Yvonne Webb

They may be small in num­ber-26 mem­bers in to­tal - but the Ro­tary Club of Princes Town has been mak­ing big strides, not on­ly in Trinidad, but in Dis­trict 7030, which in­cor­po­rates 14 coun­tries in which they op­er­ate.Their suc­cess­es, in the past year, bore tan­gi­ble re­sults at a gala func­tion held in Bar­ba­dos, fol­low­ing the Ro­tary Dis­trict Con­fer­ence there in ear­ly April.At that func­tion, dis­trict gov­er­nor An­tho­ny Watkins pre­sent­ed Princes Town with the most dis­tin­guished Club of The Year Award, as well as, the Club with the Best At­ten­dance Record (small).As­sis­tant gov­er­nor Ann Marie Rogers, who ac­cept­ed the awards on their be­half, hand­ed them over to pres­i­dent of the Princes Town Club Se­u­nar­ine San­mook at a small­er func­tion held at the Can­ton Palace Restau­rant, Cross Cross­ing, San Fer­nan­do on April 20.

At that func­tion, Tamee­ka Luces-Li­ma was al­so in­duct­ed as the newest mem­ber of the Princes Town Club."Our dis­trict is made up of 69 clubs in 14 coun­tries. There are 22 clubs in T&T. Out of the 69 clubs, Princes Town re­ceived these spe­cial awards," Rogers beamed as she made the pre­sen­ta­tion."As part of the Ro­tary cul­ture, every club is man­dat­ed to meet every sin­gle week. Princes Town had 100 per cent at­ten­dance at their meet­ing for the pe­ri­od 2010/2011. They are the on­ly club which re­ceived these awards, so it is in­deed an ho­n­our," Rogers added.

She al­so ex­plained that Ro­tary was in the process of part­ner­ing with the Min­istry of the Peo­ple and So­cial De­vel­op­ment to help less for­tu­nate cit­i­zens."A sim­ple thing as a birth cer­tifi­cate , lots of peo­ple in this coun­try do not know how to ac­cess. Some don't even know how to fill our forms. The Ro­tary Club will be that mid­dle per­son be­tween gov­ern­ment and the vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens," Rogers said.She added that the Ro­tary, will re­main an in­de­pen­dent ser­vice or­gan­i­sa­tion, in spite of their part­ner­ship with the gov­ern­ment.