Women in Rotary make it happen
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Mar 3, 2015, 12:28:57 AM3/3/15
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FYI, source from Rotary Voices at:
Women in Rotary make it happen
Posted on March 2, 2015 Editor’s Note: In celebration of International Women’s Day,
which is 8 March, we are running a week-long series of blog posts from
women who are making a difference in their communities and the world
through Rotary.
Celia Cruz de Giay
By Celia Cruz de Giay, 2014-15 Rotary vice president
If anyone had told me that I would be writing a blog post today as
vice president of Rotary International extolling the impact of women, I
would have thought that person was dreaming. But when I think about it a
little longer, I can see how the idea of service modeled for me since
my childhood through my Rotarian father, and then through my Rotarian
husband, Luis, led to this day, and I recognize that Rotary was always
part of my life. That is why I am a Rotarian committed to serve.
I joined Rotary 21 years ago. But I have been involved in service all
my life, whether through preparing a grant to help the hospital in my
town, or organizing vocational education classes for youth, or
vaccinating children against polio, or organizing fundraisers for
scholarship associations, and so on.
The most important lesson I have learned by serving is that to truly
lead, we need to be in touch with the people we serve. Anyone can become
a community leader, but to truly achieve something as a leader, we must
be immersed in their agonies and inspired by their causes. True
leadership is a commitment to help others reach their full potential.
As the world’s oldest service organization, Rotary has come a long
way. Today we have more than 1.2 million men and women working to
improve the lives of people in their communities and around the world.
Around 250,000 of them are women, who bring a different perspective to
the way we look at challenges and opportunities. These women are from
diverse ethnic and religious background; they employ teamwork,
persistence, determination, creativity, enthusiasm, generosity,
self-confidence, and compassion; and they advocate for education and new
opportunities for children, youth, and young adults.
I believe Rotary’s challenge today and in the future is to engage
more women and more young people into our organization to allow them to
grow as leaders, so we can together contribute to bringing about social
justice, peace, and understanding.
Many times I have told myself that my legacy to my family, and to
future generations, should be to leave the world better than I found it.
So I will continue
serving through Rotary and putting my heart into all I do, hoping to
inspire Rotary members in my club, district, and worldwide to do our
best to leave the world a better place than we found it. Because if we
can dream we can do this, we can make it possible!!
- See a gallery of women in Rotary
- Read more about the history of women in Rotary
- Read about Rotary’s 2014 women of action
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