John Marquardt is the deserving recipient of this year's Dean Crain Award. Congratulations, John! 
A few years ago, we heard about this project - Inherit Your Rights. It was all about engaging Tanzanian women to ensure they knew their rights of inheritance following death or divorce of a partner. The program (supported in part with a D5040 District Grant) was highly successful.
The local Rotary club (RC of Arusha) is involved in this latest program which was targeted at women but more importantly was expanded to educate men and children in the wider aspects of Gender Equality.
Our club is rightly proud to have been instrumental in changing attitudes in this Tanzanian community!
Richmond Sunrise Rotary has been supporting the Binners' Project which operates in Vancouver's Downtown East Side. We are happy to report that funding has been approved. 
As we remember the dedication of Curtis Tablotney to Pathways Clubhouse, Richmond Sunrise Rotary presented Debbie with a cheque for $1000 for Pathways. 
In anticipation of Elena's trip to attend the dental mission in the Philippines, Richmond Sunrise Rotary presented her with a cheque for $2000 for the Caring Hearts Dentistry Society. Danny Salcedo will play a primary role in the mission. 
Congratulations and thank you to Larry Thompson, Debbie Samsom and Peter Levelton for their generous donations to the Rotary Foundation. Our successful and generous efforts in fundraising and donations, including to Rotary Foundation, Polio Plus and Shelter Box, were acknowledged by District Governor Lorne Calder this week. Thank you, Lorne, for that recognition and for inspiring us to continue to do important Rotary work. 
We had such fun at the Richmond Sunrise Rotary Christmas lunch, prepared by Riverside Halls. The ugly sweaters were very ugly, but Larry surpassed us all! Merry Christmas! 
Thank you to our rotarians who contributed to the organizing, sales and distribution of our holiday poinsettias. Thank you to the friends of Rotary who supported us by purchasing the poinsettia plants and planters. Such a huge success. 
Congratulations to our own Chris Brodie for receiving the Queens Jubilee medal for her outstanding service to our community. 
Blair Kennedy is our most recently inducted rotary member. Welcome to the club, Blair - we know that our connections will be amazing. 
Max, our International Youth Rotary student, visited Mayne Island with the Pughe family. Max lives on a little island in Germany, so likely felt right at home on Mayne! 
Caring Hearts Dentistry Team getting ready for the January 2023 Dental mission in Casiguran Sorsogon. We are thrilled to welcome two new members, Jeannette and Peachy, to our Sunrise Rotary family. 
Thank you to Kal Dosanjh from Kidsplay who presented at our Rotary meeting.
Kal is a VPD detective officer and founder of the Kidsplay Foundation sports program which provides after school mentoring to 70,000 youths.
All the programs are free programs throughout the lower mainland. Kidsplay is now across Canada and international including Columbia and India. For more information, or to make a donation, follow this link; KidsPlay Foundation - Home 
Our Poinsettias are back and for sale now at Shopify, by following this link:
Then pick them up on November 26th at the Riverside Grand Ballroom (1231 Burdette St, Richmond, BC V6V 2Z2), from 10:00am-12:00pm.
Tylor Choy, our Youth Exchange student, continues to promote rotary and Canada during his visit to Japan.
On October 16th Richmond Sunrise helped local artists by sponsoring the Arts BC Arts Market held at the Richmond Arts and Culture Centre. We provided our tents so that the three nonprofits organizing the event, Arts BC, Richmond Arts Coalition, and the Community Arts Council of Richmond in collaboration with the City of Richmond could offer this rent free opportunity to over 30 local artists to promote and sell their work in Richmond.
Richmond Sunrise is proud to support Inherit Your Rights, with a substantial donation. Inherit Your Rights was founded in 2011 in Arusha, Tanzania by two international human rights lawyers, with the mission to assist and represent widows who unjustly face losing their property and inheritance rights following the death of their husbands. Our strategy: education, empowerment and representation.
Please go to https://www.inherityourrights.org/ to find out more about the amazing work that is being done on the Mlangarini Ward Gender Equality project.
Our own Elena Agala is back from a humanitarian mission in her hometown in Oras Eastern Samar ,Philippines.
Distribution of school supplies of notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons ,books, toothbrushes, toothpaste, snacks and juices were given to 100 elementary school children.
More donations of food packages , used youth / adult clothing, used tennis shoes and food were distributed to 100 poor people in a village along the river . There is no Rotary club in the town so she asked some help from former classmates in high school in Eastern Samar.
Thanks to Rotarians in our club who donated the school supplies etc.
1. PP Pat Atkinson
2. PP Marg Dixon
3. Joyce Alisharan
4. Christine Marin
5. Danny Salcedo
Danny Salcedo, our philanthropic world traveller, recently visited the Rotary Club in Tel Aviv. We have connections all over the world!
Our Rotary annual barbecue might mark the end of summer, but not the end of fun! Thanks to all the rotarians who brought appetizers and salads, to the Ghirra brothers for the butter chicken, to Newman's for the roast beef and to Larry for once again being such a gracious host! We're looking forward to an exciting fall! 
Chuck Keeling was our External Paul Harris Award winner in June and was unable to attend the celebration in his honour. Today we were pleased to be able to offer him the award in person. Thank you for all you have done for rotary, Chuck. Congratulations! 
Sandra Hass is the recipient of an additional Paul Harris pin for her generous donations to rotary. Thank you, Sandra! We were thrilled to welcome Al Sakai as our speaker last week. Al's message about caring and love rang true to us and we were inspired to continue to put relationships and service at the forefront of all we do. Thank you, Al!
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