The BreadBasket Message from the Chair

Dear ROTIans,

During the last weeks there have been too many messages about the Holiday Season; with everybody’s best wishes for the New Year 2010.

But probably there was some special message that really touched our hearts or made us take some moments to think about.

There was a mail with one question: What are we? What type of human being I am? Am I a glass, a channel or a fountain?

It was hard to answer myself. So I continued reading that mail and found this:

A person like a Glass is someone that just retains but doesn’t give anything. Someone that keeps things, knowledge, money, etc., but never gives back to others. People that never shares their happiness or talents. Selfish people.

A person like a Channel just gives but doesn’t retain anything. People that spend their lives just working, working, working; people doing a lot of activities on a hurry. Someone whose work is more important than their family. People that do not enjoy life.

Someone like a Fountain is a person that gives and retains. People like a Fountainhead of Life. People that may give without being empty. People that give Love, trust, optimism, service, time, etc.

We Rotarians have good reason to be proud of the service accomplishments around the world but there is much yet to be accomplished.

Rotarians like Fountains would wish to eliminate poverty, hunger, sickness, homelessness, low productivity and the other features of the poverty in the world.

ROTIans, lets begin this 2010 Rotarian year working and living like Fountainheads of Life.

"When we work to meet some of the basic human needs of water, food, medicine, shelters, sanitation, disaster aid, education and other similar needs, we are working to eliminate poverty and hopefully build a better and more peaceful world." Cliff Dochterman, RI President, 1992-93

Your Mexican Rotarian Friend,

Leticia Parra
ROTI Chair 2009-2011