The Wave
Volume 4 Issue 4 October 2016
Editor’s note October comes with one big reminder of our pledge as Rotarians to kick Polio from the world. As we are all aware Rotary has been on fore front in the fight to end polio from the world and October 24th happens to be the World Polio Day. As the RI President says in his address we are living in exciting times as Rotarians because we are in the final stage of eradicating polio from the world. Therefore Rotarians are encouraged to join the efforts to give to Polio fund so that we can finally finish the job. Take a look at the special feature on Polio, learn more about the disease, get inspired by a polio world champion athlete and follow the links to where you can donate. As we give to Polio let us be reminded as well that this is a centennial year of TRF and our contributions are required for Rotary to continue supporting our various local projects. Rotary Dar Marathon is happening this October therefore catch up on all the plans in this edition and Rotary Clubs of Dar es Salaam invites all Rotarians in the district to attend the event. Rotarian Tusu continues to speak to us about giving on his special column. Check out the membership hall of fame to get an idea of how clubs are doing in terms of acquiring new members. Be updated on DG visits during September and also what other clubs have been up to in September. I wish you happy reading and I continue to urge you to write to us and send us your stories through dg9211news@gmail.com
Editor Rtn. Emma Mbaga
In This Issue: Editor’s note
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DG’s Corner
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RI President’s Message
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Tusu’s Corner
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Special feature
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Polio 9 Notice 10 Letter 11 Rotary Vijana Poa Training
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Club News
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RF Grants Training
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Interact Corner
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DG’s Vsits
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Rotary Dar Marathon
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The Social Media bootCamp
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DG’s Corner
RI President’s Message
DG Jayesh news update
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Chartering of Kisaasi Kyanja Kampala for DG Corner Page.jpg ince taking over office in July, the District Governor has chartered two new clubs, RC Kisaasi – Kyanja Kampala and RC Buloba both in Uganda. We welcome our new family members to the D9211 family. The month of September saw District Governor Jayesh concluding his Kilimanjaro region tour with visits to four clubs including Rotary Clubs of Moshi, Marangu, Machame and Rombo. For more
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on his September tour please see it covered in photos on DG Visits page. In October, the DG will participate in the Rotary Dar Marathon on 14th October and continue his tour to clubs in Uganda and Tanzania as per the schedule shared by the District Secretary.
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n 1979, James Bomar Jr., the president of Rotary at the time, traveled to the Philippines as part of Rotary’s earliest work to immunize children against polio. After he had put drops of vaccine into one baby’s mouth, he felt a child’s hand tugging on his trouser leg to get his attention. Bomar looked down and saw the baby’s brother looking up at him, saying earnestly, “Thank you, thank you, Rotary.” Before Rotary took on the task of polio eradication, 350,000 people – nearly all of them children – were paralyzed by polio every year. That child in the Philippines knew exactly what polio was and understood exactly what Rotary had just done for his baby brother. Today, 31 years after the launch of PolioPlus, the children of the Philippines – and of nearly every other country in the world
– are growing up without that knowledge, and that fear, of polio. Instead of 1,000 new cases of polio every day, we are averaging less than one per week. But as the fear of polio wanes, so does awareness of the disease. Now more than ever, it is vitally important to keep that awareness high and to push polio eradication to the top of the public agenda and our governments’ priorities. We need to make sure the world knows that our work to eradicate polio isn’t over yet, but that Rotary is in it to end it. On 24 October, Rotary will mark World Polio Day to help raise the awareness and the funding we need to reach full eradication. I ask all of you to take part by holding an event in your club, in your community, or online. Ideas and materials are available for download in all Rotary languages
at endpolio.org/worldpolioday, and you can register your event with Rotary at the same link. You can also join me and tens of thousands of your fellow Rotarians for a live-streamed global status update at 6 p.m. Eastern time at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. I’ll be there along with CDC Director Tom Frieden, other experts, and inspirational presenters, sharing an inside look at the science, partnerships, and human stories of polio eradication. It is an incredibly exciting time to be a Rotarian. We are gathering momentum for the final race to the finish: to the end of PolioPlus and the beginning of a polio-free world. It is truly a once-in-alifetime chance to End Polio Now, through Rotary Serving Humanity.
