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Ron Sutherland: Doug Forsyth - Philippines

Thu, May 25th 2017 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Weekly meeting with guest speaker

Hawick Rotarians at the schools' Countryside Day at Border Union Showground, Kelso

President Jim Walker welcomed three Rotarian visitors to last week's meeting of the Rotary Club when President Anne Wright of the Kelso club and her husband Mick attended.  The other was the speaker Past President Douglas Forsyth of the Selkirk club who gave an excellent presentation of a project the Selkirk club are undertaking in 2018 to Manila in the Phillipines.  A party of fifteen are going there to Naga City to supply mattresses and other needy equipment to the Queen of Peace Children's Home as well as sanitation improvements to six local schools through a connection with the wife of the Selkirk President Ferdous Ahmed and, rather than just sending the money to a local Rotary club, decided to take it there personally and hand it over as well as undertaking some of the work along with the locals.  Rotarian Ron Sutherland and his wife Pat of the Hawick club will accompany the Selkirk party.  About £6,000 in total will require to be raised as Selkirk's share of the project and various events are planned as well as seeking support from other Border clubs.  The talk generated a lot of interest and Ron Sutherland gave the vote of thanks and wished Douglas and the club much success in the project.
President Jim and Rotarians Robin Mason, Sandy Bannerman and Ron and Pat Sutherland assisted Kelso Rotary Club at the Springwood Park School's Day last week.

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