Rotary-West GSE visit India 2008

GSE India Visit 2008

Ojai-West Member Linda Taylor led a team of young professionals on a tour of Indian Businesses and Rotary Clubs.

Left to Right:
Ben Greenaway, Mary Dinh, Linda Taylor, Jackie Bennett, Tiffani Chan

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Hello all;

The GSE Team has been very busy in Bareilly. We have gone to almost too many Rotary Meetings and fellowships to count, all of them very memorable. The Rotary presence here is huge, with 28 clubs in this relatively small town. They sponsor many terrific projects, including a clinic for polio victims and amputees, a cancer clinic, an eye clinic for impoverished people, a school for handicapped children, and of course the polio booths.

The next polio NID is March 3 all over India. We will leave tomorrow for Kanpur, where hopefully we will have a day to rest.

Yours in Rotary Service,

--Linda

Hello everyone,

The GSE has arrived at it's final stop before returning to the U.S. We are now in Aligarh, UP, and were warmly welcomed by the Rotary Club here this afternoon, and were treated to a nice reception at the home of Ashok Saxena, District Governor for 3110 in 2006/2007.

Tomorrow we will visit some sites, and the next morning leave for Deli and the airport after breakfast. We have had an amazing visit with the many Rotary Clubs of District 3110. Our itinerary has included the following:

The 3110 District Conference at Jim Corbett Park.
Nanital for one night (where I got to visit a polio booth, as it was the NID)
Rampur for one night.
Bareilly for 4 nights, where we visited many Rotary Clubs and Rotary Projects. We got to attend some vocational visits also in Bareilly.
Passed through Shahjahanpur, where we had lunch with a Rotary Club.
Kannauj for tea and a visit to a perfume factory and a school.
Kanpur. We rested and visited Rotary Clubs and Rotary projects for 5 nights.
Jhansi to spend a night and visit a temple and 500 year-old fort.
Agra, where we spent 3 nights and were able to see the Taj Mahal at dawn!
Mathura, the birthplace of the god Krishna
Varindavan and Hathras
Now in Aligarh. Whew!

We have traveled over 2000 kilometers in our car, with our trusty driver Ramesh, who has taken such good care of us daily. He has not even complained when he had to take all our heavy luggage on and off the car each day for our home stays. As you can imagine, our luggage has swelled since our arrival from all the wonderful gifts presented to us by the Rotary Clubs we have visited. The home stays have really been the best part of our visit here, in my opinion, as we have go t ten to know our hosts and their families very well in a very short time, and feel like we have new, adopted, family members.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Linda Taylor
GSE Team Leader