1 Minutes of meetings Tuesday 20 July 2010 No. 4-10 For pictures illustrating Rotaract Nicosia-Aspelia meetings click here http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo_search.php?oid=110515928986222&view=all AGENDA OF THE MEETING 20 July, 2010 20.00 Arrivals 20.15 Apologies for absence 20:20 Guest-speaker Prof. Dr. Manfred Lange presentation on the Rotary Club Environmental project for the coming year: Introducing Community and Education Programs to raise Environmental Awareness and Enhance Environmental Protection on Cyprus 21:00 Club announcements and discussions 21:20 Dinner Attending members of Rotary Club Nicosia-Aspelia: Aspelia Rotary Club President Caterina Kalavas and Mr. Yiannis Kalavas Aspelia s Rotary Club Rotaract Committee Member Ioanna Kyprianidou Aspelia s Rotary Club Rotaract Committee Chair Stefan Peter. Guests: Prof. Dr. Manfred Lange as our speaker Contacts: Prof. Dr. Manfred Lange, Director Energy, Environment and Water Research Center The Cyprus Institute - P. O. Box 27456 CY-1645 Nicosia, Cyprus Ph.: +357-22-208 621 - FAX: : +357-22-208 625 m.a.lange@cyi.ac.cy - www.cyi.ac.cy Apologies: please see the List of attendance prepared by our Treasury Charis Michael (we will use it since now on for all our meetings).
2 Opening Announcements/News: 1. Two more new Rotaract member candidates welcoming applause: Adonis Panagidis and Marios Papasavvas. 2. President Yulia attended the Cyprus Rotaract Clubs evaluation meeting. Message for us regarding criteria of evaluation used: - Fund raising activity: is checked by reviewing bank statements of clubs - Promoting Rotaract awareness: by reading media covers - Biggest impact on community - Membership development and growth - Attendance 3. The Board has approved the August holidays, - thus the next General meeting will be held on 31 st August 2010. Place to be notified later on Facebook and by email. 4. Our Charters have been approved a couple of days ago, so the Celebration of Chartering will now definitely happen on the 15 th of September during Gala Dinner at the Presidential Palace. Details: the event is organized in cooperation with Green Dot. Please see http://www.greendot.com.cy/default_en.aspx. The money raised will be spent to finance purchase of materials for schools. Event: the concept is about light live music with food. Price for Club members is 35 EUR, for guests is 50 EUR. Tickets: will be distributed soon to several members for further distribution. We will notify soon. Tickets can be sold to anyone else (parents/friends) for EUR50. 5. Next RYLA Conference will be held in Egypt 7-10 October 2010. (It s a very interesting event both for personal development and for meeting people and is a big fun in general! Olga Panfilova s note) Everyone is very welcome to confirm their final interest/availability, including new members. We are awaiting details from the Sponsors, this will be communicated by Rotary Club Nicosia-Aspelia President Caterina in August.
3 6. Our Club official email of our Club has been registered: Rotaract.Nicosia.Aspelia@gmail.com. Since now on we will distribute official info from this mailbox. Please add it for your contacts to forward/receive official communication. 7. Rotaract pins/ribbons/poster will be obtained by us with the support of Nicosia-Aspelia Rotary Club President Caterina Kalavas and Rotarian Stefan Peter so that we have them before the official Chartering ceremony on 15 th of September. 8. A member application form to be updated by our Treasurer Charis Michael (thank you for volunteering) to include our newly designed logo and additional details. New forms are to be sent to our President Yulia, Secretary Olga and Treasurer Charis. 9. Our Professional Development Committee Director Louis Kangas will take charge of updating the occupation/professional list of the Club and filling in the missing details. Be ready to help with your personal information, please! 10. Rotarian Marcos Zambartas (RAC Limassol Amathusia) is now VDRR in Cyprus and he is eager to come and speak more deep about Rotaract and how everything works. 11. Invitation for participation in Rotary Club Nicosia-Aspelia projects (learn how to manage funds and organise events)! Current projects are: - Environmental project - Eating disorders project Plus we are kindly invited to attend Rotary Club Meetings Presentations. Please check a list of Rotary Club Nicosia-Aspelia s Presentations! (will be forwarded soon).
