A Welcome party for the Group Study Exchange Team from Nepal.

The long awaited Rotary Group Strudy Exchange Team from District 3292 in Nepal, arrived in England yesterday (22/09/2012) and were collected from the airport at Birmingham by Rtn Rob Gray and Rtn Steve Lawes.

Today Gaila and I joined them at Rob Gray's house for lunch with various other members of the District organising committee.

The team consists of Team Leader Rtn Nugal Vaidya and forur members -Suyesh Pradhan, Shresna Basnet, Dipika Shrestha and Roshani Manandhar.  They will be stayina number of Rotarians and their families for the next four weeks and various local government offices, police, fire, ambulance, local industry and commerce etc.  They will also  each have the opportunity to visit four separate organisations that are in the same vocation as the team members - to compare notes.

They will also be making a number of formal presentations to Rotary Clubs and to the District Conference in Southport.

It was great to meet them all - they seem to be a well balanced team and are clearly looking forward to the next four weeks.

The team with organiser Rob Gray, DG Dave and Rtn Gail Ashley