Please note, due to various circumstances, our Oct 10 meeting is canceled. Please join us for our Oct 26 meeting at CanadInn.
Note: We are back from summer vacation and we are resuming our regular twice a month meetings. See below for details.
Starting September 12/24, our meetings are back to twice a month: Second Thursday of each month at Vickar board room (or via Zoom), and Fourth Thursday at CanadInn (or via Zoom).
The four-way test of the things we think, say or do:
1) Is it the truth? 2) Is it fair to all concerned? 3) Will it build goodwill and better friendships? 4) Will it be beneficial to all concerned?"
The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways.
What is Rotary and why should you join our club?
Rotary concentrates on seven areas: promoting peace, improving health through disease prevention and treatment, improving the health of mothers and children, water and sanitation, education, economic development, and supporting the environment.
Rotary International, to which we belong, is a humanitarian service organization that brings together business and professional leaders in order to provide community service, promote integrity, and advance goodwill, peace, and understanding in the world.
Rotary International and all of its clubs world wide share one common theme: Service above self. Nowhere is this truer than at the Transcona Rotary.
Rotary is for people who want to give back. Around the world it is a community of professionals who share a common focus of cultural awareness and responsible citizenship.
Each member who joins the Rotary does so for the opportunity to serve their local and global community; for growth and development in ethics, world understanding, equality, and peace; and for the fellowship of like-minded members with a common purpose and goal.
New excitement is brewing in our club with After much hard work, we have released our promotion video explaining who we are, what we do, both locally and globally. Check out our new video:
2019 was a very successful year on the international front for water and sanitation in Nigeria. Our funding efforts have contributed to the following achievements internationally:
Water Borehole Drilling Project with catchment reservoirs including taps for Rural Community and Water toilet facilities for schools in South East Nigeria.
Drilling of a hole for potable water for the rural community dwellers.
On the local front, we were able to continue to support Siloam Mission and the Transcona Food Bank as well as assist in building various parks in the area.
THE WINNIPEG TRANSCONA ROTARY CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS
Community projects
Parks: Centennial and Heritage, upcoming: Waterside Park
Helped by working with them to build it, donations of funds, and knowledge of how to support new parks in the city
Supporting Annual hockey dinner ($1,000 scholarship to Railers)
Scholarships to the local schools (Transcona area & Springfield)
Scholarships to ANCOP for education in Philippines
Contributions to local organizations (L’Arche, etc) .. this includes things like a van for L’Arche Winnipeg
Supporting Shelter box (disaster aid)
Supporting of youth (RYLA)
International projects:
2019 water project
Supplying water and sanitation to school (2016) - contributed financially towards this major project in Nigeria, with grants from Rotary International and Rotary district 5550
INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FROM TRANSCONA ROTARY
Helping with the global eradication of Polio
Supports and works with Shelter Box Canada
Funding and aid in producing water wells for communities in Ghana and India, and irrigation systems in Africa
Funded an entire health care unit in Belize
Built a preschool in Guatamala
Provided funding for furnishing and supplies for a Village School in the Philippines
The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
