Newsletter

Monthly report of actions MARCH 2012 District RID 2483 SERBIA & MONTENEGRO

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Hristina Kocic District Secretary RID 2483 2011/12 RAC Nis

Milos Milojevic DRR RID 2483 2011/12 RAC Nis-Constantine the Great

RAC Subotica

RAC Novi Sad

RAC Beograd-Dedinje

RAC Beograd—Sava

RAC Nis– Naissus

RAC Nis– Constantine the Great

RAC Prokuplje

RAC Pancevo

Content

Special points

of interest

∗ Editors l view

∗ Members report

∗ Clubs actions

MONTHLY REPORT OF ACTION MARCH Dear Rotaractors, Early spring awakening March is the herald of spring. Everywhere in the air begins to feel the breath of freshness mixed with the scent of the first petals. ... For the umpteenth time we wonder whether spring reminds us that we should show honor to somebody? As a noun, “honor” in the Bible means esteem, value, or great respect. It exhorts us to express respect and esteem toward people- our parents, our friends, the aged, the children, to love the brotherhood, fear God, to respect all other religions and hystorical memories. That is why our actions were colored with a honor toward women on the day of March 8th, with a color of friendship and fun, through joint outings and recreations. As in spring the snow melts even in the mountains, we expect that the spring will generate new ideas as the first buds and flowers.

Yours in Rotaract


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From the Editors

Each time brings new expectation, every friendship is a living episode, that expands the boundaries and horizons. I enrolled the PhD Biomedical Technology Studies in September, after receiving a scholarship from the Slovenian government, as a top-30 doctoral students in the country. My life came to the border between north and south. Great welcome honor I debit by the President of the RAC Maribor Matej Krampac and the other rotaractors brothers! RAC Maribor is in the district 1920. It has been char-tered in 2000. Club members are recognizable lead-ers in their fields from the social, humanitary and natural sciences, sport, but above all good friends! It was my great honor to attend the debate under the title "Networking" (Umrezivanje), where the District Governor of Slovenia was also attended and ex-plained the moral principles of Rotary , contained in the Four-way test as well as the global objective of Rotary Foundation, the morals and ethics of friend-ship. In this year Maribor has been nominated as the European Cultural Capital, and next year it will be the European capital of youths. I hope that young people will bring GOODWILL and BETTER FRIEND-SHIPS leading also to the good coop-eration between our districts.

Hristina Kocic

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City centrum

Univerzity of Maribor “tha wall of wishes” (to pass the

exeams :) River Drava


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Jovana Perovic visited Hague

In the land of tulips and wind-mills

When you think about the Nether-

lands, the first things on your mind are probably tulips, windmills, clogs, Rem-brandt, Vincent van Gogh, “The Diary of Anne Frank" and other well-known sights of this country. In the modern history, at the end of 20th century, this Western-European country became a home of many international judicial institutions, judges, experts and lawyers, specialized in the area of International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. Organi-zation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Mission to Serbia, sup-ported by the Embassy of Netherlands or-ganized visit of students from Serbia to this international institutions in the Hague. The goal of this visit was to help young people interested in International Criminal Law to learn something more and to get more experience. One of them was our friend Jovana Perović, Secretary of the Rotaract Club “Niš-Constantine the Great”, law student who won the third place on Tenth Serbian Moot Court Competition in International Humanitarian Law.

From the Editors

It is organized every year by the National

Society of the Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross and got the chance to participate in Jean Pictet Competition.

During her visit, Jovana had an opportu-nity to learn something more about Interna-tional Criminal Court (ICC), established by an international treaty (the Rome Statute) which has now 120 countries as parties and Serbia is one of them. The Court organized the presenta-tion on the ICC by a representative of the Presi-dency, Chambers of Registry and representative of the Office of the Prosecutor. Students also vis-ited the Courtrooms and got more explanations.


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At the end of the first day of visiting the Hague, Jovana and rest of the Serbian dele-gation had a reception at the Serbian Em-bassy. The Ambassador and the First Secre-tary of the Embassy, Saša Obradović, also known as the Agent of Serbia before the ICJ (International Court of Justice) received them and explained the cases of Serbia be-fore the ICJ. International Court of Justice is one of the organs of UN which is situated also in the Hague in the “Peace Palace”, pal-ace where League of Nations was estab-lished .

