District 5370 Conference Report

Posted by Vira Hughes

on Mar 15, 2016

During Tuesday's meeting, Vince Campbell gave us a short presentation of some hi-lites from the recently held District 5370 conference.

The new 2016-17 RI theme is 'Rotary Serving Humanity'.

The morning speakers spoke of the ever changing membership of Rotary, and how Rotary International both loses and gains about 1.2 million members every five to seven years. They also spoke of how we need to embrace social media more in order to attract and hold younger members.

The afternoon sessions were smaller and quite varied, and one he attended on Stop Hunger Now, especially inspired him. He spoke of how two clubs in our area have already managed to raise donations and find volunteers to package over 200,000 food packages each. He would like to see our Edmonton area clubs do the same, only on a larger scale.