Rotary Club of Kasr El-Nile Fund Raising Sohour event

Thousands of infants are born in Egypt with the risk of losing sight before the end of their teens, loss of vision at an early age has a devastating impact on children’s quality of life and ability to function 'normally' in society. The technological tools and professional doctors exist to cure the environmental causes of the diseases behind these sad cases, yet they are too expensive to apply commercially to the all the children in need.

With this need in mind, the Rotary Club of Kasr El-Nile organized a Sohour event on Friday 21st of September, at the Moon Deck restaurant, Blue Nile boat. The event was attended by an average of 250 invitees, the objective of the event was to raise funds for supporting children and infants requiring immediate eye surgery and medical equipment but can not afford the operation cost or the waiting time associated with public hospitals.

The Rotary Kasr El-Nile CRTS Sohour event was supported by "VODAFONE" as our MAIN SPONSOR, the event was also supported by several associate sponsors and many charitable donations made by private donors, all funds raised will be used by the Rotary Club of Kasr El Nile to execute on our CRTS program for avoiding blindness for infants and children in need but can not afford. The Sohour event was also supported by Rotaract club of Kasr El Nile as co-organizer, and in-corporation with the Egyptian NGO for medical services development.

The work, cost and effort associated with the event’s success was donated for our cause by the organizers Sally Torgoman and Amr yehia, printing house MO advertising, and Art Work donated by Yasser El Kaissarly, and also the beautiful picture of the child Hashem Mohanad printed on the invitation was offered by the photographer Omar Niaz and the boy’s mother as a contribution to our program. The contributions made by our sponsors, supporters and donors helped turn this event into a practical success that can be showcased for our Egyptian Community Service projects by private, public & NGO partnerships.

Once again, A Big Thank you from the Rotary Club of Kasr El Nile to every one who attended, contributed, sponsored and supported our Sohour event, and we look forward to your participation in our upcoming events for the Children’s Right To Sight Program adopted by Rotary Club of Kasr El Nile.

Crucial Conversations

The KEN club administration committee organized a leadership development training for KEN members & guests on "Crucial conversations". The training is a 10 session program conducted by Rotarian Hesham El Bakry.

Crucial conversations is about learning new skills and techniques for mastering emotions, creating mutual purpose, staying in dialogue when angry, speaking persuasively and turning any conversation into action and results.

There are 3 ways of handling crucial conversations:
You can avoid them
You can face them and handle them poorly
You can face them and handle them well

Given the 3 choices I will go with handling them well and that is what the training is all about, I thank Hesham El Bakry for an outstanding service above self.

Crucial conversations turned out to be the kind of interaction we have every day at work, with our colleagues, at home, with our families and in our Rotary Club amongst members. We have learned new ways to enhance the quality of our dialogue and consequently the quality of our life

CRTS - Children Right To Sight

Rotary Club of Kasr El Nile (RCKEN) - Club Services committee - supported a medical Caravan on Thursday, July 26th , 2007 Borg El Arab-Alexandria; Egypt. The medical team was a group of well organized, professional and dedicated doctors volunteering their time and effort for the prevention of blindness. RCKEN members were joined by the rotaractors of Kasr El Nile.


I was amazed from the field statistics shared by the medical caravan team ; The doctors inspected 153 patients, 30% of those patients were young children, from the boys and girls inspected 4 were referred to Abu El Reesh for immediate surgery, 4 parents were made aware that their children need eye glasses for sight correction and 21% of all children had some sort of allergy or eye infection.

Since pictures speak louder than words, I uploaded this short documentary for you to watch …..




About CRTS program
The Children's Right to Sight Program (CRTS) was chosen by the Rotary Club of Kasr El Nile for Year 07/08 ; The Children Right To Sight -CRTS- program is for eradicating blindness amongst children.

The program builds on KEN's previous experience from a similar project called Right To Sight (RTS), the project was successfully carried out several years ago, and the club was able to obtain a matching grant from Rotary Foundation; We are now capitalizing on our previous experience and success with more focus on children and infants and thus we chose the name CRTS;

CRTS program will involve supporting trained personnel and doctors capable of doing refraction, identification and initial treatment of most common eye conditions. It will also provide screening in the rural community with emphasis on children’s vision.

Rotary club of Kasr El Nile will also financially support children requiring immediate eye surgery but can not afford the operation cost or the waiting time associated with public hospitals.

A start of a new rotarian year 07/08

Dear Fellow Rotarians,
Fellowship alone would not keep a group together — there needs to be a purpose, and that is why I believe community service projects will have an important role in keeping our members active and committed.

The rotary club of Kasr El Nile members have many things in common, but what stands out the most is our willingness to share. We share our time, our experience, our talents and our money.

This willingness to share is what I am counting on to successfully carry out a hand-full of effective service projects for our community while having fun too.

I will be presenting in our first club assembly for 07/08 a list of possible projects and activities which have been identified and prioritized by the committee leaders to build on last year's success and insure project continuity for years to come.

Our Obligations in Rotary

Participation
To be a Rotarian you must give of your time and talents:
In community work
In fellowship and social functions
In club and district activities

Attendance
Attendance at the weekly meetings is a benefit of Rotary.

You can easily maintain your attendance levels by making up at another Rotary club meeting, participating in club service projects, and activities.

Financial Obligations
Initiation Fee , Annual Dues , Meals, and Social Events.