Asst.Gov. Brenda Waugh – Rotary Visit to India
Thu, Feb 7th 2019 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Assistant Governor Brenda will address the members on her Rotary visit to India
H&R: Des Donnelly & James Gibbons
VoT: Ian Carrol
The guest speaker at tonight’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Motherwell and Wishaw was District 1020 Assistant Governor Brenda Waugh, who is a member of the Annan Rotary Club.
Brenda’s talk was on her recent visit to Mumbai in India. Each year, Rotary International has a theme and, when Brenda became her Club’s President, the theme was “Making Dreams Real” and her dream was to visit India.
It came true under the Rotary Friendship Exchange when eight Rotarians recently visited Mumbai. Brenda stayed with an Indian Rotarian family who lived on the eighteenth floor of a twenty story block, within a security compound, in the city.
Brenda said it was a privilege to see, in person, Rotary Projects working. There was the eye hospital using very dated equipment. The Rotary School Bus, where, for £8,000 a year, a driver and teacher travelled to the shanty towns to bring education to the poor and needy.
She cycled in the National Park where she encountered a large number of different animals. She ate over thirty different Indian dishes. Her only dislike was the tea, and, after her first cup, she made do with coffee.
Ian Carrol proposed a comprehensive vote of thanks.
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