Sama­ki Fe­li­cian

Free­lance Cor­re­spon­dent

The Ro­tary Club of Princes Town has an­nounced the of­fi­cial char­ter­ing of the Ro­taract Club of Princes Town on Oc­to­ber 11, mark­ing a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in its on­go­ing com­mit­ment to youth de­vel­op­ment, lead­er­ship, com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice, en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and pro­fes­sion­al growth in the re­gion.

The char­ter cer­e­mo­ny, held at the Ro­tary Club’s meet­ing venue, fond­ly re­ferred to as the “Ro­tary Home”, lo­cat­ed at the res­i­dence of past pres­i­dent and char­ter mem­ber Jamir Ous­man and his part­ner in ser­vice, Tara Ous­man, brought to­geth­er Ro­tar­i­ans, Ro­tarac­tors, and fam­i­ly mem­bers for a mem­o­rable evening of cel­e­bra­tion and in­spi­ra­tion.

In her re­marks, pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ann Harp­er de­scribed the mo­ment as a “full-cir­cle achieve­ment”, sym­bol­is­ing re­new­al, growth, and con­ti­nu­ity of Ro­tary’s mis­sion. She high­light­ed the sig­nif­i­cance of host­ing the event at the very lo­ca­tion where the Ro­tary Club of Princes Town first be­gan.

“We did not spon­sor this club to check a box for Dis­trict 7030 nor Ro­tary In­ter­na­tion­al ci­ta­tion. We did it to ex­pand our im­pact, cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties for youth lead­er­ship, and strength­en the bridge be­tween Ro­tary and the next gen­er­a­tion of ser­vice lead­ers,” Harp­er said.

The new­ly char­tered Ro­taract Club of Princes Town be­gins its jour­ney un­der the lead­er­ship of char­ter pres­i­dent Avinash Ram­lochan, sup­port­ed by a ded­i­cat­ed team of young pro­fes­sion­als and change­mak­ers.

Adding to the evening’s in­spi­ra­tion, fea­tured guest speak­er Char­ter mem­ber and past pres­i­dent Jamir Ous­man, re­flect­ed on the evo­lu­tion of Ro­tary’s mis­sion. He de­scribed Ro­taract as “the bridge that con­nects youth­ful en­thu­si­asm with ex­pe­ri­enced men­tor­ship, a plat­form where ideas are shaped in­to ac­tion, and ac­tion trans­forms in­to mean­ing­ful im­pact.” Ous­man en­cour­aged the new Ro­tarac­tors to “serve with hu­mil­i­ty, lead with in­tegri­ty, and give with open hearts.”

Di­rec­tor of Ro­tary Foun­da­tion Ms Oosha Jagdin em­pha­sised that Ro­taract rep­re­sents Ro­tary’s arm for young adults ready to serve while de­vel­op­ing per­son­al­ly and pro­fes­sion­al­ly. She re­mind­ed mem­bers that they are now part of a glob­al net­work and en­cour­aged col­lab­o­ra­tion, friend­ship, and men­tor­ship through ser­vice.

“Ro­taract is not just a youth group,” she not­ed. “It is a lead­er­ship plat­form that de­mands con­sis­ten­cy, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and a deep re­spect for Ro­tary’s core val­ues.”

The event al­so fea­tured con­grat­u­la­to­ry mes­sages from Dis­trict Gov­er­nor So­rarya Gus­tave-Warn­er (Ro­tary Dis­trict 7030), As­sis­tant Gov­er­nor for the South Clus­ter (Trinidad), Mrs Din­na Ra­j­paul-Bain­ney, past pres­i­dents, and Ro­tary Foun­da­tion Com­mit­tee Di­rec­tor Jagdin.

The evening cul­mi­nat­ed with the of­fi­cial pre­sen­ta­tion of the Ro­taract Char­ter Cer­tifi­cate, pin­ning of mem­bers, and the sign­ing of the char­ter doc­u­ment, fol­lowed by mo­ments of fel­low­ship and cel­e­bra­tion, cap­tur­ing the uni­ty and shared pur­pose of the Ro­tary fam­i­ly.