Speaker - District 1010 Governor Graham Archibald
Tue, Sep 19th 2017 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Rotary district governor Graeme Archibald gave a talk to the Kilrymont St. Andrews club on the themes of "making a difference" and "working together."
Graeme, from Elgin and accompanied by his wife Carol, praised Kilrymont for the club's extensive programme for the present Rotary year and its recent fund-raising and community efforts.
Graeme highlighted the hours put in by Rotarians to help communities giving an example of help for flood victims last year in which a total of 72,000 hours of assistance was given by Rotarians.
He said Rotarians were people of action.
Graeme said one of the priorities for the organisation was attracting new members. Five years ago there were over 3000 Rotarians in Scottish district 1010. In July this year the figure was 2747. Clubs had to be adaptable to the changing circumstances and look at new ways of bringing in new members.
Graeme went on to discuss the types of district grants available to clubs and said the accessing them was much more straightforward.
He also talked about global grants from Rotary International and how successful the worldwide 30-year fight to eradicate polio had been.
There were now only two countries where incidences of polio had occurred this year, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nigeria has been polio-free for over 12 months.
With continuing Rotary support of $50 million over the next three years and funding from the Gates Foundation and governments, the goal of polio eradication is in sight with the inoculation programmes.
Graeme also talked about Rotary's public image and the need to collectively highlight "what we do". This in itself could be used to help attract fresh blood to clubs.
He ended by thanking the club for its hospitality and wished it well for the future.
President John Spittal proposed thanks for a "quite inspirational talk" from the district governor.
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