During one week visit students also visited International Court of Justice and Special Tribunal for Lebanon (the first in-ternational court with jurisdiction over the crime of terrorism in times of peace). The most exciting visit for Jovana was the visit of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), established on 25th May 1993, by resolution of the UN

Security Council.

She could improve her knowledge and

professional ethic by conversation and lectures of Trial Attorneys, Defence Counsel, Legal Offi-cers and Judges. The great honor for visitors was the reception of Mr. Serge Brammertz , the Prosecutor of ICTY who wanted to know more about them, their plans for future and their opinion about the Tribunal. The unforgettable thing for our young rotaractor is certainly the trials (case “Karadžić” and closing arguments in the case “Šešelj”).

http://www.icty.org/sid/10938


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During her visit to The Hague, Jovana

also managed to take some time to visit Ro-tary Club “Hague Metropolitan” the first in-ternational Rotary Club in the Netherlands. They have 35 members, from 20 nations; in-cluding a number of Ambassadors, Interna-tional Court Judges, and representatives of International Organisations/Corporations. Jovana was their guest during the dinner and she presented her Club and her Country, exchanged the banners with their president, made valuable contacts and discussed possi-ble future cooperation between two Clubs.

Rotarians were glad because they had

guest from one Rotaract club. They are plan-ing to organise first International Rotaract club and it wice be a pleasure for them to have friends in some other RI district.

This was unforgettable experience for

Jovana as a future young lawyer, she could do improve her knowledge but also promote her Rotaract club and Rotary community .


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08.03.2012.

Place: School for deaf Children, Subotica Goal: The goal of this action was to spend time with children and help them make unique gifts for their mothers. This year, in collaboration with the School for deaf Chil-dren Rotaract Club organized action in which children decorated jars for their mothers.

http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=40554

8. March with the School for deaf Children

ROTARACT CLUB

Subotica


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ROTARACT CLUB Prokuplje

27.03.2012.

Place: Szeged- Hungary Rotaract club Subotica, with Rotary clubs Subotica and Palić went to Szeged to meet president Ro-tary International Kalyan Banerjee, and to listen his lecture about Ro-tary, and how our family needs to support us on our Rotarian way. On the re-ception Serbia was repre-sented by Vesna Baltezarević District Gover-nor of Dictrict 2483 .

http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=40787&subsite=zajednica

RI President Kalyan Banerjee visiting Szeged - Hungary

ROTARACT CLUB

Subotica


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ROTARACT CLUB

03.03.2012.

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Place: Univerexport Alba Goal: Collecting food for single mothers in need

Our goal was to gather as much food as possible through donations from gen-erous people that did their groceries and other basic supplies shopping in this shop. We managed to collect around 40 plastic bags full of groceries, cleaning supplies, even some sweets that were later distributed to 4 single mothers in Novi Sad. We are really happy with the outcome of this action, and we plan on doing it again really soon.

Basket of solidarity

ROTARACT CLUB Novi Sad


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09.03.2012.

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Place: Museum of Vojvodina. Goal: Fundraising for opera-tion of NatašaŠakić.

Charity auction of paint-ings and art works held on Fri-day evening at the Museum of Vo-jvodina in order to raise money necessary for the operation in Russia for NatašaŠakićfrom Novi Sad. Central Art School from Novi Sad donated paintings so as various artists from Serbia.The organizer of this event was the Rotaract Club Novi Sad in cooperation with Environment En-gineering Group. All the money we raised is now on Nataša’s ac-count and she can cover a part of expenses with it. It was a very successful and rewarding action in which we all were human and had a pleasant time. We wish all the best to Nataša and speedy recov-ery.

Rotaract for NatašaŠakić

http://blog.b92.net/text/19843/Hajde-da-pomognemo---akcije/

http://issuu.com/dnvdvp/docs/dnevnik110312 (strana 23)

http://www.naslovi.net/2012-03-10/dnevnik/u-muzeju-vojvodine-humanost-salje-natasu-sakic-na-operaciju/3259886



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09.03.2012.

.Gerontology Center Novi Sad. Goal: Bring joy and happiness to our senior female citizens for International Women’s Day. Early in the morning of March 8th our Club members visited the Ger-ontology Center Novi Sad to give our female elders greeting cards for International Women’s Day that are contained in greeting cards and candy. None of them ex-pected that we will remember them and they were at least en-thusiastic. We elicited a lot of smiles that morning and some tears of joy. All of us, who participated in this ac-tion, came up with a broad smile on our face and with the idea that we will soon again visit and de-light them in some other way.

