Cardiff Bay Rotary

We are delighted to make a donation to Blood Bikes Wales following their recent presentation to the club and will be delighted to hear them again at the forthcoming Rotary District Forum in Aberdare.
These people are brilliant.

We have just released more funds for the Huggard Centre.
There is no need for anybody to be sleeping rough on the streets while facilities such as this exist, especially with the recent adverse weather conditions.
We have long supported the Huggard Centre and other similar organisations in their aims and look forward to the day when everybody can be housed safely.

Coming soon. Our Kiva microfinance night on 3 March when we will be making another 50 loans.
600 loans agreed to date supporting businesses in 76 countries where our capital has now been re-lent 5.5 times over. Bad debts running at only 1% per annum.

It's been a busy month for us.
A Cardiff medical student is undertaking her elective right now in this hospital in Papua New Guinea. Acting on her own initiative she is also raising funds to supply the hospital with much needed basic equipment for which we have agreed to donate funds to help in this respect.
We wish her every success and look forward to her telling us about it on her return.

The Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) events held annually in July / August in the Brecon Beacons is one of Rotary's flagship programmes. We have agreed to send 5 candidates in 2020.

Storm Dennis. The first of a series of community clean-ups following the recent storms.

A reminder for our regular clients.
The Rotary car parks open at 9 a.m on Saturday for Wales v France and despite the later kick-off time we will probably be full before 11 a.m.
Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Very interesting presentation last night by Iain Pate on his career in marketing flavours. Its not just about E numbers.
We also welcomed visiting Rotarian Jonathan Kyeyune from the Kitante club in Uganda. Jonathan is in Cardiff studying for a Masters in Marketing and Public Image.
We look forward to seeing much more of him.

Our A$2K donation to Rotarians in Victoria is being put to great use and targeted at the most needy causes.
The Chairperson of the East Gippsland Rotary Fire Aid Committee happens to be a former nurse from Wales.
The benefit of direct contact between Rotary clubs is that the funds are put to immediate use by trusted people and we know where our support goes.

2019-20 AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRES APPEAL
We have all seen the devastating fires that have erupted, taking lives as well as destroying hundreds of homes and properties across Australia.
Rotary in Australia is taking the lead and looking to provide immediate support for families in need. To this end several Rotary Districts and Clubs in Australia have established projects which are ready and able to accept donations and we are supported this to ensure that aid gets delivered to the most deserving causes straight away because they need it now.

SHELTERBOX https://www.shelterbox.org
We make our annual donation to Shelterbox, the brainchild of a Rotarian which still carries our logo as a key trusted partner wherever disaster strikes.
... Right now, more than 88 million people around the world have been made homeless by natural disaster and conflict. Together we’re working to change this.
By providing emergency shelter and tools for families robbed of their homes by disaster, Shelterbox is transforming despair into hope.
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ROTARY DOCTOR BANK
This week we double our donation to this brilliant charity, which is managed by Rotarians in Southern Wales for Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland.
In the UK there is one doctor for every three hundred and fifty people, in rural Uganda there is one doctor for between ten thousand and twenty thousand people. Many people have no access to any form of healthcare and over half the women deliver their babies without any medical assistance or pain relief and ...without any pre-natal care.
The Rotary Doctor Bank of Great Britain and Ireland provides funding for volunteer healthcare workers to travel to developing countries to treat patients and to provide teaching to doctors, nurses and midwives.
Most of their work is in Uganda in East Africa, but they have also supported assignments in Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Zanzibar, Ghana, Liberia, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Burma, the Philippines, Nepal and Kiribati (formally the Ellice Islands).
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TY SEREN HOSTEL / SAFE FOUNDATION.
Ty Seren provides supported housing to 29 single women aged between 16 and 21 in a combination of self-contained bed sits and rooms with shared facilities.
Support and life skills programmes are designed to enable residents to move on to independent living and in-house activities are provided to encourage resident participation in their home and community.
... Working with external agencies, residents are given the opportunity to take part in training schemes, further education and volunteering projects.
We have agreed to donate funds to enable a group of 14 women from Ty Seren to go to Sierra Leone in 2020 to help teach important subjects to orphaned children with the SAFE Foundation. This project not only gives education to people that really need it overseas but it also helps the young people learn skills and develop themselves for when they return to Wales.
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Good luck Donna! So, in addition to the $2,000 already donated to 'End Polio Now' as part of our regular contribution this Rotary year, Cardiff Bay Rotary have paid a further $1,240 towards your 1240 Challenge direct to Rotary GBI. Please add it to your offline donations.😃

Just 3 months after the Rotary "Health has no Boundaries" seminar for schools held at Islwyn Comprehensive, the world is facing up to a potential Coronavirus pandemic (let's hope not). How perceptive was this!
We asked our joint organiser Keith for a quote but couldn't hear him very clearly from behind his facemask!

Mansel Thomas regales us with the history of the Land Speed Record from the time they did away with the little man with the flag walking in front of cars. Lucky for them.
We are fortunate to have Pendine Sands in our district, the scene of many a success and tragedy in the 1920's.
Thank you Mansel for evoking the golden age of speed and indeed there should be another British attempt this year with Bloodhound.

City of Cardiff Rotaract President Darren is back from his travels in Canada, USA and Mexico where he visited Rotaract projects overseas.
He reported briefly on disturbing experiences of stolen children being sold on the streets of Mexico. People trafficking comes in many forms.

The crocuses are already breaking out near our Cardiff city centre car parks.