John F. Germ
Tusu’s Corner
It’s not “YOUR” Project! How many times do we hear Rotarians say, “we have our project in Kireberebe Kisunkaana?”. Let us get one thing right when dealing with Economic and Community Development, and I will call this Lesson 1: it is not YOUR project, even if saying so does give you an exaggerated sense of selfworth. It is a community project that YOU are supporting. Yes, this month we focus our learning on Economic and Community Development (ECD), especially in the semi-rural and rural areas, and I thought sharing a few experiential lessons is not a bad idea. Lesson 2: a community where disease is a challenge will lose so much time being sick that they cannot focus usefully on any other initiative that will help them develop. You cannot address ECD if you have not addressed basic health. Lesson 3: a community that 4| The Wave September 2016
does not have clean water, and which does not understand the relationship between “dirty water” (we all know that even cleanlooking water can be dirty in terms of levels of contamination) will have resultant health challenges: diarrhea, eye diseases, cholera, etc. You might as well have a comprehensive Water, Health and Sanitation (WASH) component as part of your ECD Project. Lesson 4: we all know that illiteracy can be a major barrier, if not a full block, to any efforts related to development. This really means ECD must also look at the literacy and numeracy environment (along with the ability to interpret, create linkages and APPLY what is read to personal empowerment and development!): if it is deficient, it must be addressed. Lesson 5: Poverty is state of mind. If you do not address the mindset of those that have accepted poverty as their lot, all the rest is a
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waste of time. This is an intangible challenge and the solution must be in addressing the mind. Now, when the ground is fertile in terms of the elements above, enablers like skills development (chances are that these will relate to agriculture and other income generating opportunities in rural communities) can be introduced. Or all the elements can move simultaneously to create synergy. Microcredit for example is an enabler: it is not a solution. One realizes soon on life (if one is lucky) that money is never a solution. Giving money to the poor does not make them rich: it makes them poor people with some transient cash. What is clear is that in all the above (and there is a lot more that might need to be done in the community to fertilise the ground for ECD), dedicated expertise will be required. So will look for partners with knowledge and experience
in handling the different aspects. Cooperating organisations: these are now recognized as of one the key features of sustainable ECD. Ok, this does not mean Rotarians do nothing: they must also dig in and apply their skills, but hey, being a Rotarian is NOT a full time job, so we also need a helping expert hand. So you see, ECD is a totality of approach, not one-dimensional intervention. Let us put one last lesson on the table as Lesson 6: it is not the things we give to or put in communities that create sustainability of the initiative. It is what the Community does in response (implicitly in a positive sense) to what we do as Rotarians that creates sustainability. This is behavioral change. We are just catalysts, not part of the reaction. It is NOT our Project: It is THEIR Project. Maybe Lesson 6 is not a lesson but a truism.
Our Membership Wall of Honor celebrates clubs that recruit the highest number of members each month. As of 31st September the below are our top clubs.
Special feature
Be Inspired By Minda Dentler The story of the World Champion
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for a marathon. This opened up a new world of opportunity for me, and I completed the New York City Marathon in my hand cycle in 2006. My next challenge was thought to be impossible for a female wheelchair athlete: the Ironman Triathlon. I made the transition to triathlon and finished my first Ironman in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, and qualified for the world championship in Kona, Hawaii, in 2012. The Ironman Triathlon requires a
was born in 1978 in Mumbai to a domestic worker and single mother. At six months old, I was paralyzed from the hips down by polio. The chances of surviving in India until your 18th birthday with a disability are very slim. My mother was unable to care for me and left me at an orphanage. I don’t remember much about my time there because I was so young, but I know the conditions were primitive. I had no real hope that my life would become anything of note or that I didn’t know it then, but several years after I was born, a revolution in the way the world approached polio prevention came to India. That revolution was the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which has reduced global polio cases by 99.9 percent since 1988. But like millions of others in India, I never received the two drops of oral vaccine that protect against the virus. In India, your health is vital to your social and economic opportunities. At age three, I was adopted by Bruce and Ann Dentler and joined their family of two children and another adopted son, from Korea. I moved to Spokane, Washington, USA, shortly after my third birthday. Over the next few years,
