2011 Zones 24 &32 winners
On August 26 2011, the Donald MacRae Peace Awards were presented in Boston MA at the Zone 24-32 Rotary Institute. PDG Sandy MacKay, chair of the selection committee presented the awards. Each year every Governor in Zone 24 and Zone 32 is asked to nominate an individual or organization for this prestigious award. One award is presented in each zone. In 2012 the awards will be presented in Vancouver at the 2012 Rotary Institute.
Zone 24 - 2011 Winner:
Rotary World Help Network, District 5020, 5040, 5050, 5060
This award recognizes the hundreds of hours of volunteer time put in by the many Rotarians, their spouses, partners, family and friends who collect medical, humanitarian and educational supplies and ship the supplies around the world to support impoverished communities and in many cases support work being done by Rotary clubs with Rotary Foundation grants and World Community Service projects. The Rotary World Help Network is a multi club and multi district project. RWHN in the past 15 years has shipped hundreds of sea containers of humanitarian aid worth millions of dollars nearly all is donated surplus material.
PDG Penny Offer accepts award on
behalf of Rotary World Help Network
from PDG Sandy MacKay
Zone 32 – 2011 Winner:
Dr. Paul Spiekermann, International Service Chair, RC of Westport, Connecticut, District 7980
Dr. Spiekermann spent his career working in the field of Tropical Medicine and traveling throughout the world , after joining Rotary he quickly became a leader and speaker on the PolioPlus program. Paul has worked tirelessly with fellow Rotarians to develop humanitarian projects using the funds raised by his club and matching grants from The Rotary Foundation. Paul’s leadership in originating, documenting, and providing the proper stewardship for these projects have been a model for all Rotariarians. He has helped to originate 17 global projects, including the first Humanitarian Grant approved under the Future Vision Pilot. Along the way Paul has dedicated himself to working at home and abroad as a teacher, spokesman, mentor, and collaborator in support of Rotary’s efforts to eradicate diseases such as polio, leprosy and dengue fever and to improve the lives of those suffering from the effects of malnutrition, HIV infection, landmines, the lack of clean water and illiteracy.
PDG Kanayo (Rupi) Rupwani accepts the award on
behalf of Dr.Spiekermann from PDG Sandy MacKay
For information on past winners and how to nominate future candidates click HERE
The Rotary Zone Donald MacRae Peace Award is an annual award presented by Rotary Zones 24 and 32 to recognize and honour an individual or organization for outstanding achievement consistent with the ideals of Rotary as expressed in the Fourth Object of Rotary. "The advancement of International understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional people united in the ideal of service"
The award commemorates the contribution of Halifax Rotarian Donald MacRae, who in a speech to the International Convention in Kansas City in June 1918 proposed that Rotary become an agent for the promotion of goodwill and peace among nations - the first time that this vision of Rotary was expressed publicly.
Reflecting the vision created by MacRae, the award focuses on advancing international goodwill, understanding and peace through peace-making efforts or humanitarian activity of international significance.
The recipient of the Donald MacRae Peace Award receives an inscribed glass plaque and a commemorative certificate. The individual or organization nominated must be one whose life, mission, or work demonstrates outstanding achievement consistent with the ideals of the Fourth Object of Rotary International, having made an outstanding contribution to this cause through international efforts such as World Community Service. Awards will not be made posthumously.