Last Weeks' Meet

Our club meeting on February 18 can be described in a word: Inspirational.

 

Ten Independence High School Interactors came to visit on their spring break to share progress toward their goals. They are well on their way to another banner year!

 

Club members Richard Dorsay and Nick Leon presented information on our club’s International Projects.

Richard told of the on-going improvements made at Chamabondo School in Zimbabwe; students aren’t learning while seated on the bare ground anymore—classrooms, desks, chairs, curriculum materials and even a computer lab have been added over the years. Now funds are being raised to provide scholarships to assist Aids orphans and children living in poverty to continue their schooling.

 

Richard also told us about a new project in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Jerusalem. 60 students, 30 Jewish and 30 Muslim, will be hosted for a 6-week course in peacemaking.

 

Nick presented a narrated slide show documenting the many improvements at Hanspakara Tribal School where our club has been involved along with the Rotary Club of Calcutta Uptown for several years. Among the accomplishments there, students & their families have a big change in how they get drinking water. Instead of a multi-use pond of contaminated water, they now have access to well water, pumped through a pipeline to faucets at the school.

 

To quote club president, Robbie, “that’s what Rotary is all about!”