The Rotary Club of Stockholm International’s Ron Pavellas Award for Community Service is a SEK 10 000 personal stipendium awarded to an individual who has significantly contributed to the betterment of their neighborhood/community/peer group and/or has promoted integration of people in the Swedish community. To recognize and support the role of immigrants in the community, eligible recipients must be immigrants to Sweden themselves or the child of an immigrant. Swedish citizenship is also required.
This award, funded by the Rotary Club of Stockholm International (RCSI), in honor of its founder, is in support of the vision of Rotary International which is to create a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities and in ourselves. Rotary works around the world to provide community service, to encourage high ethical standards and to help build goodwill and peace in the world.
Details
Award: The Award is a personal stipend of 10 000 SEK.
Eligibility: Candidates can be either a person born in another country or a child of such a person – in either case they must be a Swedish citizen. There is no requirement for when the person became a citizen. The candidate must also be a resident of the Stockholm Region.
Deadline: 2 May 2023
Nominations: Must be received in the specified form by the date above and can be in English or Swedish. Submit your completed nomination form HERE to SIRCronpavellasaward@gmail.com or use this link.
Nominators: Must be a member of a Rotary Club.
Nominees: May not be members of a Rotary or Rotaract Club.
There is no restriction on the familial relatedness or ages of nominators and nominees. No person may receive the award more than once.
Awards ceremony: Will be held at RCSI’s 20th anniversary event on Thursday 25 May 2023. The winning nominee will be notified in advance of that date.
The awardee must consent to any publicity RCSI may conduct regarding the award.
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In March 2022 The Rotary Club of Stockholm International board approved a proposal put forward by the club’s service projects committee for the club to join the Lendwithcare (LWC) micro financing programme run by CARE® International.
By joining the LWC programme RCSI and other organisations/individuals are able to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs and entrepreneur groups in several low-income countries. The entrepreneurs in the LWC programme and their investment plans have been previously vetted and approved by established micro financing institutions in their respective countries. The micro financing institutions in the LWC programme have also been carefully selected by CARE®.
We’ve now been part of the LWC micro financing programme for 6 months and it’s going really well. We’ve already lent a total of 510 GBP to 16 entrepreneurs in 7 low income countries (Pakistan, Thailand, Malawi, Zambia, Vietnam, Rwanda and The Philippines). The loans RCSI and other lenders have made to these entrepreneurs have helped 28 other entrepreneurs and indirectly 274 family members. They have also helped create 7 new jobs.
The entrepreneurs we have loaned to so far have started repaying us according to agreed up-front repayment installment plans. Already we have received sufficient repayments into our LWC account to allow us to make further loans to other entrepreneurs in the LWC programme. This we will continue to do as the project proceeds.
Here are some photos of the entrepreneurs we have helped so far.
Entrepreneur Spotlight
Here’s one example of an entrepreneur in The Philippines we’ve lent money to.
Madelaine in The Philippines
RCSI was one of the 87 organizations/individuals that made a micro loan to Madelaine. The total amount she requested was GBP 2483 and the repayment term agreed is 12 months.
Rotary Focus Area:- Economic and community development
Madeleine is a 29-year-old woman entrepreneur. She lives with her partner called Jonhilou Monin. They have three children aged 6, 8 and 9 years old. All of them attend the local school found in Cebu province. To earn a daily income the couple have been running a restaurant for more than a year now.
Madeleine and her partner manage a restaurant for over a year now. Their daily income helps them to deal with their daily needs. Their restaurant is found near a mall and commercial buildings. It is open daily from 5 in the morning and closes at 8 in the evening. Her partner is in charge of cooking their daily dish to sell while Madeleine helps in preparing the ingredients. They now employ three female workers who helps in attending their customers’ orders, washing dishes, and cleaning the dining area. Madeleine received and repaid her first loan from Lendwithcare last year. Thanks to the loan, her business has improved, and made changes to their restaurant to have more space to dine inside. She said her daily income is above 10,000 pesos (£149.72).
On 8th of July last year, Madeleine opened her second outlet. With the help of the loan, the couple will continue to work hard to run their businesses and make sure to always implement food safety to ensure the safety of their daily consumers.
We are proud to support Shelterbox in its response to the flooding in Pakistan. Over the past month Pakistan has suffered from heavier than usual monsoon rains and rapid glacial melting, resulting in flooding of a third of the country. The disaster has affected more than 33 million people with about one million houses damaged or destroyed, leaving thousands with nowhere to live.
Our club is assisting by contributing SEK5000 to Shelterbox from our emergency fund. Shelterbox is providing lifesaving aid for families by sending aid boxes that include tents, water filters and carriers, mosquito nets and solar lights. Shelterbox has been Rotary’s official partner for emergency disaster relief since 2012.
On 23rd May 2022 RCSI members met to witness the formal handover of club presidency from Anthony Pearce to Hunter Hustus.
Before the formal presidential handover took place we recognised our achievements as a club for the year along with those members who have made significant contributions to our club’s goals in all Avenues of Service.
