On Monday
24th September, I attended my first District Council meeting as Club
President. This follow a similar format
to the Club council agenda, all be it on a larger scale
For
myself, it was good to meet with Rotarians from all over the 1220
District. The highlight of the meeting
was a presentation by Martin Beaumont of the Rotary Club of Dronfield. Dronfield Rotary Club have been working in
partnership with the Rotary Club of Pokhara Fishtail, Nepal in a project known
as ‘The Fishtail Fund.’
The
Fishtail Fund was also highlighted at 2011’s District Conference when 4 Nepal
gentlemen travelled to Scarborough (at their own expense) to promote the fund
and to thank UK Rotarians for their support.
This is
an excerpt from the excellent website www.fishtailfund.com
Our Purpose:
To help clever children from poor Nepali homes to stay on at school.
Our belief:
The future leaders of a poor country will come from the children of today.
Only the educated are free.
Nelson Mandela:
Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world:
The support we ask:
Just £5 a month buys an education for five years at school. £12 pays for a year at College or Sixth Form.
How we operate:
Support money raised by us is sent to our Trustees in Nepal and given direct to students or more usually to their head teachers
Welcome to The Fishtail Fund 2012-13. In our third full year we have expanded to almost 50 students. Most are at school. Three have entered the next phase, that is College or Sixth Form level.
We are at present not inviting support for any more students. Instead we are concentrating on improving support for our existing students so we can, if they meet our high standards, continue to college and university.
Please contribute to our College and University Funds
Please enjoy browsing through these 48 young hopefuls, the clever young people from Nepal, yet all of them desperately poor. They are tending cows, looking after blind uncles, selling vegetables, running families: yet still they are attending school and all have magnificent potential. Their biographies and photographs are inspiring.
To help clever children from poor Nepali homes to stay on at school.
Our belief:
The future leaders of a poor country will come from the children of today.
Only the educated are free.
Nelson Mandela:
Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world:
The support we ask:
Just £5 a month buys an education for five years at school. £12 pays for a year at College or Sixth Form.
How we operate:
Support money raised by us is sent to our Trustees in Nepal and given direct to students or more usually to their head teachers
Welcome to The Fishtail Fund 2012-13. In our third full year we have expanded to almost 50 students. Most are at school. Three have entered the next phase, that is College or Sixth Form level.
We are at present not inviting support for any more students. Instead we are concentrating on improving support for our existing students so we can, if they meet our high standards, continue to college and university.
Please contribute to our College and University Funds
Please enjoy browsing through these 48 young hopefuls, the clever young people from Nepal, yet all of them desperately poor. They are tending cows, looking after blind uncles, selling vegetables, running families: yet still they are attending school and all have magnificent potential. Their biographies and photographs are inspiring.
Celebrate, too, their sponsors, who are trusting us, the Trustees, and above all putting their money and their faith in these remarkable students eight thousand miles away in Pokhara Nepal.
We remind you that for students and teachers, English is their third language, after Nepali and probably Urdu. English, the world language, is different across that world.
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