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!!!