What do you hope to achieve during your term?
My role as the District Governor is to consolidate what I’ve always wanted to do in the community and inspire others to do more than what I’ve achieved as an
individual. And inspire clubs to do different projects. Remember, we are 130 clubs; if each of those touched five communities, that is touching over 500 communities. So, one of the things I want to do is inspire clubs to touch as many communities as possible. We’ve always had the Governor come up with a project, but most times that project dies with the year. But when you work with the clubs, these clubs stay in these communities for more than five years, and the impact is much, much greater. So that is one of my roles.
The other thing I would like to achieve as a governor is to change the image of Rotary, which has been associated with the rich, with partying, and with people who come
together to do other things other than help the community. What we do to impact the communities hasn’t filtered down to the people. By not filtering down to the people,
it has also impacted our recruitment. Because a lot of people want to come and do good, and Rotary forms the best platform for people who want to
impact the community. But that image is not coming out. So, one of the things we’re going to focus on this year is building public image by making sure that we show
things that Rotary has done that have made a difference in people’s lives.
