Our club welcomed Hester Louwen as guest speaker. Hester had long wanted to study midwifery, and finally enrolled as a mature-age student. She is nearing the end of her studies and was required to undertake a project, so she elected to do this in Bali. However, she was having difficulty getting a placement in Bali until she contacted Gloria at the Crisis Care Clinic in Kaliasem (Members may recall another guest speaker, Liah Metters, last September with a similar story of mature age study and project placements.)

Her time with Gloria is only beginning, and so far she has had one meeting in the hills where five people were present, and then a disappointment at the clinic when no-one turned up. Her area of interest is problems with hemorrhaging and blood loss following a birth. Such problems may become evident in the hour or two after the birth. But usually the local midwife (bidan) will be present for the birth and then leave soon after.

The Council on Legislation, Rotary's “parliament,” meets every three years to deliberate and act upon all proposed enactments and resolutions submitted by clubs, district conferences, the General Council and Conference of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland, and the RI Board. The Council itself also makes proposals.

The 2010 Council has released it's Report of Action and in the summary they say:

The Council considered 220 pieces of proposed legislation. These included 128 enactments(proposals to amend the constitutional documents of RI) and 92 resolutions (proposals whichdo not seek to amend the constitutional documents of RI). Of these, the Council adopted 47enactments and 19 resolutions. The Council referred 3 pieces to the RI Board for furtherstudy. The Council rejected 101 proposals, and 50 proposals were withdrawn or considered withdrawn. Of the 66 adopted proposals, the Council adopted 51 exactly as they wereproposed, while 15 were adopted with amendments. Those adopted with amendments arenoted in the report by an asterisk (*) after the number of the proposal. You will note that,where necessitated by amendments, the titles of the proposals have been changed toaccurately reflect the final intent of the legislation.

The complete report is 51 pages and you can read it at:

http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/col10_report_of_action_en.pdf

The Change-over Event

The Rotary club of Bali Lovina attended the charity event to mark the district governor hand-over and the change-over of club Boards on July 3, 2010. The event was a fund-raising dinner in the Kharisma Room of the Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel in Kuta.  Each year all of the Rotary clubs in Bali are invited to attend a combined event, but last year the Lovina Club was unable to attend the event in the south. 

District Governor Change-over

This year was special becaue the district governor for distinct 3400 which encompass all of Indonesia is from Bali.  Al Purwa accepted the district governor position for the Rotary year 2010-2011 from governor Thomas Aquanis.  In the photo (right) Al has received the Rotary wheel, and Robbie and Lia are looking over it.

Lia took her new with position at the head of the table. To her left, David who has been Acting Secretary and is now losing the "Acting" bit.  And to her right, Sollan - our Sergeant at Arms was back again after a few months in Sweden.

It was a private meeting with no guest speaker and no visitors, and Lia wanted to set out objectives for the coming year and review committees and projects. This was alot to cover, but she kept things moving and we covered most items.

Robbie (our President for 2009-2010) handed over the presidential Rotary pin, and the presidential medallion to Lia who is President for 2010-2011, and will preside over our meetings starting from next week (June 30).  

The "official" handover will be at a dinner meeting of all Bali Clubs in Kuta on Sat July 3, and our club will have all members attending.  But we decided to make the actual handover sooner so that the new arrangements are in place well before we are visited by the new District Governor, Al Purwo, on July 14.