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ALOHA AND E KOMO MAI (welcome)

President’s Message

March 13, 2023

This has been a very active Rotary year so far. Not only for the number and quality of the activities in our own club, but also in collaborating with other Rotary Clubs and organizations of Maui.

Some of our work includes:

- Water safety with our ongoing commitment to Rescue Tubes on the beaches of South Maui.

- Youth: services with scholarships, school supply drives, middle school leadership academies, reading tutoring, supplying dictionaries

- Health: promotion, wellness and health education

- Our environment: cleaning up beaches, and planting trees and maintaining school gardens

We work with many community partners and individuals who all embrace “Service Above Self” for community benefit. Currently, we are doing a food drive along with Coldwell Banker to benefit the Maui Food Bank. In the next few weeks there will be a beach cleanup.

Please join us in this common cause. “Together We

Can”.

Al Weiland

President, Rotary Club of Kihei-Wailea

The Rotary Club of Kihei-Wailea Mission Statement:

"In the spirit of the Rotary Four-Way Test, strive to improve the lives, health, and well-being of citizens (with a special emphasis on children) in our community and that of underprivileged communities around the world. Achieve meaningful results for our service projects in an atmosphere of fun, fellowship, and aloha."

Club wins awards at 2022 District Conferenence

President Al Weiland with multiple awards

Grant Chair Mark Harbison with Grantmaker of the Year award

Jay blows the conch

at sunset during our March 30 Pau Hana

Club wins
2020-21 International Service Award

2020-21 President Dennis Bagshaw with our award.

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NEW ROTARY FOUNDATION GRANT
BY MEMBER MARK BARRY, MD:

A VOCATIONAL TRAINING TEAM PROJECT

FOR FUTURE SURGEON LEADERS IN TANZANIA

We train 3 Orthopedic surgeons in the Pediatric sub-specialty who will start their own training site

Initiated by Pediatric Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Mark Barry from Rotary Club of Kihei-Wailea (RCKW) on Maui. RCKW has partnered with RC Honolulu Sunrise, District 5000 and the Rotary Foundation to support this unique surgeon training initiative at Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute (MOI) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The host is Rotary Club of Oyster Bay in Dar Es Salaam. A Vocational Training Team (VTT) Grant was secured to sequentially bring five Pediatric Orthopedic surgeons from the United States for 3-4 weeks at a time to train 3 top local MOI surgeons in the sub-specialty of Children’s Orthopedics. This is the 5 month final stretch of a 2 year formal fellowship training program at MOI. Upon completion, these will be the only formally trained Pediatric Orthopedic surgeons in Tanzania, a country of 55 million, where half the population is below 18 years of age. The fellows plan to establish the first permanent “Center of Training Excellence” in Pediatric Orthopedics in east, central and southern Africa.

Project location: Tanzania, United Republic of

Project dates:

Start: 23 July 2018

End: 09 November 2018

Created: 31 October 2018

Project category: Vocational, Disease prevention and treatment

Funding: Rotary Grant

Project contacts: Dr. Mark A. Barry, Kihei-Wailea, Maui| (contact)

PartnersKihei-Wailea, Maui, HI, USA (Rotary Club)