eBulletin 23rd August (Aug 23, 2016)

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We meet Wednesdays at 1:00 PM

Greenborough RSL Board Room

111 Main Street
Greensborough, Vic. 3088
Australia

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Rotarian Behind the Badge

Asad Abbasi Man Behind the Badge.

Wednesday 17th August was the day we heard something of the remarkable journey of a young man, from the mountain areas of Pakistan to the highs of major educational and training achievements and now living in Melbourne.

Asad moved out of home in the country to work in the city of Karachi at the age of 12 in the year 1999 when he just had completed year 8.

His experiences include working in a restaurant for about $1 per day. Restarted his academic journey in the year 2002 and completed school, college studies and a Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours from one of the prestigious institutes.

He started his own business in 2007 along with the full-time study and a full-time job.

Moving to Australia in February 2013, Asad completed his Masters in Accounting and currently is studying to be a CPA.

Asad's achievements are remarkable and more than the writer if this article could keep up.

Rotary Club of Greensborough, we are privileged to have Asad a part of our Club.

Rotaract Trivia Night

The Rotaract team treated all who attended to a wonderful evening of entertainment and fun.

The atrium area at St Johns Diamond Creek was about at capacity and the programme was very innovative. It was a trivia night with a difference. The Rotaractors were well organised with individuals undertaking specific tasks and leadership and teamwork on display.

The DVLC table people were the brains trusts for the night and also took out the prize for tower construction with dry pasta and marshmallows.

The Rotary Club of Greensborough was represented by Michael and Connie, Joy and Tony, Sharraine, Christine, and David and Betty all of whom brought family and friends along.

Watch the Rotaract space for details of the funds raised for Diamond Valley Learning Centre

Rotarians Against Malaria

Posted by Christine Shields

Last weekend i attended the Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) conference held in Melbourne.

In attendance were District Chairs from clubs around Australia plus interested Rotarians and some members of Rotaract Australia's Malaria committee. T

The guest speakers were varied and included Edgar Pollard RAM PHD student on his project in the Solomon Islands, Rebecca Feldman from the Victorian Dept of Health and Human Services telling us about the control of mosquitoes in our state, Dr Danielle Stanisic from Griffith University who is researching a vaccine for malaria which they have started clinical trials with and Dr Jack Richards from the Burnett Institute who talked about ways to look at eliminating malaria throughout the world.

Updates were given on the projects being done in PNG, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste and Vanuatu to help towards the elimination of this disease. Michael Shields Chair of the Rotaract Malaria committee also spoke on their involvement to raise much needed funds to help with research, buying bed nets and also making people in the community aware of the projects being done by RAM.

There was also time to network at the dinner held on Saturday night.

Malaria awareness day will be celebrated on the 30th of April next year and any contributions we can make to RAM will help to work towards elimination of this disease.

A very interesting and worthwhile event to attend.