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Honorary Member 2008 - 09

The  Vale of Belvoir celebrated its 18th Anniversary at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground and took the unusual step of welcoming an honorary member into their midst.

 

Earlier in the year 46-year old Jane Hart had given a talk to the club about her work with vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the Ugandan village of Kyotera. She describes the beginnings of her involvement as a bit of a “a mid life crisis” as although she’d always wanted to be involved in voluntary work “time ran away” and it was not until her two daughters were grown up that she felt able to embark on the adventure.

 

Jane attended a fund raising event of a friend’s daughter and this, alongside her fascination in Princess Diana’s work with Aids victims, prompted her to “do something”. She decided to use some her savings to undertake the journey and volunteered as part of a community based organisation to improve the welfare of vulnerable disadvantaged children. She spent a month living and working within the community of Kyotera and the surrounding area – her duties being to seek out vulnerable families and then offer support and provide access to education for as many children as possible.

 

Jane will not be upset if I refer to her as an ‘ordinary, hard-working person’ and she was clearly touched by the humbling and enlightening experience in Uganda. She says that she’s unable to switch off the terrible plight that she witnessed and although she intends to return in 2009 she also tries to raise people’s awareness of the situation in Kyotera. Indeed since returning from her trip a number of friends and local groups have made donations through her to the charity group working in Kyotera.

 

President David and the members of the Vale of Belvoir were “touched” by her story and impressed that she had taken such great efforts to “make a difference”. Jane has been offered honorary membership with the hope that she will be able to reach out and tell her story to other Rotary Clubs in the District and take with her, on her return to Uganda, the support of our Club and the ability to further spread the word of Rotary International.

 

Jane will be a good ambassador for Rotary and is proof, as if we needed it, that individuals can put “service above self” and “make dreams real”   

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