- Weekly Club Meetings on Zoom
- March 5th, 2021 on Zoom
On March 5th Club meeting on Zoom, we updated the Club Matters after the Board Meeting
on March 4th, 2021.
1) Finance update
IPP Linda updated the following:
-Our bank accounts:
Tangerin: $84,373.92
Welfare : $6971.72
Current: $29,896
2) Fundraising Committee update
- PP Mark updated that 2021 Montreal Chinese New Year Charity Concert has been successful organized. PP Mark was very pleased with the funds raised which was $14158 in total. He thanked the team work of the the Fundraising Committee especially fellow member James,
IPP Linda, Malcolm. He was very grateful that President Susan well organized the Concert and devoted herself to this fundraising event.
- President Susan thanked PP Mark for his effort in making this fundraising event a successful one. She was happy to see that PP Mark himself raised $5250 from his resources. P. Susan also thanked all the fellow members for their great support and generosity. P. Susan said that through this fundraising activity we promoted Rotary and our Club and we created great impact not only in the Chinese Community but also in the world through Youtube link. 1135 people watched our Concert on Yourtube; 10,000 people watched our Concert through V.qq.com in China. Our Concert will be available on
Youtube forever which will be a long-lasting promotion for Rotary and our Club.
3) Local Project update
$150 was voted to donate to the Interact Club Mariannopolis Interact of RC Westmount.
4) International Committee update
-$2000 USD will be donated to GG21-18484 WASH in Ghana. The Board voted to support this this project was because we need them to help us in our International project as they have very rich experience in International project planning and execution.
5) Foundation Committee update
There will be less global grants starting July 1st, 2021. The world fund match for DDF for global grants will reduce from 100% to 80%.
6) Interact Club
As fellow member Rachel became inactive this year, we need someone to take care of our Interact Club coordination. Before we fund someone to take charge, IPP Linda will be the contact person for our Interact Club.
2. March 12th, 2021 Club Meeting on Zoom
At this meeting, we had Ms. Anna-Sophie Martin from MKono to be our Speaker thanks to PP Amina's introduction. Her topic was Young Entrepreneurs in Kenya.
Prior to becoming Mkono’s CEO, Anne-Sophie worked as a management consultant for Oliver Wyman in New York City. She also worked in Kenya for the education non-profit Think Equal and is a Board Member of the education non-profit PennyDrops. She is an active speaker on mental health and has published two articles on this topic. She holds a bachelors degree from McGill University.
3. March 19th, 2021 Club Meeting on Zoom
At this meeting, we had Mr. Kyle Mathews from Concordia to talk about Montreal Institute for Genocide & Human Rights.
Kyle Matthews is the Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human
Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University. He joined MIGS as Lead Researcher of the Will
to Intervene Project in 2008 and was appointed Senior Deputy Director in 2011. At Concordia
he founded the Raoul Wallenberg Legacy of Leadership project as well as the Digital Mass
Atrocity Preventing Lab, which works to counter online extremism and study how social media platforms are being used as a weapon of war.
His work focuses on human rights, international security, the Responsibility to Protect, global
threats, and social media and technology, and global cities. He works closely with the Canadian
All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and has advised Members of
Parliament on issues related to international peace and security. He previously worked for
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where he was posted to the Southern
Caucasus (Tbilisi), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) and Switzerland (Geneva).
Prior to that he worked for CARE Canada in Albania and later at its headquarters in Ottawa,
where he managed various humanitarian response initiatives and peace-building projects in
Afghanistan, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
In 2011 he joined the New Leaders program at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He is a member of the Global Diplomacy Lab, a member of the BMW Foundation’s
Global Responsible Leaders, and recently joined the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum’s advisory board on transatlantic cooperation for atrocity prevention. He is active
member of the University Club of Montreal, the Montreal Press Club, the Montreal Council on
Foreign Relations, the Canadian International Council and the Federal Idea, a think tank
devoted to federalism. He is currently a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Global Affairs and
a Research Fellow at the Canadian Research Institute on Humanitarian Crises and Aid.
Mr. Mathews talked about the crisis in Syria, online hate and human rights issues etc. He also mentioned about the international network development and the emerging technology application.
Founding President Santoso thanked Mr. Mathews for his interesting talks and commented that it
was a great challenge for his work.
4. March 26th, 2021 Club Meeting on Zoom
At this meeting, we had the honor to have PGND Pardeep Aluwalla, PP of West Ottawa Rotary Club
to be our Speaker to speak about District Club Strategy Planning.
Founding President Santoso thanked DGND Pardeep for his important speech. He emphasized that
it is so important that our Club should make our own Strategic plan.
President Susan suggested that President Elect Ilario be responsible for the Strategic plan's
making or form a Strategic Planning Committee in his year.
- Birthday members in March
In March, two fellow members had their birthday: Fellow Member Paulo and PP Amina. Let's
wish them happy birthday and all the best for a healthy and safe year!
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
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