The Inner Wheel club of Chartres (women’s service club) met at the Montescot hotel of the town hall of Chartres, for the transfer of powers between Myriam Lodi, outgoing president and Geneviève Boone-Bartoli, future president , in the presence of Governor Pascaline Pichon,
Karine Dorange, deputy mayor and around forty guests surrounded the two presidents, for this solemn moment, of passage of necklace.
Before becoming Past President, Myriam Lodi, without hiding that she left her mandate “with emotion and nostalgia”, recalled the various actions that had been carried out to collect the funds necessary to help the most deprived “thanks to the commitment unfailing members of the club”. A mandate that is faithful to the DNA of the service club, which invests for the benefit of people in difficulty and more particularly for the benefit of women and children in need.
During her speech Geneviève Boone-Bartoli, who is receiving this necklace for the second time, indicated that her objectives would be to strengthen and consolidate friendship, the engine of Inner Wheel. With humor and delicacy, she presented the actions she was going to put in place to “help those who are not lucky”. The profits from a fashion show in the center of Chartres, on October 20 and from the sales of objects at Christmas, will be donated to local associations which take care of children and which are part of the theme chosen by the president. international community: “Doing wonders, finding solutions. »
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