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Editorial FFFuture Vision Pilot:
What is being said about
Scholarships!!
As you may know, The Rotary
Foundation is making some major
changes that will allow Rotarians to
make an even greater impact with their
educational and humanitarian efforts.
In creating the Future Vision Plan, the
Trustees developed a grant model
designed to reflect Rotarians’ service
interests, attract other leading
organizations to work with us and
enable us to achieve greater success.
You know already about the three-year
pilot of the plan, well, the new grant
model will be launched to the entire
Rotary world come July 1, 2013.
The way in which the Foundation
supports scholarships will change
under the new model.
Ambassadorial Scholarships will end
in 2013, but new opportunities
available through the Foundation’s
district and global grants will give
districts greater flexibility in
determining scholarships.
What will this mean for 7020?
Using a district grant, you can sponsor
undergraduate or graduate students
studying any subject, both locally and
overseas. In addition, the scholarship
may cover from a six-week language
training program to a year or more of
university study.
February 2012
Volume 1, Issue 4
Inside this issue: Editorial 1
World Peace 2
Fellowships
Rotary World 3
Peace Fellowships
Making a Difference 4
in Haiti
Zone 34 Global Service 5
to Humanity Award
Nominee
What’s Going On 6
Using a global grant, you can support
scholarships for graduate students
studying overseas (only) in one of the
six areas of focus.
Global grant scholarships range from
one to four years in length, which
allows you to support entire degree
programs if you wish. These
scholarships are funded using cash and/
or DDF and are matched by the World
Fund, making them cost effective.
The new grant model has significantly
shortened the timeline for scholar
selection. Under ambassadorial
scholarship, you would begin selecting
scholars for academic year 2013/14 in
2013.
In the meantime I encourage you to
take a look and learn more about the
foundation’s new grant model by
visiting Rotary’s website e learning
centre, particularly the module focused
on scholarships.
District 7020
Rotary Foundation
Newsletter
The Rotary Foundation is now
accepting applications for the
Master’s and Certificate
programmes for the 2013/14
academic year. Complete
applications must be submitted by
May 31, 2012.
Club administrations should give
serious consideration to including
the World Peace Fellowship in
their annual program. Our district
certainly has much more need for
people skilled in the art of
diplomacy, mediation and conflict
resolution, than is reflected in the
focus we are giving to this
opportunity.
The peace fellowship program was
developed to meet this very need
as explained thus:
The main purpose of the World
Peace Fellowship program which
came on course in 2002, is to
advance research, teaching,
publication, and knowledge of
issues of peace, goodwill, causes of
conflict, and world understanding;
to provide advanced international
educational opportunities for a
group of Rotary World Peace
ROTARY WORLD PEACE FELLOWSHIPS
Fellows chosen from different
countries and cultures on the
basis of their potential as leaders
in government, business,
education ,media, and other
professions; and to provide a
means for the Rotary Foundation
of Rotary International and the
member clubs, to increase their
effectiveness in promoting greater
tolerance and cooperation among
peoples, leading to world
understanding and peace.
Applicants can be drawn from:-
i. Departments of International
Studies, International
Relations, Political Science,
Peace Studies and Conflict
Resolution at local
universities.
ii. Non-governmental
organizations involved in
Human rights, Disaster Relief,
Aid Distribution,
Environmental Advocacy and
other issues related to peace
and international co-
operation.
iii. Government agencies such as,
departments of State, Foreign
ministries, Diplomatic
Corps and other Civil
Servants
iv. International Volunteer
agencies.
v. Mediation, arbitration and
dispute resolution groups.
vi. University Alumni
associations
The Master’s program is 16-24
months in duration and the
Certificate program is for
three months only.
Fellow Rotarians, I know this
will take some effort to find
the candidates but it is our
duty to search and find such
candidates – THAT’s WHY
WE ARE ROTARIANS.
For further information
please contact:-
Donald Barnett
District Rotary Peace
Fellowship Chair.
Tel. 876-9671211 (cell) 876-
9090230.
