March 23, 2009

Our district Rotary’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team will be going to Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe on May 1 for 30 days. This is an exchange of teams from our District 6560 with District 9210 in the above mentioned countries. They will stay with Rotarian families and interrelate professional y as well as personally.

Kokomo Rotarian Steve Currens is the GSE leader.  What a great experience…we wish them well. We look forward to the inbound team from this district to visit us here in Indiana.

Bev and I invited the GSE team over to our home for lunch to talk about the area they will be going to. We have travelled here many times and continue to work here (www.lifenets.org/malawi/    www.lifenets.org/zambia and other places on our LifeNets Web site). 

We were really impressed by the enthusiasm, interest and desire of these ambassadors to help disadvantaged people in the third and fourth poorest countries in the world. Two work with Goodwill Industries, one a forensic DNA analyst and one a photojournalist (melaniemaxwell.com). 

We look forward to hearing good things from them all. 



GSE Team from left: Dan, Nick, Melanie, Steve Currens (team leader), Gina along with Bev Kubik of LifeNets on the right