The purpose of this correspondence is to announce an upcoming
trip to Togo, West Africa in October
2013 to participate in a polio immunization exercise, attend the 9th Annual West Africa Project
Fair, and engage in a hands-on work
project. Attached is detailed trip information. Please feel free to
share this information with the Rotarians in your club as soon as
possible as we have a limited amount of space and expect this trip to be
filled in the next week or two.
Trip Dates: October 15 – 24,
2013
Travel to: Lomé, Togo, West Africa
Per Person Price: $1,689, 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 2013, North American Rotarians will travel to
Lomé, Togo, 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
Out to 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 them to Engage Rotary and Change
Lives.
Let us know if you have any questions. We hope to hear from
you soon.
Best regards,
Bradford R. Howard, PDG
North American Coordinator
West Africa Project Fair Committee
516 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: (510) 834-2260
FAX: (510) 834-1019
E-mail: Rotary@HowardTours.net
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