Lindsay Cancino Video Telecommunication

At the Thursday August 18th lunch meeting of the Rotary Club of St. Thomas, we had an interactive video communication with District 7020 Foundation & Polio Chair Lindsay Cancino. President Paul Davis is using the Internet to bring visitors into our meetings from a far. Today Lindsay spoke to our club from East Nassau about the health of the foundation, in it's 100th year and the news is good. There is great excitement about the celebration this coming year at the International Convention in Atlanta of the foundation. Lindsay fielded questions from the club and when asked about trends of membership in the district, he answered with, "Our district is typically ahead of the U.S. average as far as growth and retention of members. However, like the U.S., we too are flat as far as the growth is concerned."

 

Prior to Lindsay speaking to the club, President Paul Davis played a video on the work that Rotary is doing in Haiti to eradicate Polio. This was a very informative video. It was also brought up that Nigeria had once been off the Polio list and now has fallen back onto it because of 2 recent cases. This embodies the fact that the work to eradicate this disease must continue well after the last case is reported.