PEP

Rotary International

Welcome to PEP!

Our Rotary club is the very first Rotary club in District 6900 to sponsor a PEP delegation. We had our very first Private Medical Delegation of PEP physicians from May 22nd to June th 2003. Then we had a second Casual Dining PEP Delegation from April 14th to May 8th 2005. Now we are planning to host our third Human Resource Delegation from March 30th to April 21st 2007. This has proved to be the most exciting International program that our club has ever beeninvolved in. We had 300 people from the Columbus community involved in this exciting program in addition to our own club members when we hosted our first delegation. Then during our second delegation we encouraged the Columbus Rotary Club and the East Columbus Rotary Club to host their own delegations in the same time frame that we hosted our delegation. As a result in 2005 here were over 1,000 additional people from Columbus who were involved in this joint effort either as home hosts, business hosts, business presenters or who interacted with the Russian delegates at some scheduled social or civic event during their visit to the United States.

Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) - This exciting internamtional program has brought over 6,00 Russian entrpreneurs to the United States in an intensive training program in 86 different industry specific disciplines as a part of over 560 separate delegations in the past ten years.

PEP is sponsored in the United States by the Center of Citizen Initiatives CCI. Their web site gives you a helpful description of the details of this people to people program which is designed to build friendships between Russia and the United States. The main purpose of PEP is to help Russia move from 75 years of Communist rule to a market based economy.

Selected photographs of our very first delegation
Selected photographs of our second delegation
Allen Kerr named volunteer of the month by CCI
Introducing the Program Officer that monitors the PEP Program in Columbus, Georgia
A Never To be Forgotten People to People Experience
Position Paper on PEP
PEP Testimonials
Introducting our Local Coordinator for our third PEP Delegation
Allen and Char's trip to Russia as a result of the PEP experience

Learn More about PEP

This Citizen Diplomacy Travel Program logically led to the Productivity Enhancement Program PEP that today is the centerpiece of the Center for Citizen Initiatives (1-888-729-7071) located in San Francisco . Check out the Overview of how PEP got started in 1983.