“ 8th of March



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13. 3. 2012. – 19. 3. 2012

Place: Clinic for dentistry in Novi Sad Goal: Dental treatment for children .On March the 13th in 2012. mem-bers of our club made a team which is made by students on third year of dentistry studies and had gone to Bečej in elementary school Bratsvo, there the team had ex-amened pupils from fifth to eight grade and choose from them ones that needed dental treatment. Team acuared a room for children dentistry on Clinic for dentistry in Novi Sad, beside that and the sup-pervision of professors and asis-tents for March the 19th 2012. from 12:30 pm till 05:30 pm. Four chil-dren came to clinic that day aco-panied by their parents, the team menaged to do eighteen procedures on them. Rotary Club Novi Sad donated money for the materials which were used during the procedures as wel as bus tickets from bus sta-tion to clinic and back. Beside that, Rotary Club Bečej donated bus tickets from Bečej to Novi Sad and back. Children are now happier and so are we.

Children’s smile



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29.03.2012.

Kindergarten “Veseli patuljci” Goal: Education of parents and their children about dental hy-giene On March 29th in 2012. members of our club made a team which is made by students on third year of dentistry studies and had gone to Rumenka in kindergarten “Veseli Patuljci” there the team presented the importance of children dental hygiene to parents of children be-tween one to seven years old. The action was successful, parents were educated about dental hy-giene in that age. Memebers of our club will continue with this kind of education and we are hoping that actions like this will be as successful as this one.

Our care for your beautiful smile



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12.03.2012

Place:The House of King Petar, Belgrade, str. Vase Pelagića 40 Goal: Support people with dis-abilities On Monday (3/12/2012) we at-tended the opening ceremony of the exhibition of humanitarian work of people with mental dis-abilities ‘’ Awakening’’ in the House of King Peter. The exhibition consisted of individ-ual pieces of glass, natural and re-cycled materials in whose produc-tion people with disabilities in-volved and thus they presented their opportunities for independ-ent living and work. All proceeds raised at exhibition will be used for the development of inclusive labor center. A lot of me-dia and other organizations par-ticipated in this activity such as Blis.rs, Kombeg.rs etc.. We collected funds within the rota-ract club and then use the funds to buy magazines and articles made by persons with mental disabili-ties. The major activity coordinator was club member Sanja Abu Omar .

Exhibition of persons with men-

tal disabilities-Awakening

ROTARACT CLUB

Beograd—Dedinje


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19.03.2012.

Place: Belgrade Goal: Support athletes with diabetes

Ninoslav Raskovic was born in 1975 in Knin below the mountain Dinara. Diabetes Type I was dis-covered him in December 1998, and he actively start running in 2007. So far, he participated in one ultramarathon, in 12 marathons (Amsterdam, Geneva, Stockholm, Belgrade, etc..), in 7 half marathon (Novi Sad, Skopje, etc..) and in several mountain races. RAC Dedinje donated Ninoslav sporty wear,running shoes with hope to have successful results in marathons that that are coming. Activity plan was as follow: - Get in touch with Ninoslav and see what sport equipment he needed most the for this year's races - Purchase the necessary equip-ment (running shoes etc..) and give it to Ninoslav - Become familiar with all the problems that athletes with diabe-tes have - Continious cooperation with Plavi Krug organisation whose member is Ninoslav Raskovic. Major activity coordinator was Go-ran Basta from RAC Dedinje.

Defeat diabetes - support for Ni-

noslav Raskovic

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Beograd—Dedinje


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29.03.2012

Place: The National Theatre Belgrade, '' Raša Plaović’’ Stage Goal: Socializing and cultural rising Instead of regular meeting, members of Rotaract club Beograd Dedinje went to watch drama ''Hasan Aga's Wife'' at National Theatre Belgrade, '' Raša Plaović’’ Stage . This theatre play is a famous national balad written in XVII century. It tells a story about sad life of woman in that period of Serbia. This was also a great opportunity for all club members to refresh their memory and knowledge about this well-known drama, as well as to gather once more. Activity plan was as follows: -To get gather club members in front of '' Raša Plaović’’ Stage -Enjoy in the theatre play -Enjoy in friendly talk afterwords Major activity coordinator was Nikola Stojadinović from RAC Dedinje

