Rotary’s ‘District 7030’ conference opens

NAPA’s Lord Kitchener Auditorium and the outdoor plaza took on the spectacle of an international gathering as the guests socialised before the formal start of the event, taking in the sounds of the Goodwill Industries Steelband.

Officials said it was the largest conference to be held in the last 25 years and had attracted 800 participants.

Delivering the feature address in the Lord Kitchener Auditorium at NAPA, acting President of Trinidad and Tobago, Senator Christine Kangaloo praised the Rotary Club for using their passion, energy and intelligence to take action on meaningful and sustainable projects from literacy and peace to water and health.

She said that whatever the issue, club members were always working to better the world and had always made the world better.

She said one of the Rotary Club’s best known achievements had been the elimination of polio worldwide and no organisation in the world had worked as hard and as consistently for the elimination of polio as had Rotary. She said the club, with its global Polio Plus programme, was a model of international civil society and governmental co-operation.

Kangaloo said if today the world stands on the verge of the complete eradication of polio it was because the world started on the shoulders of Rotary’s efforts.