1. Club #56011, District 3292, Nepal & Bhutan: Year 2015, Issue 47
KALPAVRIKSHA
GREATER GOODS
E- BULLETIN
DECEMBER
2015
2. Club #56011, District 3292, Nepal & Bhutan: Year 2015, Issue 47
EDITORIAL
Dear Readers,
We are neighbors, community leaders, and global citizens uniting for the common
good. With you, we can accomplish even more as quoted by Rotary International.
RCK Members are surely moving towards this common goal and moving forward.
In coming months RCK members have planned for more field activities for the
good of the common people. I wish you all very best and thank you on the occasion
of Happy New Year 2016 for putting your best efforts into Rotary activities.
Rotary Information
RI Convention 2016, to be held on May 28 – June 1, 2016, in Seoul. District
Conference for the year 2016-17 to be held in Thimpu, Bhutan from 17th -19th
February 2017. Total expenses to attend the conference have been calculated to
NRs 50,000 that includes conference registration, hotel accommodation on double
occupancy basis. District Conference 2015-16 is going to be held at Dhulikhel
from 12th-14th February 2016.
In view of the current fuel shortage the ICM on Rotary Public Image has been
postponed to be held after Tihar. New date will be informed two weeks before the
ICM date. ICM on Immunization has been postponed until further notice. The
District Rotary foundation Training Seminar and the District Foundation
Contributors Recognition Programme. 21st Nov, 2015, Time: 12:30, Hotel Soaltee,
Registration fee Rs 2000.Regional Strategic Planning Committee Region II is
organizing a workshop on strategic planning in December 2015.
Chartered President, Gajendra Bahadur Shrestha and President Rtn. Prabhu Ram
Bhandary as well as Sect. Binid Singh had ran a special effective programme as to
welcome the organizations regular attendance, active involvement in service projects
also fellowship has helped the club to remain active and vibrant this month.
Kalpabriksha-ebulletin, Rotaract team has been providing good support. I take this
opportunity (Rotract Prasntjee Sasankjee and Sunikaji) to that their team in
supporting me and the club as well as ES, Purushttom Acharya.
Editor, Rtn. Raj Kumar Gurung
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Good News
PP. Rtn. Upendra Paudyal inaugurated the NMB Bank Branch in Votaraya, Malaysia.
Rtn. Pradeep K Shrestha had secured 1st
runner up in Gulf tournament organized by
Standard Chartered Bank, Bombay.
Hon, PP. Rtn. Umesh Shrestha has selected region 5, Madai, Chitwan as his election
constituency..
Happy Landings
Rtn. Sajjan BS Thap.
PP Rtn. Milan Bahadur Shah
PP Rtn Upendra Paudyal
PP Rtn Pradeep K. Shrestha
Happy Birthdays
Rtn. B.K. Shrestha : 24th December
Rtn. Anjalee Shrestha : 25th December
Wedding Anniversaries
Rtn. Barsha Shrestha : 13th December
Wishing you all a blissful & Joyful Festive of Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year 2016. This is to extend my best wishes to you all for peace, progress and
prosperity on the auspicious occasion of to all RCK and Retract member.
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Germ reveals ‘Rotary Serving
Humanity’ as 2016-17 presidential
theme
Rotary’s founder, Paul Harris, believed that serving humanity is “the most worthwhile thing a person can do,” RI
President-elect John F. Germ said, and that being a part of Rotary is a “great opportunity” to make that happen.
Germ unveiled the 2016-17 presidential theme, Rotary Serving Humanity, to incoming district governors on 18 January
at the International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA.
“I believe everyone recognizes the opportunity to serve Rotary for what it truly is: not a small opportunity, but a great
one; an opportunity of a lifetime to change the world for the better, forever through Rotary’s service to humanity,” said
Germ.
Rotary members around the globe are serving humanity by providing clean water to underdeveloped communities,
promoting peace in conflict areas, and strengthening communities through basic education and literacy. But none more
important than our work to eradicate polio worldwide, he said.
