The Straits Times

14 August 2010

Rotary Club president David Lee (left) gives Mr Patrick Daniel, editor-in-chief of SPH English
and Malay Newspapers Division, a cheque for The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund.
Beside them is ex-minister and guest of honour S. Dhanabalan.

$200,000 raised for needy kids

THE Rotary Club of Raffles City has donated $100,000 to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund and an equivalent amount to the Dyslexia Association of Singapore.

The money was raised from its members and corporations who bought tables for the club's 30th anniversary dinner at the Hilton Hotel last night. Tables went for between $1,500 and $10,000 each.

Rotary Club Raffles City shares the values of Rotary International, an organisation of business and professional leaders who promote service to the community, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and build goodwill and peace.

These values underpinned the club's move in 1989 to reach out to children with dyslexia, a learning disorder, by setting up the Dyslexia Association, the other benefactor of the funds raised last night.

Club president David Lee, a 43-year-old lawyer, said: 'We've read about the plight of needy children in the newspapers, so we decided that this year, we will focus mainly on helping children.

'One of the Rotary Club's goals is to build the community, and children make up an important part of it.'

(Bulletin Ed. - Adapted from ST Report 14 August 2010)

PDG Philbert Chin calls for Rotary Regeneration at Club Luncheon Meeting on 17 August 2010.

"PDG Dr Philbert Chin's speech is a call for our Rotarians to be more pro-active and not to be rinos (Rotarians in name only). As a Rotarian, we have made a choice to do service above self and in fact to be a servant leader- a choice to set aside your own wants and needs, serving the greatest good for others, your fellow members, your club, your community, your country and the world. He asks that we form a strategic planning committee to review every aspect of our club's programmes and practices and through creative thinking, suggest innovative changes.In other words,"dig the well before you are
                                thirsty." (Report by Pres.David Lee)


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