How Rotary became involved in Bocas
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[0:00] I had the fortune to meet Kurt Betzel from Texas who also lives in Popa Uno here in

[0:05] Bocas who's family has a long history of being Rotarians and with our shared

[0:10] passion for Rotary clubs we started to think about what it could look like for

[0:13] Bocas and how we could get Rotary involved down here to support the

[0:17] community. So over the course of a couple years through surveys of the

[0:22] community and better understanding what Bocas residents wanted and how we

[0:25] could start our own club here just to really learn a lot about the process and

[0:31] eventually get to the point where we were ready to launch our own club this

[0:33] past February of 2019. My name is Kurt Betzel. I'm originally from Arlington, Texas.

[0:40] I am now a permanent resident of the Republic of Panama. I met Emily Tallendino

[0:47] and very quickly learned of our mutual love and passion for Rotary

[0:53] international. We both knew that for this community to progress it could with the

[1:04] presence of rotary which we learned after the fact that they've been trying

[1:09] to do that for about 15 years now and this time was now is the time.