Club President's Message

 Kiran Jit Duggal (2023-24)

Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Brampton South, your concepts, passion, and dynamism are welcome here.  

As we move into the Rotary year 2023-24, a year of Hope creators. I am honored to be asked and trusted by my club members to serve and lead a second term as President of our Club. I am grateful to you all.

We have much to look forward to, that will be inspiring challenging, and exclusive & as committed and dedicated Rotarians we will rise to the occasion. Raise your spirits and be resilient, strong, and focused on conveying hope to the hopeless as we transform the communities around and beyond us. In 2024 we are entering our 50th year as a club and there is much to be proud of in our 5-decade history. 

We are planning our future in response to a rapidly changing world in all aspects. The new RI president R.G.R McInally has chosen the theme Create Hope in the World and calls for rotary to create that hope by working for peace and mental well-being. He urges members to engage in tough conversations and earn the trust that's necessary to realize the rotary values.

Brenda Halloran DG 7080, 2023-24 foresees the same power, since her message this year is” The power of Hope, Helping other people everywhere”. She will guide and support us take action in that direction. 

“Rotary helps create the conditions for peace, opportunity and a future worth living. By continuing what we do best, by remaining open and willing to change, and by keeping our focus on building peace in the world and within ourselves, Rotary helps create a more peaceful world — a more hopeful world.” R. Gordon R. McInally RI president 2023-24.

I thank all members of RCBS for your support in 2022-23 and am looking forward to working with you through 2023-24. Let’s a hope and take action to see our club growing and strengthening while doing good in the world.

 Kiran Jit Duggal (2022-23)

It gives me immense pleasure and pride to find myself leading our club in the year 2022-23, The rotary year of women empowerment; when Jennifer Jones Rotary International’s first female president is eager to advance Rotary’s narrative and DG Sandhya Maini is off to a fantastic start with her fantastic vision.

I can never imagine myself not being a Rotarian. I started my rotary journey in 1999 in India and as I moved forward and gained more information, knowledge and insight about this wonderful service organization, I developed a strong bond with it. I enjoyed being part it and acting at club and district leadership positions. In addition, I was part of number of National and International global health care projects. I am a multiple PHF.

I came to Canada 5 years ago. Besides many other things, I missed my rotary friends and activities. After some research and interactions, I became part of rotary club of Brampton South in 2020. As we know, the year was marked with COVID19 outbreak, which brought everything under siege. Fighting back, we started to learn to live in digital world and continued doing whatever we were doing but with a different touch. Zoom meetings gave me an excellent opportunity, to get to know and interact with wonderful rotary leaders of district 7080 quickly. However, on the other side I missed in person interactions and activities. 

Rotary to me is my extended family. I believe,  Rotary has power to do and empowers us to do good in the world around and beyond us: by fighting disease, growing local economics, promoting peace, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, sporting education and by supporting the environment. 

The current rotary theme” Imagine Rotary” by RI president Jennifer Jones gives wings to our imagination as to what we can do to be a voice of Rotary at individual and club level. Our DG Sandhya Maini envisions the same power and will support us take action in that direction.

Do not stop imagining; Imagine and expand that imagination to infinity; as to what we can do for others through Rotary. I imagine my club growing. While doing good to a community around us let us expand our  boundaries to do good in the world by doing global international projects in field of health care, peace and conflict resolution, women empowerment or  supporting environment. Each of these complement other.
“Help will be given to those who ask for it’ (Albas Dumbledore in Harry Potter).  That help in Rotary is a fingertip. Join “My Rotary” and visit “Rotary.Org” get every possible help.

I request for your support and am looking forward to work with  you all . 

 Sunil Sharma (2021-22)

I never imagined becoming your President and certainly not in the middle of a world-wide pandemic.  Regardless of what life has in store for us, some of it outside our control, I promise to make our Rotary year (2021-22) meaningful, both for members and for those we serve.  For that, I humbly ask for your support … because I will need it.

As we begin the new Rotary Year, we have so much to look forward to that will be exciting and challenging, unique and perhaps unprecedented but as stalwart and dedicated Rotarians we will rise to the occasion.

As Rotarians, we look at these changes and challenges as a time of opportunity!  It is a time for all of us to open ourselves up to learning new skills and doing projects in new ways.  How disconnected our club would have become without the web-based video conferencing tool, Zoom, that allows us to meet on-line together, safely in the convenience of our home as we continue our work as the “People of Action” in our community and around the world.  

This Rotary year I want to focus on the health of our club, our membership, and our families.  Each have different needs to be met which we must understand to be able to tackle them head-on.  In this, we can each serve in whatever capacity we are able. 

This coming Rotary year will be no exception! As your President, I promise to lead this club, by always being mindful of Rotarian’s 4-Way Test concerning the things I think, say, or do –

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

The new Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta theme (2021-22) – “Serve to Change Lives” stated “Do More and Grow More”. I fully agree and believe that if you have bigger and impactful service projects and increase our membership and expanding the participation.  

Fern Heckburn (2019-21)

It is with great pride and gratitude that I am serving as President for the period 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. During 2019-20, the Rotary theme was: Rotary Connects the World. This resonated with me, it was powerful and impactful. With this in mind, I embarked on my presidential first term by upholding the club’s values, objectives, and making a difference in the lives of the citizens in our community. Hence, I was able to embrace my position with poise and grace.