| Another interesting Speaker last week in Peter Gleniston talking about his ‘human aid’ activities in Africa and Middle East. Reminded me of a similar story given by Mark ‘Squidgy’ Squirrell at last years District Conference at Ballarat, when he spoke about the similar problems when working for the UN. Only other difference was that he met the late Asser Arafat and worked in the various African and Middle East war zones when negotiating food deliveries into Gaza and climbed Mt. Everest for a UN fundraiser project. He wrote a most interesting book called ‘ From Arafat to Everest’ and it is a really excellent read. Peter is a local boy who spent 12 years in the army. He then spent 6 years with the British Red Cross In the middle East/ Africa and now works for and Australian security company Unity Resources Group out of Dubai. He gave a powerful PowerPoint presentation showing pictures to demonstrate the type of work he was doing and to give his audience a view of the work that is undertaken. Yet another reason to go to District Conferences to hear such excellent keynote presentations. Along with other Sponsors, I received an update from Howard and Deborah this weekend advising about their visit to the Kitenden School in Tanzania, and the great strides made there with our Club and private sponsorship money. Let’s hope that District will be generous with our Grant application for both them and River of Stories. |