After a historic year in which transmission of the wild poliovirus was stopped in Nigeria and all of Africa, Germ said
we are closer than ever to ending polio.
“We are at a crossroads in Rotary,” he added. “We are looking ahead at a year that may one day be known as the
greatest year in Rotary’s history: the year that sees the world’s last case of polio.”
Last year’s milestones leave just two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the virus still circulates. Polio would
be only the second human disease ever to be eradicated.
When that moment arrives, it’s “tremendously important” that Rotary is ready for it, said Germ. “We need to be sure
that we are recognized for that success, and leverage that success into more partnerships, greater growth, and even more
ambitious service in the decades to come.”
Germ, a member of the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, encouraged attendees to return to their clubs and
communities and spread the word about Rotary’s role in the fight for a polio-free world.
“People who want to do good will see that Rotary is a place where they can change the world. Every Rotary club needs
to be ready to give them that opportunity,” Germ said.
Enhancing Rotary’s image isn’t the only way to boost membership. “We need clubs that are flexible, so our service will
be more attractive to younger members, recent retirees, and working people.”
He added: “We need more willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds to move our work forward.”
By Ryan Hyland
International Rotary News
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Alumna honoree creates opportunities for
the poor
Susan Davis shares a photo with school children in Pakistan. Davis co-founded BRAC USA to advance
the mission of BRAC -- Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee -- which is dedicated to
fighting poverty.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Susan Davis
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For her work to mitigate extreme poverty around the world, Susan Davis has received many honors. But the 2015-16 Rotary Global
Alumni Service to Humanity Award has special significance.
“It feels like a circle of completion,” says Davis, who was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar in 1980-81, doing graduate
studies in international relations at Oxford University in England. “Rotary invested in me when I was young, and now is celebrating
the harvest.”
A decade ago, Davis co-founded BRAC USA to advance the mission of BRAC -- Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee --
the world's largest nongovernmental development organization, which was founded after Bangladesh’s partition from Pakistan in the
1970s. The U.S. branch is dedicated to fighting poverty and to creating opportunities for the poor in Africa and elsewhere.
Fulfilling that mission hasn’t been easy. Davis’ work has been disrupted by floods, cyclones, earthquakes, and war. Even worse was
the sudden and deadly Ebola epidemic in 2014 in West Africa.
“I wasn't sure how to protect our staff and clients and accompany these vulnerable communities out of this tragic situation,” says
Davis, who served as BRAC USA’s president and chief executive officer until her departure this month. She quickly contacted Ebola
experts and connected them with BRAC USA’s representatives in affected countries. “I lost sleep and cried with each death,” she
says.
Two of those deaths were particularly painful. Ophilia Dede, a BRAC credit officer in Liberia, and her husband succumbed to the
virus, leaving behind a little girl. Davis helped set up a scholarship fund for her education.
But she doesn’t allow such painful experiences to deter her.
“The urgency of the need and the tangible opportunities to make a difference keep me going,” she says. “And I have been blessed by
seeing two big ideas — microfinance and social entrepreneurship — take root globally.”
From 1987 to 1991, Davis championed microfinance while working as a program officer with the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh.
She developed a consortium that raised $175 million, increasing the availability of microloans in Bangladeshi villages to 44 percent
from 5 percent, she says. Though debates endure over how much credit microfinance should receive for the country’s progress,
conditions in Bangladesh have improved significantly: According to The Economist, life expectancy in the country rose from 59 to
69 during a 20-year span ending in 2010.
Davis also is co-author, with journalist David Bornstein, of the book “Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.”
And she is involved with Ashoka, a nonprofit organization that supports social entrepreneurship; as a director, she oversaw its
expansion to the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.
A resident of New York City, Davis is widely recognized for her work in the field of international development. She was appointed
to the board of the United Nations Fund for International Partnership in 2012, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and
has served on the boards of the Grameen Foundation, the Sirleaf Market Women's Fund, and the African Women's Development
Fund USA.
Davis has come a long way from the small town in southwest Louisiana, USA, where she grew up. The Rotary scholarship provided
her first opportunity to live abroad. She believes that her Oxford experience allowed her to be taken seriously, and credits it with
helping her land a job with the Ford Foundation.
