24 February 2006

A wine tasting evening was held at the GICC at the Grand Palm Hotel in Gaborone by the Club in conjuction with New World Wines Agencies of Johannesburg. The wines presented were Zandvleit and First Sighting. Paul de Wet the Wine Master and owner of  Zandvleit flew up from the Cape to impart with some his expert knowledge of the making of wine.

A 1.5L bottle and a 3L bottle of Zandvleit Shiraz 2003 were auctioned and the 2 bottles fetched a combined total of BWP 6 000.00 which will go into the Club's charity funds.

        President Tony Rees welcomes the guests and introduces the Wine Master        Wine Master Paul de Wet explains to the guests the effect of limestone on his Shirez       AG Barney O'Reilly auctioning the 1.5L bottle of Shiraz

 

4 February 2006

President Tony, PP Brian Thomas, PP Mike Lakin, PP Mark Lane Jones and Rotarian Graham Burt plus wives set off for Serowe to distribute wheelchairs. Serowe is roughly 350 km north of Gaborone. The wheelchairs were donated to the individual recipients at the amphitheater in the Serowe Maul. Our hosts were the Tshidilo Rehabilition Centre.18 wheelchairs of various sizes were handed over to individuals suffering Paraplegia and other ailments.

      Rotarian Graham's vehicle together with a trailer loaned by The Spares Shop on arrival in Serowe. President Tony and PP Mike are on hand to help unload      Trailer unloaded      Group photograph of all concerned

1st Recipient

The Rotary Club of Gaborone Thanks Vic Santos of the Spares Shop, Phakalane, Gaborone for the use of his trailer to carry the wheelchairs

In the afternoon we moved to the Khama Rhino Sanctuary where we held the official handover of books to their education centre by the Preserve Plant Earth, Botswana Sub Committee. Chairman PP Mike Lakin was joined by Rtn Ron Fish from the Rotary Club of Francistown and Rtn Mike Doug of the Rotary Club of Gaborone Tirelo. The books were donated by the Rotary Club of Kyalami

            PP Mike Lakin, Chairman of the Botswana sub committee of Preserve Plant Earth addresses the gathering            President Tony hands over books to the Warden           Warden thanks Rotary for the donation

As all the visiting Rotarians were staying the night at Sanctuary a braai was organised. Erwin Hoes PP of the Rotary Club of Nijmegen Stad & Land in the Netherlands who is in Serowe doing volunteer work exchanged club banners with President Tony. (We will be doing a feature on Erwin, his wife Trudeke and family in the coming weeks)

PP Mark Lane Jones, President Tony Rees and PP Brian Thomas discuss the finer points of braaingPresident Tony with Mike & Margret from TireloMargaret, Rona and GraceRon Fish's legs and friends of PP Mike Laken together with Mary Mark Lane Jones, Brian and Myra Thomas

President Tony takes a close look at the banner of Nijmegen Stad & Land

 
27 January 2006

The food that was so generously donated by the public during the "Collect a Can" project was handed over to Bana ba Keletso

Rotarians Jim and Derek are met by Bana ba Keletso staff on arrival in MolepololeRotarians Derek, Chris and Jim plus staff in the kitchen with the boxes of food on the counters

and the Kamogelo Day Care Centre.

                    Rotarians Raj and Jim with a boot load of food for Kamogelo                                        PP Mike and Rotarians Chris,Jim, Raj and Derek together with some of the staff and kids of Kamogelo

11 January 2006

The Nation, an independent newspaper in Bangkok, Thailand published a full page article on Kamogelo Day Care Centre. The article was passed onto us by PDG Reg Loo.

The Nation has been us permission to reproduce the article on our website.

Click on the link below to read the article.