Charlotte Woerner, a member of the Ubud Club, has been working with  Mr Nyoman Bagiarta, founder of Yayasan Naga Loka on a project to establish a Certificate Course for electricians at SMK N3 in Singaraja.  She arranged for our club to visit the school and see for ourselves the progress so far.

We arrived around 10:20am, and were warmly welcomed by teachers and shown into the meeting room where drinks and cakes were awaiting.  They then showed a well made video presentation that describes the courses at the school.  There are 1600 students altogether, and about 160 doing the Electrical Training.

Rotary Club of Bali Lovina Department in cooperation with of Hygiene and Gardening Buleleng district organized a workshop about ‘how to use or process garbage into something useful’, in this case compost. The workshop was held in the village of Tukadmungga. Participants were from Rotary Club of Bali Lovina and village offices of 3 sub districts namely, the sub districts of Buleleng, sub districts of Banjar and sub dsitrict of Sukasada. Villages that participated were; Dencarik, Kayuputih, Banjar Tegeha, Banjar, Panji and Sukasada. The workshop was the first step in a program on educating villages that have difficulties handling their garbage situation.

Tukadmungga village, the host of the workshop has successfully created an integrated waste treatment facility, or TPST. This project will hopefully become a pilot project in the area. The garbage in Tukadmungga village gets processed into compost. It turns out that this is not only helping the village to get rid of it’s garbage but it also provides jobs and brings in money.

 On Tuesday June 14 Past President Robbie and Past President Conchita met with Robert Epstone from the UK and Beat Schmidt de Gruneck from Switzerland who are both Bali residents and are now the Sole Men Indonesia. They have abandoned shoes for a barefoot walk to be in solidarity with the poor and homeless children in Indonesia, and to raise money for the health, education, and safety of children. The first ‘Sole Men Indonesia barefoot walk’ started on Kuta Beach, Bali, on June the 5^th and is expected to take round 30 days. This will be followed up by further barefoot walks around Indonesia on the islands of Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores and Java.

In Lovina the ‘Sole Men’ gave their feet a well deserved rest at the ‘Padang Hotel’, where we met on a sunny afternoon.

The District Conference 3400 was held in Sanur,  Bali this year. 

We had a nice three day trip to the South and met with hundreds of new and old Rotary friends and partners from all over the country and abroad. The Conference was informative and well organized.  The dinners were great and attended by many.

It is incredible to see how many projects are going on in our District that are organized by our Rotary Clubs. Projects in the field of; water, dengue fever, reforestation, , disaster managment (shelterboxes), thallasemia, blindness from cataracts, cleft palates and many more. Also it is amazing to see how generous Rotarians in our ditsrict are donating to the Rotary Foundation. This way we can all help our Foundation to continue carrying out humanitarian projects like the fight againts Polio.  Rotary friends of many countries were present.

On March 9, the regular lunch-time meeting was replaced by all day event, first at Menjangan Island, then at Lovina Beach .Our special Dive Day was great or should I say the perfect way to mix fun with fundraising.  It was a fabulous educational adventure  and great credit to our  Rotary Club of Bali Lovina, and to Spice Dive for their professional instructors  and the tasty catering in between our dives.. 

The Megangan Island coral wall is truly fantastic. I  have never seen such beautiful coral and great variety of multi colored species of reef fish. A much greater variety of  fish species then I experienced at Lembongan Island 3 months ago. Was great for our Rotary members and rotary friends to catch up again. After our return to Lovina  we enjoyed evening food on the sand at Spice Cafe, watched a beautiful sunset, and swapped fishy stories.

Photo of members and one spouse, guest-speaker, and visitors at the last meeting for 2010.