Our Speaker this week was Kevin Royle.
Kevin is a firefighter and ex military.
Kevin toured the fire halls in he Ukraine as part of a Rotary Exchange program in 2012. he was alarmed by the state of their equipment. They were badly lacking in firefighter and other emergency equipment and supplies. The modern fire departments here were destroying equipment that they considered outdated that was much better than hat they were using.
Kevin recruited the local fire departments, local Ukrainian Cultural Clubs and local rotary Clubs to gather an ship equipment and supplies to the front line personnel in the Ukraine.
Kevin shared stories of how they organised the collection of items, how the packed the equipment, how the equipment was shipped and the techniques they used to prevent the supplies being diverted to the black market.
Thank You Kevin for an interesting and inspirational presentation.
