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INFORMATION

BACKGROUND
PRESENTATION

THE BI-DISTRICT CONFERENCE BACKGROUND

In 1989-90 the 5520 District Governor Sonny Brown and the 4110 District Governor Boni Mora initiated a joint Conference between our district and the Mexican district to our immediate South. The purpose of the conference was to encourage international cooperation through fellowship, and by creating humanitarian grants to benefit the poor and needy.
Over the years this conference has led to many mutually beneficial activities between the two districts.

  • Through fellowship and festivities, mutual understanding and caring has become the predominant characteristic of exchange between our two districts.
  • There has been an increasing participation in grants for such projects as homes for orphans and street children, assistance for the deaf, operations for cleft palates, medical facilities and equipment, literacy projects, clean drinking water, safe housing, parks and much more. Each year the number of Rotarians from both districts who have participated has grown; the total dollars invested in human lives increased. This, in itself, is a remarkable accomplishment. But more has occurred.
  • Through the increased cooperation, the idea for an International Peace Park on the border was born and developed.
  • In 2001-2 We had our first Neighboring Country Group Study Exchange. The GSE team, made up of American and Mexican water professionals, conducted an investigation of water issues along the International borders of New Mexico, West Texas and Chihuahua. The Joint Team report just submitted its report which could be the basis for many matching grants at this year‚s Bi-District Conference.
  • The two districts are working with Sandia Labs to establish a visionary Bi-National Laboratory on the border which would specialize in developing low-tech systems for water sanitation, desalination and other means of water recycling and reuse.
    This year marks the thirteenth annual reunion of our two districts. The Bi-District conference will be held November 8th and 9th in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the Eldorado Hotel.
    The conference provides the opportunity to learn matching grant procedures and find other clubs that are interested in promoting similar projects. Registration, hotels and grant proposal submittals can all be done on line.

2002 Annual Rotary Bi-District Conference

November 8th – 9th, 2002

Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Eldorado Hotel

Picturesque Santa Fe: a 400-year-old city, with Native American, Spanish colonial, French ecclesiastical, and "Westward Movement" Anglo roots. Once the isolated northernmost extent of New Spain, the end of the historic Santa Fe Trail, now an ancient-modern small city with big-city amenities.
We welcome you to the third largest art market in the United States, where multiple cultures join in a richness rarely seen elsewhere. A community with a range of outstanding museums, including the just-opened Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. Interesting shops, beautiful sunsets, friendly Rotarians.
Our Annual Bi-District Conference November 8 and 9, offers all of this, along with:

-A Gala Ice-Breaker with music and dance entertainment by the multi-cultural youth of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico;

-Luncheon keynote speaker Dr. Tom Chávez, nationally-known historian, humorist, director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. He'll talk to us about the historic, familial, and economic threads that unite the fabric of New Mexico and Texas with Northern Mexico;

- Special events for spouses (museums, back stage at the Opera, etc.);

- Santa Fe's elegant, 5-star Eldorado Hotel;

-Food and fellowship: Rotarians will welcome you to their homes for a festive meal.

And. . .there will be the opportunity to do some matchmaking for International Humanitarian Matching Grants. This year, there will be one, two, or three ways to inform prospective partner clubs about your exciting projects. (See "How to Submit a Grant Proposal.")
If you have never prepared a grant proposal--or even if you have--there will be expert guidance in English and Spanish, in presentations by past District Governors for 5520 and 4110 Bob DeLaHunt and Oscar Narváez.
All this and more. Welcome!

Registration Deadline:

October 1, 2002

Hotel Registration Deadline:

October 7, 2002

Matching Grant Submission Deadline:

October 1, 2002

 

 

Useful links to the Santa Fe area:

https://www.santafechamber.com/
https://www.ci.santa-fe.nm.us/
https://www.santafe.org/

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