Report of Regular Meeting January 2005
Yasuhiro Kuroiwa, Secretary
The first regular meeting in 2005 was opened in the appointed time with the chime of the President attended by Mr. Fujii, RD of the Japan-East Region, and Mr. Nagasawa, our guest, like the last time. After Y's song and principles, Mr. Chino, who attended 5 months later, read the Bible and prayed. After the introduction of guests and visitors, Mr. Fujii, RD, did a speech as a greeting of the new year: he appreciated our daily cooperation, talked about Mr. Kensuki Suzuki, who passed away on January 2nd, requested us the cooperation of the fund for the Sumatra offing earthquake. Next, Mr. Yamamoto, President, said that he would have young feelings, promote the advance of club and sustain to the 75th anniversary. After that, we listend the reports of the convention of the Toshin District of the next term, the donation of BF cash, the 50th anniversary of the Taipei Club, the convention of association between the Japan-East Region and the Japan-West Region and the association with our DBC. We gathered the donation for the Sumatra offing earthquake.
After the dinner, Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary, we have the transference ceremony of Ms. Natsuko Okitsu, secretary of the Tokyo YMCA taking charge of the Tokyo Club. Next, BF hour: Mr. Shoji reported about the present situation of the BF fund. After that, we listened the speech of Mr. Shigehiro Hayashi(Tokyo Cosmos Club), our guest speeker of January. He talked about his experience of 4 weeks in Africa on the title: "the citizen life in Africa(food, clothing and shelter)", where he traveled as BF representative. The main countries which he visited are Nigeria and Ghana on the west seashore (Northwestern Africa Area). There are many languages of every tribes and the standard language is English. The democratic level is a development step. There is no network between the west seashore and Japan. The progress of the democratization of Ghana depends on the nonviolence of Nkrumah who was called Gandhi in Africa. There is a city YMCA in either countries; they do the AIDS crusade movement. He couldn't do home-stay only in 2 days. The average incomes is one dollar one day about 1/100 of Japan. He will send the old personal computers. His very interesting story moved us. Following Bangladesh Fund the Smile Fine, we enjoyed a "handsel" auction. The President passed \27,100 of donation for the Sumatra offing earthquake to Mr. Fujii, RD and closed the meeting.