WORLD PEACE COMMITTEE A 10 minute overview of the World Peace Committee, its objectives, and typical club Peace Projects by PP Derrick Willcock.

World Peace In Action - Summary S.A.’s Most Serious & Urgent Problems What Can You Do? What Did District 9300 Do? Typical Club Projects Personal Disaster Management Project Peace Officer Peace Web page.

S.A.’s Most Serious & Urgent Problems What is the most serious & urgent problem facing you, your family & your community? It’s not AIDS, Poverty, Unemployment, etc. It’s the chance of you or a member of your family or community being killed or maimed by criminals or road accidents! What are you or your fellow Rotarians actually doing about it?.

What Can You Do? Get involved in Pro-active Peace Projects, such as :- Assisting the Criminal Justice System CCTV Crime Monitoring projects Assisting Business Against Crime (BAC) Helping communities with Road Closures Participating in the Personal Disaster Management project for your community.

What Can You Do? Get Involved in Re-active Projects, such as Assisting the SAPS by means of Community Police Forums (CPF) Assisting Emergency Services, which include Fire, Ambulance, Metro Police Creating or assisting with Victim Support facilities such as trauma counseling.

What Did District 9300 Do? District constituted the World Peace Committee, whose objectives are :- To get clubs to tackle projects aimed to reduce trauma currently faced by our communities due to crime and accidents To act as a communication link between Peace organisations and Rotary clubs To arrange Peace workshops & training and award a prize for the best club project.

Typical Club Projects Morningside’s CPF; also providing additional offices and forecourt for the SAPS; painting existing offices for SAPS Benoni’s Toy Rescue & Toy Box project for the Modderbee Prison and Children’s Court in Benoni Aurora's Witness Protection facility at Benoni’s Central Police Station, plus their Child Friendly rooms at the Court.

Typical Club Projects Knights Pendragon’s conversion of a charge office to a Client Reception area; upgrading visitors rooms for prisoners, donation of a PC to the Police Riverside’s “Comfort Cops” project - basic psychological & trauma training to SAPS staff Rosebank’s Security Report project on the Randburg Magistrates Court.

Typical Club Projects Sandton’s Driver Instruction project to SAPS staff; plus their SAPS literacy project Vereeniging’s Villa Lubet home for abandoned, abused or neglected children + their Child Protection Unit support project Standerton’s Child Accident Victim Teddy Bear (Care Bear) project.

Personal Disaster Management Project Parliament approved a Disaster Management Bill in January for Councils - our project is the Domestic equivalent The main idea is to be prepared for any disaster which may befall you or your family so that you can re-act quickly and sensibly, and so possibly save lives and/or property.

Personal Disaster Management Project It consists of all homes and businesses having immediate access to critical telephone numbers, which fall into the following:- General Information - Emergency Services, hospitals, SAPS, Water, Electricity Personal Information - ID numbers, Medical Aid numbers, allergies, health problems, present medication.

Personal Disaster Management Project Health support numbers - doctor, dentist, heart specialist Contact numbers of family, friends & neighbours Children’s school numbers.

Peace Officer To function well, we need each and every President to appoint a “Peace Officer”, and to convey that Rotarian’s details to us as soon as possible The Officer’s main function is liaison. District meetings of the Peace Officers are not onerous - only a few times per year Just remember - Peace projects could save your life!.

Peace Web Page We have an active Web page at :- Alternatively, you will be able to find us in the District Directory We are always on the lookout for new blood in the District World Peace Committee - if this is your scene, please contact us.

Thank You For Your Attention! That’s all Folks! Any Questions?