Nov/ 23 – 16th Club Meeting
This is this year our last meeting in Venetian, next year we come back. PP David updates us on our club’s website. We have a great meeting with the old fellowship with jokes by PP Ip and PE Elvo and great laughter. A happy thanksgiving with PP’s Maneiras, Peter Kok, Ip Pui Fai, Stella Jan, Choi Sai Hong, Fred Palmer, David Shelton Smith, Synthia Paiva, and Rtn’s Ricardo Martins, Yasmin Chan and Marc Verneuve.
Congratulations to PP Keith for being promoted to grandfather and joining the Grannies Club with a new French grand son James Keith Rigout.
Anniversaries to attend No/20 – our club divided to attend Sand’s 10th-anniversary celebration and Fu Hong’s 14th-anniversary dinner both on the same day. And let me tell you that someone eats Chinese food for the first time and enjoys it at Fu Hong’s dinner.
Nov/24 – Meeting with IACM( Institute for Civic and Municipal Affairs) with the Director Mr Tavares and his board. Joined myself, PP Stella, PP Choi, PP Synthia, PE Elvo and PPE chair Marc. To finish the meeting we have now a project to renovate our Rotary bus stop and possibly build new ones ( one in Taipa and another in Coloane ).
Nov/24 – Our club received the Excellence Award on Non-Profit Organization from Business Award of Macau 2017. Salute to all Rotarians, Rotaractors and Service Partners for contributing to this wonderful recognition of our doing good in Macau, serving the community for 70 years and continuing. I am a proud member and a proud President of the Rotary Club of Macau.
Happy and proud again because the Fu Hóng Society of Macau receives the same award – Excellence Award on Non-Profit Organization from Business Award of Macau 2017.
Last Sunday, Nov/25 – 2nd Grannies Tour. A very successful community service serving all together 110 from the Labour Association, Caritas and Obra das Mães. We had myself, PP’s Stella, Synthia, Peter Kok and his half Assunta, Rtn’s Ignacio and Margaret, Rotaractors Mathew and others 10 joined hands to make this event a successful one. We took them in 3 cars around the University of Macau where we met 6 university ambassadors showing them around and time to a group photo. Then a bus tour of the Cotai Strip and a Portuguese lunch at Panda Restaurant. After lunch, Rotaractors played games with the Grannies. The happiest moment before we departed to Macau Tower to have afternoon tea with Portuguese tart was when we presented them with a box of cookies and a gift with white flower oil, a towel and a Rotary thermo cup. A special thanks to our Rtn Lei Loi Tak who sponsor all the cookies. You may see from the attached photos how happy they were.
Some elderly did not have any contact with Rotary before and in Chinese sounds to them wheel chair and they wonder what this type the association has to do with them they are not in a wheelchairs. They comment that we did more than their sons or daughters because they took them out to a meal and took them back home, we took them on a tour, a meal, games, tea with tart and going back home with a souvenir. They will remember and hope to have a chance next year. Thanks to every one of you for your service above self-contribution. Hope you enjoy reading and appreciate the photos.
YIR,
Fátima Ferreira
President 17-18