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Dear All,

I am sending out an update on the Nordic Club charity work and hope to
discuss this further with anyone interested at the next Coffee Morning on 6
December. We are currently supporting two main projects; the T.K.J. Anglia
Pre-School in Bekasi where we support 20 students who started pre-school
this year and Yayasan Kampung Kids where we support six high school
students and five in elementary school. For more details, please see the
attached flyer.

Over the last couple of weeks we have had two requests from our two main
projects which I am forwarding to all the members.

The first one is from Ibu Els who together with the Nordic Club started the
pre-school in Bekasi where we are supporting some students today. Ibu Els
is involved in different charity projects in Bekasi and has a group of
older students living at her house. These are children from poor families
and Ibu Els helps them with their schooling. Over the years Ibu Els has
had a variety of children staying at her house but at the moment there are
mainly teenage boys staying there and she has asked for donations of*second
hand clothes for teenage boys*. If anyone has cleaned out a wardrobe with
suitable clothes or are about to do so, please get in touch with us in the
Charity Committee if you want to donate these clothes or bring them to the
next Coffee Morning scheduled for 6 December.

The second request is for *second hand computers* from Yayasan Kampung Kids.
They are running computer classes for their scholarship students at the
Kampung Kids’ centre. Kampung Kids have previously been running three
classes but have had to downscale to one class as the computers have gotten
too old and slow to work with. There are many scholarship students who
would like to attend these classes and Kampung Kids would like to expand
this activity again. The students attending don’t have a computer at home
and the classes focus on the computer skills they need to keep up with
their school work. If you have a second hand computer at home that you
would like to donate to Kampung Kids for their computer classes please get
in touch with the Charity Committee or bring it along to the next Coffee
Morning scheduled for 6 December.

If you have any further questions about these two requests please do not
hesitate to contact us in the Charity Committee.

Finally I would like to say that we as always are looking for more
volunteers to help us with the work in the Charity Committee. In order to
expand our work into new areas we would very much appreciate having native
Bahasa speakers join the committee, but we will welcome everyone who is
interested in joining us with open arms.

On behalf of the Charity Committee,

Maria Bäckström

Charity Representative

NC Charity Work

Dear Nordic Club members,

It’s with great pleasure that I have accepted the position of Nordic Club President for the 2011-2012 board term.  This position means allot to me, as I have always been passionate about volunteer work.

In the coming year, the new Board and I will endeavor to keep Nordic Club progressing and growing as you; the members would like to see.

I would like to thank Malin Boman, my predecessor and all the previous year’s board members Maria Backstrom, Torill Olufsen, Gunilla Allansson, Lisa Gunnarson, Lisette Moormann, Cris Madsen, Danuta Jonsson, Fiona Hay and Mai Britt Ljungbeck for their hard work last year.  Thank you for keeping Nordic Club going and for building a strong foundation for us to continue to build on.

Welcome to our new Board!

The 2011-2012 Nordic Club Board

President:          Melissa Holck

Vice President:   Vacant

Secretary:           Torill Olufsen

Treasurer:          Gunilla Allansson

Trips & Tours:   Vacant

Charity:              Maria Backstrom

Denmark:           Lisbeth Llyod

Finland:               Vacant

Norway:              Annelin Tufta

Sweden:              Monika Engstrom

Web Editor:       Vacant

I am looking forward to working with the dynamic group of women on the Board, as well as getting to know the NC members better.

Should you have any questions or suggestions for Nordic Club, feel free to contact any of the Board members.  We will be happy to hear from you and address your queries.

Warm regards,

Melissa Holck

NC President

2011-2012

Time flies and another year has gone by in Nordic Club Jakarta.

Last year we had around 90 members in Nordic Club Jakarta. Some people are leaving and new people are arriving!

As always, we held our monthly Coffee Mornings, sometimes lunches, and although attendance was variable they were always enjoyable events. We had some speakers with interesting subjects such as eye surgery and organic cleaners. Our Raffle was a good source to raise money for our charities.

