We´re just zipping up those bags once more after a fab few days with the Rotarians of Sertaozinho. Here we are planting a tree of friendship in an ecological park being developed by the local Rotary Community Corps, which joins others planted by previous GSE teams. Rotary is running a very cool project centred on this park creating facilities for the poor ´burbs including a community drugstore, dentist, enviromental education, Spanish and English courses, football coaching, a daycare centre, a shelter for the elderly, two classrooms, a church and more.
We´ve had some awesome vocational hook-ups in this city of 100,000 which is THE place to come to in the world for all your sugarcane machinery and technology needs. Variously, we´ve visited marketing companies (Sara), a supermarket (James), a very successful biocontrol company for the sugarcane industry run by two women (Brenda, Petra and Charlotte), an asset manager (Brenda) and a sustainability management consultancy (Petra and Charlotte). Petra loved her time with the local military police and their dogs and I wrote an article for the local newspaper and convinced them to profile good ol´Enzed for their next travel feature.
Lotsa time for some R & R here, too, with a couple of lazy lunches by the pool hosted at the downtown 'bach' of a Rotarian. Above a sugarcane juicer in the back of an old Kombie (yum!); one of Brazil'´s quirky details (a chandelier created from Coke bottles); and a piccie of a Brazilian rock concert Brenda and I checked out with our hosts.
A big hi to the Rotary Club of Plimmerton from Charlotte xxx
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