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The Club welcomed guest Don Martin who spoke about the upcoming mobile pack for Feed My Starving Children non-profit that would be held at Incarnation Lutheran Church. Colleen Lavin also discussed the Ronald McDonald house dinner that Rotary would be preparing on April 5th.
The guest speaker was Ellen Schroeder, a Brooklyn Center Rotary Club member, who works on an innovative international project in Haiti. The project involves helping the women of Haiti learn sewing skills to make reusable menstrual products for young women. In the past, many young women would drop out of school due to the lack of menstrual product. The sewing program has expanded to include baby blankets and carry bags. She travels to Haiti two or three times per year and has now built a home, that includes a sewing center, in Haiti that is used to support this effort. The women who make these products are able to sell the products to make money. Ellen showed a number of pictures of her new home and sewing center in Haiti.