To: All Clubs, the District Team and PDGs
Please see the following news items:
1. District Assembly, 20th May 2012
2. Foundation Newsletter, April 2012
3. Rescue Mission Centre for Children, Mae Suai, Thailand
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1. District Assembly, 20th May 2012
The District Assembly this year will take place at 2pm on Sunday 20th May at Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh. See the Napier website for directions
This is an important meeting which will help prepare for the coming Rotary year and all members are encouraged to attend. Click here for the outline programme
Please note that this year, in order to enable members to attend more than one session, each breakout session will be held twice during the afternoon.
In the morning, in addition to the Grants Fair, there will be a number of short workshops including the Rotary GB&I Moodle tutorial, Rotary GB&I template websites, the District Database and a club projects display. Further details on the breakout sessions and workshops will follow.
This should a full, enjoyable and useful day. Please encourage your club to send at least one car full of members.
The District Magazine and District Directory 2012-2013 will be available for collection at the Assembly. Clubs not collecting these materials will be charged postage and packing.
The District team look forward to seeing you on 20th May for what we are sure will prove a productive day.
Olive Geddes
District Secretary
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2. Foundation Newsletter, April 2012
Click here for the April Foundation Newsletter
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3. Rescue Mission Centre for Children, Mae Suai, Thailand
This message is forwarded on behalf of District International Chairman Agnes Ritchie
Dear Friends in Rotary
There is a group of Rotarians from Australia, New Zealand, England and the USA, who will be visiting the Rescue Mission Centre for Children at Mae Suai, Northern Thailand (click here for an extract from an article by Rtn David Black) after the RI Convention in Bangkok (4-9 May).
Whilst we are there for a few days we hope to be helping with the construction of the new school which is being erected to provide education for the Akha Children. One of the best defences against slavery is education.
A couple of days ago, I received an email from David Black and this is what he said