Bally Barker Blog

Tuesday Feb 16   Our inspirational guest speaker at our meeting (via ZOOM) was Gemma Sisia - founder of the school of St Jude Gemma Sisia The School of St Jude is a charity-funded school located in the city of Arusha, in the northern Arusha Region of Tanzania. The school, located across three campuses, provides free primary and secondary education to the poorest and brightest children of the Arusha Region. It was founded by Australian Gemma Sisia in 2002, based on the belief that education is the best way to fight poverty. Gemma statted the first class in 2002 with three students; today 1,400 students are borders at the school, plus approx. 400 living locally in a fifty Km radius attend daily. They are collected by 26 buses (10 coaches, 7 mini vans; the remainder 4WD that pick-up /drop-off from the unmade dirt roads). There are 300 staff at the school in key areas of teaching, head office, Alumni and fund-raising. In earlier years the staff was largely international, but today al

We meet again - Tuesday Feb 2, 2021 The club year moved into full swing with a busy General Meeting followed by a Board Meeting on Tuesday Feb 2. Many members attended in person and the remainder were present via ZOOM. President Lindy and the ZOOM screen Members and guests at the RSL Club                       CLUB VIDEO   Members were shown a preview of David Macaulay ‘s excellent five-and-a-half-minute video that chronicles what the club has achieved and how it has operated over the last 12 months - using many of the photos supplied by John O’Brien. Originally it will be our entry to District conference club videos on ZOOM; however all who viewed it regarded it as such a totally professionally-made video that we all should be proud of and be available on our Club Website. A further suggestion was that since it so neatly encapsulates and shows almost everything that our club does; the video should be shown to new members for introduction to our club activi