As a follow-up from last week’s Club Forum discussion, this week we had a trial run of our Zoom meeting format, which took a similar structure to our meetings at the Italian Social Club.
Members joined the meeting at 6.30 pm for an informal chat, followed at 6.45 pm with the business session, focusing on Club matters, reports, discussion and announcements.
At about 7 pm the Guest Speaker was introduced to give a talk, followed by Q & A. The meeting concluded with final comments from the President, together with a short presentation of some Rotary projects in Malta.
I thought the trial meeting format went off quite well - and the same format will continue for next week’s meeting. Thank you to everyone for adopting the ‘HANDS UP’ system on Zoom for comments and questions. While this is a bit clunky, is seems to work!
What do you think about the meeting format? If you have views either way then please bring them up next week.
I am continuing the practice which Past President Brian Ahmed introduced – but with a twist!
Each week Brian concluded his meeting with a short presentation about one overseas Rotary Club, which I found always to be interesting and informative.
Following his lead, I am selecting a particular country each week to show some of projects being undertaken there by Rotary Clubs. So far, we have been to Brazil, Russia, Italy and Malta!
The Facemasks Project team, led by Mary Macauley and the Cut, Giggle and Sew group, is up and running! It is fantastic to see this completely new Club Project getting underway during Covid-19 lockdown time. The Facemasks Project will be meeting a great need - providing washable and recyclable cloth facemasks to needy people in the community, at no cost.
The very generous financial donations from Rob Fava and John Micallef for the Facemasks Project will enable Mary’s group to purchase any requirements needed for the facemasks.
Mary is gathering together a team of volunteer helpers to cut out material for the facemasks and to do the sewing. Later on, Rotarians may be asked to help with the distribution of the facemasks.
It was great to have Assistant District Governor Amrit Singh visit us again. Welcome again to Vas Samaltanos on your fourth visit to our meetings.
Amrit and Vas, I hope we will continue having you with us!
A BIG REMINDER
This week’s edition of the District 9800 Networker features Werribee Rotary Club as the ‘Club of the Week’. Networker comes out each Friday.
Have a great week everyone
Michael
