This Week is Labour Day...no meeting.

Last Week

Captain Stefan Bulow gave us a very interesting talk on the latest developments with the SA Aghulas and it's conversion into a Research Vessel and a Seafarer Training Vessel.

Unfortunately I cannot download audio on blogger having tried all the tricks so I have attached an edited version to this email.  Considerable money has been spent on making the ship seaworthy but there are even bigger plans for the future.  Stefan talks initially about the problems acquiring the vessel and the support from the German government for the  project.  Just click on the link.  In the meantime here is a video of the official handover of the vessel.

Next Week

It's a business meeting about which there is little to say.  

Our club business meetings are always preceded by a board meeting so there is no delay in getting club
approval for suggestions from the board.  What is most important, the treasurer has already said that we can or cannot afford any proposals!

Social Meeting Saturday 11th May @ Belgravia Bowls Club

The breakfast will be at Belgravia at 9 o'clock. It will be a fixed menu at R70,00 p.p. Coffee and cappuccino will be on sale at an extra cost. 

The breakfast consists of Bacon,  eggs, tomato, mince or pork sausage and toast. If you have mince and pork sausage it will be R80. 

Please let Ray Hewson know by Monday 6th May.  Just click on his name to book.

International - Nigeria

Nigeria has one of the world’s highest breast cancer mortality rates, a statistic that has not gone unnoticed by the Rotary Club of Ikoyi. “With an incredibly scary rise of the incidence of breast cancer in Nigeria, the club became saddled with the huge responsibility of combating this scourge with every resource available,” says club member Winifred Ebiye Imbasi. The club partnered with the Sarah Ayoka Oduwaiye Foundation to conduct free breast cancer screenings for more than 500 women at Lagos Island General Hospital in July 2023 and for 400 women in the neighborhood of Obalende in December. In January, the club held a Jazz Nite concert and awards ceremony at the Alliance Française theater to raise awareness.