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EUROTARY87
Eurotary 87 is an association of Rotary clubs in Europe, all chartered in 1987. In 1992 the Rotary Club of Gordes, initiated
the first meeting, held in a beautiful part of
Eurotary 87 est une association des clubs Rotary en
Europe, tous fondés en 1987. En 1992 le Rotary
club de Gordes, a initié la première réunion, tenue dans une belle région de
1992 Gordes France
1993 Kolbäck
1994 Westerloo
1995 Lauderdale Scottland
1996 Korsör Danemark
1997 Göteborg Sweden
1998 Hannover
1999 Hilton
2000 Albrighton
2001
2002 WreakValley
2003 Kolbäck
2004 Burntwood
2005 Fos sur Mer
2006 Korsör Nor Danemark (see minutes from AGM below)
2007 ThameWitchert England
2008 Hannover Germany
2009 North Fylde England
2010 Westerloo Belgium
Satutes
http://www.thrap.net/statutes.htm
List of clubs http://www.thrap.net/clublist.htm
The
meetings mixes Rotary matters with interesting speeches, visits to interesting
places and a lot of fun! Rotary is an organisation dedicated to service. Eurotary 87 has finished two matching grant projects and
started two others:
Les
réunions mélange les sujets Rotary aux discours intéressants, aux visites touristiques
et au beaucoup d'amusement ! Le Rotary est une organisation consacrée au
service. Eurotary
1. An ambulance in
2. A school in
3.
Home & Hopes for Children (2002) www.hopeandhomes.org
4. Avoidable Blindness (2004) http://www.rotarianseyecarefellowship.org/newsletters/ABTF-News-oct-2002.PDF
The aim is to ask the clubs to give
every year 500 Euro for the Matching Grant Projets
If your club is European and
chartered in 1987, we look forward to meet you!
Just contact the host club for 2009:
Si votre club est européen et fondé
en 1987, nous souhaiterions vous rencontrer !
Merci prendre contact avec le
club hôte 2009 :
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Minutes from the AGM in
Hannover 2008:
Minutes of Annual General Meeting 21 September 2008:
[1] Welcome Delegates were
welcomed to the meeting by Reinhard Rawe, President of the Rotary Club Langenhagen-Wedemark.
Roll Call and Banners were exchanged with attending Rotary Clubs:
RC
Langenhagen-Wedemark
District 1800/Germany
RC Westerlo, Belgium
RC Korsör Nor, Denmark
RC Albrighton &
District, UK
RC Burntwood &
District, UK
RC Etwall &
Hilton, UK
RC Haddenham &
District, UK
RC North Fylde, UK
RC The Wreake Valley,
UK
RC Gordes, France
RC Göteborg-Säve, Sweden
RC Kolbäck, Sweden
RC
Langenhagen-Wedemark, Germany
[2] Apologies
These were received from the following Clubs:
RC Bala & Penilyn, UK
RC Golfe de Fos,
France
No interest in participation from
RC Lauderdale, UK
RC Stockholm Gamla Stan, Sweden
RC Cookham Bridge, UK
RC Zandvoort, NL
RC Langenhagen-Wedemark tried to invite other
clubs chartered 1987 without any success:
RC Berlin-Spree, Germany
RC Torino Sud Ovest, Italy
RC Barcelona Diagonal, Spain
RC Nürnberg-Reichswald, Germany
RC
de Madrid-Serrano, Spain
RC de Loures / Lissabon, Portugal
[3] Minutes of last meeting & matters arising The minutes of the
last AGM at Oxford on September 23rd, 2007 placed for the actual meeting were unanimously
agreed. The proposal for the actual agenda items was also accepted. 2
[4] Presentation of Maltahoehe Project -Visiting clubs contributions First Rtn Gisilot von Rohr presented a
report concerning the work carried out for a kiddies
camp in Namibia Maltahoehe. Maltahoehe
which was founded in1906 when Namibia was a German colony. It is the first
settlement right after the desert in the southern part of Namibia. In this
region you will find only a dry river bed and most of the people have no
permanent water. Up to today the school in Maltahoehe
offered no facilities for the children who live up to 100 km away from it. The
children always tried to find a place to sleep. This made learning very
difficult. But to develop society education is essential. For these reasons the
RC Windhoek and the Wolwedans Foundation acquired a
small house for furnishing a kiddies camp for
children. In this hostel our club wants to provide freezers, store table
scullery, solar water heater, a back
up generator and office equipment. For this support we will stake about 21.000 €. What they also need is a little money
for beds etc.
