High River Rotarian appointed as advisor to Rotary Foundation

While on a micro-finance Insight tour of Honduras in April 2016, High River Rotarian Wally Gardiner met Bonaventure Fandohan, Manager of Economic and Community Development for the Rotary Foundation. As a result, Wally has been appointed to the Cadre of Technical Advisors to the Rotary Foundation.

 

The Foundation states that this group provides assistance and technical expertise to Rotarians planning and implementing projects, ensures the proper stewardship of Foundation grant funds, and assists Foundation trustees in the funding process. The cadre is composed of volunteer Rotarians from around the world who are familiar with the grant program and who also have technical and professional expertise in one or more of Rotary’s six areas of focus. A cadre member initially examines proposals to determine project feasibility and sustainability once Rotary steps back.

 

Rotarian Wally is fluent in Spanish, and he has in-depth knowledge of micro-finance projects. The Rotary Club of High River has helped to fund such projects for 12 years. The club has joined Opportunity International Canada and the Institute for Development of Honduras for its latest project in Central America. It also receives funding from Global Affairs Canada.

 

Shortly after his trip to Honduras, Wally studied a 324-page manual on a long flight to Seoul, South Korea, where he attended the cadre training session. He was also able to attend part the Rotary International Convention in Seoul.

 

Wally has just finished his first cadre assignment – a technical review of a vocational project in Central America.