Speech at Rotary Club South Londrina

On Wednesday, 13th Sep. 2012 I was honored to give a speech at the Rotary Club South Londrina, by invitation of the Club´s President Mr. Renato Ferraz and the Rotarian and president of honor Mr. Paulo Watanabe.

The theme was "The Importance of Rotary Youth Exchange Program of Rotary" emphasizing that, if it were not this opportunity, this kitchen project at the Down School in Londrina-Brazil would not have been developed.

 

Students from the institution prepared a beautiful mosaic work to give to the club members as a thank you gift for all the work provided by the club to APS Down School and for supporting the adapted kitchen project.

Rotary Club South Londrina kindly offered a framed certificate of thanks for our participation, but we are the ones who must say thank you to Rotary Clubs. 

 

How did the project start?

After the flood that devastated the APS Down School (Brazil) in October 2011, we contacted the Rotary Club of Armidale Central, Australia and presented the difficulties the Down School was going through, because they had lost many equipments and educational materials.

Rotary Club of Armidale Central, through Mr Garske, took the initiative to develop an international project to help the school and the idea of ​​making a Industrial Kitchen emerged. The main idea was to install and fit the kitchen to accommodate Down Students, which could become a form of income to the school and the students. Today the institution has a new adapted kitchen thanks to the collaboration of Rotary Club of Armidale Central (Australia D9650), RC South Londrina and RC Londrina Alvorada (Brazil D4710).