To Promote True Friendship
To Encourage The Ideals of Personal Service
To Foster International Understanding

Dear friends in Inner Wheel,
It gives me great pleasure to share with you my thoughts about our most fruitful Inner Wheel year full of devoted voluntary work in this part of the world and in the rest of the globe.
Our theme for this year was highlighted in the outpour of friendship extended in our global family.
Once again, as I was working to prepare this website, I was blessed to work closely with our members in our efforts in making the less fortunate happier and in giving a helping hand to several projects which have made a difference in so many lives. Bonds of friendship have started and continued and generations of Inner Wheel members have flourished. We have also become friends with numerous members who were until recently mere strangers. Italian, German, Moroccan, Indian, Pakistani, Kenyan, Australian, French, Bahraini, Canadian, American, Danish and many more Inner Wheel members are now our friends through our outreach efforts and numerous correspondence and organised visits and attendance in IW conventions.
I was awed by the magnitude of our work as I collected the material highlighting our work for this website. Our projects covered all the areas represented by our United Nations committees: the rights of the Child, the Family, the status of women, ageing and narcotics and many more areas needed in our part of the world. Our work is exemplary. It is quite understandable that when Egyptian first lady, Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak attended the Inner Wheel Day celebrations she admired our efforts in lending a hand in helping the less fortunate in our society and when H.R.H. Princess Basma Bint Talal attended the General meeting held in Amman she congratulated our members for their successful voluntary service.
I am extremely pleased to see the magnificent efforts you have all shown in support of our IIW Social Project as an international need as well as a crucial national need.  The commitment of numerous District 95 clubs to working under the auspices of UNICEF and adopting a UNICEF/NCCM (National Council for Childhood & Motherhood) school in the GEI (the initiative for girls' education) is an exemplary step on the road to Making a Difference  in the lives of Arab girls and their societies.  This is how we will indeed Realise our Visions for an equitable society where girls have a fair chance of succeeding in fulfilling their dreams and in improving the quality of life for future generations.
Friendship is joy & sorrow, happy times & sad time, sharing in celebrations and being there for friends in need. Friends share joys and sorrows, our hopes and dreams, and support us in time of need.
The world needs heroes. We all need heroes; people who represent our highest aspirations for human beings. A hero is someone who has the courage to do the right thing for the sake of doing "good" not for the sake of recognition or rewards. There is a small voice within us that tells us what is right, just, and decent. The heroic challenge is to act on that voice. It means sacrificing self-interest for the common good, giving instead of taking, helping instead of talking. It is not always easy to hear that voice and often there are obstacles.
Today, I want to share with you the advice of one of my heroines, Mother Teresa, who has listened well and faced enormous obstacles. Mother Teresa's voice directed her to work with the poorest of the poor, the terminally ill, the homeless living on the streets and in the alleys of the slums of Calcutta.
In a poem she wrote entitled You and People and which I have taken a few editorial liberties with, she offers the following advice;

YOU AND PEOPLE
By Mother Teresa
•People are so often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
forgive them anyway.
•If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness or ulterior motives;
be kind anyway.
•If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some enemies; succeed anyway.
•If you are honest, people may cheat you;
be honest anyway.
•If you find happiness, people may be jealous;
be happy anyway.
•If you do good today people will often forget tomorrow;
do good anyway.
•If you give the world the best you have, it may never be enough;
give the best you have anyway.
•You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you, your conscience, and God.
•It was never between you and them anyway.

It gives me great honour to highlight the tremendous work achieved by members of Inner Wheel Egypt and Jordan on this website. Ladies of Inner Wheel District 95, let us go forth and continue to do good not only in Egypt and Jordan but anywhere in the world where it is needed. You are all my heroines.

Wishing our new National Representative and District Committee members the very best, I would also  like to convey my warmest congratulations to Mrs. Seham El Gohary on her new position as Board Director in IIW and to all the members of our 31 clubs and their Executive Board members.  You have all made us proud.

Let us all join hands and continue to work as one to put our Presidential Theme to work.

Ashnadelle Hilmy/Mortagy
Webmaster District 95
Chairman
2008-2009
Past National Representative
2000-2002