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ROTARY’S PEOPLE OF ACTION: YOUNG INNOVATORS 3 June 2019
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Ed Futa Past Rotary General Secretary Rotary Representative to the United Nations/ NY
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Charlie Ruth Castro Rotary E-Club Sogamoso Global Colombia
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Ludovic Grosjean Melbourne City Rotaract Club Australia
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SAVING OUR OCEANS FROM THE RISING PLASTIC TIDE
THE PROBLEM
700 SPECIES AT RISK OF EXTINCTION
PLASTIC IS MISTAKEN AS FOOD
HOW CAN WE SAVE OUR OCEANS?
STOP THE POLLUTION AT ITS SOURCES Courtesy: The Ocean CleanUp
HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS TO KEEP THE PLANET CLEAN?
Courtesy: Melbourne City Rotaract Club
4 S-T-E-P(s) TO AUTOMATE POLLUTION REMOVAL
STEP – SOCIAL MEDIA ‘To build the world’s biggest training dataset of waterborne pollutants’
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STEP – TECHNOLOGY ‘To train computers to target pollution’
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STEP – ENVIRONMENT ‘To deploy automated pollution identification & removal platforms’
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STEP – PUBLIC AWARENESS ‘To Stop the Pollution at its Sources’
Courtesy: Diego Nigro (Brazil)
Courtesy: Wawan Hadi Prabowo (Indonesia)
REACHING OUT TO OTHER ROTARY INITIATIVES Celebrate UN World Environment Day, JUNE 5 The ESRAG & UNEP Handbook will inspire you: https://www.esrag.org/esrag-unep-handbook
Visit ESRAG in the HOF Booths #4423 and #4521
REACHING OUT TO OTHER ROTARY INITIATIVES
The End Plastic Soup connects Rotary initiatives across the world: https://endplasticsoup.nl/ Courtesy: Justin Hofman
Visit END PLASTIC SOUP Booth #4436
LOCAL ROTARY INITIATIVES
• UNEP-Rotary Adopt A River Initiative • Cleaning the rivers of the World Initiatives • The Great Bubble Barrier • Interact Seabin project • Rotaract River Clean Up project
JOIN “THE OCEAN CLEANX” NOW!
THANK YOU
Download slides now! Scan QR code https://oceancleanx.com/plasticsoup
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Albert Kafka Rotaract Club Wien-Stadpark Rotary Club Wien-Oper Austria
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Intarconnect: Mentoring and Inter- Generational Service Projects
Intarconnect: What if
… Rotary, Rotaract and Interact – all ages of Rotarians were closer together? … if there was a common space to develop skills and new friendships?
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Initial Situation 2015 in District 1910 • Strengthen connections between and among Rotary members and the younger members in Rotaract and Interact. • Make connections more attractive
Rotary: ca. 4,150
Rotaract: ca. 440
Interact: ca. 225
initial focus
Distribution of Members according to club level/age
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An Idea was born
Phillip-Sebastian Marchl
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Vision: Youth Support on Two Pillars
1-on-1 Mentoring • Transfer of knowledge and experience • Networking between Rotary, Rotaract, Interact
Intergeneration Projects • Connecting all ages • District-wide service projects • Workshops and trainings in leadership and personal development
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Schedule in One Year
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Successfully Established 2015: New Connections Rotaract-Interact •
Over 70 participants took part in the 1-on-1 mentoring in pilot phase 2015/16
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All Rotaract and Interact Clubs in Vienna were actively involved
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Embedded in the Rotary Youth Service and Rotaract Multi-District Board 1910/20
IAC V ienna City
RAC Blue Danu be - N ied erös te rr eich
RAC Wien
RAC Wien - Alber tina
RAC Wien - Belvedere
RAC Wien - G raben
IAC W ien - Eins RAC Wien - Ho fburg
RAC Wien – Inner e Stadt
RAC Wien - Open
RAC Wien – Secess ion
IAC W ien
RAC Wien - Stadt park
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Inter-Generation-Project: Building a house for a displaced family in Srebrenica Intergeneration-Project 5-8 People
5 Days
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Learning Community
€ 7.400,Financed mostly by Rotary Clubs or private sponsors
See the full five-day construtction process: https://youtu.be/XLYJyO VSoK w
Service Above Self In cooperation with:
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Inter-Generation-Project: Building a house for a displaced family in Srebrenica Intergeneration-Project 5-8 People
5 Days
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Learning Community
€ 7.400,Financed mostly by Rotary Clubs or private sponsors
See the full five-day construtction process: https://youtu.be/XLYJyO VSoK w
Service Above Self In cooperation with:
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Inter-Generation-Project: Building a house for a displaced family in Srebrenica
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Mentoring
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Participants of the construction teams / House
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Intarconnect goes USA – District 6980 (Central Florida) Kickoff 10-2016 •
The first time outside Austria!
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District in Orlando, Florida
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70 mentor participants
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Already plans to expand: Rotary plans to expand the program to the whole of Florida and other parts in the southern United States.
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Intarconnect goes to Germany
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Presentation at the Rotaract Germany Conference with 3,000 participants
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Successful project start in Bavaria
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German participants joined the Generation Project 2018 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Intarconnect goes to Kenya D9212
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What to know? • Use as an incubator to connect and unite Intaract, Rotaract and Rotary in your area • Mingle open and innovative Rotarian friends and form a team of multiple generations • Strengthen the network in between clubs to get strong and continue to grow
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How to start? IntarConnect Handbook
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Goal Bringing the Rotarian family closer together
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Paul Mushaho Rotaract Club of Nakivale Uganda
Democratic Republic of Congo
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Uganda UGANDA
Kampala
Mbarara Nakivale
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Quote from Paul’s father
"Living a meaningful life is not about being rich, popular, highly educated or being perfect. Life is about being honest, strong in mind, real, humble and able to reach out with a positive spirit of understanding."
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Paul’s Money Service Shop
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American Refugee Committee’s Changemakers Competition
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Nakivale Rotaract Club – Charter Day June 2017
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Fumigation of Reception Center
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Tree Planting
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Protective Wear for Albino Refugees
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Maternity Health Support with Mama Kits
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Women Empowerment through Sewing Center
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Woman Run Farming Cooperative
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World Refugee Day 5K Run
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My Rotary Family
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ASANTE SANA ~ THANK YOU
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Questions?