainly gave a very interesting insight into what is involved in the IT industry.  Nivash is obviously very successful in developing the skills learnt during his degree course in moving from software development into software architecture where there is obviously a great shortage of expertise as he moves from one company to another  and currently to UJ.  In the relatively short time I have known him he has moved from security systems in New York to medical aid and now the university.  Thanks, Nivash, for an enlightening talk.

Next Week

Dave Collier will be talking to us about aspects of professional baking.  He has already helped the club with advice on the bakery set up at Cresset House and the St Vincent de Paul Society with the layout of an industrial kitchen to increase their production for feeding the homeless and impoverished people in retirement villages and homes.  

International - Honduras

Nearly 40 percent of adolescents are not in secondary school in Honduras, where educational achievement scores are low. The Rotary clubs of Tegucigalpa Sur and Peterborough, Ontario, teamed up to address the issue. In 2018 the clubs, which have collaborated on projects before, constructed a teacher training center in the municipality of Lepaterique and supplied books and other learning materials. Most recently, the clubs partnered with a nonprofit organization and the country’s Ministry of Education to provide literacy training to primary school teachers. “Sixteen-hour workshops are being held on a rotating basis with 160 teachers” representing 62 schools, says Marie Press, a member of the Peterborough club. “The feedback has been incredibly positive.”