Recent new member Carin was this week's guest speaker and as is usual, our own members have incredibly interesting tales to tell. Sge had a conventional professional life in Holland and their first adopted child. The easy life was not enough, so they set off initially for Katmandu in Nepal in 2001 collecting their second child on the way. Nepal has 20 million people, a number which surprised many of us, and 30% of them are below the poverty line (considered to be US$12/month/person!). The family then moved to Hanoi in Vietnam in 2003 with a population of 90 million, but with a higher standard of living. They moved to NZ in 2008.
Carin joined a Rotary club in Taranaki prior to her move to Auckland and joined St Johns Rotary after meeting some of the members manning a stand in the Meadowbank Shopping Centre in support of the Cure Kids Red Nose Day in 2010.
