Thineskumar Asokokumara By Thineskumar Asokokumara, past president of the Rotary Club of Subang, Malaysia In June, my company held interviews to fill an opening for manager of our Kuala Lumpur support center. We are a company of over 2,000 employees listed on NASDAQ and worth multi-millions of dollars. The interview was no small thing. A…
Knut Ebel congratulates president Stefanie Kämpf in 2016. Ebel went on to serve as president the following year. By Christoph Ahlmann-Eltze, president of the Rotary Club of Bordesholm, Germany Our club chartered 10 years ago, and from the very start, equality between the genders has been a priority. We alternate between a male member and…
Faisalabad Rotaract club members lead an evening class for child laborers. By Ebadat-ur-Rehman Babar, 2019-20 secretary, Rotaract Club of Faisalabad, Pakistan Our idea started back in 2018, when I and two other members of my Rotaract club began looking for an innovative, sustainable project. We wanted to submit an entry for the Rotaract Outstanding Project…
By Monica Mulholland, Rotary Club of Queenstown, New Zealand When I made the decision to come out as transgender to my Rotary club, my wife and I were worried that we would be shunned by our community and lose many of our friends, including those in the Rotary club. It is common for transgender people…
The inside of the new Leadership Library in Mare Tabac, looking through the reading room. By Frederic Nullathemby, 2018-19 president of the Rotary Club of Rose-Belle, Mauritius If you want to be a leader, you have to read. If you want to develop leaders, you have to provide a place for young people to read.…
Members of the Rotary Club of Silverdale interview a job seeker (left, back to camera) By Cathy Bisaillon, President & CEO of Easterseals Washington, and a member of the Rotary Club of Silverdale, Washington, USA. Video and photos by Steven Boe, Rotary Club of Silverdale When I shared with my fellow Rotarians last fall that 70…
Kiran Singh Sirah (middle with sunglasses) and other Rotary Peace Fellows at the Rotary Peace Symposium in Hamburg, Germany. Photo by Monika Lozinska/Rotary International. By Kiran Singh Sirah, Rotary Peace Fellow and president of the International Storytelling Center Earlier this year, I had the privilege of visiting Hamburg, Germany, to present a series of talks…
By Katey Halliday, Rotaract Club of Adelaide City and the Rotary Club of Adelaide Light, South Australia, Australia Rotary recently adopted a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy that sends a strong message that we embrace inclusivity. Rotary has clubs all over the world and reaches a broad range of people with our service projects. So…
Members of the Y Garth club at its charter event. By Douglas Nash, past president of the Rotary Club of Chelwood Bridge, England A while ago, when my good friend Charles and I started talking about Rotary and the possibility of him becoming a member, he was a little apprehensive. That is until I explained…
Rotary and Rotaract members in Taipei, Taiwan, take part in an after-hours service project. Creating a separate after-hour meeting can be an effective strategy to attract members your main group isn’t reaching. By Galen Engel, Rotary Club of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA When I first became a member, I was interested in membership. I was…