Speeches :
MAKE DREAMS REAL--
Walt Disney has said “If you can dream, you can do it ” Dreaming of helping
others is the foundation on which Rotary stands, grows and progresses. 
One heart wrenching fact is that globally one child below the age of five years dies every three seconds. India has this unfortunate fact to digest – twenty five percent of those deaths occur in India. Poverty is the main cause - poverty leads to malnutrition, lack of medical aid and poor resistance.
Rotary may not be able to conquer poverty but can surely involve itself with welfare activities for the poor. Rotary can reduce poverty by helping youth to learn a craft and earn through this knowledge. Rotary can help youth through loans and jobs. Rotary can provide a platform for those that can earn and learn. There are many ways in which Rotary can offer helping hands to the needy. If a Rotary club is not doing anything in this sphere, it should start dreaming and converting dreams to reality. Even a small beginning can flourish in future and provide assistance on a much larger scale. If your commitment is great, difficulties cannot be greater. Good service follows the rules. Great services re-write the rules.
I urge you to re-write the rules of service that can provide a life line to the desperate. Let us learn the secret of service. If you want to cook a very tasty dish, you don’t need just a pocket full of spices. You need commitment and experience. Service, too, cannot be tasty, unless you add commitment in ample amounts. You need three “Hearts” to succeed in realizing your dreams - Heart of Fire for fired enthusiasm, Heart of Flesh for compassion towards the weak and Heart of Bronze to resist wickedness, ego and temptation. Let us Make Dreams Real by pursuing service that hits the nail on its head and drives it to stabilize the vehicle of Service.
An Indian boy wanted to be a hero. So one of the warriors and leaders of his tribe taught him to hunt and fish and shoot with bow and arrow.
Finally, the important day dawned when the boy was to make his first bow and arrow. That was a work of skill and patience, to be done from beginning to end by one man.
Most difficult is choosing the right wood from the right tree. A day was chosen
for selecting the wood. 
As the lad set out to choose the wood, his father made two conditions.
First, once he had passed up a tree, he was never to consider it again. Secondly, when he has made his choice, he was not to change it.
Early in the morning the boy started out. He tramped and tramped looking closely at one tree after another. He was almost near the edge of the forest, not many trees left, and so he had to make a choice, and he did.
But when he brought the young tree back home, his father told him that it was not the best. Then his father wisely asked to think over his experience that day and tell what he had learned from it. The boy thought and thought. At last he came to his father and said “Dad, I learned that once you make your choice, you cannot change it”.
Your choice in life might not be the best one, but you work with what you have chosen – and make something of it.
Let us dream together and elevate Rotary.
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