Rotary Hosts Taiwan Contingent on Vocational, Cultural Exchange
Posted by Jim Powers
A Rotary International Group Study Exchange team from Taiwan visited the Lake Forest and Lake Bluff Rotary Club last week as part of the organization's vocational, cultural and ambassadorial effort.
Five hundred similar teams from the U.S. are also visiting different countries around the world as part of this international exchange.
Each team was comprised of a Rotarian leader and four young non-Rotarian professionals who met with local counterpart citizens that had similar skills. In turn, the area Rotary district sent a team to Taipei, Taiwan last month for a similar experience.
The Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Rotary club learned much about the island nation, such as:
- Taiwan is a democratic Chinese nation about the size of Tennessee inhabited by more than 23 million people despite 70 percent of the land being mountains
- Taiwan has no natural resources and even has to import sand and gravel for their building construction
- As a result of its ingenuity, Taiwan possesses no debt and the fourth largest financial reserves in the world
