Food and other topics

 

Rotarians, left to right, Mike Williams, Cynthia Young, Miles Cornthwaite, Bob Bonney, Helen Endres and Barbara Conner, along with Jim Hale (below), were among those volunteering today at the David Meager Community Center's drive-through food pantry event.

At our Zoom meeting earlier, club member and New York Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner gave an update for more than an hour on matters including the state budget and Covid vaccinations.

QMC Update on Lesotho

The highlight of our Zoom meeting on Thursday was a report from Linda and Roger Gorham, board members of Qholaqhoe Mountain Connections (QMC), which we have been helping fund since 2014.

QMC operates in a poor and remote area of the southern African country of Lesotho. It provides scholarships to 63 students in high school, and eight at the National University of Lesotho. Two QMC-sponsored college students graduated last September with bachelor's degrees, one in accounting/economics and the other in social work.

QMC also funds supplies for the high school, and food support. 

Linda Gorham is a longtime QMC board member who has often spoken to our club. Roger joined the board more recently. They are both retired educators and former Peace Corps volunteers. Roger is a former Siena College professor and superintendent of the Ballston Spa School District.