Auckland Deaf Society Inc

Hi All Members, 

Lovely to see all of the spring blossoms a reminder that summer is on its way and also as the seasons change so do things around us.

The economy is getting tougher out there. There are now 26000 not for profit organisations like the ADS who apply for the same rounds of funding. We are working in the office to ensure that we have a secure future regardless to what is happening in the economy. Tough times often call for tough measures, people are still complaining about the $30.00 a year annual membership. Please be mindful that the world does not hand out things on a plate for us! There needs to be a measure of self responsibility. This can be helpful in small ways also like the offering of volunteering when we need to and not complaining about the $30.00 per year membership fee. That is a small price to pay for a club such as this where you can come and relax and identify with our culture and our language.

On that note, on website you will see photos of the Deaf youth winner Losa Kaumatule who won the restaurant voucher for volunteering at our street appeal we had organised as a thank you. Her restaurant of choice was Denny’s and she took along 4 of her family members and had a great time. Wonderful to see our youth and our young working together with our Senior Citizens. See photo’s. Such wonderful mentoring for our future people of this club. The street appeal was a wonderful catalyst to bring this together.

The winter quiz was another success thanks to Greg Lessing and Julie-Anne Taylor who worked hard to get all of the questions together for it and I enjoyed partaking with my team and were fortunate enough to win it. Victoria Skorikova was kind enough to take photo’s but for some reason has not emailed them to us so there are no photo’s of this successful occasion. Hope we will see them in the next month’s issue.

Fantastic addition to our fun nights up in the clubrooms with the table tennis, so all of you who would like a challenge come on up on Friday nights and enjoy a game.

In closing and in keeping with the overall topic of my report this month, as far as the state of the economy and how it is affecting our club, I am hoping to attend along with my PA Trisha a Not for Profit Summit in Wellington next month so we can keep abreast with the changes.

Look forward to seeing you all at the up and coming events that SSR and our ADS Youth have planned in the coming months.

Handwave

Roger