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Volume 7 Issue 37 – May 28th, 2020

Hulalipreys“The Reflector”
District Governor
Eric Kaler“Making a Difference in our Local and Global Communities”

President
Alexander “Alex” Kanamu

The strength of our Club lies in its members

Zooming with RI President
Mark Daniel Maloney
Service Above Self – Making a Difference

May is Youth Service Month
Rotary Youth Exchange
Rotary Youth Exchange builds peace one
young person at a time.
Students learn a new language, discover anotherculture, and truly become global citizens. Exchanges forstudents ages 15-19 are sponsored by Rotary clubs inmore than 100 countries.
Through the Rotary Youth Exchange, RotaryInternational hopes to create a more interconnected
and understanding world. One of Rotary's primarygoals is promoting peace around the world, andthrough the Rotary Youth Exchange, it aims to make theworld a more peaceful place one exchange at a time.

BUILDING CONFIDENCEFirst outbound Rotary Youth Exchange
from Nepal

By Seema Tamang, Rotary Youth Exchange student from Kathmandu,Nepal

Seema Tamang, third from left, with other Rotary YouthExchange students

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Editor – PP Geoff Horvath

During the 2016-17 school year, I was thrilled to be
the first outbound exchange student from Nepal. Beingblind, I have to admit I was a bit scared at first, as
home life in the US was much different than in Nepal. I
was used to sleeping in the same room with my sisters
and with other girls in the dormitory at school. With myhost family, I had my own room. But it did not take longto adapt, and enjoy an amazing experience during
which I grew in many ways.
I stayed with my first host family, the Roses, during theschool year. My second host family, the Camruds,
included mom and dad and two younger host brothers.
Being in a large home was very different and exciting
as I got to explore every room and orient myself sothat I could move about safely and quickly. It didn’t
take me too long to be able to find everything by
myself. It seems funny now that when I first arrived I
asked my host-mom where the water bucket andpitcher was for flushing the toilet, like we do in Nepal!
Dish washing made easy
We always wash dishes by hand in Nepal and I had
never experienced a dishwasher before. However, I
quickly learned how to load and empty the dishwasher
to be of help to my hosts. Using the washer and dryer
was also a new experience for me. My host family put
Braille dots on the appliances so that I could learn how
to use them.
My advice to other exchange students is be prepared togain new ideas, grow your confidence and become more
independent.
I have made great improvements with my English skills
and I am now able to converse and make friends moreeasily. I have grown in my ability to adjust to different

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circumstances. I am also more comfortable speaking infront of large groups of people.
I had many amazing experiences. Sledding in thesnow, ice-skating, horseback riding, pop-music concertsand American holidays. One that particularly stands
out was my visit to the Bellevue, Washington Police
Department. On my birthday I was totally surprised tobe picked up at home by Captain Lisa and given a ridein a squad car to the station where I learned how thepolice department worked. I checked out a police
motorcycle, practiced self-defense on a rubber dummy,and got to go into a police holding cell.

Oli No Oli today

Outside D5K

Seema gets his face painted

No uniforms, two days off a week
With school, I was so surprised we did not have to wear
uniforms, that students get to choose their own classes,that we had to move from class to class after eachperiod, and that we got two days off each week (weonly get Saturday off in Nepal). Each teacher assigned
a fellow student to be my sighted-guide to help me
move from class to class which helped me make many
wonderful friends.

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RI President: Mark Daniel MaloneyDistrict: Eric Kaler
Asst. Dist. Govt: Sonya Mendez
Club President: Alex Kanamu
PP: Lilette Subedi
President Elect: Keoni Ahlo
Exec Secretary: Alison Kanamu
Recording Secretary: Jackie Barnes
Treasurer: Kate Butts
Sergeant-at-Arms: Dr. Carver Wilcox
Asst. Sergeant-at-Arms: AustinKanamu

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relievers or cough syrup due to legal constraints. Allthey could do was send people to the emergency room
if they looked extremely ill.

HEALING THOUSANDS-No Where to TurnAs thousands of refugees streamed intoBerlin, they strained the health caresystem. Rotarian and physician Pia
Skarabis-Querfeld spent the last three
years building a network of volunteer
doctors to help those in need.
By Rhea Wessel Produced by Andrew Chudzinski

On the nightly news and around her city, Pia SkarabisQuerfeld saw the refugees arriving in Berlin after
fleeing war, persecution, and poverty in their homecountries.
Wanting to help, she gathered a bag of clothes todonate and headed to a nearby gym filled withrefugees.
What began as a single act of charity eventually
evolved into an all-encompassing volunteer project:
Over the next three years, Skarabis-Querfeld would
build and run a network that, at peak times, would
include more than 100 volunteers helping thousands ofrefugees at community centers, tent camps, and othershelters across the city.
Today, her nonprofit, Medizin Hilft (Medicine Helps),
continues to treat patients with nowhere else to turn.
That day she went to the gym was a few days before
Christmas 2014. Skarabis-Querfeld had been busy
with work and preparing for the holidays. She waslooking forward to a much-needed break, and she
thought clothes for the refugees would be a kindgesture befitting the spirit of the season.

