From left: Denmark GSE team leader Aksel Nielsen, Anna Christensen, Thomas Hansen, Rotary District 982 governor Ray Stewart, Rotary Club of Narre Warren president Ross Chudleigh, Rikke Mikkelsen, Rotary Club of Berwick president Tim Moore, District 982 team leader Lynne Westland, and Kristian Petersen.By Jim Mynard
THE Rotary Club of Narre Warren hosted a gala welcome dinner for a Rotary Group Study (GSE) team from Denmark in the Fountain Gate hotel on Wednesday, 25 January.
The Denmark GSE team was on a reciprocal visit to the highly successful District 982 team visit to Denmark led by Rotarian Lynne Westland.
GSE is a Rotary Foundation project whereby four young professional people and a Rotary member as team leader embark on a sixweek tour of an overseas country.
They are able to visit peers and study methods of work in their own careers.
Rotarians home host the teams.
District Governor Ray Stewart said the Denmark team would be guests at the Rotary conference in Geelong to be held later this month.
He said more than 50,000 people had participated in the GSE program.
“This visit by our friends from Denmark is the culmination of planning that began two years ago.
“Rotarians will make the team members welcome as they move throughout the district.
“GSE is a popular program with Rotary in 165 countries and has been in operation for 40 years,” he said.
“The team from southern Victoria led by Lynne Westland last year visited District 1440 in the Aalborg region of Jutland.”