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to become the first woman hand cyclist in history to finish the Ironman World Championship. Every stroke in the water and crank forward on my hand cycle were movements for those who could not lift limbs paralyzed by polio. With every rotation of the wheels on my racing wheelchair, I was moving forward for the millions of polio survivors who would never get this opportunity. When I finally crossed the finish line 14 hours and 39 minutes after I started, I was overwhelmed with joy and excitement. It was a storybook ending and the realization of a dream that seemed impossible to achieve. I’d followed Rotary’s polio eradication efforts for some time when I had the honor of being invited to speak at a World Polio Day event in 2014. Since then, I’ve been one of Rotary’s polio ambassadors, helping to raise awareness for the End Polio Now campaign. In this role, I was offered an opportunity to return to India for the first time since I was a child. Last year I set off for the country where most people said polio could never be eradicated. But against the odds, one year after my first successful Ironman World Championship, India did eradicate polio – despite the challenges of crowded slums
I underwent a series of surgeries on my hips, legs, and back to straighten my body, and I could eventually walk with leg braces and crutches. I loved to compete, so I threw myself into many activities, from debating at school to playing the piano. I graduated from high school and moved to Seattle to study business at the University of Washington. While in college, I interned at the White House and
IBM. While living in New York, I met Dick Traum, the first amputee to complete the New York City Marathon in 1976. Dick later founded a nonprofit, Achilles International, which provides free training and support to help people with disabilities participate in sports. He gave me a hand cycle, which is a three-wheeled recumbent bicycle propelled by the arms, and encouraged me to train
wheelchair athlete like me to swim 2.4 miles, hand cycle 112 miles, and push a racing wheelchair 26.2 miles, all within tight time limits for each stage of the course. But at the Kona Ironman, I failed to make the 10½-hour cutoff time for the cycling portion but by October 2013, I was back at the starting line for the Kona Ironman in Hawaii for the second time. I was bidding
with poor sanitation, the second largest population in the world, the weakened immune systems of millions living in poverty without proper nourishment. Despite all this, Southeast Asia was certified polio free in 2014. There are 10 million to 20 million polio survivors worldwide, and they need more than physical rehabilitation. It will be another lifetime’s work to ensure that every polio survivor has access to a good education and to prevent stigmatization in communities or the workplace because of a physical disability. The least we can do in the present is to make the choice to prevent more needless suffering by vaccinating our children. And soon, our children, and their children, will live in a world without polio. Just imagine. Rotary is changing the world, one child and two drops of vaccine at a time. Summarized from David Goodstone story on Rotary.org to read full story go to https://www.rotary. org/myrotary/en/news-media/ ironman-triathlete-minda-dentlerchallenges-world-end-polio Give to End Polio Now Advocate for a polio-free world Join Rotary for World Polio Day
Polio Female worker providing polio vaccine in Kano, Nigeria.
Progress Polio cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350 000 cases then, to 74 reported cases in 2015. The reduction is the result of the global effort to eradicate the disease.
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orld Polio Day is commemorated every 24th of October and Rotary joins the world to celebrate achievement so far and continuing the fight to eradicate polio completely from this world. As long as a single child remains infected, children in all countries are at risk of contracting polio. Failure to eradicate polio from these last remaining strongholds could result in as many as 200 000 new cases every year, within 10 years, all over the world.
In 1994, the WHO Region of the Americas was certified polio-free, followed by the WHO Western Pacific Region in 2000 and the WHO European Region in June 2002. On 27 March 2014, the WHO South-East Asia Region was certified polio-free, meaning that transmission of wild poliovirus has been interrupted in this bloc of 11 countries stretching from Indonesia to India. This achievement marks a significant leap forward in global eradication, with 80% of the world’s population now living in certified polio-free regions.
Future benefits of polio eradication Once polio is eradicated, the world can celebrate the delivery of a major global public good that will benefit all people equally, no matter where they live. Economic modelling has found that the eradication of polio would save at least US$ 40–50 billion over the next 20 years, mostly in low-income countries. Most importantly, success will mean that no child will ever again suffer the terrible effects of lifelong polio-paralysis. Visit www.endpolio.org to acquire all the digital assistance you need to create an event to celebrate World Polio day, for sharing your events and news and learn how you can donate to the cause as we still have a fight to finish on our hands.
KEY FACTS ABOUT POLIO Polio is a viral disease which may affect the spinal cord causing muscle weakness and paralysis. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth, usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. Polio (poliomyelitis) mainly affects children under 5 years of age. 1 in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis. Among those paralysed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized. There is no cure for polio, it can only be prevented. Polio vaccine, given multiple times, can protect a child for life.
