Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 8 August 2015 | Page 70

Dragon Boating
with Rotary
The Rotary International organisation is
undoubtedly one of the oldest charities and
has been making history ever since
its inception in 1905,
with over 1.2 million-member worldwide.

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The Rotary Club Cape of Good Hope was chartered
in 1958 and for the last 57 years has been serving the
various communities of the Southern Cape Peninsula.
Today, there are 30 active Rotarians - ordinary
people who, using their vocational qualifications and
experiences, volunteer their services to those less
fortunate and work hard to ‘do good in the world’ and
make it a better place.

The biggest project ever undertaken by the Rotary
Club has been the Valley Development Projects, Open
Door Child Safety Centre, which is tangible evidence
of Rotary’s motto of ‘Service above Self’. Once
completed, the R2 million