On Thursday evening the 4th of December, we plan to have a hybrid meeting to celebrate the holidays with our exchange student from Brazil. This will. be a dinner at SAM's Seafood & Steaks (12758 Grant Road, Cypress, Texas. 77429).. Please rsvp to Anais Watsky at 281-467-9449 or awatsky@icloud.com. Spouses are welcome. We will begin to socialize at 6:30 pm, and plan on the event lasting until about 8:00 pm. It will be a great opportunity to get together both in-person and to meet more of our club members online (Zoom, of course!). We will have a short program to share "GOOD NEWS", meet our exchange student, and recognize some deserving Rotarians, Dress - "Holiday Casual".
How to pay your Rotary Dues - Use the QR code below or Venmo (@RotaryeClubofHouston). Here you may enter the amount of your payment. Our board is keeping the annual dues at the rate of $300 the same for the Rotary year 25-26. Or you may mail your check to Edward Charlesworth, Treasurer, 11407 Hylander Dr., Houston, Texas 77070.
If you join another club, they most likely will want to confirm your status before the transfer may be approved. Withdrawal from our club must be in writing to our Board of Directors. There will not be a refund of dues during the Rotary year and dues must be current to leave our club in good standing.
If you have decided to leave our club, please do so prior to December 27 or the.club will have to pay your dues to Rotary International. If you are not currrent on dues, then this is a burden to our club. Please notify Charles Mickens, Secretary, of your intent to leave the club.
The holiday season is getting into full swing during these special months of the year. We have many blessings and gifts to share as Rotarians actively engaging in our communities. Our Houston E-Club community service theme for December & January is “Goods and Presents for the less fortunate” – Concentrating our service efforts to make the lives of those less fortunate more comfortable as we go through the holiday season. Our club focuses on the areas and people noted below in this season of giving. For those outside Houston look for similar needs and support opportunities in your community …. These opportunities are everywhere this time of year.
Coats & Blankets for the homeless
Holiday cards for elderly (Nursing Homes) & lonely individuals
Toy Drives for Needy Families
Additional focus should also be given to the global perspective provided through Rotary International. The RI focus for the months of December and January are:
December – Disease Prevention & Treatment Month
January – Vocational Service Month
Be proactive and represent Rotary wherever you are and please do so often!
Though, I am a Rotarian of the Houston e-club, I also serve as the Rotary District 5890 Global Grants Chair and the Vice President of the Inter-Country Committee between USA and Mexico. As a result of my roles, I support multiple global grants each year.
Rotary Cares: Global Grant approved
This project aims to enhance the medical capabilities of Jain Mission Hospital (JMH) in Karnataka, India, by providing essential equipment for their use in
1. Monitoring patients in ICU / Ward / in Emergency
2. ENT Surgeries,
3. Beds for patients ICU, ward and OPD
JMH, overseen by Jain Mission Trust, Bengaluru, and supported by philanthropists and organizations like Rotary International, was inaugurated on June 14, 2021, with a mission to ensure equitable access to high-quality healthcare for underprivileged communities in Chikkaballapur and its surrounding areas.
Clean Water for all: Grant submitted to TRF and awaiting approval
Our Project is to provide water storage tanks (Rotoplas) of 1100 liters, for 100 families in the Ramón Pérez neighborhood, located in the city of Reynosa Tamaulipas, where piped water arrives only one day a week, and the idea is that they are installed and provided with this water container, which will be refilled every time the water arrives at their neighborhood. or failing that, it could be filled with rainwater as well, if necessary, the project is the purchase of 100 rotoplas, for 100 houses in the neighborhood.
This project is being implemented with Rotary District 4130, primary point of contact is Ms. Esmeralda Chimal -Rizzo (Rotary Director Salvador Rizzo’s wife). They needed expert advice and I am serving as their International Rotary Partner
Club House Ghana: Draft stage
Houston e-club led global grant proposal, in its early stages, led by President Elect ML and Anais.
Anais Watsky & ML Brookshire are working together on revisions to the Global Grant 2683772 located in Oyarifa - Accra (Ghana) and our club has donated $1,000 toward this Mental Health project. The host club is Rotary Club of Koforidua in Accra and our club is the International Sponsor. Please ask your Rotarian friends in other clubs for the appropriate contacts in International Service to request funds for supporting this project.
Ruby Powers has begun teaching another semester at South Texas College of Law Houston and conducted a Webinar for the ICC USA-Ukraine on Immigration Options & Updates. Thank you, Ruby, for your commitment to "Service Above Self"!
Brittany Johnson just spent a month in Hawaii for a new sales position with Marriott.
Robin Charlesworth planned (with the President, Marsha Hunt, Secretary, Barbara Leger, and National Director, Claudine Schooley) the 5th Anniversary Celebration of the formation of the ICC USA-Ukraine and has served on this national committee since its inception. She is now Vice-President of ICC USA-Ukraine and serves on the National Committee which coordinates all countries with ICC connections with many different countries in the USA.
An engagement was recently announced for two of our members - Congratulations to Glenda Guzman Macal and Ruben Santos! These two are also very involved with the Rotary Youth Exchange program in our district.
Valerii Iakovenko presented to the ICC USA-Ukraine international group of Rotarians about his drone business and it has prduced 300,000 new jobs in the USA. He has applied for extending his immigration status but the paperwork got delayed and he has had to leave the USA and temporarily live in London,
PDG Bob and Jamie Hauser have been traveling extensively. Bob met with an unusual encounter with a young drug addict resulting in serious injuries in a robbery attempt. We wish him the best for recovery!
As the Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization’s Polio and Emergencies Cluster, Bruce Aylward works to ensure that polio stays under control and that the world is prepared to respond to health crises. Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world -- and to snuff it out everywhere, forever. Listen for his nod to Rotarian volunteers.
Eradicating polio is the hope and dream of Rotary International. Let's see this through to the finish line! Did you know that President Nick Giannone and his wife along with PDG Ed Charlesworth and Robin Charlesworth (all members of Rotary e-Club of Houston) have been to the slums in India to volunteer to administer polio drops to help in this effort? We ask that all members make some contribution toward "End Polio Now" in addition to supporting our Rotary Foundation.
This is a new goal for the Rotary 25-26 year - expanding our engagement with the ClubRunner website. Please review this article and it is published on the Home Page for future reference under "Members". Please learn how to input your attendance at Rotary events for our club, district or make-up meetings. Learn how to pay dues online. Learn how to donate to support projects. We are not a club known for our fundraisers. Please help support projects our board has discussed and chosen to support with our donations. Go to our Home Page on the website. rotaryeclubhouston.org and select Giving Back in the top bar. Next, select. Donations. Here you will find "Good News", Clubhouse Ghana, Sega Digital Library (in Kenya), US Veterans, and Other Payments. We appreciate your GIVING and support of these projects!
We also hope to capture your service hours as Rotarians. It is easy! Go to the Member Area and select "Volunteers" in the blue bar. Then look for the Member Hours Report and describe your activity or donation along with the amount of time spent. Our Service Chairman, Robert Stein, will capture a monthly report of our volunteerism.
If you need assistance with your data input, please contact Robin Charlesworth for a personal tutorial (970-880-0960).
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians recite it at club meetings:
Of the things we think, say or do
First, Is it the TRUTH?
Second, Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Third, Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
and Fourth, Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
