2014 District Rotary Seminar

You Are Invited to attend the 2014 District 5890 Rotary Foundation Seminar on Saturday, September 20, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. The seminar will be hosted at Houston Community College

5601 West Loop 610 South - Houston 77081 Campus

Special Note: Three of our 4 Keynote Speakers are outstanding Female Rotary Leaders - Every Female Rotarian and any prospective Rotarians you know should attend!

The cost is only $10 per person!

Registration & Snacks 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM (On-Line Registration is open now at www.rotary5890.org)

In addition to the great speakers - 1) Attend and personally donate At the Seminar (to the Annual Fund or PolioPlus) to Double your Paul Harris Credit, 2) Hear How They Did It - from some of our District's Top Rotary Foundation Clubs, 3) Learn about the World's Greatest Meal - for PolioPlus, 4) Hear about the new Triple Crown Club Challenge and become a Benefactor at this Seminar and 5. Learn about The Rotary Foundation's New Funding Plan to take place in 2015.

All-Star Speakers Line-up Announced:

Featured Speaker: Marion Bunch - Founder of Rotarians for Family Health & AIDS Prevention - A Rotarian Action Group, which has provided health care, support and education to hundreds of thousands of orphans and vulnerable children and adults in Africa

And - Dr. Isis Mejias Carpio, District 5890 Global Grant Scholar, who has been instrumental in Global Grants in Brazil and Kenya and recently lead a team of engineers in Uganda to explore large scale Rotary water projects in that country. Isis's work was recently featured on the front page of the Rotary International website.

And - Nicole Heydari , who received her Masters Degree at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna with the assistance of a District 5890 District Grant, managed the Cheheltan School project in Afghanistan in 2012 (funded by 9 of our District 5890 Rotary Clubs), and recently returned from Timor-Leste where she was a consultant for DynCorp. Nicole was featured on the cover of a book on Human Terrain Teams authored by the National Defense University.

And - Andy Smallwood, our token male speaker, and Past Rotary International Director and Treasurer who will explain the New Rotary Foundation Funding Plan

Questions contact Terry Ziegler, Rotary Club of West U, District Rotary Foundation

Committee Chair bigzlumber@aol.com, cell 713-825-1176