Notice
Letter THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL SERVICE AWARD FOR A POLIO-FREE WORLD Criteria and Guidelines Purpose of the Award: This award was established by the Trustees of the Rotary Foundation in order to recognize outstanding contributions to the effort by Rotarians and thereby to encourage final efforts. Service to be Recognized: Active personal service is required by the prospective recipient of the award. Personal financial contributions, however noteworthy, are not a basis for the award. Outstanding service in the field of advocacy, however, is not precluded as a consideration for the award. Fundraising efforts that support Rotary’s PolioPlus program may be considered in the evaluation of nominees for the award. Period of Service: Service which has occurred since 1 November 1992 is recognizable. Number and Distribution of Awards: Regional awards, for outstanding service solely or primarily within a World Health Organization (WHO) region, will be made annually, not to exceed 60 per year. WHO regions are: Africa, Americas, Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Southeast Asia and Western Pacific. International Awards, for broad service to the cause of polio eradication, will also be made annually, not to exceed ten individuals. A Rotarian may receive only one of each award. Prior receipt of a regional award is not a condition, nor does it preclude, consideration for the international award. Persons Eligible: Any Rotarian is eligible except: 1. Current and incoming trustees of The Rotary Foundation, current and incoming directors of Rotary International, and current and incoming district governors are not eligible to receive either of these awards. 2. Members of a Regional PolioPlus Committee and any Rotarian who have previously received either the regional or international award are ineligible for the regional award. 3. Members of the International PolioPlus Committee are ineligible for either award. Award Approval: Regional awards will be made by the Trustee Chair upon recommendation by the International PolioPlus Committee, which may consider the views of appropriate regional committees. If there is no regional committee, the Trustee Chairman will appoint a Rotarian in the WHO Region to execute the regional committee responsibilities in this regard. International awards will be made only by the Executive Committee of the Trustees upon recommendation by the IPPC. Any Rotarian may initiate a recommendation for a Rotarian to receive either award and may submit as many nominations as they wish. To assist reviewers in assessing nominations, full explanations and details of the reasons for the award are appreciated. For more information visit Rotary.org
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Out of Africa, into Kansas City Event
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reetings,
You may recall that I announced at the ROTA meeting in Seoul that the Kansas City Rotary Club, and the three surrounding Rotary Districts, will be hosting a meeting for African Rotarians and their spouses immediately following the 2017 Rotary convention in Atlanta. The purposes of the meeting are to honor the Kansas City Rotary Club for making the first ever gift to The Rotary Foundation, to celebrate the large number of Global Grant projects in Africa with the assistance of the Kansas City area districts, and to repay in small part the exemplary hospitality I have received in Africa on so many occasions since I was a student there 55 years ago. The Kansas City Rotary Club made an initial gift of $26.50 in 1917 to the fledgling endowment fund, just a few months after the fund was suggested by the RI President, Arch Klumph, in his presidential speech at the 2017 convention in Atlanta. The KC gift validated the existence of the new endowment fund, and although the fund did not grow much for several years, just look at the size and scope of The Rotary Foundation in today’s
world! As a result, the Kansas City club, which was the 13th club admitted to Rotary membership, was instrumental in helping to stabilize the concept advocated by Arch Klumph. Unfortunately, many Rotarians do not understand the significance of the first ever contribution or the fact that it was the Kansas City, Missouri, club that made the gift, -- not a club in the state of Kansas. It is confusing to many Rotarians outside the USA, but it is a very important
difference to those of us from the Great State of Missouri! You will be hearing more about the Out of Africa, -- in to Kansas City event in the next few weeks, including the registration fee, which will be modest, and the hotel rate for the Embassy Suites, which will be a special group rate. My purpose in sending this information to you now is for those of you who are current DGs to publicize the event in your monthly newsletters before the Rotarians in your respective
districts begin to book their airline tickets for the Atlanta convention. Hopefully, the side trip to Kansas City for two days will not be expensive, and your Rotarians will still have time to visit other places in America before returning to Africa. It is too long a trip to merely turn around and go home! For those of you who were the DGs last year, I hope you will support the Kansas City event, and I hope to see you there, -- as well as in Atlanta during the convention. You were wonderfully supportive of the idea during my visits to your districts last year, and now I want to welcome you and your Rotary friends to my Rotary district in Northern Missouri. I had an unfortunate experience with a ministroke last month, but I seem to have escaped without any residual effects. However, I am taking the health warning seriously, and I have curtailed my traveling until 1 January to be sure I am hale and hearty again! More later,
PRIP Ray Klingsmith
Rotary Vijana Poa Trainning in
Rotarians from Rotary Club of Bahari who attended the Rotary Vijana Poa training.
