EMILY FISHER BACK SAFE AND SOUND FROM BELGIUM
 
 
As gracious as ever, Emily Fisher gave us an insight into what could fairly be described as a very different Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) in Belgium (or anywhere else for that matter ED). Due to COVID-19 she was in lock down for around five (5) months starting in March 2020 until everything started freeing up about halfway through June but still with a lot of rules and restrictions. Eventually she was free to attend school and to travel almost everywhere in Belgium and then onto France for time at the beach, in Cologne, Paris, Maastricht, Amiens and lastly to Alsace with her Rotary Club. To view the images of her year, her host families, her friends and the many exciting destinations she was (eventually) able to visit Click here. 
 
A TOAST TO THE ROTARY CLUB OF BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL
 
 
Leigh Thorp had intended to toast Emily's Host, the Rotary Club Of Roeulx   but made a U Turn when he discovered Greg Hamilton had previously done that. So instead while remaining in Belgium, he proposed a toast to the Rotary Club of Brussels International. The Club is in Rotary International District 2150 and was founded to fulfil the need for an international and English speaking club in the heart of Europe. It was chartered on 10 November 2017, and so and is celebrating it’s third anniversary. It has twenty nine (29) members (including six (6) Paul Harris Fellows) led by President of Johan Vanden Eynde and meet every first and third Tuesday night at the Hotel Amigo near the Grand Place, one of the most beautiful squares in the world. It has two major projects: Johan Cruyff Foundation – building a football field as a means to give youth in Molenbeek a safe playing environment and where themes such as respect for each other and team building are central; and the Beautiful After Breast Cancer Foundation – a global, multi-disciplinary organisation devoted to the reconstruction of a patient’s life following a diagnosis of breast cancer.
A TOAST TO THE ROTARY CLUB OF TORONTO
 
Ann Edgar has spent quite some time in Canada so it was only natural that she would toast a Canadian Club. The Rotary Club Of Toronto in Rotary International District 7070 was chartered over 100 years ago on 1 March 1913. With one hundred and forty seven (147) members (representing more than one hundred (100) professions) the Club is one of the largest in Canada and during its lifetime has organised five (5) Rotary International Conventions. The Club is led by President John Fortney and meets for lunch each Friday at Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front St. W., Toronto. The Club's committees and Charitable Foundation work to make an impact on homelessness, hunger, social injustice, gender inequality, access to education, environmental sustainability and the challenges of recent immigrants and the poor. Funding priority is directed to the fields of health, education, youth and welfare, primarily in the Greater Toronto Area but also internationally.