At our regular Rotary Club meeting today, we used the ZOOM technology to join with the Rotary Club of Zenica, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
This club was established on the 20th of September 2018 and has 16 regular and 1 honorary member. They are a very hard working group, and reviewed their accomplishments with us.
The RC of Zenica has been part of a Global Grant project, which is titled "INCREASING READING LITERACY OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS STUDENTS IN ZENICA-DOBOJ CANTON". It has been running for 3 years, has involved 220 teachers, 14,000 new books and 59 primary schools in the area. An amazing accomplishment. They have also been involved in a District Grant funded project, to procurement and distribute 120 sensors for non-contact glucose measurement at children and adolescents with diagnosed type 1 Diabetes, in their area.
They have also been involved in the Youth Exchange program, they have donated music instruments to local schools and established a number of scholarships. It is truly an impressive list of accomplishments for a club so young. Well done!! They are not resting on their laurels, they have big plans for 2023 and beyond, including post-secondary scholarships and seeding additional Rotary clubs in the area.
You can follow them on the website http://www.rczenica.ba or on Facebook "rotaryzenica".
After a short presentation by President Melanie Harty about our history, several questions were asked and answered.
An inspirational program for sure!