ANNOUNCEMENTS
(notes provided by the erudite Mary Hodson)
The District Conference is May 3-4 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. There will be a band and dancing Saturday night. Registration is due by April 25. Our website has a link to the District website which has the registration form.
Reuben is selling $5 tickets to a breakfast benefiting CASA. It will be at Applebees on May 31.
Sydney Richmond, from Calgary, Canada and La Penita, Mexico, introduced herself. She will be attending our club while visiting her daughter’s family here for five weeks.
PROGRAM
Mary introduced Janet Kane, who spoke about her trips with a group from Trinity Lutheran Church in Urbana to Jacmel, Haiti.
The first trip was in 2010. They flew into Port au Prince and then traveled to Jacmel on the Southern coast. Sponsored by Lutheran World Charities, the group built houses. They saw many Shelter Box tents.
In the succeeding three years, without the funding from Lutheran World Charities, they had to seek new ways to try to help. Jan read the book, “When Helping Hurts, How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor or Yourself”, by Corbett and Fikkert. The answer is to build relationships.
They went back with the intention of finding out the needs from the people themselves. The members of Trinity Lutheran have helped construct a small church. They have taught English in small groups and have helped women establish small businesses. Jacmel is the center of Carnival in Haiti so together, the ladies crocheted bags from grocery bags and made jewelry and cupcakes that could be sold at the Carnival.
Janet and her group from Urbana helped an orphanage near Jacmel that housed children who were sold into bondage. Many children in Haiti are placed in bondage because it is the only way that their parents can feed them. Only 50% of the children are able to go to school because there is no free public education. You can sponsor a child in school for $240 a year .
They also help sponsor a feeding program at $200 per day, at a tent city at Beaudouin.
Donations for Haiti can be made via Trinity Lutheran Church, 701 E. Florida, Urbana, 61801. See HoldingHandswithHaiti@yahoo.com for more information.
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| Apr 17th | April 24th | May 1st | May 8th | |
| Introductions | Rod Roberts | Tod Satterthwaite | Jen Shelby | Lou Simpson |
| Invocation | Paul Conforti | Molly Delaney | Ata Durukan | Jim Gould |
| Greeters | Rod Roberts | Tod Satterthwaite | Jen Shelby | Lou Simpson |
| Alan Chalifoux | Neal Chamberlain | Reuben Chambers | Paul Conforti | |
| Song Leader | Curt Anderson | Oktay Baran | Eric Batsie | Keith Brandau |
| Notetaker | Hodson | Lintner | Conforti | Chamberlain |
| Rotary Minute | Reifsteck | Satterthwaite | Durukan | Roberts |
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Upcoming Schedule
April 17th – Varkki George, an urban planner who lived and worked for seven years in Dubai
April 24th – Dr. Stephen Boppart , Bliss Professor of Engineering at UIUC, will discuss biophotonics
May 1st – Samual Byndom, Director of Urbana Adult Education
May 8th – TBD
May 15th – Pat Titus, Titus Farms, representing the Illinois Pork Board
May 22nd – Tom Ulen will discuss Issues in College Athletics
May 29th – TBD
June 5th – TBD
