VLADIMIR MATIĆ Governor 2018 - 19 Newsletter No 5 – November 15th 2018. PHOTO OF THE MONTH: District 2483 Representatives at GETS and the Zone Institute in Jordan, November 4 to 11, 2018.
VLADIMIR MATIC - DISTRICT 2483 GOVERNOR – HAS VISITED ALL 66 CLUBS IN THE DISTRICT
GOVERNOR'S VISITS TO THE CLUBS
DISTRICT ACTIVITIES Media conference in Bor on the occasion of the Meeting of Governor Vladimir Matić and Rotarians donation of 20 computers to primary schools -host, from Zaječar and Bor with Marina Milić, Deputy Mayor Deputy Mayor of the city of Bor, Branko Peric of Zaječar Meeting of Governor Matić and Rotarians from Visit to the Mayor of Pirot, VladanVasić Vranje with Zorica Jović, Councillor for Culture of the city of Vranje Visit to the Mayor of Paraćin, SašaPaunović DG Matic visits the Mayor of Smederevo, Bogoljub expressing his gratitude for the donation of Spasojevic computers to three primary schools
PROJECTS FIRST PHASE OF THE \"500 COMPUTERS FOR 110 SCHOOLS IN 50 CITIES\" PROJECT COMPLETED GLOBAL GRANT 1870836 RC Pljevlja-7 osnovnih škola iz Pljevalja i okoline RC Valjevo-OŠ \"Miloš Marković” iz sela Donje Leskovce RC Loznica i RC Malmő-Slottsstaden - OŠ “Kadinjača”, Loznica RC Šabac -OŠ “Vuk Karadžić”, Šabac RC Kragujevac - OŠ” Jovan Popović”, Kragujevac RC Bor i RC E-klub Berlin Global-OŠ “Stanoje Miljković”, Bor
RC Vranje - OŠ “Jovan Jovanović Zmaj”, Vranje RC Zaječar - OŠ “Ljuba Nešić”, Zaječar RC Novi Sad Alma Mons - OŠ “Jovan Popović”, Novi Sad RC Beograd-Novi Beograd - OŠ “Jovan Dučić”, N. Beograd RC Beograd Centar - OŠ “Braća Baruh”, Beograd RC Prokuplje- OŠ “Ratko Pavlović-Ćićko” iz Prokuplja i OŠ “Stojan Novaković” iz Blaca kod Prokuplja
RC Pančevo Mihajlo Pupin-OŠ “Olga Petrov”, Banatski Brestovac RC Pirot- OŠ “Vuk Karadžić”, Pirot RC Ćuprija-Morava-OŠ ”Stefan Nemanja”, Stenjevac RC Smederevo- OŠ “Dositej Obradović“, Smederevo RC Beograd Čukarica as a host club of the Global Grant 1870836 - \"Svetozar Marković\" Primary School, Vračar, Belgrade Completion of the I phase of the GG 1870836 - allocation of computers in the presence of the Minister for Education Mladen Šarcevic
\"ALONG THE PATHS OF HUMANITY\" The \"Along the paths of humanity\" Project is still ongoing. So far, the screening of the film \"With Open Eyes\" and the presentation of the book \" The Marathon Runner\" were held in 23 towns, where Goran Nikolić and friends from the Delta Foundation were hosted byRotary clubs. We are proud of the 565,000 dinars collected from donations, which will enable children with special needs to spend 270 days at the Paraolympics Center \"Iskra\"! We are only half way - promotions have been announced in another dozen cities, and the film and the book are going beyond the borders of Serbia.
DISTRICT: INTERACT WEEK This year's Interact Week was held from 5 to 11 November. During this week, Rotary, Rotaract and Interact Clubs devoted all their activities to their youngest members. Throughout this week worldwide, a large number of events were organized to promote Interact as an interesting and significant Rotary programme. In district 2483, this year's Interact Week was dedicated to the promotion of intergenerational cooperation. With mutual Rotary and Interact activities we wanted to overcome the age-gap and demonstrate that only together can we serve and have fun together in the right way. With this in mind, in coordination with the District Interact Representative (DIR), StrahinjaRadovanović, joint meetings of Rotary and Interact Club Belgrade - Čukarica, Rotary Club Smederevo and Interact Club Semendria, Rotary and Interact Club Sremska Mitrovica, and Rotary and Interact Club Zaječar were held . During the Interact Week, Belgrade - Čukarica and Sremska Mitrovica Interact Clubs used the opportunity to hold lectures in schools and in that way familiarise a number of young people with their activities and Rotary ideas. The youngest Interact club - Interact Club Zaječar, joined this celebration during the week. They conducted a humanitarian campaign to provide support for NemanjaJovanovic. A total of 95 volunteers donated their work, and a humanitarian party was held in the Youth Center of Zaječar. This event won a good response from enterpreneurs, companies and organizations from Zaječar, who responded to the call and \"rewarded\" the young volunteers’ work by donating to little Nemanja. The Interact Week was ended with a joint event in Knez Mihailova Street in Belgrade, when the Interactors networked with the public and introduced them to their work and activities.