It was a changing year as we flipped back and forth between meeting formats due to the demands of the pandemic, but we remained inspired by the words of ShehkaMehta, President of Rotary International who declared the motto of the year to be Serve to Change Lives. And serve we did.
As International Service we have raised and donated around 50,000 kr for causes ranging from Nepali girls, malnourished Indonesian children, polio eradication and assistance to the emergencies in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We joined the LendwithCare programme run by Care International where we began making small loans to entrepreneurs in low income countries and activated a project supporting women’s economic development in Guatemala with our partner clubs in the International Project Group with support from the Rotary Foundation’s Global Grant Fund.
Under Youth Service we were equally active, organising a virtual youth exchange between Brazil and Swedish youth with multiple online meetings building links of culture and friendship between these two countries which will last for many years. We also ran an online seminar on women and young entrepreneurship under the AlexEurope program. In preparation for next year for the first time we are sponsoring two high school students under the Rotary Youth Exchange program, along with finding and sponsoring a young person to participate in the Europe4Europe program.
We met and farewelled our two outgoing RYE students, Fanny and Leopoldine, before their travels to USA and Brazil.
In the field of Vocational and Community Service we were pleased to award the club’s Ron Pavellas Award for Community Service to Deqa Abukar and Adnan Yousuf recognising their commitment to the cause of integration through entrepreneuship in the Swedish community. We also have five members actively participating in individual mentorship programs and are working to support them and encourage more.
Recognising their contributions to our club during the year, Avenues of Service Awards were presented to: Benedetta Pelosi (Youth), Suat Sevencan (Club), Ulrika Wennberg (Community), Leopold Luna Ilag (International and Anders Kinding (Vocational). In recognition of his particular service through the year running the club’s dynamic youth service program, the club’s Per Hellsten Service Above Self Award along with a Paul Harris Fellowship recognition was granted to Jan Lindquist.
We also said farewell to one of our most longstanding members Anders Kinding who is moving to a new city and presented him with an honorary membership of the club in recognition of his service for the last almost 20 years. It was also a pleasure to present club member Lydia Banderby with her five sapphire Paul Harris Fellowship recognition which was granted to her by our district in acknowledgement of her distinguished service to district 2350.
Following the review of our achievements in 2021-2022 club President 21/22 Anthony Pearce handed over the chain of office to President 22/23 Hunter Hustus.
Hunter introduced the club’s new Board, Alley Hameedi (President Elect), Omar Shafqat (Vice President), Federica Grosso (Secretary), Kamrul Hasan (Treasurer), and Anthony Pearce (Immediate Past President). He then went on to outline the club goals for the coming year the first of which is to build on the successes of the previous year under Anthony’s leadership by sustaining strong international projects, mentoring programs, and youth activities. After two-years of limited ability to raise funds or meet in person, the new Board will prioritize the strengthening of fellowship and friendship, and as one of the members said, “have fun.” Another priority will be to strengthen club structures and encourage all members to take even small part-time roles to ensure success of the club’s projects.
The Rotary Club of Stockholm International is proud to announce that Deqa Abukar and Adnan Yousuf are the winners of the club’s Ron Pavellas Award for Community Service for 2022.
The recipients are the co-founders of BLING, started in 2014 as a reaction to entrepreneurial segregation and as an attempt to drive positive societal change while counteracting exclusion through good leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation. BLING, based in Kista, offers free business and innovation consulting, seminars IT support workshops and more for those who want to start, run and develop companies or ideas. BLING trains leaders who in turn train new leaders. The initaitve has become an integral part of the professional mentoring program of the Rotary district 2350.
Following BLING’s success, Deqa and Adnan have gone on to create new initiatives to extend BLING’s effectiveness and its penetration to those in need.
Womenisa, established in 2018, is a women’s network within BLING focused on networking, creating role models and supporting further development for women.
Bridge is a physical place to support entrepreneurs to meet and interact in Kista Galleria and soon to open in Gottsunda Centrum, Uppsala.
Shift is a start-up training and investment program giving personal coaching to entrepreneurs in the lead up to venture capital pitches.
För-orten is a competition where business proposals are submitted and reviewed. The best ideas compete for an SEK 500 000 award.
BLING and its associated initiatives have become an important movement in the northern suburbs of Stockholm in support of integration and entrepreneurship. Our club is pleased to recognize the role of its founders and to support them in their ongoing efforts.
The Ron Pavellas Award for Community Service was established by the Rotary Club of Stockholm International in honour of its founder to support Rotary’s vision of a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change, across the global, in our communities and within ourselves. The award recognizes individuals who have significantly contributed to the betterment of their community and promoted integration of newcomers to Sweden.
Fellowship, Fund-raising and Fun. That’s what it was all about when RCSI hosted 55 club members and guests at their Trivia Quiz Night event at Hotel Hellsten on Thursday 19th May.