Perhaps most importantly, says Davis, that Rotary-sponsored year gave her an entirely new perspective on power and privilege.
“Oxford was larger than life in my imagination,” she recalls. “But when I became a part of Oxford and got to know the dons and the
students, I realized that, whether rich or poor, we were all just human beings and all of us were vulnerable and full of imperfections.”
Davis will be honored at the Rotary International Convention in Korea in June.
By David Sweet
Rotary News
8-Jan-2016
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Visiting Rotarian (RC Mid Town), PP, Rtn. Willam
Ma, PP, Ajaya Stapith, PP, Rtn. Ananda
Tuladhar, PP, Rtn. Dr. Chandra Lekha Tuladhar,
PP. Rtn. Mani Dhoj Joshi were welcomed by
President Rtn. Prabhu Ram Bhandary.
Visiting Rotarian PP, Rtn. William Ma highlighted
on 4 way test and handed over the 4 way test
chart to President Prabhu and in reciprocal
President Prabhu handed over the calendar with
4 way test, published by RCK to PP. Rtn. William
Ma ( RC Mid Town) and all other visiting
Rotarians .
PP, Rtn. Dr. CL Tuladhar highlighted on Rotary
involved in child education.
PP, Rtn. Mani Dhoj Joshi requested to increase
more members in RCK though
the target has already been achieved.
PP. Rtn. Millan B Shah was nomination for ‘ DG
Nomination Committee 2018/019’ was
unanimously approved by the meeting.
Rtn. Rajju Mall Dhakal thanked RCK for
sponsoring and attending seminar on
Strategic Planning last week at Hotel Radisson.
Certificate of appreciation was handed over to
President Rtn. Prabhu for RCK involvement and
for being a host club by Rtn. Rajju Malla.
Chairman of Shree Jogeswari Secondary School ,
Nirmal Lama and Head Master Ambika Psd.
Dahal requested for school furniture in place of
toilets.This was decided to be taken up
optimistically on written request.
PP, Rtn. Gyanendra Lal Pradhan had requested
all the members to join in Pithauli visit
programme and confirm their names at an early
date.
Rtn. Utshav Gartaula has been nominated for
Seoul conference and Simodate, Japan visit
programme scheduled for 2016.
PP, Rtn. Niranjan Bhattarai informed that Dharan
Dhankuta visit programme has been posponded
for 15 days in view of the prevailing disturbances.
Meeting No. 642
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President Rtn. Prabhu highlighted on
their Rameshap and Panchkhal visit.
Rtn. Sanjay Dudhani, Dr Rajesh
Dudhani, Rtn. Shiva Shrestha and Rtn.
Ghanashyam Paudel were also in the
team. During the visit they have
distributed educational materials,
Computers to some schools. Fund
collected by Dr. Rajesh would be
contributed to rebuild the identified
school.
All fellow Rotarians were advised to give
their names to Rtn. Utshav Gartaula for
District conference, Dhulikhel
participation.
PP.Gyanendra L Pradhan informed that
they are supporting 20 houses in
Sindhupalchok with solar set and also
has requested each fellow Rotarians to
contribute one LED bulb as well.
Fellow Rotarians were requested to join
Pithauli visit programme by President
Rtn. Prabhu.
Considering the availability of the
medicine, Dr. Manohar L Shrestha
advised to conduct only the urgently
required health services in Pithauli
Health camp .
President Rtn. Prabhu informed that 9
Cycles will be contributed to new groups
in Pithauli and also requested fellow
Rotarians to contribute 10 white sticks to
distribute to the visually impaired
person.
Meeting No. 643
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Meeting No.644
The Pitauli plan scheduled for the following day was presented and
discussed and approved with suggestions. Highlights of Pithauli
visit progtramme are summarized as under:
- All RCK members and team were welcomed by Mr. Thakur Psd.
Lamichane, Principal of Shre Shantu Devi National Primary School.
