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Report of President Estess visit to the UNESCO

RI President Glenn Estess visited UNESCO headquarter during his trip to Paris on the 11th october 2004. He met with UNESCO Director General Koïchiro Matsuura. He also attended a presentation meeting bu the UNESCO staff on UNESCO programs.

This meeting was organized by RI Director Serge Gouteyron and RI Representatives to the UNESCO Bernard Dervaux and Cyril Noirtin.

Report from Serge Gouteyron to Glenn Estess

Re: Unesco/Rotary International

Dear President, Dear Glenn,

To follow up with our meetings at Unesco on October 11th with the General Director and the various department heads, my recommendations are the following:

1. Rotary International and Unesco share two strong interests: literacy and safe water.
o Clubs and districts take care of culture and heritage issues directly.
o And Unesco does not deal with Health concerns, WHO does.

2. Media information should be posted on our respective web sites.

3. I believe that since Unesco has a network of national commissions (see list on Unesco's web site), it might be a good idea to ask governors and task force general coordinators (water-literacy) to contact them and see how we can work together on existing projects.

4. It might be also a good idea to have our two representatives for France, namely Bernard Dervaux and Cyril Noirtin, organize a half day meeting with Unesco to work on one of those topics (water or literacy) with Rotarians from our zone or neighboring zones. I would volunteer to work with them.

I will be in Evanston for the next Board meeting, and I am sure that we can talk about all of this.

I wanted to thank you for your participation in this Unesco/Rotary day.

Sincerely,

Serge Gouteyron

cc: Carl Wilhelm Stenhammar

PS. I am sure that you have noticed how involved Unesco is in Africa. It might be a good idea to appoint an African Rotary representative for these programs.