After an agonising wait of 906 days (2 ½ years), Erfan’s brother, wife and six children arrived last night at Adelaide’s International Airport after escaping Afghanistan’s Taliban rule and hiding in Pakistan to ensure their safety. It was a very emotional meeting when Wahad hugged his mother Sharifa and father Abdullah, the children and wives all hugged everyone, and then Wahad finally had the opportunity to embrace Erfan to thank him for all the hours, many hundreds of phone calls, extensive immigration paperwork and expenses to bring the family to Adelaide. A small contingent of Rotarians and Erfan’s friends were there to greet the family before they were transported to their new home.
Thanks to the Club’s Refugees Mentoring Committee – especially Katey, Paige and Kirsti (among others) – and the rest of the Community Services group for your efforts in helping to provide and move everything needed into Wahab and his family’s new home including clothing, furniture and household goods. Erfan been working extremely hard – taking on double shifts at work for the past few years – to help provide funds for his family’s transition into Australia, along with Erfan’s father Abdullah to pay for their accommodation and expenses in Pakistan. Rotary Adelaide Light assisted with the payment of the family’s flights to Australia.
We wish the family well and will arrange an event to welcome them after they have settled into their new home, school and environment. We will also continue our Refugees Mentoring program with the family during their transition into the community.
I look forward to seeing you all at this Thursday’s Croquet Club meeting at 7.00am. Our guest speaker will be Janet Weir from the Stroke Foundation.
Best wishes and have a wonderful week. Yvette, President.
Complementing our recent Clare Riesling, we’re pleased to offer an excellent McLaren Vale Grenache that’s half price at just $150.00 per case ($12.50/bottle).
Grenache is now available in half a dozen at the price of $75.00.
Give your fiends and family an excellent deal, while helping to fund our local and overseas Rotary service work. among other things, we’re building water supplies in Timor Lesté, rescuing Afghans fleeing the Taliban and making recent Oz migrants quickly feel welcome.
The wine is ready for collection, so please contact me or Rob by email or phone below to order it.
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
8 February 2024 - 7am South Tce. Croquet Club
15 February 2024 - 9.30am
22 February 2024 - Dinner meeting - Kent Town Hotel - 6pm
Chairperson
Yvette Reade
Coffee Conversation
John Wotherspoon
Attendance
Di Lane
Kirsti Kankkunen
White Picket Café
Furniture/Hosting
Erfan Abidi
Bottles/ cans
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rob McLennan
Bread run
John Wotherspoon (11/2)
Bruce McDonald (18/2)
Bruce McDonald (25/2)
Rotaract meeting
TBA
TBA
TBA
Chairman: Meet/greet speaker for the meeting; introduce and thank speaker. Preparation:- find details about the speaker prior to the meeting. Attendance: Set up reception table (attendance sheet; members list – re -payments; guest welcome sheet; money); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: Welcome all at the door; ensure speaker and guests are introduced to appropriatepersons. Furniture: Flags; banner display; Rotary theme banner; gong and hammer; lectern position before and returned after the meeting. Computerset up – Connect to projector. Switch on. Hold function key & press F5 twice. Bottles/cans: Collect bags of bottles/cans at meeting and take to recycle centre for refund, pass refund to Bruce McDonald and empty bags to the next duty member, at the next meeting. Rotaract: Meets 2nd and 4th Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the Astor Hotel, 437 Pulteney St. Adelaide. Bread Run: Sundays, meet outside Romeo's, North Adelaide at 4:55pm
Members rostered for Thursday morning duty are asked to be in attendance by 6.45am
United in the spirit of Service we value truth, fairness and friendship; and we welcome the opportunity that Rotary gives us to contribute our talents and resources in support of others.
Rotary Club of Adelaide Light Mission Statement
To have fun and engage interest from new members and friends as we use our strengths for a better world here and abroad - a welcoming, flexible group having fun doing hands-on activities for positive impact.
