DELIVERING IMPACT:

A Reflection on Rotary Year 2022-23 Successful Service Projects

Iwas honored to be selected as Director, Service Projects during the RotaryYear 2022-23. I worked with a dedicated committee of members and I am proud to report that we delivered on different projects successfully.

When President Caroline Mboijana tasked me to take up this role, I was confident that I could handle it because I had the mind set and a winning attitude for the assignment. It was a wonderful experience, an exciting and challenging role but fulfilling for me. I am grateful for her guidance and leadership that enabled us to deliver to the best of our abilities.

I wish to express our appreciation to our sponsors, Rotary Club of Kampala Springs members and well-wishers for your generosity and support. In the future we expect to witness the positive impact of our projects in the community. In the year 2022-23, we focused on the following areas of service:

Basic Education and Literacy Enhancement Programme –BELEP.

The Signature Project for District 9213, was Basic Education and Literacy Enhancement Programme (BELEP), to support communities through reading and developing literacy abilities for young children and adults. RC Kampala Springs participated in the “Drop Everything & Read – DEAR” day at St. Stephen’s Church of Uganda Primary School; a school we adopted in Luzira where we stocked the library with books, facilitated candidate teachers with financial support to deliver remedial classes for candidate classes that lost study time owing to Covid 19 lock down. Through our sponsor Roke Telekom, we provided internet infrastructure for the school that enabled access to online learning. The Club partnered with National Media to supply PLE Media pullouts for all candidates at the school to enhance their familiarity with UNEB Exam practices, which contributed to improved performance. National media has given us a platform to collect books to donate to several schools thought the year.

We partnered with Center for social Research-CSR, an approved training body by Ministry of Education through the National Curriculum Development Centre - NCDC to conduct a refresher training course for Luzira Maximum Prison inmate teachers from Primary 2 to Primary 7. Inmate teachers are prisoners who volunteer to teach their colleagues in different primary classes; every teacher got a certificate and a manual for reference which boosted their confidence and provided opportunities for utilizing their skills after discharge from their prison sentence.

We donated books to inmate students to facilitate improved learning; provided scholastic materials & PLE pullouts to support preparation for UNEB examinations and paid external examination fees for them.

Disease Prevention and Treatment

The Rotary Club of Kampala Springs refurbished and commissioned a Maternal Theater at Luzira Prisons:-The health center serves prison inmates, staff, their dependents and communities around the prison facility. They have general out/in patient services including antenatal, immunization, family Planning and HIV/AIDS care. This was a phased project which commenced in the Rotary Year 2021-22 under President Evans Baingana.

The Club plans to do further renovation, equip and train health workers at Kabwoohe Health Centre IV in sheema, Kabwoohe district for which a Rotary Global Grant has been submitted (GG 2341822).

Kabwoohe HCIV serves a population of 210,000 people. The average monthly outpatients are 1400, with a monthly average of 150 deliveries , and about 30 women deliver by caesarean section