Theatre night: Drama ''Hasan

Aga's Wife''

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Beograd—Dedinje


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31.03.2012

Place: Zvecanska Children Centre, Zvečanska 7, Bel-grade Goal: Making children happy Our members of Rotaract club Beograd Dedinje descided to bring some smile to childrens face by donating a small portion of always welcome sweets to kids in need. We belive that this is a small step in making their lives better and will continue to work with the Zvecanska Children Centre in organising more charity work for future projects of our RTC. This was the first of many good deeds that we plan to realise with the Centre, because as the Serbian old saying says ,, The fu-ture of the world is for the chil-dren“. Activity plan was as follow: - Colect donations from the club and our members and friends -Organise a shoping list of sweets and go to shops and buy them. -Donate sweets to the Centre Major activity coordinator was Ljubisa Stamatovic from RAC Dedinje

Sweats for kids

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Beograd—Dedinje


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24.03.2012.

Place: Caffe Bar Izlog Goal: Raising funds for Daily Centre for the children from the street Once again, Rotaract Club Beo-grad Sava successfully cele-brated the awakening of Spring, as well as our second birthday at Caffe Bar "Izlog" in Belgrade. A traditional charity party "Give in Spring" was organized to raise funds for clothes and school sup-plies for Daily cen-tre for children from the street. Thanks to our friends, in-cluding other rotaractors who bought spring glow bracelets, symbolic priced 200 RSD, we managed to collect on our rough estimate 30000 RSD. Our biggest reward is a smile on those kids who come to the centre to warm them self up, get some clean clothes, have shower or just to get warm words.

Give in Spring

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Beograd—Sava


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ROTARACT CLUB Pancevo

27– 31.12.2011

NEW YEAR’S BAZAAR Pančevo city park From December 27th to 31th a New Year’s Bazaar was held in the city park of Pančevo, and Rotaract Club Pančevo was among the exibitors. The idea was to use the opportunity for our club members to spend the holidays witn our neighbours. We mostly spent time with our youngest neighbours, giving them candy as well as giving our PR materials on our activities and selling New Year's cards. Also, this was yet another chance to present Rotaract to the general public and spread the goals and the ideas of Rotaract to the Bazaar visitors.

NEW YEAR’S BAZAAR


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Rotaract club Pancevo

08.03.2012.

PLACE :Home for elderly people, Pančevo GOAL : Rotaract caravan has visited “Home for the elderly” in Pancevo. Rotaract caravan has visited “Home for the elderly” in Pancevo. Women’s Day was the reason for the members of Rotaract Club Pancevo to visit this institution for the fourth time. This was a nice surprise for both the residents and the stuff. The elderly la-dies were given small presents by people from the head office whereas the mem-bers of Rotaract club made each of the charming elderly ladies happy by giving them a rose. The atmosphere was very relaxed, everyone was very emotional, and there were tears as well. Rotaract Club Pancevo would like to thank to “Home for elderly people” for the confidence they expressed and warm hospitality. Thanks to the residents for their positive attitudes and good humor they were in. We had a great time as well. We are looking forward to seeing you again and we will finish this writing with the verse of a wonderful song we were saluted at the entrance:

MARCH 8 – 201 ROSES


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18.03.2012.

PlACE : Animal shelter “Ljubimci”, Pančevo GOAL: The members of Rotaract Club Pancevo have once again decided to help the shelter for abandoned animals in Pancevo After the party was finished on March 17 at the restaurant “Little Para-dise” where Rotary Club Pancevo had celebrated its anniversary, the members of Rotaract Club Pancevo gave the leftovers to the shelter. We carried it away on March 18. The excitement was rather boisterous than visible! Besides the dogs which were happily waving their tails, the people who work in the shelter were quite satisfied. We talked to them about their job, the problems they are facing to and potential actions in the future. To sum up, we spent a very pleasant Sunday morning there.

FOOD FOR THE SHELTER


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31.03.2012.

