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Written by Bill Boyd
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 An estimated 878 million people around the world — nearly half of them employed — live on less than US$1.25 a day. Rotarians bring economic and community development to impoverished areas through projects that provide vocational training, support local entrepreneurs and community leaders, and assist with long-term recovery in places struck by natural disaster.
Hannah Warren, a former Ambassadorial Scholar, says her Rotary experience inspired her to become a social entrepreneur. She founded Jhoole, a nonprofit business that offers impoverished women in India access to training, materials, and international markets for hand-woven goods, enabling them to earn a living wage.
With help from a Rotary Foundation grant, Jhoole acquired looms, cloth, and funds to cover training costs for weaving and sewing. “There is no way I could be doing this [work] were it not for my Ambassadorial Scholarship,” Warren says. “Like Jhoole’s programs, Rotary scholarships are not a one-time donation; they are an investment in goodwill.”
Watch a video about Hannah Warren's work and Rotary's focus on community and economic development: http://vimeo.com/33736218
Extract of an article by Bill Boyd
Trustee Chair, The Rotary Foundation
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 December 2011 )
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Written by Benny Manser
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 Dear fellow Rotarians,
I hope you are all well, I am currently working in Burma in the Ayewaddy delta region which was hit by a cyclone a few years ago. I’m interning with the charity Mercy Corps and I am really finding the people, community and the entire situation in this country amazing and everyday I'm learning a lot.
Click on the link to a short online blog http://www.mercycorps.org/bennymanser/blog/26221
‘Improving Harvests in a Cyclone’s Wake’. I will endeavour to keep you updated occasionally and would like to say a really big thank you to you all for giving me a stepping stone to come out here through the Ambassadorial Scholarship and hope we can establish some Rotary projects here in the near future.
Warm wishes,
Benny
Image credit: Tun Myint's rice fields are only a few weeks from harvesting – Photo, Benny Manser Mercy Corps
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 December 2011 )
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Written by Mervyn Edwards
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 Your District Foundation Team invite you to the Half Year Rally to be held at Tilsworth on Thursday 1st December 2011.
Come along and meet our GSE team bound for Australia in March of next year.
See and hear from some of our Ambassadorial Scholars who are with us until August 2012.
The main thrust of the evening will be, for the first time in District, a presentation on Future Vision, the changes to Foundation which will affect YOU.
The way we do Foundation business together will change dramatically you and your club need to be made aware of the changes.
7.00pm for start at 7.30pm – finish 9.00pm
Book your place now – no charge for this evening extravaganza.
Contact:
Mervyn Edwards District Foundation Chairman 2011/2012
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Last Updated ( Friday, 25 November 2011 )
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Written by Gary Eastman
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 The GSE committee have selected the team to visit Sydney in March 2012 and the team member details are as follows:-
Team Leader – Cheryl Law
Cheryl is a member and past President of the Rotary Club of Wendover and District. She is currently District Membership Officer and works for a Charity organisation
Team Members
Steve Nolan
Steve lives in Luton and is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Luton North. He is a senior reporter for Johnston Press.
Nicola Hall
Nikki lives in Stevenage and is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Stevenage. Nikki works as a civilian for the Hertfordshire Constabulary as a Senior Press and PR officer.
Daniel Stewart
Daniel is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Brookmans Park and works as the Internal Communications officer for the charity, The Alzheimers’s Society. He lives in Potters Bar and works in London.
Emma Eyles
Emma is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Aylesbury and is the Communications and Marketing officer for Aylesbury Vale District Council.
Emma lives in Aylesbury.
Image left to right: Emma Eyles, Steve Nolan, Cheryl Law (Leader), Daniel Stewart and Nikki Hall
By Gary Eastman
GSE Chairman
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 October 2011 )
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Written by Linda Downey
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 Ambassadorial Scholar Mayuko Hirai has only been in the country a few weeks and has already been offered one of the most influential Rotary jobs to have appeared this year. She is a 24 year old Japanese young lady who is studying an MSC in International Public Policy at University College London starting on Monday 3 October.
In early August the President and Immediate Past President of the Rotary Club of Wendover and District waited at Heathrow for Mayuko to arrive in the UK. The Club welcomed her with open arms and she has already joined them for morning coffee, a breakfast meeting, walking in the Chilterns, visiting London Open Houses and the Rotary Club of Aylesbury walk around London Wren Churches.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 September 2011 )
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