By: Emma Bodwell, DISC Chair, DGND 2025-26, RC of Bridgton-Lake Region
On Saturday, March 4, a major snow day, we had an amazing International Café call with 36 people! One of the benefits of Zoom and a positive outgrowth of the pandemic. If you can get an internet connection, you can get Zoom. And folks were able to participate from Brazil and Columbia as well as the USA.
Click here for the recording of the March 4 Café.
The chat has some useful links shared in it.
It is posted on our committee’s FaceBook page. (Feel free to share it!!)
If you would like more information and/or would like to contact the presenters directly, here is their info:
Jud Knox - Rotary Indigenous Partnership Committee Outreach Team Update email
Marcelo Haick - Lebanon Solar Power Global Grant Project, seeking to bring schools and learning back to normalcy with Solar Power. email
Pedro Del Portillo - Drums for Peace - Rotary Club Barranquilla, working with at-risk youth. email See the video for his project here.
Carol Marcotte - Saco Bay Sunset - St Anne's Convent, in Ukraine used as a Peace Shelter for women and children war refugees. email See information on her project here.
Also, you can access the blog for the ZAMBIA OUTREACH TEAM here.
The next International Café will be a BREAKOUT SESSION at the District Assembly on April 15, 2023.
Please reach out to me if you have an international project in the works or recently completed that you would like to share with the district!
For more information about DISC and/or to express an interest in a presentation for your club or membership, contact me.