The night was filled with fun, laughter, challenging questions but most importantly it provided the opportunity for our members, fellow rotarians from other clubs and guests to enjoy each other’s company.
We’d like to thank all who participated in the event, those who were involved in setting it up and others who supported the event by making a donation to our club’s service projects fund. A special thank you goes to Anja Hyde who managed to put on a superb buffet for participants at less tha 40 SEK per person! This was one of the reasons we exceeded our fund-raising goal for the event and were able to add 8500 SEK to our service projects fund.
The winners of what was a closely contested trivia quiz was the team from Rotary Strand Stockholm. Congratulations to you all. Enjoy the Moët.
In March 2022 The Rotary Club of Stockholm International board approved a proposal put forward by the club’s service projects committee for the club to join the Lendwithcare (LWC) micro financing programme run by CARE® International.
By joining the LWC programme RCSI and other organisations/individuals are able to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs and entrepreneur groups in several low-income countries. The entrepreneurs in the LWC programme and their investment plans have been previously vetted and approved by established micro financing institutions in their respective countries. The micro financing institutions in the LWC programme have also been carefully selected by CARE®.
As of the end of April we’ve made loans to 5 different entrepreneurs/entrepreneur groups living in 5 low-income countries (Pakistan, Thailand, Malawi, Zambia and Vietnam). We plan to make further loans to other entrepreneurs over the next few months. Further on and as entrepreneurs begin to repay their loans to us we will make new loans to other entrepreneurs in the LWC programme.
The loans RCSI has made so far has helped 13 entrepreneurs and indirectly 60 family members.
Entrepreneur Spotlight
Here’s one example of one entrepreneur group in Malawi that we’ve lent money to.
The Tathandizika Group in Malawi
RCSI was one of the organisations that made a micro loan to this Group. The total amount they requested was GBP 2,919 and the repayment term agreed is 6 months.
Rotary Focus Area:- Economic and Community Development
The members of this group were requesting their second loan from their local partner MLF Malawi to buy more stock for their small businesses. Memory is the focused member of this group. She is 46 years old. She is a divorced lady who supports 4 children and 2 orphans. Memory has been selling groceries for 13 years. Her income generating activity has made her financially independent and the proceeds she earns goes towards providing her family with basic necessities. Memory will use her portion of the group loan to purchase groceries to sell. The other members of this group will purchase snacks, vegetables and clothes. The income from her small enterprise is helping Memory to pay the school fees for her children and she has bought two motorbikes.
Following a successful fundraising effort by our clubs in 2017 we were able to inject an additional SEK 66,000 into the program that provides small scale businesses with training and help with business planning, coaching and bookkeeping. The program also provides small loans (“ActionInvest”) to help businesses get off the ground and expand. Rotary’s contribution made it possible for ACTION10 to upscale the program and currently there are 150 women entrepreneurs enrolled.
The sustainability is secured with the interest paid by the entrepreneurs on the ActionInvest loans. The 10% interest charges collected goes towards covering the cost for local advisors, business coaches and auditors. Although the loans are issued on an individual entrepreneur basis, repayments are secured by forming small groups of entrepreneurs that back each other up. This approach has proven to be extremely successful and in 2021 100% of the loans issued in that year were paid back. This means that the money paid back can now be used to provide loans to further entrepreneurs.
Here’s a link to the post we made in 2018 that provides more detail of the project and its aim.
Rotary Clubs behind this project are:- our own club RC Stockholm International, RC Stockholm Ladugårdslandet, RC Stockholm-Sergel, and Rotaract Djurgården.
The Rotary Club of Stockholm International’s Ron Pavellas Award for Community Service is a SEK 10 000 personal stipendium awarded to an individual who has significantly contributed to the betterment of their neighborhood/community/peer group and/or has promoted integration of people in the Swedish community. To recognize and support the role of immigrants in the community, eligible recipients must be immigrants to Sweden themselves or the child of an immigrant. Swedish citizenship is also required.
This award, funded by the Rotary Club of Stockholm International (RCSI), in honor of its founder, is in support of the vision of Rotary International which is to create a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities and in ourselves. Rotary works around the world to provide community service, to encourage high ethical standards and to help build goodwill and peace in the world.
Details
Award: The Award is a personal stipend of 10 000 SEK.
Eligibility: Candidates can be either a person born in another country or a child of such a person – in either case they must be a Swedish citizen. There is no requirement for when the person became a citizen. The candidate must also be a resident of the Stockholm Region.
Deadline: 9 May 2022
Nominations: Must be received in the specified form by the date above and can be in English or Swedish. Submit your completed nomination form HERE to SIRCronpavellasaward@gmail.com or use this link.
Nominators: Must be a member of a Rotary Club.
Nominees: May not be members of a Rotary or Rotaract Club.
There is no restriction on the familial relatedness or ages of nominators and nominees. No person may receive the award more than once.
Awards ceremony: Will be held on Thursday 9 June 2022. The winning nominee will be notified in advance of that date.
The awardee must consent to any publicity RCSI may conduct regarding the award.
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