Marilyn attended this Zoom meeting in India.
Here is her report combined with some comments from participants.
Tête-à-tête with RIPE Shekhar Mehta
This meeting was well worth waiting until 11:00PM our time. RIPE encourages and supports women to join his Board - not for the sake of numbers but they should be suitably qualified for the position.
There were about 145 on line from all over the world.
I received the following emails from one attendee from Uganda. I told her about Annabelle Chauncy and Barbara Parkins and their work. Hence the second email
Email 1
This is Rtn. Maria R. Muzaaki from District 9211 (Uganda and Tanzania) soon to be redistricted and we become 9213 (part of Uganda alone). We chatted online during the WiR India event.
Kindly allow me to share with you some of our DG's newsletters so that we can get to know something about the District. I am the Editor of the magazine.
Please enjoy The Wave, and feel free to share with your colleagues."
Email 2
" Nice to hear from you. I look forward to joining your club for the meeting. So this sunday, we have a date, hahahhaha
Thank you for sharing about Annabelle's school, I have looked it up on the internet and what she is doing is great. It is amazing. May she be blessed. Has your club partnered with her on this project.
Kindly share her email, I could reach out to her to feature in our magazine.
Also the work by Barbara is amazing! Wow, all your members are amazing. You are doing great things in our neighbourhood. Thank you
Looking forward to the invitation.
Warm regards,
Rtn. Maria "