Partnering For Peace - Forging A Peace Corps Rotary Alliance
Meeting for the week of May 31, 2021 - June 06, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Partnering For Peace - Forging A Peace Corps Rotary Alliance
Speaker: Tony Agnello
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Welcome, everyone, to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
In May 2014, Rotary International and the US Peace Corps joined in a partnership to promote global development and volunteer service.
Under the Memorandum of Understanding, Rotary clubs and Peace Corps volunteers can share their resources and knowledge to boost the impact of development projects globally. Both organizations are committed to improving lives and building stronger communities by addressing the root causes of violence and conflict, such as poverty, illiteracy, disease, and lack of access to clean water and sanitation.
By working together, Rotarians and active and returned Peace Corps Volunteers enhance goodwill, international understanding, and build capacity in communities around the world!
Yours in Rotary service,
Raquel D’Garay-Juncal
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
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 !
The Animal Football Game
There was a football game of note between the big animals and the little animals. The big animals were crushing little animals and at half-time, the coach made a passionate speech to rally the little animals.
At the start of the second half the big animals had the ball. The first play, the elephant got stopped for no gain. The second play, the rhino was stopped for no gain. On third down, the hippo was thrown for a 5 yard loss. The defense huddled around the coach and he asked excitedly, "Who stopped the elephant?"
"I did," said the centipede.
"Who stopped the rhino?"
"Uh, that was me too," said the centipede.
"And how about the hippo? Who hit him for a 5 yard loss?"
"Well, that was me as well," said the centipede.
"So where were you during the first half?" demanded the coach.
"Well," said the centipede, "I was having my ankles taped."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
What if we strap electrodes to kids' heads to monitor how focused they are, and share the data for all students in the class with all parents? Is this an Orwellian nightmare, or classroom management heaven? This Wall Street Journal story looks at a program to use EEG technology with students at a primary school near Shanghai, China. Thought-provoking, to say the least!
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.
This photo was taken in the Palouse area of Eastern Washington that is one of the most productive wheat growing regions in the World. Just after sunset, a car came down this dirt road between the fields. I composed the photo to use the road as a "leading line" into the photo while keeping the car in a strong off center position (Rule of Thirds). I tried several versions of color and B/W, but felt this one was the most dramatic.
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.
In Honor of My 65th Trip Around the Sun Today!
I'm originally from Youngstown, Ohio, and one of my favorite local band songs is "Nobody But Me" by the Human Beinz. There are many versions of it on the internet, and one I love is one set to video clips from The Addams Family show from the 1960s when I was a youngster.
Now that I'm officially a Senior Citizen, please know that you may have to grow older, but YOU DON'T HAVE TO GROW UP!!! Get up and do the Shing-a-ling, Skate, Boogaloo, and Philly with them!
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
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
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 in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Last week was all indoors. It rained daily. I spent lots of time with my cats. Please apply my gift to Polio Plus.
Program: Partnering For Peace - Forging A Peace Corps Rotary Alliance
Speaker: Tony Agnello
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!
Mr. Agnello is the President of the Afghanistan Peace Corps Association, Friends of Afghanistan, which is the national organization of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) who continue to network for peace, prosperity and security in their South-Central Asian host-nation.
Arising from his role in the APCA, Mr. Agnello is the founder and chairman of the Alliance for Intercultural Understanding, Inc. (AIU), which is dedicated to promoting dialogue and forging partnerships that strengthen Americans' understanding about the world and its peoples.
Rotarians and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers have been officially collaborating on service projects in the US and internationally since 2014, when leaders of the two organizations formally affirmed a Memorandum of Understanding.
This presentation celebrates our joint triumphs, our ongoing collaborations and the challenges that the arrival of thousands of fully vetted and legally approved Special Immigration Visa Interpreters from Afghanistan, who served side-by-side with American servicemen and women poses for our organizations.
Learn more:
aiu-online.org
partneringforpeace.org
pcc4refugees.org
nooneleft.org
Please contact Tony at tony@afghanconnections.org
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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