MYKOLAIV, MAY, 29th, 2010, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE – Rotary club will award grants to promising horsemen of Mykolaiv, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The agency was informed about it today 29 May at the Mykolaiv Rotary Club.

According to their information, today performance of the sportsmen of the Mykolaiv equestrian school Pivdenkonetsenter is being held within the framework of Rotary annual grant awarding.

Mykolaiv is one of the few Ukrainian cities to have equestrian base, possibility and experience of preparing world class sportsmen and Olympic Champions. Mykolaiv Rotary Club has a tradition to give support to equestrian in the city.

Annual granting for promising horsemen of Mykolaiv was initiated in 2009 by Mykolaiv Rotary Club. The candidates to be awarded Rotary grants are selected by the coaches of Pivdenkonetsenter.

In 2009 it was Emilia Barinova who was awarded Rotary Club Grant.

This year the club made a decision to grant two sportsmen – Maria Reznichenko, 15 years old, and stimulate last-year grant winner Emilia Barinova to new achievements.

INFORMATION: Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. It is a secular organization open to all persons regardless of race, colour, creed, gender, or political preference. There are more than 32 thousand clubs and over 1 million 200 thousand members worldwide. The members of Rotary Clubs are known as Rotarians. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Members usually meet weekly for breakfast, lunch or dinner, which is a social event as well as an opportunity to organize work on their service goals.