PlACE : Kuglana & caffe, Pančevo The Second Rotaract Bowling Tournament was held on March 31, in Pancevo, organized by the Rotaract Club Pancevo. The whole thing was highly organized, with numerous visitors, so both the visitors and hosts were satisfied. The tournament visited guests from the following Rotaract clubs: Rotaract Club Belgrade, Rotaract Club Belgrade Center, Rotaract Club Belgrade Metropolitan, Rota-ract Club Belgrade Sava, Rotaract Club Bel-grade Dedinje, Rotaract Club Belgrade Cu-karica and Interact Club Belgrade Center.As one could notice, many teams took part in bowling tournament. It was an intense com-petition, which made this event even greater and more significant. This time, two brilliant guys from Rotaract Club Belgrade Center won the cup. The sec-ond prize went to Rotaract Club Belgrade Metropolitan and the third to Rotaract Club Pancevo.After the tournament, which was perfect, the competitors carried on the com-panionship in one of the local cafés, where the party began so that everybody could re-lax after the hard competition.

THE SECOND ROTARACT BOWLING TOURNAMENT


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01.03.2012 Clothes for those in need Place: Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina Goal: Clothes donation Rotaract club Niš - Naissus has responded to the invitation of Ro-taract club Sarajevo to help them collect clothes for many homeless and poor people that found them-selves in a very difficult position through this harsh winter. This winter was the coldest one in sev-eral past decades, with snow cover rising over the 100 cm in Sarajevo only. So in the good spirit, our members donated some of their clothes, which have been sent to our fellow Rotarac-tors to contribute to their quan-tity.

04.03.2011 Snow for everyone Place: Stara planina Goal: Socializing

In order to promote a healthy lifestyle and socialize within our club members, Rota-ract Club "Niš - Nais-sus" organized a day trip to the sky center Stara Planina. Clear blue sky with lots of sunshine made this day perfect for our ski-ing members, but also for the non-skiers who enjoyed fresh air and warm tea from the nearby resting place.

07.03.2012. Lecture about Gender equality Place: hotel "Panorama - Lux", Niš Goal: Education Ivana Pavlović, our member candidate, held a lecture about gender equality, especially fo-cused on position of the women rights through the history. Since the International women’s day is on the 8th of March, it was interesting and educational to remind our-selves about the women strug-gle and lack of equality and the problems which women still have today in various coun-

tries.

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Nis—Naissus


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23.02.2012 Semi-annual report and joint meet-ing with Sponsor Club

. PLACE: Regent Club GOAL: Semi-annual report and joint meeting with Spon-sor Club

Rotaract Club “Nis – Con-stantine the Great” held a joint meeting with its Sponsor Club. The reason for such a gathering was to celebrate the Rotary In-ternational Day, formally de-clare full membership to new members and present them with official Club badges. We hereby congratulate Sasa, Teodora, Aleksandra, Tihomir, Aleksan-dar and Aleksa. This way, we wanted to show our appreciation for their efforts during their pro-visional period and honor them in front of members of our Spon-sor Club.

We also presented our semi-annual report, as well as future projects to our Sponsor Club. After the formal meeting, we all went to celebrate while enjoying the music and special-ties of Regent club.

ROTARACT CLUB

Nis-Constantine the Great


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04.03.2012 Professional development and Team-building

PLACE: Marko Stanojevic’s weekend cottage GOAL: Professional development and Team-building We continue with our monthly project – Internal professional de-velopment and team-building. Again, the host was Marko Stano-jevic, future Club President, at his weekend cottage in Toponica. The lecturer was Club member and Economist Irina Petrovic and the subject was “Business correspondence and business Bon-ton”. After the official part, our company went to “Marjan’s” for lunch, where the team-building part began. Club member Vladimir Milojkovic and his guitar were responsible for the follow-up and great atmosphere, even though some of us tried our best to ruin the whole thing by singing :) LINK: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?

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12.03.-16.03.2012. Rotaract Week

PLACE: City of Nis GOAL: Honoring Rotaract Week

Rotaractors around the globe celebrate March 13th (and the whole week surrounding it) as the Rotaract day, in honor to the founding of the first Rotaract Club in 1968. Regarding Rota-ract Week, our Club “Nis – Constantine the Great” decided to dedicate each day of the week to a specific Avenue of Ser-vice that we honor on every Club meet-ing. Starting this year, we will organize an action dedicated to each Avenue on each day of the week. Monday, Club Service – Club Parlia-ment and elections Tuesday, New Generations – Joint meeting and socializing with Interact Club Wednesday, International Community Service – Supporting Rotaract Club Sofia-Vitosha, D2482 Bulgaria, in their international project Thursday, Local Community Service – Donation to “Safe home for children from the street” and socializing with the children Friday, Vocational Service – Study ex-change excursion to the International Tribune for War Crimes in The Hague, the Netherlands for Jovana Perovic and her visit to local Rotary Club We also visited 2 local TV stations where we discussed about Rotaract, what it is and which values it repre-sents, as well as our past and future projects.

