Flippers & Doosras Dinner

Tuesday September 7, 2010

Strangers’ Dining Room, State Parliament House

Macquarie Street

Pre-dinner drinks at 6.30pm, Dinner 7pm – 10.30pm

Your opportunity to be adjudged LBW to some of our champion Test Spinners led by Special Guest, Stuart MacGill

Welcome Address: The Hon. Barry O’Farrell

MC: Stephanie Brantz

Guarantee your presence at the crease with an advance payment of $111

All proceeds from the dinner will be donated to The LBW Trust.

Cheques payable to The Cricketers’ Club of NSW
Post: Garry Winney PO Box 655 Hurstville 1481
email: gazwinney@gmail.com

Or by electronic funds transfer to Account Name: Cricketers Club of NSW
Bank CBA / BSB 062099 / Account 10397665
Please ensure your name is attached to your electronic deposit

Please RSVP by August 31, 2010
ron.holmes@optusnet.com.auphone/sms 0404 4747 50

GOOGLE: Parking Parliament House Sydney

Info/booking form here: FlippersAndDoosrasDinnerInvitation

It’s a major milestone for us: thanks to your help the LBW Trust has just reached its 2010 goal of supporting 100 disadvantaged students in India, Pakistan, South Africa and now also Uganda.

In the first half of the year the LBW Trust has taken on the fees of 20 new students at the Prerana Nurture Merit college in Bangalore, India, where gifted and needy students are assisted in their chosen academic careers. We are looking forward to a September visit to Sydney from Piroja Mehta from the college.

We have also funded tertiary scholarships for ten students from the village of Namwendwa, Uganda; through our new partnership with the Australian-Ugandan NGO One Village. Our congratulations to the Ugandan students, including Helen Salaamu, Alex Issabirye, Pascal Mageni, Zakalia Semakula, Geoffrey Kawayo, Fred Wanala and Otala Awali. These students have now commenced studies in teaching. Alex Luddu and Julius Mbeeko are being trained in brick laying and Joshua Mugabe is doing a motor vehicle course.

They join our existing scholarship students at the Vikash Educational Trust in Orissa, India; at Namal College and SPADO (Sustainable Peace and Development Organisation) in Pakistan; and at various institutions in South Africa.

Tinashe graduated from the University of Western Cape late last year and he has been awarded the prestigious ICT Student of the Year Award by the Computer Society of South Africa.

You can read more about Tinashe’s incredible story here.

He writes:   “Please find a few photos of distribution of Scholarship cheques to students who received it on 2nd October, an auspicious day for all  in India. Inspite of heavy rains and a bus strike,  8 students turned up to receive the cheques from the hands of Dr Dhanada Misra, SC Choudhury and Meera Choudhury ,Trustees of Vikash Educational Charitable Trust. The boys came alone and the girls were accompanied with their parents/guardians. There was a feeling of welcome, joy and bonhomie. The facilitators of the Trust served cold drinks and sweets to the students and the parents. These students are from a really poor strata of the society and bright ones at that. They are studying ENGG and Medicine in the best colleges of the state. They are sure to make their career, uplift their families and contribute back to the society.
We feel greatly indebted and humbled by the munificience of the LBW Trust and its Trustees. We hope our association would grow stronger in years to come.”

Well-known Australian war artist George Gittoes  has most generously donated one of his paintings, ‘Two Dogs’, to The LBW Trust. ‘Two Dogs’ by Mr Gittoes will be auctioned by The LBW Trust to raise money for the support of our students. If you are interested in purchasing the painting, please call the LBW Trust on 0425 207 258

Mr Gittoes has also referred the Trust to the Sustainable Peace and Development Organization (SPADO) – an NGO in Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, where he has extensive links and has visited often. After discussions with Mr Gittoes, the LBW Trust has agreed to educate young women from this troubled area as well as the Swat Valley