Here's an opportunity to see Rotary at work in Africa

Have you ever heard a Rotarian speak about a personal experience participating in a polio eradication exercise, a cleft lip/cleft palate mission, or work on a humanitarian grant?  Rotarians will travel to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, for a life changing experience this fall.  

The experiences you have stay with you forever.  You get up early in the morning, travel with local Rotarians to a village, health clinic or impoverished neighborhood, and for the next few hours, you change.  Small children come up to you to say thank you.  Mothers and fathers smile at you knowing that you are giving their child a chance for a better life.  You meet with the leaders in the village to learn of their needs and their hopes.  It is hot; it is dusty; it makes you uncomfortable; it is exquisite. 

The West Africa Project Fair is endorsed by Rotary’s Reach Out to Africa Committee (ROTA), which is trying to generate greater connectivity between the African and North American Rotarians to generate greater support of their projects.  Your involvement in this fair would not only provide an opportunity for project support, it would also help your members to grow and to understand the benefits of being a Rotarian.  Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do anywhere else.  This trip is just such an experience

Trip dates are November 10-19 and cost is about $1,800 per person, double occupancy. For more details, contact Howard Travels at www.howardtours.net. Or call them at (800) 475-2260. This trip is not accredited by Rotary International, but company president and most of the staff are Rotarians in district 5170 (California).