Next Meeting July 7 - Jeannie Bird of Restor International

This Tuesday we are excited to welcome Jeannie Bird of RESTOR International Inc. They are a Rotarian non-profit humanitarian organization that provides free reconstructive surgery to disadvantaged children and adults in developing countries with cleft lip and palate anomalies, burn contractures, and other disfiguring and disabling conditions.  With the support of Canadian medical professionals and non-medical volunteers, they work to build capacity by training local physicians and health professionals and promote the development of sustainable and preventative programs. www.rotoplastcanada.org.

 

Our speaker Jeannie has her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.  She has had a varied nursing career working her way west, specializing mostly in Maternal and Child Health in her early years and Gerontology as GM of two assisted living facilities in Kelowna for 10 years.  Jean retired from her nursing career in 2008.  She became interested in medical missions when joining Rotary in 2006.  She has been on 3 missions in a variety of positions with Rotaplast Canada and her 4th mission last year as Mission Director of the first All-Canadian medical mission as Restor International.  All her mission experiences have been to Ethiopia.  Jean is a board member of Restor International in the role of Director of Medical  Missions