CLUB ACTIVITIES: Serving and Having Fun RC Belgrade Skadarlija and ASK Center for Education organized a social gathering,on October 16, 2018 with children aged 5 - 10 years, featuring book readings, a storytelling workshop as well as free distribution of a book for children \"The Story of Companionship\". The Second Rotary Ideas Fair, organized by RC Stari Bečej, was held on October 20, 2018 at Dundjerski Castle, with a programme of socialising and fun. The goal of this second gathering was experience exchange, presentation of Clubs' projects , as well as the creation of an Exchange for Ideas in electronic form, where each club can see projects, implement them, modify them to fit with the local community, upload them and so on. The Exchange for Ideas has been established and exists on the RC StariBečej site - http://rotarybecej.club/ to Sremska Mitrovica. RC Sremska Mitrovica has provided over four hundred books, purchased from the personal libraries of its members and their friends, for libraries and as awards for students participating in sports competitions. The books were given to the \"GligorijaVozarovic\" library in Sremska Mitrovica for its own and the needs of its branches. One hundred copies of the book \"TheMarathon Runner\" – the biography of marathon runner Goran Nikolic, were donated to sports organizations in Sremska Mitrovica and Šid, as well as to libraries in these towns and Hrtkovci Primary School. As a special gift, copies of the book were awarded to young athletes who, together with Goran Nikolic, ran the last metres of the 4th Marathon \"Ivan Goran Kovačić\" Primary School in Niška Banja, received 10 sets of computers as part of the \"100 for 100\" Project from the Rotary Organization of Serbia (Rotary District 2843) in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. On this occasion, a donation contract between the director of the school, Dragan Stanojević and the president of RC Niš-Medijan, Predrag Stefanović, was signed. The handover was attended by the Municipality Executive of Niška Banja Municipality, headed by President Dejan Jovanovic. On Saturday, October 27, 2018, a group of members of RC Belgrade-Dunav visited their twin club, RC Idrija, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the chartering of this club. The celebration was held in the Kendov Dvorec old castle in Idrija, and before the ceremony we attended a charity concert of the Idrija Miner's Orchestra, which was founded more than 350 years ago. On Saturday, October 27 at the Hotel \"Moscow\" the Charter ceremony of RC Belgrade - Global was held. This is the 66th and the youngest club in the District. RC Belgrade Skadarlija donated 40 pairs of boots worth 70,000 RSD to the \"Beograd\" Institute for the Education of Children and Youth on November 1.
On November 1, the12th anniversary of RC Niš - Konstantin Veliki was celebrated in Niš. On Friday, November 2, 2018 at the Hotel “Majestic” in Belgrade, a celebration was held on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the Chartering of RC Belgrade-Dunav and the second anniversary since the foundation of Rotaract Club Belgrade-Dunav. The celebration was organised as Ladies Night and as a donation evening,and presented an opportunity for guests to enjoy their dinner and drinks accompanied by the dancing of the members of the Tango Studio, but also to dance themselves and learn the moves of this attractive dance. We enjoyed the acoustic music of professional musicians as well as the artistry of our DJ. The dress code of the celebration was: Dress & Mask to impress! RC Niš - Medijana in cooperation with PUC \"Medijana\", on Friday, November 2, 2018 at 14:00, planted 16 trees at the quay near Nisava. Their planting was planned next to the river itself between the \"Niski cvet\" and \"My place\" hotels as a continuation of last year's campaign when nine trees were planted, out of 27 in total, planted by all the Rotary Clubs in Nis. In Novi Sad, on November 3, 2018 the Twinning Ceremony of RC Bijeljina and RC Novi Sad- Danube was held. Ceremonially, in the spirit of Rotarianism, the Twinning Charter was signed, thus marking the beginning of what will certainly prove to be long-standing and successful valuable service and socializing for all. Within ICC Serbia - Romania, RC Bor hosted RC Petrosani JuliaValeu from Romania on November 3and 4. The delegation was made up of 16 members of the club along with its president who is also deputy Mayor of the city of Petrosani. At the joint meeting, cooperation, socializing and joint participation in projects were discussed, after which a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the two clubs. On Sunday, the guests visited Lazar’s Cave and Lake Bor, where the gathering ended over drinks and an agreement on a new meeting in Romania. On November 10, 2018, RCKrusevac celebrated 16 years of successful existence and work. The celebration took place in the beautiful ambience of the \"Konak\" restaurant in Krusevac. Apart from the representatives of local government, with whom Rotary Club Krusevac has a long-standing and successful cooperation, representatives of Prokuplje, Nis-Center, Cuprija-Morava and Kraljevo Rotary Clubs were also present. RC Belgrade - Skadarlija on November 10, 2018, officially donated to the Technical School in Obrenovaca a 3D scanner. In addition to the 3D scanner, the club stepped up and provided the filament for the 3D printer. The total donation was around 5000 EUR.
