Rotary Service Months
Posted by HJD
January is Vocational Service Month, Vocational Service is the basis of Rotary. Serving your community through your vocation forms a basic tenement of Rotary. This link is often overlooked and I would like to encourage you all to look to this link between Business and Rotary to reinvigorate your business communities by ensuring they understand the benefits to the community and their businesses of strong Rotary Clubs in every community. I will be dedicating the Saturday afternoon at District Conference to presentations and discussion on the value added by Rotary to a community. I invite you all to come, hear some great speakers and bring your business leaders to hear how their business and the community benefit from this collaboration.
February is World Understanding Month, Area of Focus – Peace and Conflict Resolution/Prevention. We all want a peaceful world and we should be proud that Rotary is one of the few organisations in the world that deliberately pursues world peace. Indeed Rotary was involved at the writing of the charter for the United Nations and remains intrinsically linked to the UN. At our District Conference we will have a focus on Peace at our Saturday morning session with addresses by PRIP Kalyan Banerjee and the CEO of the Institute for Peace and Economics Steve Killalea. Steve produces The Global Peace Index which is gaining traction with world leaders, with releases at the White House and parliaments in England, Munich, Zurich and others. The Global Peace Index measures what makes a country more peaceful with the intention of promoting peace rather than settling conflict.