Greetings dear KGM Members,

For our first lunch meeting of year 2025 on the 8th, we had an informative update from our Guest Speaker Karina O’Carroll from Animals Asia on the Herbal Heroes project and how your Club has contributed to its success. PDG Ada Cheng and DS Elizabeth Fong also attended the luncheon.

Two hands-on community service projects were carried out, on 7^th and 21^st January, where we distributed warm gloves, socks, sleeping bags, steel water bottles etc to homeless street sleepers at the TST waterfront. A very fulfilling project especially to see the gratitude in the eyes of the recipients of the warm stuff, in view of the cold weather.   

We have had our newest member Dr Neeraj Mahboobani inducted at the dinner meeting on 22^nd at KCC. Let’s all work to get some more new members in, especially young persons and from other nationalities.

As mentioned previously, we are one of the sponsors of the CPR/AED Education project which aims to teach these essential life-saving skills to members. Intention is to have this training arranged for interested members sometime in March 2025. This is a skill that all our members should learn as it could help save lives of others in critical times.

Our flagship Feed elderly community service project was held at Kwai Chung YMCA on 22^nd February and hope to see many members participate here.

A reminder that our Annual Ball will be held on 31^st May 2025 so pls mark your diaries. Look forward to your active and strong presence and contribution towards raffle prizes, ball tickets, ball tables, advertisements and other fund raising measures as this is our biggest source of income that enables us to do community services throughout the year!

In closing, I once again wish all my Rotarian family a great, Happy, Prosperous and Healthy time ahead.