Dr. Pia Skarabis-Querfeld examining a patient

When she arrived at the gymnasium to drop off her
donation, Skarabis-Querfeld found sick children, mostof them untreated because hospitals in the area wereoverrun. Helpers were not allowed to give out pain

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Seeing this, and knowing about the treacherous
journeys the refugees had just made across land andsea, Skarabis-Querfeld, who is a medical doctor andRotarian, returned that same afternoon with medical
supplies and her husband, Uwe Querfeld, who is a
professor of pediatrics and a Rotarian.

Dr. Uwe Querfeld

The couple spent most of that holiday treating patientsin the gymnasium.
“The suffering of the people, their bitter fate, itwouldn’t let go of me,” says Skarabis-Querfeld.
‘You just don’t forget’In 2015, the German ministry in charge of refugees
received more than 1 million applications for asylum,straining the public health system.
“I had a young girl whose whole family was almost
beaten to death because they were Christians,” says
Skarabis-Querfeld, a member of the Rotary Club ofBerlin-Tiergarten. “The girl began to have epilepsy
after being beaten into a coma. I’m not used to seeing
these kinds of scars and burns.”
In another case, Skarabis-Querfeld treated a Syrian
girl named Saida who had fever and bronchitis. Whenthe examination was almost over, Skarabis-Querfeld
noticed Saida was limping. She coaxed Saida to takeoff her shoes and saw both feet were infected.

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“I had seen a lot of children with small shoes on. Some
had probably started walking in those shoes and wornthem for one year,” Skarabis-Querfeld says.
“The soles of both feet were infected. These are things
that you just don’t forget.”
After she treated Saida with antibiotics, the girl fromthe war-torn country took an interest in helping at theclinic when the doctor was in. She would wait at thedoor half an hour before Skarabis-Querfeld arrived
and delight in taking on small tasks, such as making
copies.
“Her biggest wish was to become a doctor,” SkarabisQuerfeld says. “I told her, ‘You’re a smart girl. You cando it.’”Hawaii Rotary YouthFoundation (HRYF)

HINoneNone“If you don't know where you are going, anyroad will get you there.” Lewis Carroll

HRYF is planning a Zoom celebration for all RotaryDistrict 5000 Top Club $5K Scholars as well as the two$10K scholarship winners. The event is scheduled forJuly 18th. More information will be provided later.
Recognitions for the week ending May 31st, 2020:
PP Bob Pang contributed $200 to HRYF! Thanks, Bob,for your generous contribution!

Lewis Carroll

Rene Mansho celebrated her birthday, May 28th!
Happy B-day Rene!

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen
name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children'sfiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland andits sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for
his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.

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ROTARY MINUTE
Rotary Facts
Did you know that the very first Rotary Club in1905 had no dues? Instead, they agreed that all club
expenses would be paid from $.50 fines. In today's
dollar, that fine would be just over $13. By 1915
Rotary International was on the verge of bankruptcy
and its then President, Frank Mulholland, suggested
every Rotarian contribute $1 (just over $24 today),and hence the concept of annual dues was born. That
$1 raised enough funds to make the organization
whole, and thanks to the institution of dues RI has not
suffered financially since.

Received from PP Bob Pang and Family

May 28 – Hawaii Blood Bank blood drive – Tentative– Dot’s parking lot. If interested in giving blood, you
can sign up utilizing Blood Bank Hawaii’s eDonor
program. You have three options. The most direct
option is to go to www.BBHdonor.org/SC andregister. These two options give you more information
and will allow you to sign up. These two links are,www.BBH.org and www.BBHdonor.org. May becancelled.

No announcements@*#$! Fines @*#$!

No fines

Rabindranath Tagore"I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy." –Rabindranath Tagore

May 14 – TBD

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1.
2.

What is the name our Funny Bone?
What's a bone in your body that you can neverbreak?

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Zooming with RI President, MarkDaniel Maloney

Modern technology allowed District 5000 to enjoy facetime with RI President mark Daniel Maloney, hosted by
RC of East Hawai’i. Our Club was well represented
with ten of our sixteen members participating. Inaddition to our 10 members, there were about 65+ (34 Zoom screens with 50 participants on each) Rotarians
from all islands within District 5000 participated in thisfirst-time ever Zoom meeting.
PE Keoni Ahlo commented, “Our club was well
represented when Rotary District 5000 came together
in force to talk story with Rotary International
President, Mark Maloney today--we even caught him‘throwing da shaka’! What a great turnout. OurRCWW was represented well with many of ourmembers joining in by Zoom. If you haven't been to a
Rotary meeting yet or it's been a while since, this may
be the perfect time to check us out. Learn more about
what Rotary is all about and how we're making a
HUGE impact worldwide. Interested? Respond below
or IM us and we'll send you a Zoom invite. Don't watch
from the sidelines, GET INVOLVED! Aloha!”
The meeting covered many topics, including a message
from RI President Mark, Chat questions submitted byparticipants, relayed to RI President Mark, by District
Governor Elect (DGE), Naomi Masuno, and an open
mike Thursday session.
RI President Mark was excited about the upcoming
virtual RI International Convention June 20-26, 2020.
This is an extended convention to cover all topics,
breakout sessions, and General Sessions. There will be
two General Sessions, Saturday and Sunday, Jun 20and 21.

