Presentation about Rotary and the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship from the Rotaract Wine & Cheese Reception which took place at the Scores Hotel on 6th March

1. Rotary Ambassadorial
Scholar 2011-2012
•What is Rotary?
•What is the Rotary Foundation?
•Rotary Projects
•Ambassadorial Scholarship

2. Rotary Ambassadorial
Scholar 2011-2012
• Diego Carrillo Santoscoy
• School of Economics and
Finance
• MSc in International Strategy
and Economics

4. Serving communities
around the world
•• Peace and conflict and needs
Unique concerns
prevention/resolution
•• Disease prevention and treatment
Adapting and improving how
• Water and sanitation
we respond to those needs
• Maternal and child health
• Basic education and literacy
• Economic and community
development

5. What would it take to change the
world?

6. Provide food to the
hungry…

7. … and water to the
thirsty

8. Children to read and
write

9. … and keeping
them healthy

10. For families

11. A new
generation

12. Giving the poor
to better
themselves

13. Create a world-
wide network of

14. that has killed or
crippled millions

15. Can one person
do it?

20. Vision to see

21. Faith to believe

22. Courage to act

23. Guiding principles
FIRST. The development of
THIRD. The application of the
acquaintance as an opportunity for
ideal of service in each
service;
Rotarian's personal, business,
and community life;
SECOND. High ethical standards in
business and professions; the
FOURTH. of advancement
recognitionThethe worthiness of all
of international understanding,
useful occupations; and the
goodwill, of each Rotarian's
dignifyingand peace through a
world fellowship of business to
occupation as an opportunity
and professional persons
serve society;
united in the ideal of service.

24. 4- Way test

25. UN Representative
Rotary and the United Nations
• In 1942, Rotary clubs from 21 nations
organized a conference in London to
develop a vision for advancing education,
science, and culture after World War II. That
event was a precursor to UNESCO.
• In 1945, 49 Rotarians went to San
Francisco to help draft the UN Charter.
Rotary and the UN have been ever since, a
relationship that’s apparent through
PolioPlus and work with UN agencies.
• Highest consultative status offered to an
NGO by the UN’s Economic and Social
Council

26. Rotary Foundation
Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
• Polio Plus
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health • Humanitarian Grants
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community development • Educational Programs

28. Polio Plus
volunteer arm of the Global Polio
Eradication Initiative
more than 25 years, Rotary has led the
private sector in the global effort to rid the
world of this crippling disease
reach nearly US$1.2 billion by the time the
world is certified polio-free.

29. Educational programs
Ambassadorial Scholarships: Rotary's • Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
mission to advance world understanding, Thailand
goodwill, and peace. • (Duke University and University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• International Christian University, Tokyo,
Group Study Exchange (GSE): Rotary hosts Japan
organize an itinerary of vocational, • Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires,
educational, and cultural points of interest. Argentina
• University of Bradford, West Yorkshire,
England
Rotary Peace Fellowships: Support graduate • University of Queensland, Brisbane,
students and professionals in fields related to Australia
peace and conflict resolution. • Uppsala University, Uppsala,
Sweden

30. My experience with Rotary
Rotary clubs of:
•Bangkok, Thailand
•Guadalajara, Mexico
•Antwerpen, Belgium
•St Andrews, Scotland

31. Research
•The econonomics of drug
trafficking
Even though legalizing drugs might increase the
number of addicts, “the child shot in a slum pass-by-
shooting is an innocent victim in all respect of the
word, [while] the person who decides to take drugs
on his own is not an innocent victim” (Friedman,
1991).

32. Conference:
Hugh Evans, CEO
Key Note speaker at the Rotary International
Conferences in Bangok

33. Good news regarding
Polio
India, until recently
an epicenter of the
wild poliovirus, has
gone one year without
recording a new case
of the crippling,
sometimes fatal,
disease.