Our inbound (visiting) short term exchange students are presently in South Africa and staying with their host families.
We are looking forward to welcoming them (and their hosts) to our meeting on 1 August.
Blanket Drive Project update
Our blanket drive project on the weekend of 1/2 June was a great success. We raised R20000.00, which will enable us to distribute 400 blankets to needy beneficiaries this winter.
We are presently finalising our distribution lists and awaiting the imminent delivery of the blankets for distribution.
Our thanks to Centurion Mall for hosting us on the weekend, and to the public (including a few corporate sponsors) for generously supporting this project. Well done to our members for your efforts and for making this a true team effort.
Club Assembly
Our annual club assembly is scheduled for tomorrow.
This is an annual event where club members get together to review the past year and strategise and plan ahead for the new year. The new Rotary year commences on 1 July. We are looking forward to a fun and productive session, and to building the fellowship within the club.
Please contact us if you are interested in community service and would like to volunteer your time, effort or sponsorship on any of our projects or if you are interested in finding out more about our Club and our activities.
Blanket Drive Announcement
Winter is here and it’s blanket drive time again!
The annual Rotary blanket drive will be held on the weekend of 1 and 2 June. Centurion Rotary will be at the Centurion Mall (in the Boardmans Court). You will be able to buy a blanket there for just R50. Rotary will distribute all blankets to needy beneficiaries after the drive.
Come along and meet us and help keep a needy person warm this winter.
Our Website Is Live!
It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that the Rotary Club of Centurion has launched their website! The website aims to educate and inform regarding the club and Rotary International as an organisation, and is a culmination of efforts from club members and outside parties.
Please feel free to browse through the site and view the wealth of information collected here!
A great place to start is on our About Us page, or dive right in to What We Do.
Rotary Centurion Peace Conference
We live in a world where it is critical that we find answers on how to end the conflict in homes, schools and towns. It has never been more appropriate to sit together and search for answers than now.
This situation encouraged us to put together a peace conference encouraging our youth to participate in discussions enabling them to take away new ideas for ways to engage and work for Peace through Service.
Our first “Peace Conference” was held at Cornwall Hill College on the 1st and 2nd of 2 March 2013. The Rotary “Peace Conference” was an initiative in line with 2012-13 Rotary International objective of Peace Through Service.
Our club’s objective was to create the opportunity for interaction and dialogue between learners of different economic and cultural backgrounds, regardless of community or religious background, to open doors of self-discovery and opportunity.
We succeeded in bringing together 108 learners, enabling friendships, mutual understanding, knowledge exchange and joint activities. We encouraged active participation in various sessions, stimulating the learners to think for themselves, displaying ingenuity and initiative as an individual or as part of a team.
To give an example of a few; we had poems, music, skits, collages as well as numerous questions and debates on what peace means to them.
Our guest speaker, Dr Ryan Blumenthal – a forensic pathologist, spoke about conflict resolution through misdirection, and kindly donated a copy of his book to each learner.
A special thank you goes out to Cornwall Hill College for their continued support and the hosting of this conference. We believe that this conference empowered the learners, encouraged new ideas and confidence to change their work.