Rotary Club Bonaire Holds Turnover Event for the New Board

Rotary Club Bonaire held its Turnover of the new Board at It Rains Fishes Restaurant in gala dress and tropical long sleeve guayabera.

Every year a new board is installed by the Past President in all the Rotary Clubs in the world. Rotary International has 29,000 clubs in 161 countries worldwide with over 1.2 million members.

RCB past Board consisted of: Ruud Vermeulen as President, Huub Groot as Secretary, Corine van der Hout as Treasurer, Marisela Croes as Past President and Sergeant at Arms, all who led the Club to a record year in donations and fundraisers. Job Well Done!

Rotary motto: Service Above Self! The main fundraising in the last year 2007-2008 income came from AMFO and Usona, and the second was The Auction Dinner and then the annual Rotarally.

Rotary Club Bonaire served the community by donating and sometimes managing up to 24 essential projects, spending over Naf 200,000. Some of them are:

• Breakfast in Schools, feeds 280 children every school day
• SGB Hotel School Student's Italy Stage Project
• Hardin di Chikitin Foundation
• Youth Outreach Foundation's Christmas Project
• Dr. R. Visser Institute Activities
• Summer Camp Fesbo in 6 barios
• Stichting Project's Communication Project
• School supplies and uniforms for over 300 school children
• Ca’I Mimina Lunch for the elderly
• Bonaire Little League

The new Board for 2008-2009 consists of: President Frank de Wit, Incoming president 2009-2010 Huub Groot, Secretary Majid el Hoss, Treasurer Bob Ram, Past President and Sergeant at Arms Ruud Vermeulen.