(30 Sept) First Official Meeting for the New Rotarian Year (+GAL)

Posted in Activities, D2482, Future projects, Galleries, Meeting, News and Events, Rotaract. Written by Admin on September 30th, 2020

First official meeting of Rotary Club Sofia International for the new Rotarian year was held on 30 September 2020 in Hilton Sofia. This was also the first official meeting of Mr. Marc Bouzy as President of the club for 2020/2021 Rotarian year.

15 club members attended. All were excited for the start of the new Rotarian year. During the meeting we discussed plans and organizational matters for the coming season. Some of these:

• Updated meeting schedule with one online meeting and one meeting outside Hilton Sofia each month; 
• Regular meetings with representatives of our Rotaract club;
• Date for the elections of the club;
• Fundraising events of the club;
• Actions on the improvement of the club’s online visibility;
• Plans for international cooperation with foreign clubs.

Later, our Past President presented a copy of the Rotary Citation 2019-2020. The President of Rotary International awarded it to our club for helping Rotary connect the world. Only 18 clubs in our District received such a citation for the past Rotarian year.

After that, our guest Mr. Stefan Hristov, member of Rotary Club Zurich International, shared some of the projects, which their club is doing. He proposed to make a common project with Rotary Club Sofia International in the field of healthcare.

Then, Mrs. Ani Hristova recounted of a project by the Association Children with Onco-Hematologic Diseases. We, as a club, support them for many years. They have successfully finished and officially inaugurated, three weeks ago, a center in Opitsvet. Its main purpose is helping during the recovery of kids who overcame an onco-hematologic disease. The event was attended by many people, including representatives of the municipality, a few ministers, and members of out club. The center will function during the whole year. It is the first such venue on the Balkans and the 8th in the world.

Before the official closing of the meeting, the President invited the members to volunteer to hold presentations during one our next meetings.

The fellowship, then, continued with further discussions in the lobby bar of the hotel.

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