GSE Team to D3450 in 2009

Hi everyone,

As you will soon see, a blog has been set up to share our experiences on our Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) trip to Hong Kong. We mean to let everybody who’s interested keep up to date with what we are doing.

The team members are: Nivashni Vandayar, Santosh Beharie, Siyanda Ngcobo and Brendan Gilbert. The team is being led on the trip by Jonathan Brauteseth, a past president of the Rotary Club of Port Shepstone. The team members are so thrilled to have been selected. For those of you who aren’t sure what a GSE trip is all about, here is a quotation that might help:

The Group Study Exchange (GSE) program of The Rotary Foundation is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women between the ages of 25 and 40 and in the early years of their professional lives. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits between paired areas in different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country’s institutions and ways of life, observe their own vocations as practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.

We are so excited! We have prepared our presentation and presented it to the local GSE committee of Rotary District 9270. They thought it was better than just good, but gave us lots of pointers for making it a great presentation. This is the presentation that we will make to Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 9350 (Hong Kong, Macau and Mongolia) while we are visiting them. The presentation is about ourselves, our work, and mainly about our beautiful country, South Africa. We will try to keep this blog updated as much as possible and add as many pics as possible so that you can share with us.

We leave on Saturday 7th February from Durban at 12 noon and then from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo at 4.50pm. We get back on Sunday 8th March.

Warm regards,

The team