Charity auction  of ‘Red Roses by Sarina’ 

Project title: Charity auction (Dutch charity auction) of ‘Red Roses by Sarina’ achieved SG$20,000!
 
Time & Date: 7pm to 9.30pm, 5th September 2018
 
Type of meeting: 2nd evening meeting, instead of lunch meeting, of the Rotary Year 2018-19
 
On the 5th September 2018, at our 2nd evening meeting of this Rotary year, we conducted a Dutch auction of a painting called ‘Red Roses’. After more than 50 bids from 20 bidders (Rotarians and guests), we raised an encouraging amount of $18,000. PP Mansoor Hassanbhai emerged to be the final bidder and winner of the beautiful ‘Red Roses’.
Past President Rotarian Mansoor Hassanbhai (Final bidder and winner of ‘Red Roses by Sarina’) and President Rotarian Mark Wang
‘Red Roses’ was painted by a very talented Mouth Artist, Sarina, from Bhakti Luhur Orphanage in Malang, Indonesia. This painting was presented to Her Excellency President Halimah Yacob to mark her inauguration as the 8th President of the Republic of Singapore. She very kindly autographed and re-donated the painting back to our Club to raise funds for charity purpose. As agreed with Her Excellency President Halimah, the funds raised will be shared equally by Club Heal (Singapore) and Bhakti Luhur Orphanage (Malang, Indonesia).
 
Club HEAL (Hope, Empowerment, Acceptance & Love) aims to assist and empower persons with mental health issues to regain confidence in themselves and others in their journey towards community reintegration.
 
Honourable Member Rotarian Mohan Vaswani, Past President Rotarian Dr Shahul Hameed, Past President Rotarian Masoor Hassanbhai and Rotarian Hassan Moosa
In 2014, we secured the first ever Rotary Global Grant (GG) for D3310 (Rotary District 3310) and our Club, raising a total of US$36,000 for a project to help Club Heal to train 150 volunteers to be counsellors.  This project funding also helped toward paying for transportations costs for house visits.  In this project and GG, we garnered the support from fellow Rotary Clubs of Hooghly, Belur, Bhubaneswar Royal and Purulia as partners and co-funding clubs.
 
In the past few years, via Rotary Global Grants, we have raised a considerable amount of funds to help the Bhakti Luhur Orphanage in improving its facilities, taking care of more children and recruiting more teachers to train many talented, disadvantaged children like Sarina. We feel encouraged to see the beneficiaries being able to overcome challenges and progress to join in the efforts of giving-back, like in this case of Sarina.
 
We received additional good news the day following the auction night. Mesmerized by the meaningful beauty of ‘Red Roses by Sarina’, PP Mansoor had kindly agreed to top up his contributions by $2,000 and therefore the final hammer price is SG$20,000!!
 
We are very grateful for all the support and generosity received. Thank you very much.
 
 
Mr Mohamed Abdullah, Her Excellency President Halimah Yaob, Rotarian Dr Shahul Hameed and Rotarian Mohan Vaswani
Mr Mohamed Abdullah, Her Excellency President Halimah Yaob, Rotarian Dr Shahul Hameed, Rotarian Mohan Vaswani and Member of Parliament Zaqy Mohamad
Honourable Member Rotarian Mohan Vaswani, Past President Rotarian Dr Shahul Hameed, Past President Rotarian Masoor Hassanbhai, President Rotarian Mark Wang and Rotarian Hassan Moosa