“Zooming in”
Liz & Nick Courtney
With the Lockdown comes new challenges for our members.
We decided to see how many of our members would join us on a “Happy Hour” zoom on the first Sunday of the lockdown and to come armed with a glass and enjoy a catch-up. We had 21 zoom in with each person giving a short recap of their week. We did this again last Sunday and will continue each Sunday for the next 4 weeks at 5.30pm.
Help is offered to join zoom through a video link which is sent out with the invitation and also Liz, Nick, Gary and Jonny are all on hand to help any members who have not yet joined to get zooming.
I have been amazed by the response and the comments coming from the members “I’ve never felt so connected” said Mandi. “I’ve learnt so much more about everyone” said Denis. “I really enjoyed that way of meeting” said John.
I think we are onto something that might just reinvigorate our members as ideas started to flow.
We looked at the Project Pipeline ideas to see what we could do from home and here are some suggestions:
Mandi’s idea: Collect wine bottle tops for either Canteen or Dialysis fundraiser (easy as we are all drinking wine in lockdown!).
Grant McFadden’s idea: Have a Happy Hour drinks for all Clubs on a Friday night (we can do this “virtually” every Sunday and invite another club to join us.)
Liz and Nick’s idea: As we don’t need to pay for a meal we could individually donate some money into our Papanui Rotary meals account and tag it for the City Mission appeal and then after a month give the whole donation from the Papanui RC.
Janice’s idea: We could also do the same as the above for the Fiji Toilet Project which would give us the satisfaction of helping families in rural villages with better hygiene and sanitation.
These suggestions were well received as we all want to make the best use of our time over this period and know we are still doing something for others.
If you have any other ideas we could do from our comfy chairs
we would love to hear them.
“Rotary Connects the World” and we are on the way to doing this.