
By Chris Roesel, a member of the Rotary E-Club of WASH, District 9980

I am a Rotary member and the son of a Rotarian, and grew up in rural Georgia, USA, before the Civil Rights Movement. I saw structural and economic problems that I did not know how to fix. Later, I attended the Air Force Academy, but that didn’t show me how to improve the life of people in impoverished communities, either. If anything, it demonstrated what happens when we do not. After I graduated from the academy, I joined the Peace Corps and volunteered in Guatemala. What I saw and experienced there shocked me.
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