New Members Inducted: Michelle Whitehead, James Liddell, and Ilse Lotter

Friday morning we welcomed three new (former) members into our club: Michelle Whitehead, James Liddell, and Ilse Lotter (pic below). They will all add much value to the club. Guests included Corporate Member from the V&A (far left), Anele Mbane, Yoke Young (RC Helderberg – New Generation representative) – to the left of Tony Austen, and tallest visitor – at the back – Rotaractor Tom Lothar Fischer (Rotaract Budapest). Gerhard Ganel from Austria can be seen behind Hamilton. Gerhard is PP of the Eisenstadt Rotary Club near Vienna in Austria. He is here on holiday but wished to meet Hamilton. He is part of the NGSE Team in his district.

International Guest Spotlight: Banner Exchange with Gerhard Ganel (RC Eisenstadt, Austria)

Captain Mymoena performed a banner exchange with Gerhard Ganel (RC of Eisenstadt, Austria), who will be Hamilton’s host for three months in Austria on the New Generation programme.

Rotaract Budapest’s Tom Lothar Fischer Shares Global Impact Projects

Tom Lothar Fischer (Rotaract Budapest) shared that he is in Cape Town for three months. The club consists of 20 aspiring young leaders, typically young professionals and students from both Hungary and all over the world, including members from Germany (me), Brazil, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Italy, and Ecuador.

“Our mission is to drive sustainable impact through service projects that tackle real-world challenges. At the same time, we see our project as an opportunity to unite communities in the country and across borders. Our work includes the No-Butts initiative and the Ukrainian School project. With the No-Butts project, we fight water pollution by collecting cigarette butts along the Danube River through organizing clean-up drives and raising awareness about environmental preservation. To date, we’ve collected over 150,000 cigarette butts, making Budapest’s waterways safer and cleaner.”

Tom will visit the club again soon.

Visiting Rotarian Nancy Onyango Connects at Act4Impact Event

Former crew member Nancy Onyango, now a Rotarian in Kenya, visited the Act4Impact event at the exhibition with DG Stephen Young and Heather Marco, a member of the RC of Signal Hill.