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12.03.2012 Rotaract Week, Part 1, Monday, Club Ser-

vice - Club Parliament and Elections

PLACE: Regional Center for Education GOAL: Honoring Rotaract Week

As traditional, Rotaract Club “Nis – Constantine the Great” organizes its annual Club Parliament in March. The subject of the matter is to have the incoming Club President, in our case current Club Vice President, present his long term plan for Club develop-ment, Club mission and vision for the following Rotarian year. Af-ter the presentation, the whole Club Parliament votes whether it approves of the incoming President and his Club development and leadership strategy. The honor to lead our Club in the following 2012/13 Rotarian year was unanimously given to Marko Stano-jevic.

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13.03.2012.

PLACE: Kupina Cinema GOAL: Honoring Rotaract Week

Second day of Rotaract Week was dedicated to our youngest – members of Inter-act Club. It was a great op-portunity to organize a joint meeting and socialize with future members of our Club. City of Nis just got a new cin-ema and what better way to declare the cinema season open than to go together with our youngest friends and watch “Professor Vujic’s hat”.


Rotaract Week, Part 2, Tuesday,

New Generations – Joint meeting

and socializing with Interact Club

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14.03.2012.

PLACE: Regional Center for Education GOAL: Honoring Rotaract Week Rotaract Club “Nis – Constan-tine the Great” has always been opened for cooperation. Honor-ing the Rotaract Week, we an-swered the call of our friendly Rotaract Club Sofia-Vitosha, D2482 Bulgaria and their President Ms. Vasilena Dran-chovska to participate in their international project “Martenitza”. Each March they organize a workshop where they get together and make specific chaplets they call “Martenitza”. Martenitzas are in Rotaract colors and are given to children or sold for fundrais-ing. RTC Sofia-Vitosha sends requests and instructions to other Clubs in the region to participate in their project. Each Club that agrees to par-ticipate needs to take photos of its members making Martenit-zas. Naturally, we agreed to participate and invited our In-teract Club to help us in mak-ing the chaplets. Needless to say, we all had a lot of fun.

Rotaract Week, Part 3, Wednesday, In-

ternational Community Service – Sup-

porting Rotaract Club Sofia-Vitosha,

D2482 Bulgaria, in their international

project


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15.03.2012. Rotaract Week, Part 4, Thursday, Local

Community Service – Donation to “Safe

home for children from the street” and so-

cializing with the children

PLACE: Safe home for chil-dren from the street GOAL: Honoring Rotaract Week Lucky are those who have enough to

spare and share with those less fortu-

nate. Noble are those that do. We at

Rotaract Club “Nis – Constantine

the Great” are grateful to have had

such an opportunity to help some-

one. And who is in more dire need

than the children who have to spend

their on the street. Mr. Bosko Alek-

sic recognized the necessity to find a

place for those children to come to,

shelter and spend some quality time.

However, they are in constant need

for attention. And this was our guide

for Local Community Service Ave-

nue. We bought them a certain

amount of computer exuipment, do-

nated clothes and food. Children

from the Home and our Club mem-

bers enjoyed each other’s company,

painting and playing together, with

refreshments and snacks, which con-

tributed to a great atmosphere and a

probable future cooperation.


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16.03.2012. Rotaract Week, Part 5, Friday, Vocational

Service – Study exchange excursion to the

International Tribune for War Crimes in

The Hague, the Netherlands for Jovana

Perovic and her visit to local Rotary Club

GOAL: Honoring Rotaract Week International Criminal Tribunal for the for-

mer Yugoslavia, The Hague, the Netherlands

We at Rotaract Club “Nis – Constantine the

Great” take Vocational Service very seri-

ously and do our best to be professional on

our everyday workplaces and represent our

Club worthily. We think that the best way to

promote your Club in your local community

is to do your best to be the best at your job.

