Dear club presidents, It is a joy to welcome you to your year in office and an honor for me to serve as your president. Our Rotary history is one filled with accomplishment, and I come to this year filled with plans and ambitions for the great good we can do together. When our organization turns its considerable strength and talent toward a goal, we have shown the world what we can accomplish.

 

 

This year, the time has come to show the world what we can do to reduce child mortality. Rotary has an array of programs in place that can help achieve this goal by addressing the underlying problems in communities where children often do not live to reach five years of age. When passionate Rotarians harness their energies to provide food and the means to raise more, create access to clean water, provide the small loans parents need to start the businesses that will support their families, and immunize the world's children against the diseases that cripple or rob them of their lives, then we bring the Rotary movement to its fullest expression. When we carry out the tasks that save children's lives, we Make Dreams Real.

 

- Message From RI President 2008-2009, DK Lee

 

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