What we completed in 2018 - 2019
Committee - Susi Wilson (Chair), PP PHF Gloria Hargreaves, PP PHF Emma Clark, Andrew McAllister, Kerry Champness
It was my first year as a Rotary member and President Ian Ash straight away trusted me to be the chair of the Youth Committee. I would like to thank all my committee members for their great support and help and guidance and sharing their past experience with me.
We have supported the youth of Emerald and District through various projects throughout the year.
After I found a young lady of Emerald, who was very keen to take part in the RYLA program and we sponsored her attendance, it was very disappointing to hear that she then didn’t attend due to work commitments. Luckily thanks to Neil White from the RYLA organization, we got the full money reimbursed.
We helped Emerald Secondary College once more by providing two engraved watches for the Year 12 Citizen Award.Marley Gusts and Sean Duguid received the watches at the school’s valedictory dinner. Peter Brock attended the dinner as a father of a year 12 student and as a Rotary member.
Sophie Flavel and Taran Seamer from Emerald Secondary College received the Les Smith Memorial Scholarship. I organized certificates with the Rotary Emblem on it.
For the Macclesfield Primary School we sponsored the Marie Ranger Awardas in previous years.
A great event, well planned by Gloria Hargreaves, was the Primary School Speech Contest, held at the Gembrook Primary school in October 2018. Traffic control, hosting the night, organizing presents for the toast masters and trophies for the best speakers was all a joint effort by the whole Emerald Rotary Club.
We sponsored the Emerald Primary school for the RACV Breakthrough Challenge. Emerald Rotary emblem stickers will be on the human-powered vehicles.
Camp Awakeningsis no longer a program of Rotary – therefore we didn’t promote this project.
I spent lots of time emailing teachers from Emerald Secondary College about the MUNAevent in May 2019. After the school finally agreed to send a team, and we were willing to sponsor the attendance, the MUNA organization told us, that Emerald was on place 41 and only 40 places were available.
When we got told (two days before the final application), that there was room for a team, even sponsored by another Rotary club, where the school had dropped out, it was impossible to get a team from Emerald so quickly together – especially because the teacher had changed, and the new teacher had no idea what MUNA was and was on away on a trip to central Australia.
In May 2019 we supported the Emerald Secondary School in covering the whole costs for two buses, bringing students from year 11 to the RYDA program in Springvale. Shalini Penny, Marcus and Chris Adams, Gloria Hargreaves and Ian Wakefield volunteered on the day to guide the students through different activities in relation to Road safety.
We donated money for a sponsoring request from Emerald Secondary college to support their year 7 Human Powered Vehicle event.
In May 2019 the Youth committee together with the Community service committee supported the Macclesfield Primary School, to help families in hardship situation to pay for school camps.
Finally, I would like to thank everybody for their hard work and the fun we had on lots of occasions.
