President’s Message for June 2022

Safe Water Gardens, West Java, Indonesia

• The project provided 92 households at Nagrak Village, West Java, Indonesia, a rural village community access to improved sanitation and hygiene.
• This dramatically improved the hygiene and sanitation standards of the community.
• The project also set up two shared water towers, supplying running water to more than 15 families for well below $200 per family. 
• Read more at https://bit.ly/eclubWASH

Society of Starfish, Singapore

• Project Starfish is an initiative run by the Society of Starfish Singapore (SSS) and supported by Foundation of Rotary Clubs Singapore. This volunteer-run program provides support to youth who are out of school, but motivated to continue on with their education and achieve a N-level certificate. 
• In 2021 SSS provided support to 53 students. 66% sat for N-levels and 57% enrolled into ITE successfully.
• Read more at https://societyofstarfishsingapore.com/

Happy Meals Project, Singapore

• Provide weekly meals to the needy community of Singapore
• To date more than 15,000 happy meals provided with support from Rotarians and Friends of Rotary and also in support of our local hawkers.
• This was one of four projects that received District Community Service Project (Merit) at our recently concluded District Conference.

Project Ray of Hope

• Providing Irlen lenses to students with Visual Processing Disorder from Assumption Secondary School and Spectra Secondary School
• To date we have sponsored 11 students with Irlen lenses at a cost of $500 each. We are targeting 50 lenses for 2022.
• This project was also recognized during the District Conference and received District Community Service Project (Merit).

Jolly Together 

To bring cheers to the under-privileged children and youth from Homes. The project will also empower Rotarians and friends of Rotary to support community service projects and to offer assistance where they are needed. This will benefit 60 residential students of Boys’ Town – youth-at-risk, 60 Melrose Home – youth with adverse domestic challenges and 60 more from Sunbeam Place.

Healthcare Heroes 

To acknowledge and appreciate the relentless efforts of our nurses towards our nation building, their contribution is an integral and very important pillar of Singapore’s progress. Project Chair, Rotarian Gabrielle Guo of Rotary E-Club 3310, with the collective efforts of 23 Rotary Clubs in Singapore and Rotaract Club of NUS, we offered 32,000 Gerber Daisies to 79 Hospitals and healthcare institutions in the public and private sectors. The virtual performance concert 2021 drew participants from our District and our neighbours. We raised funds for nursing students from low income families studying at the National University of Singapore’s Alice Lee Center for Nursing Studies (ALCNS). The funds raised benefit ALCNS Students Bursary Fund to help up to 100 students yearly. 

The project received the District Best Vocational Service Project (Bronze Award) from DG Dolly Yeap for RY2021-22

Rotary My Wish 

The MY WISH Project is a Rotary community initiative that was established 2008 with the aim to grant meaningful wishes that would make lasting imprints in the lives of terminally ill adult patients and their families. This wish-granting project targets underprivileged adult patients with terminal illnesses and embraces a section of our society often left forgotten (there are make-a-wish foundations for children but not adults). We hope to raise awareness within the healthcare community to encourage healthcare professionals, social workers and other individuals in close contact with terminally ill adults to play a supporting role in granting wishes.

Thank you fellow Rotarians and Friends of Rotary for your support during my two terms as Club President. 

Yours in Rotary

President Eddie Ho
RY2020-21 & RY2021-22