Educating and Empowering Girls for the Future
Meeting for the week of January 11, 2021 - January 17, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Educating and Empowering Girls for the Future
Speaker: Noëlla Coursaris Musunka
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President
Greetings Rotarians and guests!
As COVID-19’s global restrictions closed borders, roads and doors to opportunity, Rotarians reacted with courage vision and action finding new ways to solve old problems. In united resolve, we will continue to overcome the challenges that such a pandemic besets on our world. Rotary Clubs throughout our District, including our own club, have already shown an unprecedented ability to not only adapt to the crisis, but to use it as an opportunity to change the way clubs operate. As a member, there is not only the opportunity to help others, but there are also the benefits of friendships with fellow Rotarians and connections with the community beyond as well as the opportunity for personal satisfaction and development through Rotary’s enriching experiences.
May this week be a week for you of inspiration!
Yours in Rotary service,
Raquel D’Garay-Juncal
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
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Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
Random Thoughts on Life at 64...
1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
2. To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it.
3. Age 50 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
4. It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.
10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"
11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning so don't know whose side I'm on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?"
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east."
19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people "cops".
21. My luck is that I'm a bald guy who just won a comb!
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
Commercials often prompt us to leave the room or turn our attention to the phone, but some seem to capture an idea especially well. This ad from Google Search is one we shared in 2015, and you may need to click on CC at the bottom of the video to turn on the captions.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
My recent photo in the Rotary Magazine illustrates some of the limitations of print publications. My original photo on the bottom is a more dramatic panorama, but this type of centered wide angle is not practical for a center folded magazine spread. The editors did a good job of cropping the photo to fit the two page format, but some of the impact of the photo was lost.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
Fun and Easy Tricks with Chocolate!
These are some pretty neat tricks with chocolate that even I can do!! I love the one with bubble wrap -- that's going to be a cheesecake decoration soon, for sure!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
Week of Jan 10th - Create a “care kit” to donate to homeless shelter
Things to include: socks, gloves, water bottle, bandages, wet wipes, toothbrush, toothpaste, sunscreen, tuna & cracker packs, single-serving snacks, nail clippers
Don’t forget to take a selfie or a screenshot and post it to the #52-ways-to-be-a-more-engaged-rotarian channel!
https://app.slack.com/client/TNH7VRC0M/C01CQ53AE95
Thank you to the following Rotarians for posting:
-Sandy Stabile
-Ferheen Abbasi
Sandy went above and beyond by donating blood to the American Red Cross. She says that she "notice from the Red Cross that my unit was sent down to Southern California for a patient there." Amazing! Great job, Sandy!
Club Announcements
Haven't joined the conversation on Facebook yet? Consider joining the conversation by signing into our club members-only Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/rotarysiliconvalley/
Service Project Information
Club members, if you are participating or have previously participated in a service project as part of our club, could you please complete the following form:
https://forms.gle/jxfpHHiKBv7P5YXy5
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Past Events:
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Weather has been nice. Cats are all happy!
Program: Educating and Empowering Girls for the Future
Speaker: Noëlla Coursaris Musunka
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Noëlla Coursaris Musunka, philanthropist, international model, and founder & CEO of Malaika, will talk about the importance of education in empowering girls and their communities in DRC and throughout the world. Through the school she founded along with an amazing team, a community center, and a comprehensive clean water program, Malaika has become a thriving ecosystem that gives local people the tools they need to grow and thrive.
This completely community-led model can be replicated in other communities in DRC and throughout the world. Noella is an advocate for girls' voices across the globe, and she works hard to give girls the opportunities they deserve through an all-encompassing education ranging from STEM to sports to art. Learn more about Noella's incredible story and the lessons she has learned over the past 13 years since founding Malaika in 2007.
If anything you hear during this recording inspires you, please donate to Malaika: https://malaika.org/donate
Learn more at:
Learn more about Malaika's programs and partnerships and Noella's story at www.malaika.org
Watch a video about Malaika's school and community center: https://youtu.be/slTR7N1-nRU
Watch Malaika's feature episode on Forbes8: https://youtu.be/aiFxLsVDFVo
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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