Rotary’s new Sylvia Whitlock Leadership Award

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The first recipient of Rotary International’s Sylvia Whitlock Leadership Award, Chin Mei Lu of the Rotary Club of Taipei Taimei, Taiwan, has spent more than 30 years working for women, girls, and others around the world.

She has helped educate girls in Nepal, immunized children in India, supported girls in Uganda who have learned to sew menstrual belts, and helped people in Taiwan who are blind.

The Sylvia Whitlock Leadership Award honors one Rotary member each year who has actively worked to advance women in Rotary.

It is named for the first female Rotary club president, who went on to lead change for women around the world through Rotary.

The award was originally established by a group of Rotarians before the Board of Directors voted to make it an official RI award.