- On Aug. 7th, 2020, DG Hadi joined our Weekly Club Meeting and addressed to the members.
As he was born and raised in Lebanon, he expressed his condolence to Maha for Beirut Tragedy. He told Maha that we are a big family and we work together. He and his wife don’t have a family here but Rotary becomes their family. He calls Rotarians family members as they are with us for life.
DG Hadi shared his story of how he became a Rotarian and how he gets involved with Rotary and became DG of 7040. A friend of his from Lebanon once invited him to attend the lunch meetings of Rotary Club in West Ottawa. After a few times visits to the Club meetings, he found out the people are nice and they would like to know about what they are doing. In 2003 he became a Rotarian. In 2007, he was sick and was hospitalized. During that time, every day, 1-2 Rotarian members would go to the hospital to visit him bringing him the books and food which moved him deeply. From then on he felt Rotary is his family. He recovered from the sickness and was proposed to become the President of 2013-1014 and he accepted. After this, he accepted to become the Area Governor in 2014 and today he is the District Govonor for 2020-2021. He requested us to share our story of how we become a Rotarian and why we stay in the Rotary family.
This year our theme is Rotary Opens the Opportunities. He made the following requests:
- To promote Rotary more on social medias for more visibilities.
- To continue our Virtual meeting even if things go back to normal.
- To make our Rotary accessible and affordable.
- To cooperate with other service organizations such as Toast Master.
- Do things differently
- Invite your aluminums and friends to our club meetings and activities
- To make one day called “Environmental Day” to do some environmental friendly work for the local communities and let the communities know we are helping.
- Call for donations for the Silent Auction of $100 /item to be donated to Rotary Foundation
- Call for Ad on D-7040 for $300/year to help the Virtual District Conference to be held on Oct. 16-18.
- On Aug. 14th, Mr. Jim Fares, President of Rotary Club of Westmount spoke at our Club Meeting for Fish Industry. Jim had a very interesting background. He has worked in the Restaurant Management, International Fruit Trading, Residential Real Estate and website management. He is now working as VP data management and site coordination for Globalfish.net and B2B Foodservices.net etc. Jim did a very detail and interesting speech on the Fishing Industry. His topics covers:
- Facts and figures
- Wild catch techniques
- Farming techniques
- Sustainability
- Traceability
- On Aug. 21st. PDG Katie Burke was our Speaker at the Club Meeting, Her topic is Rotary Foundation -Scholarship Grants. It’s nice to learn that there are two types of funded studies Rotary is offering:
- District Global Grant Scholarship:
- $30,000USD for students going for Master Degree study on the Seven areas of focus outside -Only one scholarship for the district
- Studies at the Master’s level (year 1)
-Resident of D-7040
-Studying outside of home country
-Endorsed by a district Club
-Already accepted into University program
- Not open to Rotarians and their family.
1) Master’s Degree
-2-year studies at one of7 Universities sponsored by Rotary International.
-The candidates must have 3 years working experience.
-The grant will be $50,000-60,000USD.
-50 awarded per year
- Not open to Rotarians and their family.
2) 3 month Certificate Program
-This program opens for all the Rotarian who has 5 years working experience.
-50 Candidates per year
-The Rotarians have to pay their own travel expenses.
4. On Aug. 28th, Fellow Rotarian Larbi Bennouna did the Classification Talk and PP Mark H Chau did the presentation to RMB
1) Fellow Rotarian Larbi made a Classification Talk on him and his carrier. Larbi was born in 1966 and he came to Canada in 1984. He has 3 boys. He graduated in UQAM University in 1991 for Project Management(MGP). In 1992 he finished his MBA and 1993 he had PhD degree in Administration. Since 2015 he is the CEO of SETYM International doing consulting on international development. He is the Lecturer of UQAM University. He is also the Honorary Advisor of Republique Democratique du Congo.
Larbi’s SETYM International Inc. is a Canadian company specializing in Capacity building(training and technical support). SETYM is an international renowned market leader. The company has expertise in Project Management; Public Governance; Management and organization and Public Procurement.
2) PP Mark H Chau did a short presentation on RMB Montreal on:
- What is Rotary Means Business
- Resources of RMB: over 90 RMB Clubs in the world. Networking and connecting to Rotarians in Business
- RMB Montreal Chapter (Chapter 96): is the first one registered in Canada
- You can have your detailed profile in the RMB website to promote yourself and in the meantime, you can search other Rotarians in RMB Club for Busines opportunities.
- Official registered as a non-profit organization with self-funding
- Membership fee: $100/year
- Domain registration has done and the website is under designing
- Try to get more members. Presentations are scheduled for other Rotary Clubs until the end of September.
- First meeting will be at the end of September,2020
