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From From FloridaFlorida

District District

69506950

Rotary Ambassadorial Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to PanamaScholar to Panama

2006-072006-07

Bram Bram FiebelkornFiebelkorn

The Rotary Amassadorial Scholarship

• Since 1947

• 37,000 scholarships

• 800 each year

• Worth more than $500,000,000

The Foundation of Rotary International

What does an Ambassadorial Scholar do?

1. Education

2. Philanthropy

3. Promotion

What does an Ambassadorial Scholar do?

• Education

• Philanthropy

• Promotion

What an ambassador!

Paul Harris Fellows?Paul Harris Fellows?

Kuna Yala Indians

Embera Indians

Roomies

• Sudan – Scholar Dan Stonesca starts Refugee camps

• Scotland – Programs for underprivileged youth

• Panama

• Ghana – Scholar Benjamin Thomas

raises $75 K for children’s hospital

Generous contributions from Rotarians worldwide represent continued faith that

the students who are Ambassadorial Scholars today will be tomorrow's

community and world leaders.

http://www.rotary.org/foundation/educational/amb_scho

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, all foes to real understanding. Likewise, tolerance, or broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

- Mark Twain

http://BramInPanama.blogspot.com

Thank you!!!

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