Rotaract
Conferences

On December 3-5 1999 in Dnipropetrovsk a conference of Rotary and Rotaract of Ukraine, Belorus and Poland took place. Poland was represented by 2000/2001 Governor-elect for D-2230, the first D-2230 Governor and others. The main issues discussed during this event concerned the unification of Ukraine, Belarus and Poland into one District 2230. The ways of joint work of the three countries in the united district were outlined.

Rotaractors from Kiev, Lviv, Kharkiv, Ternopil, Simferopol, Rivne and an initiative group from Dnipropetrovsk shared their experience and discussed the ways of improving Rotaract work in the coming year. At the first plenary session the Rotaractors introduced themselves and their clubs, discussed issuing the Rotaract Newsletter, elected candidates to the joint Rotaract District committee. During the second plenary session Mr.Igor Homyakov - secretary of Alushta Rotary Club, Rotaract, Interact and youth coordinator in the Ukrainian Coordinating Committee, Mr.Riszard Kashuba-Kszepitsky - D-2230 Governor-elect, and Bogdan Kurowsky - first Governor of D-2230. The Rotaractors had an opportunity to ask different questions regarding the cooperative work of our countries in the future.

At the wrap-up meeting as a result of a number of discussions and an open ballot it was decided -

1. To include Tamila Karpyk (RTC Ternopil) into D-2230 Rotaract Committee - Ukrainian RTC Representative and vice-DRR, Ivan Vasianovych (RTC Kiev) - ERIC representative and information coordinator, Leeka Parra (RTC Kiev) - Ukrainian new clubs coordinator.

The decisions are effective on July 1, 2000.

2. To introduce an annual fee of US $ 10 from each Rotaract club in Ukraine to the D-2230 Rotaract Committee.

Ivan Vasianovych is responsible for collecting the fees till 1 June 2000.

3. To put Andriy Ivanets (RTC Kharkiv) in charge of publishing Rotaract Newsletter until 1 July 2000.
4. To contact Polish and Belorussian Rotaractors with a proposal to publish District Rotaract Newsletter in English (responsible - Tamila Karpyk).
5. To put in charge RTC's Lviv and Kiev to complete the translation of the Rotaract Handbook into Ukrainian and Russian and contact D-2230 and Rotary Int'l Directorate about financing the publishing the Handbook as an Rotary Int'l information source (responsible - Marta Homyak, Ivan Vasianovych, Tamila Karpyk).

6. To come to an agreement about the place and date of the joint Ukrainian, Polish and Belorussian Conference (responsible - Tamila Karpyk, Marta Homyak).

7. To assist Ukrainian Rotaractors to participate in Matching Grants Projects Fair that will take place in Kelce, Poland, in May 2000 (see info in Rotaract Newsletter # 1 "Together")(responsible - Tamila Karpyk).

8. To create a Rotaract Club in Dnipropetrovsk and send the necessary registration documents to Rotary Int'l (responsible - Irina Bulavina, Tamila Karpyk).

9. To express thanks to RTC's Simferopol, Kiev-Pechersk, Rotary Club Simferopol and in particular to Mykola Steblyanko, president of RTC Simferopol, and Andriy Ivanets, member of RTC Kharkiv, for publishing the first two issues of the Ukrainian Rotaract Newsletter.

At the joint wrap-up meeting of Rotary and Rotaract the work conducted by Ukrainian Rotaract and the minutes of the Ukrainian Rotaract Meeting were presented .

Later that night all enjoyed a good time in the company of old and new friends in Rotary and Rotaract, tasting the delicacies of the Fish restaurant of Dnipropetrovsk Hotel and dancing into the rhythms of the live music and thanking Rotary club and Initiative group of the city of Dnipropetrovsk for wonderfully organizing the conference.

The most important is that the decisions made at the Conference were put into effect by all of us. So, I wish everyone fruitful work and new accomplishments.