Bally Barker Blog

 COMBINED MEETING President Diana welcomed all who attended and in addition to visitors and member's partners and the club was most appreciative of the group of Rotarians from Warringah Rotary who came to the meeting.  The club will reciprocate by attending Warringah Rotary's Pride of Workmanship Award evening at Wakehurst Golf Club on May 20 @ 6;30pm.(see Flyer below) MEMBER TALK Yvonne Howie gave her membership talk to the club and told us that she had been involved with Rotary since 2008 and joined Balgowlah club 2021 when she moved into the area. She was attracted by the transparency of the funding model where the majority of funds collected are applied directly to the cause. One area of involvement that Yvonne discussed was her work with Many Rivers Support Services providing dedicated teams of professionals committed to empowering NDIS participants – especially from indigenous communities. Yvonne Howie.   Yvonne is also on the ShelterBox B...

Our meeting held on Tuesday May 4, 2023, was an inspiring presentation given by Mike Greenslade, CEO ShelterBox Australia. Mike was introduced by club member Yvonne Howie, who is on the Board of ShelterBox Australia.    The presentation was via ZOOM since Mike lives on the North Coast of NSW.   ShelterBox is a disaster relief operation - Mike explained he has been a ShelterBox Response Team member since 2006 and has deployed 22 times to disaster zones around the world.      A short video:     Mike said the response in Australia to the earthquake in Turkey/ Syria raised $700 thousand and is in the top 3 countries following USA and UK. The nature of the response was outlined in the video by Mark Austin.     ShelterBox started in UK in 2000 as a large plastic box containing a tent, blankets, kitchen set, solar lights, toolkit, children’s activities and has been sent to 44 different countries over the world. ...