We are the world, we are Rotarians We are the ones who make a brighter day So let's start giving There's a choice we're making We're saving our own lives it's true we'll make a better day Just you and me
Chorus from Michael Jackson’s "We're The World (USA For Africa)"
D6910 (Georgia, USA) Partners with D7020 (Caribbean) to Make a Difference in Haiti
D6910 (Georgia, USA) has partnered with D7020 and the Rotary Club of Pignon, Haiti to support the Jaipur Limb Project in Pignon. This project provides limbs, free of charge, to amputees. The Jaipur Limb Clinic in Haiti is one of several around the world - originally inspired by the clinic in Jaipur, India that is strongly supported by Rotarians and the Inner Wheel. Some parts of D6910's project are complete - for example, the 12-passenger 4-wheel drive vehicle shown above is already in use transporting limb clinic patients and pregnant women to the Hospital Bienfaisance, where the Jaipur Limb Clinic is located. In November 2011, a group of Rotarians traveled to Pignon to inspect the clinic and evaluate needs for ongoing projects such as the outfitting of three of the clinic's buildings. For the 2011-2012 year, D6910 is again partnering with D7020 and the RC of Pignon to fund and deliver a new septic system for the Hospital Bienfaisance, as the 20-year old system is failing. With the relocation of tens of thousand of people away from Port Au Prince to Pignon, the hospital has taken on an even larger responsibility for health care. It is imperative that the septic system be replaced this year as the alternative would be to reduce the volume of patients at the hospital until a new system could be installed. D6910 clubs - Oalton, Forsyth Central, Gainesville, Gwinnett Sunrise, Lawrenceville, South Forsyth, and South Gwinnett -have donated about $9,500 of the $21,000 needed from D6910; there will also be significant matches from D6910 DDF and from The Rotary Foundation to reach the total project of $98,000.
In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, Rotarians from these two Rotary Districts 6910 and 7020 joined forces to support the work of the Jaipur Limb Clinic in Haiti - serving nearly 5,000 Haitians who lost limbs. This 12-passenger vehicle is use transporting limb clinic patients and pregnant women to the Hospital Bienfaisance.
The Rotary
Foundation Global Alumni
Service to
Humanity Award
7020, had the
distinction of
another FIRST.
The 1982
Ambassadorial
Scholar was
chosen by the Zone
Committee as
Zone 34 nominee
for the Global
Alumni Award.
She is Patricia
Sinclair McCalla,
the scholar
sponsored by the
Rotary Club of St.
Andrew back in
1981.
Mrs. McCalla did
not win the award
but was chosen for
special mention by
the world
nominating
committee.
Giving Reports — Zone 34
Strategic partnership joined with UNESCO – IHE Institute
for Water Education Rotary and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education have teamed up to tackle the world’s water and sanitation crisis. Together, they will work to increase the ranks of critically needed trained professionals to devise, plan, and implement solutions in developing and emerging countries where the situation is most critical. Through the partnership, the foundation will offer packaged global grants that Rotary clubs may use to select and sponsor scholarships for professionals in the water sector. Up to 8 students a year may be chosen for any of three Master’s of Science programs at the institute of Delft, the Netherlands.
What’s Going On
Grant details are being finalized and will be announced as the application comes online. Update on Packaged Global Grant Here is the latest on these activities: Aga Khan University Twenty four students have been approved for advanced nursing degree programs at campuses in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (eight students per campus) One vocation training team has been approved to travel from Nigeria to Uganda. OIKO Credit One application is in progress for a project in the Philippines
One application is in progress for a project in India Also New - Contribution and recognition forms combined. The Global Contribution and Recognition transfer forms have been revised and combined into a single document as part of the foundation’s effort to provide more accurate processing and faster acknowledgement to donors. The new document includes a recurring gift option through Rotary Direct.
District 7020 Foundation Committee Members
District Rotary Foundation Chair
& Newsletter Editor
PAG Fabian “Bobby” Young
(h) 876 9051730
(o) 876 9311394
(f) 876 9051730
Annual Programs Fund Chair
PAG Haresh Ramchandani
(h)876-9400626
(f)876-9536045
(m)876-3825757
Permanent Fund & Major Gifts
Chair
AG Rosalie Jameison
(o)
(m)
Paul Harris Society Chair
PAG Murray Forde
(o) 242-3561781
(h)
(m)
Ambassadorial Scholarship Chair
PAG Everton Davis
(h) 876 927 6714
(o) 876 926 0243
(F) 876 926 0243
Rotary World Peace Fellowship
Chair
PAG Donald Barnett
(h) 876 942 9165
(o) 876 967 1211
(F) 876 922 7198
Grants Chair
AG Lindsey Cancino
(h) 242-393 9335
(o) 242-396 0022
(m) 242-424-5710
Polio 200M Challenge Chair
PAG Trevor Heaven
(h) 876 961 0567
(o) 876 962 5344
Group Study Exchange (GSE)
Chair
PDG Richard Grant
(h) 340-773-8384
(m) 340-778-5053
Alumni Chair
Elisabeth Anderson
District Chair – Future Vision
PAG Jeremy Hurst
(o) 345-623-1111
(c) 345-525-9900
(f) 345-623-1112
TRF OFFICERS
Annual Programs Fund
Joanne Bertsche
847-866-3146
Permanent Fund & Major Gifts
Debra Lowe
847-886-5315
Ambassadorial Scholarships
Renee Stephenson
847-866-3000