Meeting Participants

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Trip Dates:                       October 18 – 26, 2016
Travel to:                          Port Harcourt, Nigeria, West Africa
Per Person Price:              $1,629, double occupancy

 

Program includes:  Hotel accommodations, transfers, most meals, polio immunization exercise, hands-on community service field work, West Africa Project Fair registration, special Rotary and fellowship events, sightseeing, etc.

 

In October 2016, North American Rotarians will travel to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for a life changing experience.   Have you ever heard a Rotarian speak about their personal experience participating in a polio eradication exercise, a cleft lip/cleft palate mission, or work on a humanitarian grant?  These trips have a profound effect upon the individual.  For those of you who have gone on one of these trips you know, and for those of you who have yet to enjoy this experience, you should.

 

The experiences you have stay with you forever.  You get up early in the morning, travel with local Rotarians to a village, health clinic or impoverished neighborhood, and for the next few hours, you change.  Small children come up to you to say thank you.  Mothers and fathers smile at you knowing that you are giving their child a chance for a better life.  You meet with the leaders in the village to learn of their needs and their hopes.  It is hot; it is dusty; it makes you uncomfortable; it is exquisite. 

 

The West Africa Project Fair is endorsed by Rotary’s Reach in Africa Committee (ROTA), who is trying to generate greater connectivity between the African and North American Rotarians to generate greater support of the projects of Africa.  Your involvement, or your club’s involvement, in this Fair would not only provide an opportunity for project support, it would also help your members to grow and to understand the benefits of being a Rotarian.  Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do anywhere else.  This trip is just such an experience. 

 

Even if you are unable to join us this year, please feel free to announce this program in your club over the next month, get it on websites, and get it in newsletters.  Encourage your members to participate – help Rotary Serve Humanity. 

 

Let us know if you have any questions.   We hope to hear from you soon.

 

Jolene R. Bortz

Manager
Howard Tours

516 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA 94610

(510) 834-2260 voice

(510) 834-1019 fax

 

 

 

 

The link to the survey is below and it will close on Wednesday, August 17th.

 

 

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Kevin Ames from the OC Tanner Research Institute, who has spoken at Rotary, will be speaking on the following: Leading Great Work. This will be a presentation on Leadership and Great Work within organizations.