I am very pleased to inform you that the nominations for Melinda (Mel) Bell for both Friends of Rotary and the RORP Liaison Officer for RORP had been approved at the Board meeting on 29th Sep. Mel is the daughter of Con and Cheryl. Like his father, Mel is community minded and processes qualities of enthusiasm and intelligence and as Con said Mel will be a real acquisition to the club.
Mel is involved with Con in the club international Ella School Borewell project in Sri Lanka of which a District grant of $2200 had recently been approved for this project. She is also exploring possibility of sending a playground to this school. The Rotary Oversea Recycled Playgrounds(RORP) is a great project for our club to be involved . Wayne Jenkins mentioned during his RORP presentation recently that there are 3 playgrounds in the Greater Dandenong area that will be up for replacements soon and good for the RORP project. The Council is keen to work with Rotary on RORP program so that these recycled playgrounds equipment can be sent to a third world countries like Sri Lanka for used by the local school and communities. A win for the environment!
Mel as Liaison officer for RORP will work closely with the Council officer and Wayne to manage the project. Terry Valentine and Graeme Peters have put up their hands to help the project as they have past experience in playgroup installations and management. If any of our club members would like to be involved in this RORP project, please contact Mel.