An idea, with talent and drive, is a great start for a project, but at their Jan 27 Zoom meeting, the Rotary Club of Grand Island learned that
Connections are what make Rotary projects unique and so successful. Dr. Jodi Porter set the stage – a tough start to life: very limited sight, upheavals in the life of a missionary family, including several months with Bishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa; administering MSF (Doctors Without Borders) projects, brought her to Ontario, its Human Rights Commission, and membership in the Rotary Club of Niagara on the Lake. Then the unique value of
Connections: finding ways to actually deliver $3000 worth of ‘Plumpy’nut’ concentrated nutrition bars financed by her Rotary club, to starving, literally dying, youths of Yemen! All done thru contacts in the Canadian Yemeni community, contacts with the warring parties in Yemen thru MSF, and the impossible was done – a modest contribution by a mid-sized Canadian Rotary club, making a life-saving difference to youth in war-torn Yemen! This is the difference that Rotarians can make, and have made, in this world. Rotarians are not all unique in the way Jodi Porter is, but all Rotarians are unique in ways that can help.
