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Japanese diplomat earns Rotary alumni award

By Sallyann Price

The recipient of this year’s Rotary Alumni Global Service Award

 is Dr. Sadako Ogata, a former Ambassadorial Scholar

 and a past United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 

Born in Japan to a family of diplomats

, Ogata was drawn to studying international relations 

after Japan’s defeat in World War II.

 When she began graduate studies

 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., USA, in 1951

, she was part of the second class of Rotary Scholars from Japan.

Rotary International has awarded Dr. Sadako Ogata,

 a former High Commissioner for Refugees 

with the UN's refugee agency, with the 2016-17

 Rotary Alumni Global Service Award.

“During that period, 

I also learned about the importance of community service

 and broadened my perspectives and experiences thanks

 to various exchanges with Rotarians,” she says.

 “The Rotary motto of Service Above Self has left a deep impression

 and has guided me ever since.”

After completing her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley,

 Ogata returned to Japan to teach at International Christian University,

 which now hosts a Rotary Peace Center, 

and Sophia University, where she taught until accepting 

the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

 (head of UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency) in 1991

. She also represented Japan at the UN General Assembly,

 served at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations,

 and chaired the UNICEF executive board.

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Soccer carnival D 4240 Brazil

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New Members

Rotary Club of Perth

Welcome to new Rotarian Frances 



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Rotary Club of Hannans Kalgoorlie

Welcome to our newest Rotarian Kim Cooper.

 The Rotary Club of Hannans-Kalgoorlie are very excited

 to have you in our club.

 Kim is pictured the DG Linda McLerie (proposer)

 and President Samantha Duddy.

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Paul Harris Fellow

Rotary Club of Boulder

Our newest PHF recipient. Des Aitkin was awarded this for his 

outstanding commitment to Probus and the community.

 . Well deserved Des.

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Rotary Club of Elizabeth Quay

Chartered February 22

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New Club Promotions


Rotary Club of Northbridge

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Rotary Club of Corrigin

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Rotaract Club of South Perth

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And don't forget next weekend also!!!

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Around the clubs

Rotary Club of Willetton

So proud that our support for 4 young RYLA students went well

 for them and three of them came to club not only to thank the club

 but to tell how it helped them , personally ,

 develop a lot of their weaker skills to a point where

 they are now more confident in those areas 

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Rotary Club of Cockburn

The average age of the meeting certainly dropped today

 with 4 Rotary exchange students present.

 Teagan Judd returning from her year in Denmark.

 Sae Kanda from Japan,

 Vera Solmunde from Faroe Islands

, Dong Hua from Belgium.

 Welcome back Teagan and goodbye Sae.

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Rotary Club of Cambridge

Jeanette and President Jeremy Wood entertained our RYE student
 Juuso Leikola and his family and friends to a BBQ dinner
 at their home on Thursday 23 February
 Also attending were host families
, the Folkards and Teasdales as well as Juuso's mentor, Bill Richardson
 and District 9455 RYE co-ordinator Jill Hanna.
 Juuso can be seen in the pic with his parents,
 Finnish friends and most of the other guests 
 Bill Richardson partly obscured.





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Rotary Club of Southern Districts

Short Term Exchange student Jardena Orr
did her thank you presentation at this weeks meeting
Jardena was in D2050 Italy over Xmas/New Year
pictured here with President Anita Diep,
 New Generations Director Nancy Kilkenny 
and Past District  Governor Phil Cordery







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Rotary Club of Cambridge

An exchange of Banners between President Jeremy

 and Juuso's father Jukka who is a member

 of the Rotary Club of Lohjannummi, Suomi (Finland).

 We were honoured to have the Leikola family (Jukka, Saja and Jenni)

 visit us making this our third international visit of 2017.

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Rotary Club of Boulder

To the main business of the evening and that was awarding this years scholarships

  This years winners were Luke Fox (JPC) Eloise Primrose (GBC)

 and Hayley Shaw (KBCHS) 

. All of the recipients showed a great sense of achievement

 and look forward to successful academic career.

 It was once again a pleasure to see these awards have gone to the right kids.

 Congratulations to all

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Rotary Club of Heirisson

With regret we confirm that the Claisebrook Carnivale and Duck Derby

 will not be held next month due to elections, 

competing priorities and other events

. Follow this page or @ClaisebrookDuckDerby 

for updates later in 2017 for information on possibilities in 2017-18.

 Your interest in and support for these events 

and other Rotary events and activities is greatly appreciated

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Rotary Club of Armadale

We had 3 delightful guests at our meeting this evening.
 Aleysha, who works locally in the disability services sector
, Andres, a local chiropractor and
 Durai, a visiting Rotarian from South India 
with a banking background. 
(All three seen here with President Joe K.) 

