This Week's Speaker
Claire Gordon, President, Rotaract Club of Atlanta
Join us this Friday on Zoom for an update on the Rotaract Club of Atlanta from Club President Claire Gordon. You can join at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86202979419.
Claire was born in South Africa, but considers herself a Dunwoody native. Claire has been attending Rotary events since age three; she is the daughter of Rotarian David and Judy Gordon who have been part of our Dunwoody Family of Rotary for many years. In addition to many Dunwoody Rotary service projects (including the picture of the Gordon family at a Dunwoody Nature Center clean up day you can see when you click "more" below), Claire's Rotary career includes serving as:
- Past Dunwoody High School Interact President and RYLA attendee - sponsored by the Dunwoody Rotary
- Past Vice President of UGA’s Rotaract
- Current President of the Rotaract Club of Atlanta (chartered in 2012 with Dunwoody as its sponsor)
- Incoming Membership Chair of Atlanta Metro Rotary, where she is a Charter Member.
Claire graduated from Dunwoody High School and UGA. She
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The Rotary Foundation
Collaborating to Make a Difference - New Global Grant Project
Culebra is a small island paradise in Puerto Rico - with one major drawback, a mosquito that spreads life threatening diseases like dengue and yellow fever. The Rotary Club of Dunwoody has been invited - and the Board has approved - joining with Rotary District 6420 (Illinois - current home of our Past President Laura Kann) in a project to eliminate that species of mosquito over a two-year period. If the project is approved by The Rotary Foundation, we will contribute $7,500 from our Charitable Fund to support it. The project's total budget is $225,000.
We are excited about this project for several reasons:
- If successful, the project will likely lead to similar efforts in other small Caribbean islands - so we could be part of creating a replicable project promoting disease prevention and treatment. On Culebra, this benefits the 1,800 residents as well as the thousands of tourists who visit this island each year.
- We have the opportunity to work with Laura Kann and her district, as well as experts from the CDC.
- With the proximity of Culebra to Dunwoody, there's potential for our Rotarians to visit and take part in the project.
We will keep you informed as the grant moves through the approval process and we look more at the possibilities of visiting Culebra in the future.
GRSP
Thanks for Supporting GRSP!
Last week we heard from our GRSP student Yemariam about how her GRSP scholarship not only answered her prayers for the financial support of her education and career dreams, but also how it had been much more than that - a Rotary family who makes her feel welcome and helped her get settled in a new country and life.
We had many online visitors from the GRSP program - which has sponsored more that 4,500 students over its 45-year history, and we recognized both Lorri Christopher and Eleni Bafas for their recent contributions to GRSP. As Eleni said last week, please let her know if you'd like to know more about contributing to GRSP. It can make a difference ... for the students, the world and each of us.
Pictured: Lorri Christopher, GRSP Secretary and new Ronnie Waller Fellow, GRSP Chair Bert Guy, GRSP Trustee, Foundation Secretary and new Will Watt Fellow Eleni Bafas, and GRSP Vice-Chair Mike Sweigart.
