Group
Study Exchange from District 9830
Tasmania
- Australia to District 4200
Mexico
departing
22 April 2006........ returning late May
2006
Team Leader - PP Arthur Orchard (RC Sandy
Bay)
Team Members
Donna Woodleigh - Advisor (legal Issues),
Department of Education (RC Kingston)
Marion Edmondson - Women's Health Coordinator, Dep
Health & Human Services (RC Central
Launceston)
Andrew Mitchell - CEO, Work Plus Training &
Development (RC North Launceston)
Desmond Smith - Lawyer, Butler, McIntyre, Butler
(RC Sandy Bay)
Cultural/recreational
visits and activities requested for the
team:
Attend a regional or
national soccer game, a baseball game, a charreada and a
horse race.
Visit many of your
cultural, religious and historic sites and
museums&endash; San Cristobal, Virgin of Guadaloupe, La
Venta, Aquaselva, Comalcalco, Palenque, Yaxchilan,
Bonampak and others.
Visit cocoa plantation, a
coffee plantation, forestry plantation and other
agricultural farms.
Learn some authentic
Mexican cooking & maybe undertake a cooking
class.
Learn some Mexican dancing
(Salsa and others).
Attend local markets,
functions and
festivals.
Sailing, horse riding,
golfing, diving, kayaking, deep sea fishing, &endash;
whatever is available.
Visit national parks and
Biosphere Reserves (especially Sian Ka'an on the
Caribbean Coast.)
Visit a Mexican
ranch/hacienda.
Visit some seaside resorts
and smaller rural
villages.
Anything else you would
like to show us or do with us.
Arthur Orchard
Team
Leader: (Rotary Club of Sandy
bay)
Arthur is 57 years old,
has been married to Jill for 34 years, has three
adult children (Anita 30, Julie 29 and Peter 27)
and four beautiful grand-daughters (Tahlia 6,
Chloe 4, Hannah and Ebony (twins aged 2.5).
He is now
semi-retired but still very busy with some
investments, family, travel and Rotary. He was
self-employed for most of his working life and
has worked in a diverse range of businesses,
including some 20 years in the financial
planning
industry.
Arthur enjoys
spending time with his family, travelling,
touring, boating, walking, their holiday home at
Eaglehawk Neck, reading, relaxing with friends
and, of course, his involvement in
Rotary.
He joined Rotary
in 1982 as a charter member of a new club and
joined the Rotary Club of Sandy Bay in 1998. He
was club president in 1984/85 and 2001/02.
Arthur and Jill
have hosted several GSE team members and
exchange students over the past twenty years and
Arthur spent two weeks working on a Fijian
Rota-home project in
1994.
Arthur is a
non-smoker
email -
aorchard01@bigpond.com.au
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Donna
Woodleigh,
(Rotary Club of
Kingston )
Donna Woodleigh is a
lawyer who lives at Bonnet Hill, Tasmania with
her 7 year old son, Liam and partner Nick. Donna
is 32 years old and works for the State
Government in the Education Department as a
legal advisor. Nick is a police officer.
Donna also has a
background in alternative dispute resolution
having experience working as a mediator, and
management experience from co-ordinating an
office for a mediation, counselling and training
organisation.
Donna volunteers
for, amongst other commitments, the Red Cross
International Humanitarian Law Committee, and
has an interest in social justice issues. Donna
has also written an Honours thesis on human
rights.
Her interests
include travelling, the outdoors &endash;
especially kayaking, bushwalking, and horse
riding, entertaining with family and friends,
and theatre. She is committed to 'having a go'
at most things and has a keen sense of
adventure.
Donna loves above
all else, people. She keeps busy by trying to
balance family and work commitments, organising
social activities with friends, and having
fun.
Suggested
Vocational
visits:
A private legal
firm especially human rights lawyer/law
firm
An
orphanage
A mediation
organisation/practitioner
A
prison
A school &endash;
primary &
secondary
An education
government minister/ or
equivalent
A Red Cross
project
A education
department (or government department
equivalent)
The Courts
&endash; spend day with a
Judge
A university -
especially law school
The Attorney
General (or government
equivalent)
Amnesty
International
Donna is happy to
do joint vocational visits with Des, Andrew and
Marion where they
overlap.
Donna is happy to
stay with host families on her own or with other
team members.
Donna would like a
home-stay on a ranch or hacienda if
possible.
She is a
non-smoker.
email -
Donna.Woodleigh@education.tas.gov.au
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Marion
Edmondson, (Rotary
Club of Central Launceston)
Marion Edmondson is a
thirty five year old woman who lives in
Launceston, Tasmania and is the Coordinator of
Women's Health North. Women's' Health North is a
part of the Tasmanian Government's Department of
Health and Human Services and is an information
and referral service that aims to improve the
health and wellbeing of women in
Tasmania
Marion is married
to Ian, who is studying for his PHD in Education
and has three children: Hannah (deceased) Gus
(13) and Clara
(5).
