We Are On The Go

“During the COVID-19 pandemic and home quarantine time, our club has made efforts and worked on so many projects by using zoom and social media

campaigns. ” WE’RE ON THE GO

Being a Rotaractor means serving humanity. When we join Rotaract, we need to become motivated, and promise ourselves to be great leaders. A great leader in this world is one who makes other leaders, not one who only leads them but makes them their better selves. Leaders are ones that see potential in everyone so as to drive them to do their job in the best way by showing others in action.

In the past two years, we were struggling so much to lead the club. Most of the club members, including the president and most board members, were in their college senior year and got caught up in their graduation project and researches and because of this, the club began to struggle.

To counter this, we began gathering some active members, heading meetings every week on Sunday we even started a session dubbed “ATRONS TIME” where we all gather 30 minutes before the meeting starts to make the members more punctual, drink coffee and talk about how we spent the weekend, what is new around us and so on. This made us very engaged with each other. Then we started planning new projects to serve the community, even some board Members became available and energized us at this time.

Our first major service project was AHL [Addis Holiday Launch] where Rotaract clubs fed and clothed the homeless on Ethiopian holidays and our club took the task for the Ethiopian New Year on September 12th 2019 (01/01/2012 E.C). As a result, the project was very successful and we fed about 2500 people which was a great achievement. The past president and other senior members played a vital role. Besides that, we also donated clothes to the homeless during the AHL. To collect the clothes, we prepared a fellowship called “SO YOU THINK YOU CAN ACT” where we invited other Rotaract Clubs and the entrance charges was clothes for donation. The fellowship was very fun and we collected very many clothes.

The second achievement was our signature project dubbed “MEDICAL CAMPAIGN”. This project is done in an orphanage and child support organization where the Rotaract Club of

In the beginning of March 2019, we elected new board members, and was comprised mainly by newly inducted members but was a very active board of directors that assumed their positions beforehand, willing to serve as the acting board of directors. Because we are engaged with each other, every one of us is very energized to make an impact to our community, to our country and to the world.

During the COVID-19 pandemic and home quarantine time, our club has made efforts and worked on so many projects by using zoom and social media campaigns. These are as follows:

International blood donation and awareness on sexual assault and rape video organized by World of Rotaract (on which many international clubs participated).

GRC (Green Rotaract Concept) social media project to celebrate International Environmental Day with the title of “what we like about our environment and how we can make it better”.

Social media project for Rotaract Week about what Rotaract mean to us.

Virtual meeting on how to manage stress and depression during covid-19 with Psychiatrist Dr.Azeb Asaminew and Effective home quarantine during covid-19 with the then Rotaract Ethiopia Country Secretary and current RYLA Chair and Secretary of RC of AAW Beantamlack Feleke.

Every Friday we have virtual coffee time to strengthen our bond.

The other one and the funniest of all is a fundraising by, then acting president, now current president of the club, Ermias Fentaw. He fundraised by shaving his hair for creating a website to our club. All the club team asked Ermias, “why did you cut your hair?” “I love my hair, but I wanted to use it as a fundraising for my club. It was fun and achievable.” said Ermias.

This was our journey during the past year and during the home quarantine. We have so much more to do this time. There is nothing to stop us.