<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Travel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:travel@howardtours.net">travel@howardtours.net</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:27 AM<br>Subject: Rotary Service Opportunity<br>To: <br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Rotary Club President: <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations on the beginning of a new and hopefully successful year of Rotary Service as a Club President. I sincerely hope it is a wonderfully productive and satisfying experience
for you. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The purpose of this correspondence is to announce an upcoming trip to
<b><span style="color:red">Port Harcourt, Nigeria, West Africa</span></b><span style="color:red">
</span>in <b><span style="color:red">October 2016 </span></b>to participate in a <b>
<span style="color:blue">polio immunization exercise</span></b>, <b><span style="color:#0033cc">attend the 11<sup>th</sup> Annual West Africa Project Fair</span></b>, and engage in a
<b><span style="color:#0033cc">hands-on work project.</span></b> Attached is detailed trip information. Please feel free to share this information with the Rotarians in your club
<i>as soon as possible</i> as we have a limited amount of space and expect this trip to be filled in the next week or two.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trip Dates: <b>O<wbr>ctober 18 – 26, 2016<br>
</b>Travel to: <b>Port Harcourt, Nigeria, West Africa <br>
</b>Per Person Price: <b>$1,629, double occupancy</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Program includes:</b> Hotel accommodations, transfers, most meals, polio immunization exercise, hands-on community service field work, West Africa Project Fair registration,
special Rotary and fellowship events, sightseeing, etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In October 2016, North American Rotarians will travel to
<b><span style="color:#0033cc">Port Harcourt, Nigeria,</span></b> for a life changing experience. Have you ever heard a Rotarian speak about their personal experience participating in a polio eradication exercise, a cleft lip/cleft palate mission, or work
on a humanitarian grant? These trips have a profound effect upon the individual. For those of you who have gone on one of these trips you know, and for those of you who have yet to enjoy this experience, you should.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The experiences you have stay with you forever. You get up early in the morning, travel with local Rotarians to a village, health clinic or impoverished neighborhood, and for the
next few hours, you change. Small children come up to you to say thank you. Mothers and fathers smile at you knowing that you are giving their child a chance for a better life. You meet with the leaders in the village to learn of their needs and their hopes.
It is hot; it is dusty; it makes you uncomfortable; it is exquisite. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The West Africa Project Fair is endorsed by Rotary’s Reach in Africa Committee (ROTA), who is trying to generate greater connectivity between the African and North American Rotarians
to generate greater support of the projects of Africa. Your involvement, or your club’s involvement, in this Fair would not only provide an opportunity for project support, it would also help your members to grow and to understand the benefits of being a
Rotarian. Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do anywhere else. This trip is just such an experience.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even if you are unable to join us this year, please feel free to
<b><span style="color:red">announce this program in your club over the next month</span></b>, get it on websites, and get it in newsletters. Encourage your members to participate – help Rotary Serve Humanity. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us know if you have any questions. We hope to hear from you soon.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jolene R. Bortz<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manager<br>
Howard Tours<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">"We look forward to traveling with you"<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> GO A's<br>Gary "Hoop" Hopper</div>
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