Knights Pendragon recently handed Community Service Awards to Tiber Construction, Wall ‘n All Colour Coatings CC, Paint Trade Edenvale and Tintinger & Tsholingo Water Proofing Specialists as an expression of the club's sincere gratitude for these donors contributions to repairing the leaking roofs and painting the Edenvale Care Centre & Hospice buildings.
On learning that leaking roofs had resulted in damaged ceilings, peeling paint, mould and damp in the wards which created an unhe...
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Knights Assist The Compassionate Friends
By Ron McCormick
The Compassionate Friends (TFC) is a non-denominational, self-help, non-profit organisation that is funded largely from donations. The mission of TFC is to offer friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents following the loss of a child. Monthly support meetings are held and regular counselling is also available. In addition, there is a separate support group for fathers which is normally conducted online.
TCF offers friendship a...
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Our Rotary DG Visit
Article by Rotarian Ron Smith
Hosting the new Rotary District Governor Koekie Makunyane-Quashie, was not something, if we are truthful, we were looking forward to. Never mind taking Koekie to two projects which, in essence, are poles apart, and literally have nothing in common except under the banner of Rotary our desire to improve the lot of the less fortunate.
On her arrival at GFH things took on a different slant and we knew we were dealing with a leader who understood the lot of t...
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UK Spectacle frames for Lions Operation Brightsight
Rotarian Alton Werrett delivers spectacle frames donated by UK supporters to Kirsty-Anne Mackenzie and Angie Tshabalala of Lions Operation BrightSight.
The volunteer organisation Lions International’s Operation BrightSight has been providing corrective spectacles to the less privileged throughout Southern Africa since 1978. The Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon recently embarked on a co-operative project to collect second-hand spectacle frames for re-use by Operation BrightSight in this essen...
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5 REASONS WHY WE MUST ERADICATE POLIO
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At the end of the 1980s, more than 350,000 children were paralyzed by polio every year. Today, Rotary and its partners have reduced the incidence of polio by 99.9 percent. However, until we see the last of the poliovirus, eradication efforts need additional funding to IMMUNIZE more than 400 million children against polio every year for polio eradication (at a cost of $150 million pe...
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Knights and Alberton Lions Donate Wheelchair
Minnie in her new wheelchair with Jiri Uchytil and fellow Alberton Lions Club member.
Knights Pendragon recently combined their efforts with the Alberton Lions Club, to facilitate the provision of a much needed wheelchair to, Minnie Struwig, a resident of the Annie Burger Retirement Village in Crown Gardens, Johannesburg. This wheelchair will greatly improve Minnie’s mobility and access to facilities close to her residential unit.
Few South Africans are aware of the more than 3 million el...
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Dischem Ride For Sight Marshalling
A peloton of cyclists stretching back into the distance as it passes a marshalling point.
A cool, clear Summer's morning greeted the members of Knights Pendragon for their annual marshalling effort in support of Retina SA's fundraiser, the Dischem Ride for Sight cycle race. Manning 6 intersections of the cycle route alongside EMPD officers to direct the waves of cyclists safely down the route and to report any accidents, first aid needs or other emergencies being the order of the day.
Re...
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Pizza Oven for Legae la Nnete
Ron Smith and Sergio test the new pizza oven
. Knights Pendragon recently tested the new pizza oven installed for the men resident at Legae la Nnete. Built on the side of Legae's new covered meeting and recreation facility on the Muldersdrift located farm, Rotarians treated the some 30 residents present to a pizza lunch. Gordon Dewar, manager of Legae la Nnete explained that the intention of the pizza oven is to provide the residents with a creative diversion to be used on special occasio...
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