Bagalana Ibra at the Rotary Vijana Poa training.
PDG Harish Bhatt training trainers Rotarians and Rotractors at Training in Dar es Salaam
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Club News
Pillars of Peace Training for Rotaractors
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he Rotary Club of Kampala Ssese Islands in partnership with La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club of California received a global grant amounting to $69,812 (UGX: 234,566,016) for a joint project under theme “Bringing positive peace to Uganda” falling under Rotary’s peace and conflict prevention/resolution area of focus. The two clubs will work with the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and the International Peace and Security Institute (IPSI) to conduct a training identifying and addressing practical challenges, and opportunities in Uganda for building positive peace. Four Rotary peace fellows will conduct a 3-day training for 120 rotaractors selected from clubs across Uganda from 30th September to 02nd October at the Ridars Hotel in Seeta Mukono under the theme: “Pillars of Peace”. GOAL: Training leaders, including potential youth leaders to prevent and mediate conflict. The training follows a needs assessment based on the research by IEP. Eight empirically driven factors that collectively create the optimum environment for peace 14| The Wave September 2016
(the eight Positive Peace factors) were identified. These are: well-functioning government, sound business environment, equitable distribution of resources, acceptance of the rights of others, good relations with neighbors, free flow of information, high levels of human capital and low levels of corruption. Details can be found at: http://economicsandpeace.org/wpcontent/uploads/2015/10/PositivePeace-Report-2015.pdf
Specific objectives: CONTEXT: To determine the extent
ROTARY ADOPTS DDAGYE VILLAGE IN SSESE ISLANDS
to which the positive peace factors are seen as legitimate and relevant in the Ugandan context; INVESTMENT: Identify practical steps that Ugandans can take to build positive peace, gauging the experience of practitioners working on the ground on these issues and recommendations for new initiatives needed. EDUCATION: Spread a message about the importance of Positive Peace, seek IEP’s research can be promulgated to a wider audience within Uganda, identify best suited beneficiaries of the IEP’s research and how they can best be reached.
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By Rotary Club of Kampala Ssese Is.
n Saturday 10th September 2016 all roads/boats/ ferries led to Ssese Islands as the Rotary fraternity and well-wishers headed to Ddagye-Bweza village. Leading the teams was the Rotary Club of Kampala Ssese Islands.
delivery room, a resting area, a sluice room, a wash room, drugs store/ dispensing area and a store.
DG and the VP launching the Rotary health centre
The club also conducted a
They were there to witness the Rotary District Governor (D9211) Jayesh H Asher and the VicePresident of the Republic of Uganda H.E. Edward K Sekandi jointly launch the 1st phase of the “Adopt a village” project. Amid ululations, a fully DG hands over water purifiers to the LC 5 Chairman equipped Ddagye- Bweza Rotary Health Centre was handed medical camp in which over 600 over to Kalangala District on people received medical care as behalf of the community. The well as immunization of children. centre consists of staff quarters The DG also handed over 200 that will house four medical water purifiers donated by Rotary personnel, a toilet block and the club of Cardiff East. main health facility. The main facility has two sections: After the handover of this “Miracle” as DG called it a) Out Patients Department during his speech, the club (OPD) with a waiting area, is now focusing all efforts on doctor’s room, laboratory and implementing the remaining drug store/dispensing area; phases which include: b) The Maternity wing with a 1. Mobile Ambulances
(Tricycles) to serve the outlying islands without health facilities; 2. Constructing and equipping a nursery and lower primary classes (P1-P3). 3. Constructing boreholes and another toilet at the landing site. 4. Providing the youth and women alternative sources of income to fishing which has been affected by reduced fish stocks in Lake Victoria over the years. The above phases require $63,740 to implement, in order to transform the lives of that community.
Toilet block
Rotary Foundation Grants Seminar By AG Reagan The Eastern zone one grants training seminar duly took place on Saturday 24th September 2016 at Crested Crane hotel in Jinja. It was a half day comprehensive training workshop with the aim of ensuring Rotarians learn how to apply for grants online, managing a Grant, how to conduct needs assessment, learn stewardship expectations and guidelines, prepare for qualification of clubs for Rotary year 2016/17 and sharing of experiences in implementing Grants. The training was facilitated by Rotarians from various clubs and attended by 38 Rotarians and Rotaractors from all the clubs in Eastern zone including Clubs of Kayunga, Bugiri, Iganga, Jinja
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Interact Corner
Josiah girls Interact club scoop all three awards for essay competition
and Source of the Nile as well as members from Mbale in Eastern zone two.
