Engage Rotary, Change Lives!

Posted by Barbara Fickes

on Jul 19, 2013

The Rotary International Motto - Engage Rotary, Change Lives - could not have been more relevant that today, at our first Business Meeting of the new Rotary Year!

Husband and wife team Catherine Robar and Gcinisizwe Noyakaza, of the Themba Project in South Africa, visited our club today to bring us up to date on how our engagement in fundraising to help others has helped to change lives. The pair are the Founding Directors of The Themba Development Project Association, an organization which recognizes that the most important thing a person can have is hope (Themba means Hope in the isiXhosa language).

The Themba Development Project is a registered humanitarian-aid and development organization which works at a grass roots level to assist chronically poor people in South Africa. Read More Here...

Halifax Harbourside Rotarians were both excited and moved to see how our funds enabled local citizens to build a wind pump to assist in growing their own food supply in a community garden. See Photo...

Seen here with Club President, Barbara Fickes, Catherine and Gcinisizwe were a great start to our Business Meeting, and our 2013-14 Rotary Year. Thanks folks!