Marion has worked
in community services since graduating with a
Diploma in Community Services 10 years ago. Most
of her work has been in women's services,
especially domestic violence and sexual assault.
Marion is
passionate about social justice and feels
privileged to work in an area she cares so
deeply about.
Her interests are
spending time with her family and friends,
cooking, playing the guitar and piano and
singing. She also enjoys being in the outdoors -
camping or on
picnics.
Suggested
Vocational
visits:
Any government
funded Women's Health
Services
Mexifam
clinics
Indigenous Women's
projects
An IPAS clinic
(termination of
pregnancy)
An orphanage and a
prison.
Any programs
working with Domestic Violence and Sexual
Assault.
Any groups working
in the Sex
Industry
Any government
department that makes policy on Women's
issues
Any school based
sexuality education
programs
Amnesty
International.
Marion is happy to
share vocational visits with Andrew, des and
Donna where they
overlap.
Marion is happy to
be hosted herself or with any team member. She
is a non smoker.
email -
ied62276@bigpond.net.au
or marion.edmondson@dhhs.tas.gov.au
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Andrew
Mitchell,
(Rotary Club of North Launceston)
Andrew
Mitchell is 36 years old, married with two
children, lives in the city of Launceston in
northern Tasmania and owns his own workplace
training business called "Work Plus Development
&
Training"
Andrew is happily
married to Danielle, a school teacher; together
they have two daughters (Grace 10, and Chelsea
8) and live in a dilapidated old house that is
at the beginning of a renovation journey. Grace
& Chelsea are keen pianists, and junior
athletes; Grace is also studying ballet and
Chelsea developing tennis
skills.
Andrew has worked
in the petroleum, retail and hospitality
industries and has most recently spent five
years in the training and business development
industry. Andrew's business employs nine people
aside from himself and his business partner. It
delivers workplace training in the areas of
business, management, retail, wholesale,
hospitality and warehousing. Andrew's business
also operates a small takeaway food outlet in
the Launceston city
centre.
Andrew is a person
driven by the need to help others. He constantly
seeks fulfilment, and needs to see that he is
helping others in order to achieve
that.
Andrew loves to
cook and eat, entertain and generally be around
friends and
family.
Suggested
Vocational
visits:
Local, State &
Federal Government bodies dealing with
education, training & workforce
development
Local, State or
Federal Government bodies or private
organisations dealing with individuals or groups
wishing to start a
business
A public secondary
(senior)
school
A private
secondary (senior)
school
A university
(public &
private)
A college (public
& private)
A private training
organisation (providing training to
workers)
An adult education
facility
A small to medium
retail business (talk to owner/manager about
workforce issues and employee
training)
A small to medium
hospitality business (talk to owner/manager
about workforce issues and employee
training)
A small to medium
transport & distribution business (talk to
owner/manager about workforce issues and
employee
training)
An Australian
business operating in the area
Andrew is happy to
do joint vocational visits with other team
members where they
overlap.
Andrew is a
non-smoker.
email
- andrew@workplus.com.au
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Des Smith
(Rotary Club of
Sandy Bay)
Almost 28 years ago, Des
was born to Irish parents in Deloraine,
Tasmania. He went to Deloraine Primary School
and then St Brendan Shaw College, Devonport. In
1996, he moved to Hobart to attend university
and, in 2001, graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts/Law with Honours in History.
In 2002, he was
admitted to the Bar and worked for a year as the
Associate to the Honourable Mr Justice Blow in
the Supreme Court of Tasmania. From mid-2003 to
the present, Des has worked at Butler McIntyre
and Butler, Lawyers, specialising in civil and
commercial litigation.
If asked to list
the most formative experiences of his life
(which he hasn't been!), he would put becoming a
Christian in 1996, and travelling with his
parents to Europe for four months in 1991 (a
real eye-opener), at the top.
Des loves coffee,
reading, talking too much and Rugby Union
(although not all at once).
Suggested
Vocational
visits:
A university law
school;Visit a
prison;
A private law
firm;
A community legal
centre or
equivalent;
A law court and/or
meet a judge;
Parliament and/or
meet members of parliament or
equivalent;
A professional
mediation business or government mediation
organisation to meet with professional
corporate, family and commercial
mediators;
A youth justice
office or equivalent - somewhere to learn about
youth sentencing options and programs,
diversionary programs,
etc;
Meet a migration
Agent, someone who assists people in
immigrating, either to or from
Mexico.
An
orphanage;
Amnesty
International
Des is happy to do
joint vocational visits with Donna, Marion and
Andrew where they
overlap.
Des is a
non-smoker.
email
- dsmith@butmac.com.au
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