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who mostly serve close to home, consider the times when you may not find the need for

service in your community or even your country. DGEs, then go beyond boundaries and
serve in countries where there is a need.
This International Assembly itself will provide you many opportunities to find project

partners. Interact with fellow DGEs and do visit the pavilion, Connect for Service.
Use the virtual world not only to plan projects but even to oversee projects. When you
sink bore wells in an Ethiopian village, connect your own club over a Zoom call to the

Ethiopian club and see how the project has helped the community. As the water gushes
out of these bore wells onto the parched lands, your club members will be excited to see it

virtually. They will want to do more. Each of them will see how they can serve to change
lives even in another country. In India we call it “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,” meaning “the
world is a family.” Serve it well.

As we go about Doing Good in the World: empowering girls. Too many girls face
discrimination, disadvantage, the lack of opportunities. Empowering girls will mean

securing their education, securing their health, their economic development, equipping
them with skills for greater opportunities. It will mean curbing child marriage and teenage
pregnancies. It will mean preventing trafficking and abuse and gender-based violence

against women.
Adolescent girls have the right to a safe, educated, and healthy life. We know that when
girls are supported and encouraged starting at the youngest ages, they have the potential

to change the world — both as empowered girls of today and as tomorrow’s workers,
mothers, entrepreneurs, and leaders. An investment in them upholds their rights today and
promises a more equitable and prosperous future. One in which half of humanity is an equal

partner in solving the problems of climate change, political conflict, economic growth,
disease prevention, and global sustainability. There is so much that can be done to serve to

change the lives of girls.
Do also remember that, starting 1 July, you can apply for grants to protect the environment.
Of course our war against COVID will carry on with full vigor. We played a meaningful

role in helping people with innumerable masks, ventilators, sanitizers, PPE kits, etc. We
even created hospitals for COVID patients. The Rotary Foundation gave grants worth

$30 million. Clubs added to this and did projects of millions of dollars more. Being a
premier service organization, the world looks up to us to act at such times of crisis. And we
have played our role well. Now we will play our part in supporting the vaccination process.

Dear change-maker governors, you will be busy Doing Good in the World, but be sure
to share these stories of your wonderful work. Inspire every Rotarian in your district to

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