Greetings. This
Wednesday, our lunch meeting in the Paganucci Room at '53 Commons at Dartmouth features our speaker Jamila Mayanja:
Jamila Mayanja is an award-winning Ugandan social entrepreneur and educator. She is the Founder and CEO of Smart Girls Uganda, a social enterprise that empowers and supports girls and women through trainings to build their life and economical skills. Smart Girls has famous girls and women empowerment programs like the Girls with Tools where they offer hands-on training to vulnerable girls and young women in male-dominated non-traditional STEM careers like automotive and electrical engineering. She also innovated a recycled solar smart bag -- a comprehensive menstrual hygiene kit/backpack with educational programming designed with and for girls in Uganda. To date, Smart Girls Uganda has trained 300 young women and helped keep more than 30,000 adolescent girls in school during their menstruation periods.
As to Jamila's connection to Hanover and the Upper Valley, she was in residence with us at Dartmouth for 6 weeks in 2015 as a part of the
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), and returns frequently to visit her Upper Valley “family”, including her host mother, Carola Lea, who lives at Kendall and will also be joining our meeting.o is the
Please feel free to bring guests for lunch who may be interested in hearing our speaker.
Wednesday August 21 is a BREAKfAST MEETING at Paganucci ...start time is 8:30 and we'll have an interesting talk from Dr. Ivan Beckman, who is the Interim Director at CRREL.
Jim Bonney asked to give a special thank you to the volunteers at the Prouty Sag stop. at the Skyway.
From Jim :
Kudos all around to this year‘s crew of Prouty volunteers who staffed the SAG for the gravel ride. As you may have heard our efforts have led to some amazing results. The Prouty has raised over $8 million this year to help fund research and patient supportive services at the Dartmouth Cancer Center.
The volunteers were: Bob Haynes, Dick Booma, Bruce Atwood, Don Pasini, Greg Bazylewicz, and our new member Rick Daniels and his friend Heather. Many thanks one and all.
In case you missed our meeting on July 24, our speaker was the ever engaging Danny Blanchfower. Danny spoke to the club on "The Declining Well-Being of the Young". If you missed his talk our meeting is available on JAM , formerly known as CATV. Worth watching. Danny told us about a major conference with the United Nations which will be hosted at Dartmouth to discuss the global health crisis of despair in young adults....a possible connection? The proliferation of cell phones and social media.
On that note, have a great week. Bring a friend to lunch or breakfast at Rotary and see you Wednesday.
Nan Carroll
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