Sam C

Sam Cozens

This is my Rotary Story

How did you first make contact with our club?

I joined Rotary as a result of an invitation through friends.

How do you engage with the club? 

I brought a number of management skills, and career experiences as a teacher of Secondary students, and as a leader of educators as a Principal at a number of schools.

What has been your most exhilarating Rotary experience?

I have chosen being a member of a Rotary Drought Relief Team as my Rotary Moment to share with you.

The Drought Relief Team of Jerry, Briony, Elizabeth and Sam, organised and carried out a week long tour of farming districts in the Murraylands, with the specific aim of helping families through an extended period of drought.

We arranged to meet personally with many family groups, talk with them about help services available through many organisations both governmental and private, and to distribute money assistance to help with short term provisions.

The impact of this kind of help for people in need, is not only the advice given, and material assistance distributed, but the very powerful notion that we personally demonstrated we cared for the welfare of people going through a very difficult period in their lives. Service above self is the prime motivation of engagement for prospective Rotarians.