A promotion of the film \"Tesla’s People\" by director ŽeljkoMirković, member of RC Belgrade - Čukarica was held on October 27, in a packed Kolarac Hall. The documentary will be shown in 10 episodes on Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in the coming months. District Governor Vladimir Matic attended the District Rotaract Assembly on October 27, 2018 at Silver Lake. On that occasion, he presented Rotaractors with the RI and District strategic goals, as well as the current events in the District. At this meeting, a report on the work of Rotaract and DRR Srđan Barac for 2017-18 was adopted. The Annual Award of the City of Pancevo in the field of education was awarded to Rotarian Daliborka Bojkovic-Breti. Congratulations. Lecture by Ambassador DarkoTanaskovic at a RC Belgrade Metropolitan meeting with over 70 attendees. RC Kraljevo marked the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War with a special lecture. Dr Milan Matijevic spoke about Serbian combatants and monuments. From a regular meeting (on wheels) RC Novi Sad. Theme: Tourism in Novi Sad. RC BijeloPolje marked October 24, with major media coverage and a donation to the Polio Foundation. Dr Elvis Omeragic, a member of the club, gave a sixty minute guest appearance at Radio BijeloPolje and held a lecture at the club. Volunteers distributed flyers in the city square. The president of the club was hosted on state TV.
ABC of ROTARY From the book by Cliff Dochterman NO PERSONAL PRIVILEGES Frequently friends ask whether Rotarians receive special business benefits from their Rotary membership. Should Rotarians expect a special discount or some preferential service just because they are dealing with a fellow Rotarian? The answer is clearly \"no.\" The Rotary Manual of Procedure expressly states the Rotary position on this matter. The policy, originally approved by the R.I. Board of Directors in 1933, is that in business and professional relations \"a Rotarian should not expect, and far less should he ask for, more consideration or advantages from a fellow Rotarian than the latter would give to any other business or professional associate with whom he has business relations. \" Over 50 years ago the concept was expressed that \"true friends demand nothing of one another, and any abuse of the confidence of friendship for profit is foreign to the spirit of Rotary.\" On the other hand, if new or increased business comes as the natural result of friendship created in Rotary, it is the same normal development which takes place outside of Rotary as well as inside, so it is not an infringement on the ethics of Rotary membership. It is important to remember that the primary purpose of Rotary membership is to provide each member with a unique opportunity to serve others, and membership is not intended as a means for personal profit or special privileges. \"EVERY ROTARIAN AN EXAMPLE TO YOUTH\" In much of the official literature of Rotary International relating to service to young people, a special slogan will be found--\"Every Rotarian an Example to Youth.\" These words were adopted in 1949 by the Rotary International Board of Directors as an expression of commitment to children and youth in each community in which Rotary clubs exist. Serving young people has long been an important part of the Rotary program. Youth service projects take many forms around the world. Rotarians sponsor Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, athletic teams, handicapped children's centers, school safety patrols, summer camps, recreation areas, safe driving clinics, county fairs, child care centers and children's hospitals. Many clubs provide vocational counseling, establish youth employment programs and promote use of the 4- Way Test. Increasingly, drug and alcohol abuse prevention projects are being supported by Rotarians. In every instance, Rotarians have an opportunity to be role models for the young men and women of their community. One learns to serve by observing others. As our youth grow to become adult leaders, it is hoped each will achieve that same desire and spirit to serve future generations of children and youth. The slogan accepted over 40 years ago is just as vital today. It is a very thoughtful challenge--\"Every Rotarian an Example to Youth.\"
CONTENTS: Photo of the Month Governor’s Visits Activities in the District Projects Interact Week Clubs’ Activities ABC of Rotary The District in Numbers District in Numbers On November 7, 2018, according to the database on my.rotary.org, our District 2483 comprises 66 clubs with 1241 members. Yours in Rotary,
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