Hello Fellow Rotarians,
 
If Doing Good in the World is something that we who love the Rotary Foundation think is important, and if providing clean water for the world is an important priority for all of us and  if Joining Leaders and Taking Action is a good description of an effective Rotarian, have a look at an email that 13 year-old Eileen Conran (Grand Daughter of Ross Conran, 6290 DG in 2005-2006) sent to Kathy Hegedus.  She asks only that Kathy, "Get it to Mr. Robinson", which Kathy did at the Board meeting on January 14.  Read this for an  example of why Rotary will be alive and well after we are gone!  Maybe YOU are a leader looking to Take Action. Why not see how YOU could join with Eileen and have a Water Conference.
 
Eileen Writes, 

Hello Miss Hegedus,

My name is Eileen Conran. I am 13 years old. I started attending our Rotary meetings at a few weeks old. As I got older, I started to come up with fundraiser ideas for water filters in the Dominican Republic. It varied from bears to just donations from other rotary members. I raised enough money each time to buy at least two water filters. I enjoyed helping those people get the water they need to survive. Just thinking about the fact that there are hundreds of people drinking the water that got them sick in the first place, pains me. We are fortunate enough to revive the fresh clean water that we do, but these people have to walk 4 miles or more every day, just to live. This is a subject that is very close to my heart. I would love to start helping these people again. Due to the fact that we haven't been acting on this topic for a while now, I would like to request that we try to start a conference of some sort up again. I wasn't quite sure who to talk to about this subject, so if you could bring this up to Mr. Robertson that would be highly appreciated.
Understanding that Rotary, along with the help of Bill Gates and various other people, has almost eradicated polio, I would just like to ask that in the next few years or so we start to work on Malaria. That is yet another virus. Of course I am speaking as if Polio will be eradicated in the next few year, but then again, we are that close. Malaria is just another virus that I do believe we can eradicate.
Thank you for your time, I understand that you are probably quite busy, but if you could just bring this to Mr. Robertson, it would be an honor.

Thank you for your time.
~Eileen Conran  
 
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