Vocational Training Team Farewell

GSE/VTT FAREWELL

On Thursday 16 August we farewelled the Vocational Training Team (VTT) that will be heading away to District 5370 in central Canada.  The VTT is similar to the old GSE program with a greater vocational focus.  This visit will focus on Youth Education.  The event was hosted by the Rotary Club of Takaro and was an opportunity to farewell the team before they head away later this month on the 26^th August.

Jan and the team

The team is under the leadership of Dr Jan Lockett-Kay, from the Pukekura Breakfast Rotary Club where she is head of the Humanities Facility at the Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki.  Team members Aroha Fetu Darroch and Amanda Williams are both Primary School teachers in the Porirua Basin.  Amanda Burgess is a Senior Policy Analyst at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority and Lani Evans runs a charity organisation focusing on supporting young people.  Their background and bios are provided in an earlier BLOG.  Before the team heads away they will be meeting with the Minister of Education, Hekia Parata at Parliament to talk about the visit and their vocational interests.  This is an impressive team and we had the pleasure of seeing the team’s presentation that they will be giving to clubs in Canada. 

VTT Team, DG Graeme, Chair Andy Watson,
and Mitchell Brown

Our thanks to Mitchell Brown and the Rotary Club of Takaro for organising and hosting the event.  Our thanks also to Andy Watson and the VTT Committee for the hard work that they have done in organising such a great team that will do  Rotary District 9940 proud when they visit Canada.  The Canadian team will be in New Zealand in April 2013 when their visit will coincide with our District Conference in Rotorua.

We wish the team well and look forward to hearing about their experiences and learnings and how they intend to implement them when they return.

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