- Flowers were offered in memory of Late Hira Lal Pradhan by
Chairman and Chief Guest of the Programme Principal Mr. Thakur
Psd Lamichane and President Rtn. Prabhu respectively.
- Health camp on Eye, Heart, Dental and Diabetes were organized
and free medicine distributed.
- Orientation on Organic farming was conducted by Rtn. Basanta
Ranabhat of RC Bharatpur on RCK request .Following items were
distributed by First Lady Rtn. Rita Bhandary, Dr. Bimala Shrestha,
Dr. Usha Dudhani, Rtn. Anjalee Shah, Rtn. Sophie Upadhaya, CP,
Rtn. Gajendra B. Shrestha, President Rtn. Prabhu Ram Bhandary,
PP.Rtn. Gyanendra Lal Pradhan,
PP,Rtn. Niranjan Bhattarai, Rtn. Kamal Raj Rupakheti, Rtn.
Mahindra Shrestha, Rtn. Sanjaya Dudhani, Rtn. Shiva Shrestha, Sec.
Rtn. Binod Singh.
a. Computers:
- Shree Shantinikunj Higher Secondary School, Pithauli.---------------
----------------1 set
- Shree Shantu Devi National Primary School, Pithauli. ---------------
-----------------1 set
- Shree Shantu Devi Health Post, Pithauli, .----------------
---------------1 set
- Shree Rajratna Primary School, Pithauli, Rajmandir. ---------------
-----------------1 set
b. Solar power back up:
- Shree Shantu Devi Health Post (Contribution PP.Rtn. Gyanendra L
Pradhan).
c. Water Tanks:
- Shree Pithauli Lower Secondary School, Kushnahari. .---------------
----------------1
- Shree Kalika Primary. School, Budhaulikuna. .---------------
----------------1
d. Cheque hand over:
- Cheque of Rs. 106,539/- from Forest Without Borders was handed
over to Shree Shantinikunj Higher Secondary
School.
e. Cycle distribution:
- 9 Cycles were contributed by CP, Rtn.Gajendra B. Shrestha,
President Rtn. Prabhu Ram Bhandary, PP. Gyanendra Lal Pradhan,
PP, Rtn. Upendra Paudel, Rt Sanjaya Dudhani, Rtn. Pushpa Pani
Gautam, Rtn. Sajjan BS Thapa, Rtn. Mahendra Shrestha, Rtn.
Binod Singh.
f. Wheel Chairs:
- Two tri-cycle wheel chairs were distributed to Mr. Chudamani
Bohora and Mr. Bikram Rana of Ward No. 6 Pithauli.
g. Stationary: - was distributed to Nursary to Class 5 students of
Shree Shantu Devi Primary School ,
h Sports items:- were handed over to the Shree Shantu Devi
School.
i. Blankets: - were distributed to the senior citizens of the old
homes by Dr. Bimala Shrestha and PP. Rtn. Gyanendra Lal Pradhan.
j Auto clave unit:- was handed over to Shree Shantu Devi Health
Post.
k. Ceiling fan- Three ceiling fans were contributed to Shree Shantu
Devi School.
- Felicitations were offered by: CP, Rtn. Gajendra B. Shrestha and
PP.Rtn. Gyanendra Lal Pradhan .
- Vote of thanks was offered by Mr. Hari Psd. Neaupane, Teacher
of Shree Shanti Nikunj Higher Secondary School. Programme was
concluded by Chief Guest, President Rtn. Prabhu Ram Bhandary.
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On 19th December, Saturday, a writing workshop was organized by
Rotaract Club Of Kasthamamdap, which was facilitated by Umesh
Shrestha. It was a fun, knowledgeable workshop, which included
lessons on sentence formation, paragraph writing and ways of
writing introduction and conclusion for an article/essay and many
more. Also, some valuable writing advice was given. At the end of
the workshop, everyone learnt that 'Writing is a habit.' and also
that 'Bad Writing is a choice' but at the same time 'Good Writing is
also a choice '.
Rotaract Club of Kasthamandap
Writing is a habit
WritingWorkshop By Umess Shrestha