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The winner, Maria Joseph poses for a photo with her iPhone tablet.
he Interact Club at Josiah Girls High School in Bukoba emerged the top three winners of an essay competition organized by the Rotary club of Mikocheni Dar es Salaam on Conflict Resolution in Tanzania.
The proud winners pf peace essay competition show their presents.
The essay competition targeted all Interact clubs in the countryin two age categories 13 – 16 years (maximum 500 words) and 16- 19 years (maximum 1000 words). The prizes include an iPhone tablet and smart phones.
The essay tasked the Interactors to reflect on the conflict that occasionally flares up between the farming and pastoralist community in Tanzania and give suggestions on how these can be resolved for in both the short and long –term.
Conflict in Tanzania is linked to rapidly growing population from 9 million people at independence in 1961 to about 50 million currently. This in turn has increased demand for land for settlement and for agriculture. Large tracts of traditional grazing lands converted into crop farming.
The winners were Maria Joseph at first place, Lisa Alex Kimaro second and Joseline Jaspher at third place.
Over the same period, grazing livestock populations have increased rapidly from 15 million
cattle, sheep and goats in 1961 to about 50 million currently kept by about half of households in Tanzania. The expansion of human and livestock populations coupled with high rates of land conversion and degradation has resulted in heightened community tensions and increasing violent land use conflicts between livestock keepers and sedentary crop farmers in several areas in Tanzania. The livestock keepers involved in the conflict are mainly pastoral communities who have evolved to thrive on extensive range lands in arid and semi-arid climes but whose opportunities to continue this lifestyle is threatened. Congratulations to the winners.
DG’s Vsits
RC Kisugu - Victoria View
Charter of Kisaasi - Kyanja Kampala
Innerwheel Club Kampala
Visiting Rotaract Clubs of Entebbe
RC Sesse
Charter of Kisaasi - Kyanja Kampala
RC Nansana
RC Buloba
RC Mkuu Rombo
RC Bweyogerere Nambole
RC Kampala Metropolitan
RC Kampala Nsambya
RC Kampala South
RC Machame
RC Kawempe Kampala
RC Kayunga
RC Kisaasi Kyanja Kampala
RC Kyambogo
RC Makindye West
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Tis the season to be sporty Dar Rotary marathon is here again!
Heels to heal! Help build a state-of-the-art healthcare facility in Dar es Salaam.
Friday, October 14, 2016
2016 Run: 21.1 kms (starts at 6.15 am)
Start/End: Green, Kenyatta Dr.
Cycling: 21.1KM (starts at 6.30 am)
Registration: 5 am onwards
Walk: 9 kms & 5 kms (starts at 7 am)
www.RotaryDarMarathon.com
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ast year, the Dar Rotary Marathon (RDM) painted Dar es Salaam city orange. The Rotary Dar Marathon is here again to paint the whole city of RED.
The preparations are in full gear for this fun sporting event that takes place on the 14th of October in Dar es Salaam. RDM2016 has attracted professional runners from neighboring countries of Kenya, Malawi and Rwanda and some international runners too. Tanzanian long distance runner Alphonse Felix Simbu, who represented the country in the recently concluded Rio Olympics coming in 5th will also participate in the event which will again be graced by His Excellency former President of Tanzania Ali Hassan Mwinyi. Commenting on the preparations towards the event RDM Chair Agnes Batengas said “We are really excited for this year’s marathon. Plans are going on really well. The fundraising team is doing a fantastic job of raising funds towards our cause and we really hope to achieve our goal of raising Tsh. 1 billion. The rest of the planning team and members of Rotary Clubs of Dar es Salaam have also been excellent in ensuring everything is planned and organized before the big day.”