4 Club Plans/Needs/Important notes: 1. Every Club member has to arrange personal trainings with our Training Mentor Marianna Trokoudes from Aspelia s Rotary Club Rotaract Committee. Please contact your Committee Directors to arrange trainings be held for the whole Committee (makes more sense). Marianna s contacts: mtrokoudes@spidernet.com.cy Mobile: 99-496-680 Also we will have a Club training for all members in September. Details will come later.. 2. Everyone s participation! Please think of 1 interesting guest speaker to invite to our meeting. Ideas to be submitted to our Vice President Chrysanthi within the next 2 weeks! 3. Our Club is still in search of the Place for regular meetings it will be under discussion during August. Keep eyes open! Please suggest any place you like around 15-20 EUR budget with conference room facilities. 4. Volunteers needed!!! Our Club has several internal projects to accomplish. Please express you interest in one of the following: 4.1. Creation of Rotaract Wheel and Big cardboard logo (for project pictures that will be submitted to the District) 4.2. Palestine celebration (Rotarians Evgeny and Olga volunteered, but we need a few more team members): we may organize a country bulletin/meal to promote/salute this country. 4.3. Cyprus country celebration (in October) 4.4. Eating disorders project together with Elena Stylianidi from Amathusia RAC (please contact our Community Service committee Director Evangelia) 4.5. Website project: programmers/it guru please contact us! 4.6. Drafting of New members Acceptance policy: trial period for new members acceptance has been agreed to last for 2 months (candidates presence at 4 consecutive Regular Club meetings). Official date of acceptance is appointed when the candidate is approved by the Board of Directors. Following the approval, it is nice to have an official/cozy Acceptance Ceremony with photos & congratulations.
5 5. Everyone is invited! If any member wants to make a small personal presentation (3-5mins) on any subject of his interest, we can organize a public speaking project. We can even videotape him and give feedback on how to improve the public speaking skills. Please ask our Vice President Chrysanthi for the Schedule of Events or simply express your interest! 6. Open Discussion: how to celebrate Birthdays of our members? The final list of birthdays is being prepared. Our President Yulia will follow up on it and ensure that each member gets a present on his birthday. Please share your ideas! How about bringing a cake/making a small celebration? 7. One more Project idea has been suggested to us by our Treasurer Charis Michael: Public Buses Awareness. The initial idea is to get the routes of the buses, invite a guest speaker and make a presentation. Please participate with Your precious ideas about how we can promote the awareness of the public regarding the buses in Cyprus. 8. Red Cross Project : at the Board of Directors meeting Aspelia Rotary Club has informed us of two cases when Egyptian and Indian students were mistreated by insurance companies in Cyprus. The victims of car accidents need wheelchairs, legal advice and moral support. Nicosia-Aspelia Rotary Club is now investigating the cases from legal point of view trying to help with wheelchairs. We can help by simple, but so valuable attention to the Students visiting them in small groups. Our Vice President Chrysanthi has volunteered to follow up on the legislation to see how we can help them. Insofar please let us know if you have time to visit the Students. Any other support ideas are very welcome!
6 Questions left for the next meeting: 1. Vacant Position to be filled up plus participation of all members in the existing committees (vacant place for Vocational Committee Director). Other Information/Notes 1. Please get informed: attached document contains presentation on the coming RYLA in Egypt. 2. Please do: - look through the open positions again and think where you would like to join in!!! No one should stay left alone! ;) 3. Date not to miss: - 3 rd August, Tuesday, 2010: unofficial testing of a new place found by Rotarian Stefan which might be used for our meetings at Abbey lounge bar, Diamonds, Chiou 15, Ag. Omologites. - 08 August, Sunday 11:00-16:00: Green Dot - Badminton on the Beach (Protaras, Vrissiana Beach). Entrance free, bring friends! Details are here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141636535858198-31 st August 2010: Next Rotaract Meeting (place to follow) + Rotaract Committee Chair Stefan Peter will give us a lecture on Time management - 1 st week of September: Rotaract Varna invites us to join them - 15 th September 2010: our Chartering celebration at the Presidential Palace during Gala Dinner. - 7-10 October 2010: RYLA Conference in Egypt - December 2010: mini-congress at Troodos for a weekend. Details to come. - December 2010: visit of Rotaract District Representative in the second week of December 2010 - February 2011: our Club s photos submission to the District for our Club s evaluation of activities at the District Level. - March 2011: Country Presentation - for Rotaract club Aspelia, the country to present is Palestine.
7 Quote to follow up our meeting: I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985 We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb Wishing you lovely holidays in peace with the Nature, See you soon on the 31st of August, Olga Panfilova and Yulia Alekseeva