2009 Joint Dinner with Inner Wheel

Speaker Kate Moore MBE discussed her work as a Landmine Action Board Director

Left to Right: John Fishburne (Rotary Club of Nantwich), Buxton Rotary President Ian Saunders, Kate Moore MBE

Members of the Inner Wheel Club of Buxton were joined by local Soroptimists as guests of Buxton Rotarians, at their annual Joint Dinner at the Lee Wood Hotel, to hear Kate Moore MBE discuss her work as a Landmine Action Board Director and member of Soroptimist International - an organisation with active representation in the UN. She talked of the friendships she had formed with some of the many children who lose limbs through being blown up by landmines or cluster bombs - innocent-looking tennis ball-shaped objects - that contaminate vast areas of land around their villages years after warfare ceases.

Some of them, now young adults, had visited Kate when in Dublin, where, with her team, she lobbied government representatives to push through the December 2008 International Convention on Cluster Munitions. The Treaty, signed by 94 countries, not only bans the use and sale of cluster bombs, but provides for the destruction of stockpiles (the UK's alone is around 30 million) and clearance of contaminated land