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Pre-registration of participants for the marathon is now in full swing. There are various registration points across Dar es Salaam where Rotarians assisted by Rotaractors and Interactors are carrying out the registration process. This is the eighth marathon and over the years, it has raised funds to support various causes in Dar es Salaam. These include planting of trees, providing
on the actual marathon event will take place on 7th October. Rotary Dar Marathon is organized by all seven clubs of Dar es Salaam in partnership with Bank M and other supporters. For more information visit: www. RotaryDarMarathon.com and https://www.facebook.com/ RotaryDarMarathon/
“We have also made some route changes to the usual four events the 21 km half marathon challenge, 21 km bike challenge, 9km challenge and 5km fun challenge. The 21 km challenge and 21km cycling will have their separate route from the 9and 5 km events. This is to avoid any confusion and congestion on the finishing line,’ continued Agnes. This year’s event with theme
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registration similar to last year of water and sanitation facilities to “Healing Lives Transforming schools, building and equipping Communities” aims at attracting a modern pediatric oncology 15,000 participants – runners, ward at the Muhimbili National walkers and cyclers and raise Hospital and well providing the necessary funds required a well equipped Rotary towards the construction of a Entrepreneurship Centre at the multi-specialty hospital in Dar University of Dar es Salaam. es Salaam which will provide affordable quality medical A pre-marathon walk targeting service. Rotarians who will be too busy
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The Social Media boot camp
How to Fundraise on Social Media
Promote member events
Be Active
Community fundraising takes time and effort. Most clubs only have the energy to work towards one or two big events each year, be that a gala, a masquerade ball, a trek through the Himalayas, or a more modest Church fête raffle.
By Rtn. Asnath Ndosi
That doesn’t mean that your members can’t be raising money in the meantime. Get a fundraising pack together, deliver it to members, and encourage them to undertake their own event. The time it takes you to promote their event through your social media will be well rewarded by the increase in sponsorship they receive, leaving everyone with a warm fuzzy feeling.
You have to maintain an active presence on each site you are targeting, or else you won’t be successful. This means, at the very minimum, that you visit each site at least three times per week and post or tweet or link to a new item. Ideally, you will be on each of the social networks you are targeting Some ways to promote events: once per day, every day, Monday through Friday. • Post about it • Link to the event fundraising site in your posts • Set up an event page on Facebook
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Things you’ll need • A Social network presence • Access to the Internet • Strong cup of coffee
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When it comes to fundraising, social media is normally about information sharing. In and of itself, most platforms are not a fundraising program. Social media lets you tell people about your cause and help you to give them a reason why to donate while expanding your media reach as far and wide as possible. Gone are the days when the members of a
you’ve got a message, you can now tell it to the world. The more people you reach, the more people are likely to donate. That’s the theory.
The more you can tell people what their money will be specifically used for, the better. These types of message are strong when used on social media especially if you use audio, video or a game to accompany them. For example, you might say: ‘giving $10 a month to charity XXX will ensure a hot meal every day for a homeless person’.
• If you only have time to use one channel, link your Facebook and Twitter feeds so posts reach more people • Encourage followers to re-post and share event information • Don’t forget to feedback on how much was raised and say ‘thank you’
“Gone are the days when the members of a charity were decided by
word-of-mouth or geographical proximity. If you’ve got a message, you Far too many self-appointed can now tell it to the world.”
Publicize your targets
Show what donations will do
• Upload videos or video diaries by members on your YouTube channel
What’s the point of social charity were decided by word-ofmouth or geographical proximity. If media?
You’re too busy to be doing work (and it is work, when done right) for the sake of “connecting.” Have a goal for your social networking time. Do you want to raise money? Find new volunteers? Build buzz for your club? All of these are respectable goals. Go into your social networking work with a goal in the back of your mind and then work towards completing that goal successfully.
Overall targets with manageable and realistic milestones are crucial to any call for donations. Social media can be useful for keeping your supporters up to date and encouraging others to help you reach targets. You could update Have a Goal (Don’t Just Twitter and Facebook followers on “Connect for the Sake of progress e.g. “we’re only $1000 off our target for the XXX campaign”. Connecting”)
• Upload photos from past events
f you are trying to raise funds for a specific campaign or even for your club as a whole, then social media can help you to maximize your fundraising potential.
social networks just to “have a presence.” “Connect for the sake of connection,” they will tell you. “Listen, learn, and be there.”
social media “gurus” will tell you that you should be active on
Post this on your Facebook page; perhaps with a short video clip showing the type of person you could help. Tweet about it, add it to YouTube, and get people to talk about it. It should also be clearly visible on your website.
The Wave The Wave is the official newsletter of the District Governor of Rotary District 9211, Tanzania & Uganda.
Editorial Team Tanzania Rtn. Emma Mbaga - Editor Rtn. Catherine Njuguna - Assistant Editor Rtn. Asnath Ndosi - Contributor Rtr. Eric Emmanuel - Designer
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24| The Wave September 2016