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DISASTER RELIEF ROTARIAN ACTION GROUP
Membership Application:
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DRRAG
Please click on the links (above) to read our ROTARIAN
DISASTER ALERT bulletins.
The Disaster Relief Rotarian Action Group (DRRAG) is the
newest Rotarian Action Group (RAG) and meets a need that
Rotarians have asked for over many years.
ROTARIANS WANT TO WORK IN HUMANITARIAN ENDEAVORS WITH
ROTARIANS.
THE DRRAG MISSION:
PREPARE, RESPOND,
RECOVER AND REBUILD
Ø
assist local
Rotary clubs to assume a leadership role in the
preparation for local Emergency Response through
a comprehensive training protocol developed for the Rotary
International Network
Ø
assist local
Rotary clubs in assuming a leadership role in the
directing of relief and development efforts
within their communities of interest;
Ø
assume a
greater, coordinated role in making the
Rotary International relief and development efforts more
coordinated
Ø
engage the international relief and development community
as a whole
Ø
provide more compatible and congruent emergency response
service
linked to the economic, political, funding and business
dynamics of the locales in which the relief and development
programs are occurring.
Ø
provide an
efficient resource and capacity building mechanism to bring
the specialized skill and knowledge resources resident in
Rotary International to the local level to help in
shaping rebuilding after the disaster and responding to
their local needs.
WHO ARE WE?
WHAT WILL DRRAG DO?
1/ Rotarians tuned
into service --- Prepare, respond, recover
and rebuild
2/
Rotarians want to
respond and to work in humanitarian endeavors with
Rotarians.
3/ DRRAG
Meets a need! Rotary now has a recognized Rotary Entity
Coordinating Disaster Response
4/ DRRAG
will assume a greater, coordinated role in making the Rotary
international relief and development efforts more
coordinated
5/ DRRAG
will provide an efficient resource and capacity building
mechanism to bring the specialized skill and knowledge
resources resident in Rotary as an international
organization
6) DRRAG
means that Rotary is now in the Disaster Relief Business
7) Rotarian
Action Group for Disaster Response can involve every
Rotarian in one way or another!
8) It’s the doing that counts!
DRRAG Can Do It!
Please join our DISASTER RELIEF ROTARIAN ACTION GROUP
To
join DRRAG:
Membership
Application:
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RI
Past Director
John
J. Eberhard, Chair,
Disaster Relief Rotarian Action Group (DRRAG )
jeberhard@crcid.org
LeGrand L Malany, CEO,
Disaster Relief Rotarian Action Group (DRRAG )
lmalany@juno.com
Dr. Edward “Eddie” Blender,
Editor-in-chief, (CIO)
Chief Information Officer
EBlender@aol.com
Charlie Clemmons, Treasurer
4601 Hamblen Ct
Seabrook, TEXAS 77586
c.clemmons@att.net
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Disaster alerts, sent to Rotarians through a partnership
with RGHF www.rghf.org (Rotary Global History)
From RGHF Rotary Global
History
www.rghf.org
An eight year review
of all RGHF features: December 2008
RGHF
Rotary Minute for December 2008. For over eight years, RGHF
has been serving Rotarians with regular weekly Rotary
related features. These features have been valuable to YOU,
in part, because they convey the common experience and
heritage of nearly 104 years of Rotary. What these features
and the tens of thousands of articles on our 3,000 page
website have in common is our shared value of Service above
Self, the Four Way Test, and our entire history (plus the
contributions and input from individual Rotarians).
As RGHF celebrates eight fruitful years of service to
Rotary, we ask each recipient (YOU) of this month’s combined
feature to send this on to all past, present, and future
Rotary club, district, and zone officers so that our work
may help them with retention.
As RGHF future
president Frank Longoria, USA, wrote in his monthly RGHF
report: The motivating force behind this endeavor is the
belief that Rotarians who have a clear understanding of
Rotary history are infinitely more likely to remain as
Rotarians for life and are more inclined to contribute
generously to the Rotary Foundation.
Our efforts in
meeting our objectives will continue and even intensify
during the coming months. I encourage all DGs who read this
message to please include information on RGHF in their
monthly newsletters. It will take all of us together to be
successful in reaching the goals of our organization. Frank
Longoria, Chair PR/Membership Committee
THE FIRST RGHF What Paul
Harris Said 30 December 2001
www.whatpaulharrissaid.org Since the beginning of
civilization, there has been a surplus of sayers of things.
If there is any one particular in which I would have Rotary
distinguished from other organizations, it is in the quality
of character which results in the doing of things. Paul
Harris, Message to the 1921 RI Convention in Edinburgh,
Scotland.
THE FIRST
RGHF Our Foundation Newsletter 1 March 2001
www.ourfoundation.info We want to provide a forum for
your ideas on making Rotary more responsive to our
community, our world and its people. PRID Lynn Hammond, USA,
from the first newsletter.
THE FIRST RGHF Why I am a
Rotarian 7 January 2006
www.whyiam.org Why I Am a Rotarian - The reasons change
with passing time. In 1950, it was because two businessmen I
respected had invited me to join, and the leading business
and professional men in town elected me to membership in the
Rotary Club of California, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Past RI
President Chuck Keller, USA
THE FIRST RGHF Rotary Global
History Day 23 November 2008
www.11october.org RGHF has started a program to
recognize club histories, to encourage the study of history
at the club level. We have a new list of ideas for beginning
your own history at
www.11october.org suggested by one of our members.
THE FIRST RGHF Frank
Talk Gems 1 January 2008
www.franktalkgems.org One of the most amazing things
about the success of Rotary is that it is achieved entirely
by volunteers. It all starts because one Rotarian wants
something to happen, not because some boss tells him or her
to do it, or to fulfill a mission statement that is posted
on a wall somewhere. Every successful project that Rotary
has ever accomplished has begun at the grass roots level in
the minds and hearts of individual Rotarians. Frank Talk I,
p. 106
THE FIRST
RGHF Rotarian Disaster Relief Alert (Myanmar), 20 May 2008
www.rghf.org/drrag
ROTARIANS WANT TO WORK WITH ROTARIANS AND ROTARIANS WANT TO
BE IMMEDIATELY INVOLVED AND TAKE ACTION
RGHF member
Steve Wright, California, USA put it this way: Never thought
about the link between history and growth, but it certainly
makes sense. Easier to have high enthusiasm when something
is new as opposed to Main St. Thanks for the new
perspective, gives me something to chew on.
Everything old is new again, at the pages of
www.rghf.org
Yours in service through history,
Joe Kagle, RGHF President
2007/2009
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