This is why we are proud to share with our

national Rotaract community that our Club

Secretary Jovana Perovic visited the Interna-

tional Criminal Tribunal for the former

Yugoslavia (ICTY), International Court for

Justice (ICJ) and Special Tribunal for Leba-

non in The Hague, Netherlands as the Best

Student of Faculty of Law in Nis, and winner

of national competition in Criminal law.

That way, Jovana showed exceptional pro-

fessional ethics and standards, which we

think promote in best possible way the idea

of Rotary and our Club as well. The whole

event was organized by Organization for Se-

curity and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Jovana, along with the rest of the Serbian

delegation had a reception at the Serbian

Embassy.

During her visit to The Hague,

Jovana also managed to take some time to

visit Rotary Club Hague where she presented

our Club and our Country, made valuable

contacts and discussed possible future coop-

eration between our two Clubs.

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24.03.-25.03.2012 PETS Seminar

PLACE: Serbia Lux Hotel, Stara Pazova GOAL: Training seminar

PETS Seminar is a training seminar for future Rotary, Rotaract and Interact Club Officers, namely Presidents and Secretaries, organized by incoming District Rotary Board. This year’s PETS was organizes in grandiose Serbia Lux Hotel in Stara Pazova. District Governor Elect Nikola Obradovic presented his plan for the following Rotarian year and his depu-ties held various lectures on Club func-tioning. Rotaract Club “Nis – Constan-tine the Great” also had its representa-tives at PETS – Marko Stanojevic, President Elect and Marija Perovic, Secretary Elect. They found presenta-tions and lectures very useful and in-formative. During informal parts of the seminar, they were able to talk to the DG and other Rotaractors about possi-ble future cooperation.

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ROTARACT CLUB PROKUPLJE

MOVIE PARTY

9.03.2012

Place: CLUB 40, PROKUPLJE Goal: PROMOTION OF THE INTERNA-TIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL „ACTION“; PROMOTION OF ROTARACT; ROTARACT MEMBERS GATHERING

On 9th of march Rotaract Club Prokuplje organ-ized a promotional party of the second interna-tional short film festival „Action“, witch was held in the city's cult place „Club 40“. The club was complitelly filled with our citizens and rotarac-tors. By serving popcorn, film music and smiles all around, Rotaract Prokuplje members made pleas-ant and relaxed atmosphere and perfect introduc-tion and promotion of the festival as well.

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ROTARACT CLUB PROKUPLJE

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL „ACTION“

13.03.2012

Place: NATIONAL MUSEUM TOPLICA PROKUPLJE Goal: RAISE AWARENESS OF THE CULTURE; PROMOTION OF ROTARACT; PROMOTION OF PROKUPLJE; ROTARACT MEMBERS GATHERING

On march 13th, Rotaract Proku-plje members took part in organi-zation of the second international short film festival „Action“. The festival was divided into tree parts: the first part – local films from Prokuplje, the second one – competitive part with eight mov-ies, while in the third part visitors have seen some of world's best short movies up to 5 minutes. Among films from USA, UK, Po-land, Turkey, Spain, Brasil and Serbia, the 1st place went to serbian autor Zoran Cvetkovic with two-minutes film „Au!“. Thanks to the basic approach in terms of marketing, witch in-cluded promotional „Movie party', distribution of leaflets and promo-tion through social and other me-dia, Rotaract Prokuplje members have caused great public atten-tion, so National museum hall was crowded! Some of the event photos:https://

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First look at the camels Look again! Amazing, isn’t it? ;-)

We are expecting that images of the desert are usually full of illusions. Please look at the camels, and then read the message below. This photo was taken directly from the National Geographic. The photo was made above the camels dur-ing the sunset. It should be declared as one of the finest images. When you look carefully, you can realize that black camels are not real camels, the camels are the small white lines in the picture! Black camels are their shadows. Look again! Amazing, is not it? I wonder whether it happened in our real life? How do you see somebody when you fall in love? Of course as a big and powerful. Is it always true? Isn’t he /she in your eyes as a black camel (despite of his/her real quality)? Or otherwise, when you hate and disparage somebody, isn’t she/he looks as a white camel (despite of his/her real quality). Sometimes, we make our idols much bigger than they actually are, creating a large shadow over them. However, they are often much smaller than we think. Let's try to be real and to see persons or problems from another-real angle .

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