Wed Online Meeting - Rumana Monzur
Contact:
Hugo Li
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13 May 2020 |
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 Rotary Club of Richmond
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We are changing our noon meeting today in order to join the District meeting at 4pm Just click on this link to Zoom and use your computer screen and microphone. If necessary use these meeting access numbers:
Meeting ID: 856 8539 0338 and Password: 622118
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Speaker: Rotarian Rumana Monzur
A chance to hear Rumana, a Vancouver Rotarian who was one of the scheduled speakers for the 2020 Vision Conference.
Rumana has a powerful, heartfelt story to tell about her personal journey from the depths of despair to learning how to prosper as a blind person. When her ex-husband blinded her while trying to kill her in June 2011 her life turned into an obstacle course. Along with blindness came many hardships and challenges. She kept tripping, stumbling and falling down. But as she struggled to get up each time, she learned that adversity is the best university! To graduate from it, you need hope, courage, personal participation and transformation.
She started her career as a lecturer in International Relations but, after becoming blind, decided to change her career. Rumana graduated from the University of British Columbia, in May 2017 with a law degree, and is currently a counsel at the Department of Justice Canada in Vancouver. Today Rumana is a beloved “lamp-lighter” who instills light and love wherever she goes and speaks.