ROTARY INTERNATIONAL WORLD HEADQUARTERS:
One Rotary Centre, 1560 Sherman Ave, Evanston, Illinois, 60201, U.S.
Telephone: 847 866 3000. Fax: 847 328 8554.
General officers of R.I. for 2003-04
President, Jonathan Majiyagbe, Nigeria; President-elect, Glenn E. Estess Sr., U.S.A.; Vice President, Frank C. Collins Jr., U.S.A.; Treasurer, Gennaro M. Cardinale, Italy; Ronald L. Beaubien, U.S.A.; John J. Eberhard, Canada; John F. Germ, U.S.A.; Sushil Gupta, India; Michael D. McCullough, U.S.A.; David D. Morgan,Wales; Samuel A. Okudzeto, Ghana; Luiz Coelho de Oliveira, Brazil; John M. Pinson, U.S.A.; J. David Roper, U.S.A.; Ómar Steindórsson, Iceland; Kozo Sugo, Japan; Sakuji Tanaka, Japan; Constant A.G.M. Tempelaars, The Netherlands; John G. Thorne, Australia.
General Secretary: Edwin H. Futa, U.S.A.
R.I. South Pacific and Philippines Office
McNamara Centre, Level 2, 100 George Street, Parramatta, N.S.W., 2150 or P.O. Box 1415, Parramatta, N.S.W., 2124. Telephone: (02) 9635 3537. Fax: (02) 9689 3169. Office hours: Open daily from 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. except weekends and public holidays. Administration: Manager, Harley Tarrant; Co-ordinator, Leanne Mackenzie; Literature Clerk, Michelle Fuller; Receptionist, Barbara Stuart. Club and District Administration (formerly service): Supervisor, Tony Quinn; Correspondent, Nicole Raymond: Co-ordinator, Graham Pretty. Finance: Supervisor, Brian Carroll; Co-ordinators, John Jiang and Wendy Tran; Assistant, Rebecca Tucker; Junior finance assistant, Cecille Costelo; The Rotary Foundation: Supervisor, Terry Davies; TRF Assistant, Amabel Pante. How to e-mail staff: Start with the staff member’s last name (up to seven letters), then add first letter of the first name, except John Jiang (jiangx) followed by @rotaryintl.org Example: smithj@rotaryintl.org for John Smith.
R.I. Internet address:www.rotary.org

Rotary Down Under — The Council
R. I. Director John Thorne, District Governors Doug Pascoe (9450), John Simmons (9460), Ron Geary (9470), David Moore (9500), Graeme Dodsworth (9520), Michael Rennie (9550), Hector Garrick (9570), Tony Holmes (9600), Ray Brand (9630), Max Wortman (9640), John Burkey (9650), Cheryl Bentley-Howard (9670), Danny Low (9680), Warwick Tester (9690), Peter Chivers (9700), Anne Louttit (9710), Elaine Lytle (9750), Robert Furner (9780), Bill Holman (9790), Donald Jago (9800), Jenny Coburn (9810), Ray Martin (9820), Kevin Shadbolt (9830), Charles Wilson (9910), John Rennie (9920), Trish O’Reilly (9930), Allan Birrell (9940), Lyn Holmes (9970), John Henderson (9980).

The Committee:
R.I. Past Director Bill Boyd (chairman), R.I. Director John Thorne, Past District Governors Paul Gillett (treasurer), Colin Martin (vice-chairman), Keith Mitchell, Terry Edwards, Peter Williams, Bob Aitken (Secretary) and Rotarian Barry Antees (business manager).
Advisory Committee New Zealand, Pacific Islands:
R.I. Past Director Bill Boyd (chairman), R.I. Past Director Grattan O’Connell, Past District Governors Geoff Dainty, Mark Tregidga, Fergus Cumming, Lindsay Knowles, Bruce Knowles and Stuart Heal.

Dear fellow Rotarians For only $US100, you can help give the gift of hearing to a deaf child in Pakistan. Imagine the joy of hearing a parent’s voice for the first time or the laughter of other children. Over the years, The Rotary Foundation of R.I. has changed thousands of lives for the better. The Rotary Foundation is Rotary’s vehicle for enabling dreams to become reality.

During the 2002-03 Rotary year, Rotarians contributed $55.8 million to the Annual Programs Fund for humanitarian projects and educational programs. In my travels around the world, I have seen Rotarians construct low-cost shelters for the homeless, install water wells in remote communities, volunteer at club-sponsored AIDS clinics and provide books for low-income youngsters. At these times, I am truly proud to call myself a Rotarian.
In January, I presided over the Presidential Celebration in Manila, Philippines, site of the first Rotary club established in Asia (1919). The Philippines is also the site of Rotary’s first polio immunisation project, which later led to our greatest service opportunity – the PolioPlus program. In tribute to the Filipino Rotarians, I am shown this month wearing a barong, a shirt donned on formal occasions.

Rotary’s next century promises even greater opportunities for service. But we are also facing many challenges. In recent years, contributions to The Rotary Foundation have not kept pace with the steady growth in programs. This shortfall has resulted in scaling back Group Study Exchanges and approving fewer humanitarian grants.

Many Rotarians believe that their commitment ends once they contribute $1,000 for Paul Harris Fellow recognition. But that gesture of generosity should only be the beginning. It should serve as a springboard to a lifetime of continuous giving.

If every Rotarian were to donate $100 or more every year, we would nearly double our efforts to help people around the world. The 2001 Council on Legislation unanimously passed a resolution approving the goal of $100 per capita by 2005. I am counting on all Rotarians to rise to this challenge so that we can make a difference in the world.

Your contribution makes an impact in very real human terms. For example, a $100 gift to the Annual Programs Fund can help provide one of the following: four new wells for rural villages in Zimbabwe, three cataract eye operations in India, mosquito netting for 35 homes in Bangladesh or nutrition for 20 severely undernourished children in the Philippines.
Each gift to The Rotary Foundation is a gift of hope to someone less fortunate. We can make a monumental difference with our Every Rotarian, Every Year effort. As journalist and former Ambassadorial Scholar Bill Moyers once said: “What we do is touch other people . . . open the horizon to them . . . and say ‘You matter.’ ’’

Rotarians can serve as the torchbearers of hope, ready to Lend a Hand. Please join me in contributing a gift of $100 or more every year in support of the Annual Programs Fund. Together, we can successfully meet the challenges of Rotary’s second century of service.

Jonathan Majiyagbe
President, Rotary International