Our club meeting this week
featured a talk by Jim Slater - Rotary Foundation - Vocational Training
Teams. Jim is the District
(VTT) Officer. Jim provided a very interesting talk on Foundation and an
outline on Vocational Training Teams (VTT).
The teams comprise
groups of professionals who travel abroad - either to teach local professionals
about a particular field, or to learn more about their own.
A (VTT) can be funded in
different ways, and can include : -
District Grants.
To qualify for a
District Grant activities need to support the Rotary Foundations mission to
promote goodwill and peace, improve health support education, and alleviate
poverty.
One or more Rotary
Clubs, with or without District Grants.
Global Grants. To
qualify for Global Grant it must align with one or more of the areas of
focus.
Team Members can be
Rotarians or Non Rotarians - with no restriction on length of a (VTT)
visit.
A successful (VTT)
increases the capacity of host community to solve problems and improve quality
of life.
Jim made reference to
VTT recruitment, and business mentors, and also where they spent 2 - 4 weeks in
Ghana, with involvement in preparing and presenting seminars to a wider business
audience.
Examples of businesses
visited included Cooler Ice Drinking Water, Love Enterprises, and (Thrive Africa
& Enliven Mama Africa - members may remember the talk by Maxwell Yaw Donker
re this charity in Ghana) and where support and help is given.
Next meeting Tuesday 30th June -
Douglas White (Carnegie UK Trust) Digital Dunfermline.
Reception Alan
Farquharson & Ken Mackay
VOT Dave Riddell.
Reminder to Council Members - Council
meeting follows club meeting on 30th June