Some members of the Board introduced 2 new regular social events in the evenings, particularly for our working members. These were the Girl’s Night Out and the Pub Night, which were both a success.

This year’s Crayfish Party at Borobudur Hotel was a huge success with over 300 people attending, and it brought in the biggest profit we have ever had for this event. People around Jakarta are still talking about how good it was.

There were no Trips and Tours this year, as it was noted that at the end of the last year only the Board members were attending the tours.

Nordic Club’s Charity work continued as previously to financially support Anglia Bekasi Kinder garden and the Griya Asih Orphanage. Our Charity Representative Anu Hirvela’s idea of Baby Boxes was introduced at the Midwife Clinic in Bekasi. The Nordic Club funded 25 Baby Boxes which included baby clothes and toiletries, and hygiene products for the mother. The boxes brought a lot of joy to the new mothers. All the children at both institutions were given school bags and pencil boxes for Christmas. We also brought rice and oil to the people living along the riverside of Bekasi.

I would like to thank my board for an interesting year and with bringing new ideas to the Nordic Club Jakarta.

Louise Munch Johannsen

22 ladies and a baby got together for the October-lunch. We met at a restaurant called “Potato Head” - and those of us who thought that they would only have jacket potatoes on the menu were proven very wrong. We all enjoyed lovely food and of course each other’s company! It is always nice to get together with the members of the club. A big thank you to all of you for your continuous support.   Lisa Naadland, Norwegian Country Rep.

On the very lucky date of 09.09.09, Nordic Club arranged the first “Girl’s night out” - an arrangement to try to get our working members more involved in the club and a great opportunity for us non-working members to get together.And it turned out to be a lucky evening - 23 happy girl’s came together in “Brassiere” at Kemang Raya - and enjoyed each other company, good food and good drinks.Needless to say, when that many girls get together, the volume around the table was nothing less than HIGH, but I guess that is the way it is supposed to be. We (the board) are very pleased to have such a great turnout on our first evening-get-together in a while - and we hope that this trend will continue throughout the year. Look out for Pub-nights and Girl’s Night Out - coming up soon! Lisa NådlandNorwegian Country Rep.

A new membership year has started, and it was really nice to see so many new and old faces at our first gathering of the “year”.

As we have done for the past few years, each country has to arrange one Coffee Morning each during the year, and first country out was Norway. So, 27 happy ladies came together in Fiona’s house, where we were welcomed by our new President, Louise Johannsen. She told us a little bit about upcoming and new events - and of course welcomed old and new members back.

Then our web-editors ( Fiona Hay, Mai-Britt Ljungbeck and Malin Boman) gave us a short but very informative talk about the web-site (www.nordicclubjakarta.org) and encouraged us all to use the web-site on a regular basis.

We were told that the Crayfish Party is happening in November, “Girls night out” and a Pub night is coming up. Many things to look forward to in this coming year - so please remember to pay your membership fee!!

Last, but not least, we got to eat all the lovely food that the Norwegian group had prepared for us.

A big thanks to Fiona, for lending us her house again, and to the whole Norwegian Group for all the lovely food - we could not have arranged this Coffee Morning without all your help and support.

Lisa Nådland
Norwegian Country Representative

On Tuesday 2 ^nd of June we had our monthly gathering at Tamnak Thai restaurant. This is a busy time for everyone - saying goodbye to old friends, end-of-year-party at schools, getting ready for that loooong summer holiday – and so on. So it was really nice to see as many as 15 members, and one brand new one, at the lunch – we even had 3 men, which is quite unique.

As usual when we all get together, the “noise-level” or should I say “talk-level” is quite high, and this lunch was no exception. So we enjoyed the nice food and company, and it was great to get a last meeting before the long summer holiday.

To all our members; “Have a great summer holiday – looking forward to seeing you all in the fall!!”