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Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay

 Pres. Liz Hollingdale and member Petrina Bishop 
recoginsing Rotary's 112th Birthday,

Rotary Vocational Training Team to D. 3261, Raipur, India.

 The team, PRID Dr.Ken Collins, Rtn. Dr. Barry Mandelawitz, 

Dr. Catherine Douglass, Midwives Clare Davison and Belinda Jennings,

 the training and the childbirthing facilities at the hospital.
A very successful Team with the Government now wanting

 to expand the training to all of the 200 health workers in the District.

Aaron Chinyimba, from Zambia,

 former RF Ambassadorial Scholar, Helen McBride, George Georgiou,

 WA Consul to Zambia, Dr. Patrick Nkoma

, Saul Radunski and Victoria Wyatt 

at meeting 22nd February

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Rotary Club of Applecross


Thank you for the sponsors 
of the Jaccandra Festival

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Rotary Club of Belmont

We had a wonderful social meeting at 300 Acres at the Wembly Golf Course

. Thanks PE Peter Anderson for organising it 

and the food was wonderful, highly recommended

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Rotary Club of Perth

Amazing day at Rotto yesterday with a dozen of us Rotary of Perth / IFYR members

 joining Pat Luca & Lou Magro's annual Italian Club Telethon Rotto Charity Lunch

 together with 17 other boats and 260 members of the Italian community

 - great day with a huge amount raised for Telethon and MS.

 We are already looking forward to next year -

 well done Pat & Lou!!!

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Rotary Club of Kenwick

Seen at D9465 RYLA Seminar







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Rotary Club of Byford and Districts

Our new business and invitation cards have arrived!
Look out for our team in your local community

 to find out how you can be invited into our club as a new member,

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Rotary Club of Scarborough

Alan Bennet introduced our special guests,

 a young lad called Tom and his sister Emily Woodall

 who donated a cheque of A$14,200.55 dollars to WFK.

 They, with the help of their neighbour Scarborough Rotarian Alan Bennett

, instigated a fund raising project and funds were mainly raised by a donation box 

outside the home of Alan and Tookta Bennett 

whose home was magnificently decorated

 with thousands of  Christmas lights and figures

. What a fantastic effort from these two young kids

 and from the Bennetts.

 This money will benefit 71 unfortunate children around the world.

 Tom and Emily’s parents were also guests at the meeting.

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Rotary Club of Willetton

Tele Tan associate professor and director of AASQA

 of the Willetton Senior High School updated the Rotary Club 

on the progress of the Autism Academy at tonight's meeting.

The academy is working with the strengths of students with Autism spectrum ,

 being attention to detail and the ability to focus on tasks ,

 software checking skills

. By developing these skills the academy is ensuring students 

have a bright employment future in this exacting profession.

The club presented Tele Tan a cheque for $5000.00

 from our Rotary Foundation District grant to further the work

 of the Association and support youth with Autism.

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Rotary Club of Batavia Coast

What a terrific meeting last night.

 we were bursting at the seams with 9 guests.

 Delighted to welcome some of our Interact club exec members,

 co-ordinator Amanda Burges

 and Prinicpal Nick Johnson to our meeting.

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Rotary Club of Karrinyup

Instead of our usual meeting at Carine this week,

 a small band of members and partners headed south

 all the way to Point Peron to share a social evening 

with the Rotary Club of Palm Beach WA Inc.

 President Trish drove the rented minibus for our joint meeting 

at the Rockingham RSL, where our hosts made us most welcome

. It was good to hear about the work of the Palm Beach club 

and a great night was had by all.

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Rotary Club of Como

Tonight's meeting had Debbie Mason from Starting Over Support (SOS)

 give us an update on their project. 

To date SOS has helped to rehouse over 450 families.

.she is pictured with Host Mardi Briotti.

...Deb was recently awarded Citizen of the Year

 by the Shire of Bayswater.

Cameron Smart Principal at Ray White Cannington

 received a Certificate of Appreciation from Community Director John Dodman

 for his support of the Christmas Gift project started by their office.

 The recipients of the gifts were clients of SOS..

.THANK YOU Deb and Cameron for your support of our community.

THANK YOU RC Como members for helping to spruce up

 the containers for Timor on Saturday morning.

 Kingsley, Andy, Sak, Adelaide, Clementine and Marielle

 scraped and scrubbed the 40 ft sea container 

to remove all signs of rust before applying the anti rust treatment.

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Rotary Club of West Perth

A full house today with visiting members and guests

 from Nedlands and Subiaco clubs to listen to Michael Downes

 present on the All Ability Play Space

 and its progress

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PEOPLE ARE AWESOME 2017

 (Kids Edition) | 

Amazing Talented Kids Compilation

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Pot Alley Beach
Kalbarri
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