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There is a significant time difference to meet global
Rotarians, so each day will start at 3:00 am HST! But,
for those who don’t like worms, all sessions will berecorded to be watched at a decent hour! Sessions will
be staggered to meet local times around the globe
minimizing drastic time differences. Example schedule:
Saturday, 20 June
General Session 1: Together, We Connect
08:00-09:15 in Chicago, USA (UTC-5)
14:00-15:15 in Lagos, Nigeria, and London, England(UTC+1)
21:00-22:15 in Taipei, Taiwan (UTC+8)
Featured Breakout Sessions
Monday – Friday, 22- 26 June
Each day, one breakout session will be offered at eachof the following times*:
8:00 – 9:00 Chicago Time (UTC-5)
12:00 – 13:00 Chicago Time (UTC-5)
18:00 – 19:00 Chicago Time (UTC-5)
Hawaii will be featured during the convention, since theconvention was scheduled to be hosted by District
5000. Is there a way of fast-tracking District 5000
having the conference in the next couple of years?
Possible, but not likely. But, one can never tell what theRI Board may agree to! Included in all the programs
will be a virtual House of Friendship and a total of 50
breakout sessions, which may run into July.
The goal of this vestural convention is to make itmeaningful and fun for all those participating.
RI President Mark’s goal is to break the attendance
record from the 2003-04 RI Convention hosted in
Osaka Japan, attended by more than 45,381
Rotarians! This goal may be obtainable since it will bein the virtual world.

RI President Mark told us, that since the start of thepandemic, some clubs switched to virtual meetings
immediately. One week in-person meetings, the next
Zoom or equivalent. Some clubs were a little slower,
and some clubs haven’t met at all since the start of thepandemic. We need to encourage members to makean effort to meet. As Mark said, you shouldn’t beconcerned with the participants listed in the Zoom
participant panel, but those whose names are not there!
We need to reach out to these members, because
without total member participation, we will be limited

in making a difference in our communities, andglobally. “Our greatest service in the world is to meet.”
We should take advantage of the virtual tools andapplications we have to continue meeting until we canresume in-person meetings.
Someone asked a question regarding pandemic
support. RI President Mark said that that should be at
the club and district level. RI will assist in any way theycan. How will this affect our PolioPlus program? We stillneed to meet the matching grants of the Gates
Foundation to rid the world of polio (at least $50M tomatch). As much as Rotary International, Districts andClubs want to help, “Rotary cannot be all thing to allpeople. Some causes will not be supported. For
Rotarians, that is a hard pill to swallow, but we must do
the best we can with what we have and can do.
Regarding supporting the pandemic, Rotary clubs anddistricts are meeting the challenges in many ways. A
majority of Rotarians redirected their refunds from theRI Convention to the pandemic cause through theRotary Disaster Response Fund.

Your gift to the Rotary Disaster Respond Fund helps
Rotary clubs provide disaster recovery and support
rebuilding efforts, including projects related to COVID19. Contributions are combined into one fund andmade available through Rotary Disaster ResponseGrants; they cannot be directed to a specific disaster.

Ace of Hearts

Aug 6, 2020 12:00 PM
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Answer to the Quiz of the Week.
No Ace of Hearts today!
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1. The ulnar nerve.
2. The Funny Bone
Have you ever hit the inside of your elbow in just theright spot and felt a tingling or prickly kind of dull
pain? That's your funny bone! It doesn't really hurt asmuch as it feels weird. The "funny bone" got its
nickname because of that funny feeling you get after
you hit it.
But your funny bone isn't actually a bone at all. Running
down the inside part of your elbow is a nerve called
the ulnar nerve. The ulnar nerve lets your brain know
about feelings in your fourth and fifth fingers. It's also

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one of the nerves that controls some movement of yourhand.

You get that funny feeling when the ulnar nerve isbumped against the humerus (say: HYOO-muh-rus),
the long bone that starts at your elbow and goes up to
your shoulder. Tapping your funny bone doesn't do any
damage to your elbow, arm, or ulnar nerve. But it sure
feels strange!
People sometimes mention the funny bone when theytalk about their sense of humor. Maybe you've heard
someone say that something "really tickled my funnybone." https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/funny-bone.html(Go to our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/96286297
3749303/ to view all pictures.)
Zoom meeting photos by PE Keoni Ahlo and PP Geoff Horvath

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