2019 visit to Du’ An, Guang Xi

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The Guangxi Project is coming to its 20th year. There have been some challenges in communicating with the government in DuAn. After further communication with the Chinese Liason Office, the arrangement this year is to have the Rotaract Club of the University of Macau to organize the trip.  I will be leading the trip in […]

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Macau Students UK Youth Exchange

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RC Macau sponsored Students join international exchange students.

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21th Weekly Update

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Our report on the UK Summer Camp highlights, our two sponsored students Cherry and Ricky from St Paul School our Adopt-a-School I am happy to announce that PP Stella Kan and PE Elizabete Fong were voted as Area 1 elected members of the nominating committee for District Governor 2017-2018 in District 3450.  Meeting Highlights: We welcomed our old […]

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True Colours ~ Rotary Club of Macau and Schools in China

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Rotarian Sam Ip, presented his video from his first trip to the Schools project in DuAn Guanxi China at our Club Assembly this week at the Conrad Hotel Macau.   For many Rotarians who have recently joined us and may not know of this project. The video provides a great work that our Club has […]

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An Interview with Bill Benter

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I was about to turn 40 when I joined Rotary. The timing was perfect. I’d wandered into a profession, computer software development, where I was disconnected from any community. I was developing a somewhat complex database program for betting on horse races, based on 70 variables for each horse that enabled me and my colleagues […]

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2011 Trip to GuangXi

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In December 2011 our Rotarians and a team of Rotaractors visited our school projects in Du’An County. In particular, we wished to see the completion of the new bridge which we have helped the people to build. The bridge is to provide a route for the children to return to their homes and save hours […]

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Single Plank Bridge

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I received a request from Guangxi for building a concrete bridge for students of Yong Ping and the villagers.  According to their report/proposal below, the cost of the concrete bridge is RMB30,700 and they are requesting us to support RMB28,000 and the rest will be from the local government. I will be joining the Rtc. UMac to go to […]

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Love Filled the Yao Mountain – Forward

The Rotary Club with its present name “Rotary International” is an international service organization. It was first advocated and founded by the American lawyer Paul Harris (1868-1947) in Chicago,  Feb. 1905. Initially, “One member from one walk of life” was the principle of the enrollment. As time goes by more and more people were drawn […]

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Love Filled the Yao Mountain – Hearts with the Yao county

Du’An is located in a mountainous area where the natural conditions are extremely difficult. It is one of the extreme poor counties in China. Because of the shortage of public finance and for a long time insufficient investment in education, many schools in the villages are in poor condition. Some classrooms are even about to […]

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Love Filled the Yao Mountain – Letter of Thanks

Distinguished presidents and all the respected members of The Rotary Club of Kowloon North in Hong Kong, Rotary Club of Macau and Rotary International, For many years, your hearts are with DuAn. Your generosity has donated as much as 10 million RMB to help build DuAn Ethnic Experimental Middle School and the seven primary schools- […]

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Love Filled the Yao Mountain – Preface

  When Mr Lan Qin Wen and Mr Choi Sai Hong, Mr Wei Ben Da, Ms Jian Pei Wen, past Presidents of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong and Macau, and others visited Du’An in scorching summers and frigid winters, when arrays of compatriots from Hong Kong and Macau came a long way to the […]

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Love Filled the Yao Mountain – Conclusion

During the past ten years, the Rotary Club of Kowloon North, Hong Kong and Macao Rotary have donated a lot of things to help the ethnic education in Du’An, which have a great effect on the whole society, and influenced the whole society deeply. It includes the following characteristics: 1.    Many donors are successful people. […]

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