Lisa Nådland,
Norwegian Country-Rep

On Tuesday May 5th it’s another gathering for Nordic Club members. This has become a tradition to have an outing after the Annual General Meeting and so we normally arrange for lunch in a restaurant instead of coffee morning. At 11.30am almost everybody was in the restaurant and it doesn’t take too long for members to mingle right away and start to chat with each other.  There were only 24 members showed up for our lunch at Mixx & Grill restaurant in Kemang. It doesn’t seem like a lot, but having 24 ladies in one room makes quite a party.
 
I would like to say Thanks to Lisa Naadland and Rikke Weinreich for arranging the lunch and for members who showed up at lunch. It’s our members’ enthusiasm that plays a big part in making our club exist. Therefore, I also want to Thank to all Nordic Club members for your support all year round and take care and see you all for our next gathering.
 
Indri Ollikainen
Country Rep - Finland

Finally, on April 30^th, we managed to make the trip to Villa D’Equilibrium. In the morning we all were gathering at Citos to meet with Ms. Frita from EQUIL.  A bit after 9am we were ready to start our journey by bus to the EQUIL bottling plant. The drive to Villa D’Equilibrium took us almost 2 hours during which 10 lovely ladies and 1 cute baby boy enjoyed the serene and beautiful countryside around Mountain Salak – Sukabumi. On arrival we were greeted by Mr. Sugih inside the bottling plant. He showed us how the EQUIL mineral water bottles are filled. We went through all the processes from the empty bottles, filling them up, labelling, and finally packing into the boxes for quarantine. Every step of the process must be done to perfection. What amazed me was in this bottling plant, as they call their factory, there are only 50 people working there!! Imagine these 50 people do all the work so that EQUIL are able to distribute to all major hotels and restaurants in Jakarta, Bali and other cities in Indonesia. Also not forgetting all the people who have home deliveries each week or month, and everything from start to finish is done at this Villa D’Equilibrium.
 
Mr. Sugih from EQUIL gave us an introduction about EQUIL’s history, we also had a water tasting during the presentation at their board room, and this was  followed  by a little tour around outside the Villa D’Equilibrium surroundings where the first sources of EQUIL  Mineral water came from. Last, but not least, we were treated to a Sundanese lunch at their beautiful yard under the trees.  It was a very educational trip for us and we all learned a lot of new information. We know for sure a lot more about which water is healthy to consume for everyday life here. Thanks EQUIL for welcoming us and treating us well - it was definitely a fun and interesting trip. Indri Ollikainen, Country Rep Finland

Dear Members,

I would like to start by thanking the Board for the great work they have all been doing; without them we would not have a Nordic Club. We have been quite active in the year that has passed. Just to name a few of the activities here:

We have changed the coffee mornings, so that every country group within the club organises a coffee morning per year in a private home. After not wanting speakers at all for a while, we now have a speaker for almost half of our coffee mornings, which seems to be working very well.

The Board – especially the editors - have worked very hard on improving our web site - and getting you, the members, to use it. And we are getting there, as we all work together to make the web site a place where we all go for updates and information within the club. We now have sponsors on our web site, sponsors from the Crayfish Party, and regular paying sponsors.

We had a very successful Crayfish Party amidst some vague terrorist warnings – there were some very exciting days leading up to that. We made a good profit which enables us to continue supporting our charities.

In May, we had our first Mid Summer party organized by our Charity Group. It was very successful in 2 ways - it was a good party for families, and it generated money for the children that we support through our charities.

The country reps have also organised events for the members in smaller groups in the form of lunches, movie nights, Christmas parties, Christmas lunch, and more. So we have had a good and productive year, and personally I have been happy to be a part of making things happen within the Nordic Community.

I am sure that the new Board that we are electing today will continue the good work and bring new initiatives to the Nordic Club and its members. Best regards, Line Brogaard, Nordic Club President