From the floor, 4.150 € was contributed in donations by the following
attending clubs:
RC Westerlo
RC Korsör Nor
RC Burntwood
RC Etwall &
Hilton
RC North Fylde
RC The Wreake Valley
RC Gordes
RC Kolbäck
RC Haddenham & District
On behalf of the RC Langenhagen-Wedemark the
council-board thanks all contributing clubs for their support of the this year‟s Matching Grant “Maltahoehe”. [5]
Confirmation of Host Club and Venue for 18th assembly (2009) RC North Fylde
which is based near by Blackpool
/ Lancashire in North West England presented a very informative video showing Blackpool (Lowood Hotel), the
Lake District and The Fylde Coast and the Building where the Gala dinner
starts. Rtn. Ward gave a short view to their project:
Providing clean water in Kwa Zulu-Natal in South
Africa. The 18th assembly will take place from the 4th to the 6th of September in
2009 The proposal is unanimously agreed. Each club
gets a copy of the presentation DVD. [6] Nominations of the 19th assembly (2010) Rtn. van Schoonhoven from RC Westerlo /
Belgium announces that his Rotary Club is ready to
host Eurotary87 in 2010 in Belgium. With a few charts he showed the agenda
planned: trips to castles in the surrounding area, visiting Leuven which is
located centred and next to the airport. Leuven is a
very young city with 40.000 inhabitants and 30.000 students. Leuven has one of
the Top 10 universities in Belgium.The RC Westerlo has 46 members and has been already hosting of the
Eurotary assembly in 1994. The assembly is planned to
be from the 17th to the 19th of September in 2010. The audience of Rotariens
takes notice of the announcement. According to the statutes the final
resolution will be passed from RC North Fylde in September 2009. 3
[7] Rotary image and density
in European countries This item was asked by Rtn. Einar Thrap-Olsen to put on the Agenda, keeping on the
Oxford discussion last year. On request of the president of RC Langenhagen-Wedemark Einar wrote a paper which was sent to
all attending clubs in advance. After a short discussion Einar offered as a
result of the discussion to make a new wording of his paper, which he sent
already one day after the AGM (follows as annex to the minutes). “Rotary
image and density” (Latin Europe) As announced by
LE ROTARIEN in 2005 the image of ROTARY is deplorable in France.
http://www.rotary-francophone.org/fpdb/OCT%2005%20-%20Image%20du%20Rotary.pdf
Following the observations at “workshop Rotary Image” during the Convention in
Copenhagen 2006 it seems that there is correlation between IMAGE and DENSITY
(number of Rotarians per 1000 inhabitants). The "density" is five
times higher in the Scandinavian countries than in France. Rotary is not reserved
to the rich but open to all. With a very high standing of life the Rotarians
eat for 10 EUR in Scandinavia whereas the meals often cost 30 EUR in France.
The annual cost of Rotary is lower, the average age is lower, there are more
women and the image is better. Recruitment is therefore easier. This site shows
Rotary density in different countries
http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/trf_topgiving06-07.pdf In certain countries like France the traditions of ROTARY
have been suicidal. The habit to give to the ROTARY CLUB a
"top-of-the-range" image with selective recruitment and luxury meals
has proved to be a serious error. Total number of members is decreasing from
year to year.
At the AGM of EUROTARY87 http://www.eurotary87.eu Sept 21th in Germany some
figures were given about membership decline in Latin Europe: Total number of
Rotarians in Italy, France, Spain and Portugal: 80.000 If “density” (Rotarians
per 1000 inhabitants) had been like in Northern Europe there would have been:
320.000 Number of Rotarians missing: 240.000 EUROTARY87 not only discovered
this fact but also tried to find a solution over the years: 42 clubs chartered
in these 4 countries 1987 have been invited but only one club was present in
2008. This club (RC Gordes) was represented by a Swedish member (The Charter
President) Several clubs like RC Barcelona Diagonal
have been visited by Eurotary87-teams but in vain. Not only Club-presidents but
also Governors in these countries do not like to face the facts. The only
solution seems to be to reinvent Rotary in these countries and to find a new
kind of Club more adapted to modern life with another type of Presidents and
Governors. 4
60 years ago Rotary issued „Seven
Paths to Peace‟
http://www.peace.ca/rotarysevenpathstopeace.htm
that Rotarian Robert Stewart www.peace.ca has made
available on Internet. In the “Foreword” Robert says: “Why should this book be
any more relevant now than in 1959? Two things immediately come to mind: Rotary
is now doubled in size (over 1.2 million members around the world) and we have
the strong contribution of female members. We can also lever our contributions
through partnerships with other like-minded organizations (eg.
Lions International, YM/YWCA, religious organizations, etc.,
etc.). However, the most significant change in the past decade – what
makes rather considerable progress possible today is what I call 'E-peace' -
that ability to magnify everything one does, and the related communication and
information transfer, at least ten-fold through the use of computer and
Internet, around the world instantly. E-peace surely will make community and
world peace more of a reality within our, and our children's generation.
For example, any Rotarian can belong to a number of Rotary On The Internet (ROTI) email list servers to facilitate
peace communications and action around the world. Rotary can have a central
peace building website to disseminate important peace education information.
Much of the moral support and information for our web site comes from these
networks. This book is now available on the Internet accessible to all, after
almost being lost over the past 45 years (at
http://www.peace.ca/rotaryssevenpathstopeace.htm “ RI
has legislated about “E-clubs” and has also succeeded in bringing the Rotary
message to countries like Russia and China that for long time were closed. New
Governors were appointed for this task. Hopefully RI will also succeed in
bringing the right message to Latin Europe. September 21th 2008 Einar
Thrap-Olsen” [8] Any other business as notified in
advance No items. [9] Handover to 2009 Host Club (North Fylde) Rtn Reinhard Rawe
on behalf of the Rotary Club Langenhagen-Wedemark
formally handed the Eurotary Presidency over to the
2009 Host Club of North Fylde and this was followed by The “Ceremonial Baton”
to their president which was made by Rtn. Lazenby from RC Haddenham &
District and for the first time handed over in 2007. [10] Presentation &
Closing remarks by Eurotary 87 President 2009 Rtn. Ward thanked on behalf of all attending rotariens to the RC Langenhagen-Wedemark.
In the end it was a wonderful weekend and everybody is looking forward to
hospitality of the RC North Fylde. 5
President Rawe from RC Langenhagen-Wedemark
is closing the meeting with the clock. Before closing he thanks everybody for
participation and the financial support for the project in Maltahöhe.
He wishes everybody a save trip back home. Roland Scholl Herbert Abben