Rotary Club of Shetland
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Club News
Double award for the Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Shetland has been given two awards for its work in the development of the Shetland Youth Volunteering Awards. Rotary District 1010 Governor, George Berstan, presented the Vocational Service Quaich for 2010/11 to Martin Nicolson at the Club's cheese and wine evening at Lerwick Town Hall. In addition to the Quaich, the club was also presented with a District Governor's Citation. This award is presented to a club which impresses the governor in post and recognises the outstanding contribution which a club makes to the well-being of communities in their local area and elsewhere.
Shetland Youth Volunteer Awards 2011 winners
The winners of the 2011 Shetland Youth Volunteering Awards were announced at a reception at Lerwick Town Hall in October. For a full report of the event please click here.
Shetland Motor Show a big success
The Rotary Club of Shetland held a very successful Motor Show at the Clickimin Centre in April 2011. As well as giving local motor dealers a chance to show off their wares there were plenty of other attractions including the car that will be driven from Shetland to Mongolia this summer.
Rotary and SWRI join forces to help Sierra Leone
The Rotary Club of Shetland and several of the local SWRIs have joined forces to help babies in one of Africa’s poorest countries. One in seven mothers die during childbirth in Sierra Leone and one in four children don’t make it to their fifth birthday. Rotary has been working to help reduce this for several years, including building a hostel for patients at the Women’s Centre in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
The Women’s Centre Maternity Clinic was opened in 2010 and Rotary started a project to provide a knitted baby jacket for each mother who gives birth at the new clinic. This seemed an ideal opportunity for the Rotary Club of Shetland to team up with Shetland’s famous knitters and members of the Baltasound, Boddam, Sandwick, Sound, Tingwall and Whiteness and Weisdale SWRIs (and numerous Rotary family members) produced over 120 knitted jackets to go to Africa. The patients at the clinic in Freetown are also keen knitters but they need wool so with donations from Shetland Wool Brokers, Jamiesons, the Shetland Art Company and Anderson & Co, the mums will have plenty to keep them going. Also getting into the charitable spirit were JBT Distribution, who kindly agreed to take the jackets and wool on the first leg of their journey to West Africa.
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