http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:03:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Around the world in recent times disasters have frequently left communities without safe drinking water.  People have often been forced to drink water which leaves them susceptible to diseases like cholera and gastroenteritis.  In the recent floods in Pakistan, thousands of people - including many women and children - have been ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=97 Living in Switzerland in Zurich while on the Rotary Youth Exchange Program (YEP) is proving to be a marvellous experience for local girl, Jessica Maher.  Jess is living with local Swiss families and attending school while on her 12 month exchange.   Jess has described Zurich as a beautiful old city situated ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=96 Johanna Budd, the latest inbound Rotary Youth Exchange student to be hosted by the Rotary Club of Bellingen, arrived on Monday 26th July. Johanna will spend a few days with Rotarians Diana and James Christian while she settles into school, etc, then will move to her first "host family" Tanya and ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=95 Members of the Rotary Club of Bellingen were most pleased to receive the photo below of their recent Youth Exchange Program Inbounder, Vigga Laursen, showing that she had arrived safely back in Denmark. Vigga is shown here with her relieved Mum, Unni, at Copenhagen Airport. http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=94   Over the past few weeks, the Rotary Club of Bellingen and the many friends and ‘family’ of Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Vigga Sand Laursen have been saying farewell.   During her last few days Vigga has tried to experience all those things she didn’t want to miss during her stay in the ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=93 In conjunction with Rotary International, the Rotary Club of Bellingen participates in the Rotary Youth Exchange Program (YEP) which allows local students between the ages of 16 and 19 to spend a year living in a family environment overseas.  At the same time students from over 150 countries around the ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=92 Bellingen High students Sammii O’Rourke and Gabriel Miller represented Bellingen High and the Rotary Club of Bellingen at a Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) held in Woolgoolga on the weekend of 14-16 May.  Both Sammii and Gabriel participated in a simulated meeting of the United Nations General Assembly as delegates ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=91 Together with all the overseas exchange students from Rotary District 9650, Vigga Laursen from Denmark recently embarked on a trip around Australia as part of her 12 month exchange to Bellingen.   While in Australia Vigga has been a student at Bellingen High and is sponsored by the Rotary Club of ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=90 Refurbishment and upgrade of the Bellingen Memorial Hall has been ongoing for many years, but with extra emphasis in the last 12 years or so under the guidance of the volunteer management committee. They have been able to improve many aspects of the hall, and the main focus is now on ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=89  Local Bellingen girl, Jessica Maher, has begun her 12 month Rotary exchange to Switzerland.  Since it is spring in Europe she is looking forward to warmer weather which she anticipates will turn an already very beautiful country, green and even more beautiful.  She has already visited the snow covered Swiss ... http://bellingenrotary.ululus.net/?p=88