A child treated during the Rotary Club of Gandevi’s medical mission. By Parimal Naik, grant coordinator, Rotary Club of Gandevi, India In January, our club organized a medical mission to provided life-saving health care to the rural and tribal community of Gandevi in the western part of India. Our mission consisted of 26 visiting doctors…
Screenshot of the Power in Our Connections video. You can find it in the Brand Center. By RI’s social & digital team Have you visited the Brand Center lately? We’ve added a new video, “Power in Our Connections,” that you can share on social media. By doing so, you become part of our public image campaign,…
The author, third from left, on her Rotary Youth Exchange in Thunder Bay, Canada. By Xolisile Sithole, former Rotary Youth Exchange student to Canada It has been more than eight years since I embarked on a Rotary Youth Exchange to Thunder Bay, Canada, from South Africa. In many ways, it still seems like yesterday. It…
Rotary Peace Fellow Magdalena Zurita on the Via Francigena By Magdalena Zurita, Rotary Peace Fellow, International Christian University, Japan, 2016-18 In May of 2018, I completed my master’s studies as a Peace Fellow at International Christian University in Japan. As I waited for the graduation ceremonies, I pondered where I should put everything I had…
By Corey Lopardi, membership development chair for District 5020 (parts of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA) Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing the newest club president in our district who moved to a small town of 1,770 and started a brand new Rotary club with 42 members. They grew to almost 50 members…
By Steve Solbrack –District 5950 New Club Development Chair and a member of the Twin Cities Rotary EcoClub, Minnesota, USA We chartered our new Rotary club in February 2019 with 25 members and a focus on the environment. The EcoClub is a non-traditional format designed to attract a segment of the population not currently served…
Emilse Anabella Palacios joined other women scientists as part of the Homeward Bound expedition to Antarctica. By Emilse Anabella Palacios, Rotary Peace Fellow 2009-11 My relationship with Rotary began as a Rotary Youth Exchange student and member of a Group Study Exchange. Later as a Rotary Peace Fellow at Duke University and University of North…
Pam Gray and her husband, Brian, (third and fourth from right) at the District 5160 conference in 2018. By Pam Gray, Rotary Club of Paradise, California, USA I grew up in a small family. My parents were both only children – that means I have no aunts, uncles or first cousins. As a child, my…
Rotaract members talk to students about thalassemia. By Ali Raza, president of the Rotaract Club of Bahauddin Zakariya University, Punjab, Pakistan We live in a society where people call themselves humans before they know the need of being human; where they wish for a long life before they wish for healthy life; and where they…
Jordan Koletic, left, and Robert Smayda Jr. at Rotary Day at the United Nations in 2014. By Kamlesh Chandan, Rotary Club of Lake Norman/Huntersville, North Carolina, USA In 2015, I was working at one of the largest Fortune 500 banks in the United States when I read an article on our internal website about a…