Land Acknowledgement: President Basil Dias
Anthem: Arthur Retnakaran
Toast: President Basil Dias
Attendance: 13, no guests.
Speaker: Steve Rutledge from the Whitby Rotary Club.
Steve has been working extensively on projects in South-East Asia, Laos, for the last 16 years and has been
updating our club annually on his progress and accomplishments there.
Steve gave us a brief history of the reason he chose to work in this area. During
the war, every eight minutes a plane would drop a bomb, so the people were
traumatized with 30 % of the population perished, 15% passed away and 8.2%
infant mortality, which is now below 3%. There was no sanitation whatsoever.
Steve and his crew, consist of local villagers and some Rotarians, work in districts
to lower the infant mortality rate and to oversee the villagers building dams and
water tanks to capture water supply. The household then used the water filters
he provides (from donations from friends, Rotary clubs and others) to clean the
water at the household level.
Steve also currently working on projects to replace roofs and repair schools, built
secondary school toilets, provided winter coats and provides reusable feminine
napkins to girls in secondary schools.
updating our club annually on his progress and accomplishments there.
Steve gave us a brief history of the reason he chose to work in this area. During
the war, every eight minutes a plane would drop a bomb, so the people were
traumatized with 30 % of the population perished, 15% passed away and 8.2%
infant mortality, which is now below 3%. There was no sanitation whatsoever.
Steve and his crew, consist of local villagers and some Rotarians, work in districts
to lower the infant mortality rate and to oversee the villagers building dams and
water tanks to capture water supply. The household then used the water filters
he provides (from donations from friends, Rotary clubs and others) to clean the
water at the household level.
Steve also currently working on projects to replace roofs and repair schools, built
secondary school toilets, provided winter coats and provides reusable feminine
napkins to girls in secondary schools.
Alan thanked the speaker for the fantastic work he is doing.
Announcements President Basil – Foundation Walk in on Sunday, September 27 th in
Campbellford. Please sign up and donate.
Foundation Chair Suresh gave the club a snapshot of Rotary Foundation.
SERGEANT AT ARMS – Barry Smith
No fines, just Happy Bucks.
Suresh Agarwal – His new car arrived.
Raj – Happy to attend and hoping the Blue Jays make it to the playoff.
Gerd Wengler – Retirement going well. He is busy helping in the house with
projects. He is also the editor for a German Journal.
Gordon Brown – Their grand-child represents Ontario and 4 th in Canada in
Synchronize swimming.
President Basil then terminated the meeting.
