Afghan challenge

 

Rotarians on PEI and across Canada are reaching out to 100,000 high school students to bring the message that education is the pathway to peace and understanding among cultures.

Duncan Conrad a member of the Rotary club of Charlottetown Royalty and a board member of the Canadian Rotary Collaboration on International Development an organization that works to build sustainable international development projects around the world spoke this week with the High School  Students at Grace Christian in Charlottetown to share this important message.

Conrad said:”  Rotary as part of it’s centennial celebration in Canada in responds to needs identified by the people of Afghanistan undertook to build a school  to educate some 4000 students many of them young women who had never had the opportunity for an education.

“  Education he told the students of Grace Christian is the greatest inoculation against ongoing conflict and poverty.”  “ these students are not your typical high school students  to whom  I have presented this story .”  Conrad said.

There interest in learning more about the Afghan challenge and the issues  facing young afghan students comes not just from reading about these experience but from hands on experience that many of them have had or will experience in working with  orphans and the disabled in Jamaica , a project they have been working on for the past eight years.

“  I was inspired by their interest and enthusiasm  in Rotary’s Afghan project but  even more so by the message of hope and a greater understanding of the need to reach out to those of other cultures around the world. “  Conrad Said.

These young men and women truly reflect what rotary is all about Service above Self. 

Duncan Conrad

PDG  District 7820