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Wine delivery

Our most recent fundraising initiative was a success! We partnered up with local artisanal winemaker, Serge Dentan, to design and have our Club's logo attached to hundreds of bottles of wines. Each o...

Sustainable Finance - Patrick Odier

Thank you to Mr. Patrick Odier, Managing Partner at Lombard Odier Group for attending our meeting last week. Patrick Odier, a Rotarian himself (member of RC Genève-Sud), is one of the most renowned...

David Nabarro: Special Envoy of the Director General of WHO on Covid-19.

Last Thursday's meeting was a special one. With a new COVID variant and an increase in cases across Europe, we were extremely lucky to welcome Dr. David Nabarro to our meeting. Dr. Nabarro is perhaps...

Apéro of the 5 Rotary clubs of Geneva

Our members came out in force for the most recent Apéro organised by each of the five Rotary Clubs of Geneva.

Rotary Club Genève International visits Rotary Uni in Fribourg

On November 6, 2021, Uni Rotary D1990 was held in Fribourg, gathering some 300 members from across our Rotary family. It was a day to learn, exchange and interact with others as well as discuss key t...

Building Cyberpeace with Charlotte Lindsey Curtet

The CyberPeace Builders is the first global network of cybersecurity volunteers to protect humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).  The CyberPeace Builders’ mission is to help NGOs prepar...

Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, of the World Economic Forum (WEF)

We were extremely privileged to welcome Professor Klaus Schwab to our Club's meeting last night! Professor Schwab is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Professor Sc...

Tanzania Project update

Last Thursday was an internal evening, where Greg Garret and Inna Malaia gave us an in-depth overview of our newest project in Tanzania. We were excited to see the partnership that is being forged wi...

Welcome to our new members!

Tonight we welcomed four new members to our Club:  Anne-Lise Favre, Olivier Naray, Milika Y. Kalyati and Ramin Granfar.  Diverse in their experiences, each brings a unique story to our ever-growing b...

Visit by the District Governor

The District Governor, Jean-Noêl Gex, and the Assistant District Governor, Leopold Spruyt attended our meeting last Thursday as part of their visit of all the Clubs in the District. We exchanged idea...

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Biden Administration: The experience of an Ambassadorship

What's it like to be a U.S. Ambassador?Charles C. Adams, Jr. spent an illustrious career as a U.S. Ambassador to Finland under President Obama and is deeply knowledgeable of foreign policy. He is now...

Rotary/Laederach chocolate fundraising campaign for PolioPlus

What do chocolates and oral polio vaccines have in common? Both are sweet! That's of course not quite true. Oral polio vaccine tastes bitter, but its effect is all the sweeter. Because the child who r...

Successful General Assembly

President of RC Sofia-Vitosha visits RCGI

Georgi Stefanov, President of Rotary Club Sofia-Vitosha, joined the Harmony Peace Project Bosnia-evening and exchanged club fanions with RCGI's President Hansjörg Eberle

Harmony Peace Project Bosnia - first hybrid meeting

At tonight's statutory meeting, for the first time in hybrid format, Walter Gyger and Sanela Music presented the outcome of the recent peace-building training week near Sarajevo to 40 members pre...

Social evening

Another social evening at the Intercontinental Hotel with guests from Rotary Clubs from the US and Cameroon, our youngest club member Ken presiding the table

Social evening

Last year's Governor's visit could only be held virtually, tonight's visit of Hansrudi Moser to our club made up for that and flags were exchanged

RCGI signs twin-club agreement with RC Kyiv Multinational

Last year's virtual signing ceremony for a club twin-partnership was made up for physically tonight by past President Malin Strasding and past President Dirk Lustig signing for our club and RC Kyiv M...

Thank you for your committment to Lebanon!

During his visit to your club, past Governor Hansrudi Moser thanked our club and project leader Hansjörg Eberle in particular for the committment shown to Lebanon during last year (and continuing)

Social evening

Another of our traditional social evenings during July/August. Tonight, Dirk Lustig from our twin club RC Kyiv Multinational presented a project supporting Ukranian women close to the frontline in th...

Rotarians in action

As part of the partnership with 'Partage' for food distribution, the Rotarian team this weelk was represented by Michel Zaffran from RC Gex-Divonne, Anita Cheico from RC TGI, Younes Belrhiti, Eric...

Back from Lebanon

Great update on the situation in Lebanon by Verena Maria Amersbach, Editor in Chief of the ’Rotary Suisse Liechstenchtein’ Magazine. She shared with us her impressions about her recent visit in Le...

Visit of the District 1780 Governor

Today we also enjoyed the visit of Albert Maleh, District 1780 Governor. Albert shortly briefed us on his vision for the ongoing Rotarian year and invited us to join the District conference, to ha...

Digital shift

The digital shift is on the agenda these days. In our Rotary Club, under the leadership of our President,  we try to run Hybrid meeting. Tonight we tested the feasibility of such approach, &n...

Visit to Rotary Club Sarajevo

Sanela Music, a Rotarian fellow from our club, is also President of Sanchild organisation which leads since 2018 the Harmony Project, based on “From Inner to Outer peace” concept. With the support ...