Hi! Welcome to our District's homepage. Our District, number 4690 in Rotary International's organization, comprises all of Bolivia in South America. Before givng you more information about our District, we want to let you know that Rotaract is a community-service Club for men and women 18 to 30. It's purpose is to give young adults the opportunity of expanding their knowledge and experiences, for their personal development, helping at the same time to solve their communities' problems.

In this page you will find information related to our District's organization, you will be able to read and get to know about our history and you can browse through the regulations and decisons made in our District events during the Rotary year '96-'97.

You will also find:

This is the personal data of those who will be in charge of ruling our District this year.

Our District's history begins on September 18th 1968 when 18 gentlemen and 12 ladies come together to charter Rotaract Club La Paz. From that moment onwards the process of growth begins reaching in our days the number of 16 Clubs in District 4690 with aproximately 200 members.

The first Rotaract District Conference took place in 1973 in the city of La Paz, all the clubs being invited by the first Rotaract Club in Bolivia. During this 1st. Conference the first Rotaract District Governor, Mr. Gonzalo Torrico, was elected. The following are the District Conferences that were organised after 1973:

This meeting took place in the city of Cochabamba on the weekend of September 14th 1996. The 55 rotaractors from District 4690 who attended the meeting could hear two wonderful expositions:

FIRST PLENARY SESSION
TOPIC:VIII BOLIVIAN-PERUVIAN-CHILEAN ROTARACTIAN MEETING (ERBOPECH'96)

The VIII ERBOPECH's Organising Committee -Rotaract Club Grigotá- to be held from October the 31st through november 3rd 1996 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra talked about the project they made for the organisation of this multidistrict event and at the same time they gave a quick overview of the progress of the organisational tasks that are been carried on. Some details regarding District 4690's participation as host were also discussed.

SECOND PLENARY SESSION
TOPIC:LEADERSHIP TRAINING SEMINAR FOR PRESIDENTS, VICEPRESIDENTS, SECRETARIES, TREASURERS AND DIRECTORS OF SERVICE COMMITTEES

Several lectures were heard from fellow Rotarians and Rotaractors on very important issues related to Rotaract; the following were the topics the lecturers dealt with:

1.- Presidents and VicePresidents' tasks. Conclusions: Good communication must exist between the Club and the Board of Directors; Solutions to Club's problems must be searched in the Board's meeting; Ordinary meetings' programmes must be varied so as to motivate members' participation; It is a good idea to prepare monthly programmes and distribute them to the members in the last meeting of each month.
2.- Secretaries and Treasurers' tasks. Conclusions: Secretaries must have their own agenda of expiration dates regarding payments and shipments to the DRR and R.I. Treasurers must have the ability of evaluating the most convenient way of collecting membership dues.
3.- What is leadership?. The exposition was based on the seven characteristics or elements a person must have to become a leader, these elements are: Ideas, Ideals, Human Values, Principles, Consciousness, Virtue, Mind.
4.- Community Service
5.- Vocational Service Conclusions: Acknowledge all the members as professionals within their occupations and give them the opportunity to show the rest of the membership the activities they carry on.
6.- Servicio Internacional Conclusions: Let the whole world know the activities the District carries on by building a homepage in the World Wide Web.
7.- Servicio en la Comunidad Conclusions: Organise and update a database regarding clubs' projects.


VIII BOLIVIAN-PERUVIAN-CHILEAN ROTARACTIAN MEETING (ERBOPECH '96)

This year the responsability of organising this MultiDistrict anual event that takes place every year in one of the three countries, fell on District 4690, being responsibles of such task our friends from Rotaract Club Grigota in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The VIII ERBOPECH took place in the touristic complex 'Achira Sierra Resort', 117 km. away from the city of Santa Cruz from october 31st to november 3rd 1996.
120 Rotaractors from Bolivia, Peru and Chile attended the event; they could, besides making new friends, exchange experiences on Rotaract activities in the different Districts.
The topics dealt with during the event were:
1.- Discussion with a purpose.-

Special recognition for his help to Rotaract: Rodrigo Micheas, Rotaract Club Santiago - Chile

Finally, to conclude the event, on Sunday 3rd november there was an archeologic tour to Samaipata's pre-inca ruins.
Once more, fellowship and 'serious fun' were the basement of the success of this Multidistrict event.
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