The Wave
Editor’s note
“Equality for progress for all”
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- Happy Women’s Day 8th March, 2017
Volume 5 Issue 9 March 2017
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ebruary was an exciting month for the district with the visit from the RI President Germ who was accompanied with his wife to Uganda for celebrations of Rotary in Uganda and the Foundation. The Wave has covered some of the moments of this special visit. The month of March represents Water and Sanitation for Rotary and with that the Wave congratulates our newly appointed WASH Ambassadors from Tanzania PDG Harish Bhatt and Uganda We also join women around the world to commemorate International Women’s day on 8th March. The Wave wishes all the Women RotariansHappy International Women’s Day. The 92nd DCA committee continues to urge Rotarians to make final plans to register and pay for the conference which will take place early May in Arusha. Check out what the conference has prepared for you inside this edition.For the RI Convention attendees please check out the offer by Ethiopian Airlines. Please continue sharing your stories, projects and adventures in Rotary with us through dg9211news@ gmail.com
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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RI President’s Visit to Uganda
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The Rotary Foundation
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WASH ambassadors
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Club News
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Rotaract corner
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FAREWELL Rtn, MARGARET
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92nd DCA Arusha
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92nd DCA Arusha theme nights
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RI Convention special Offer
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Enjoy the March Wave Editor Rtn. Emma Mbaga Editor DG Newsletter 2016/17
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women
DG’s corner
RI President’s message
DG Jayesh Welcome RI President John in Uganda, District 9211 Celebrating 60 Years of Rotary in Uganda
Caption: District Governor Jayesh welcomes RI President John Germ. RI President Designate Sam Owori looking on.
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RI President John Germ with his dear wife, Rotarian Judy.
orty years ago, the Rotary Club of Duarte, Calif., admitted three women members, in violation of the Rotary International Constitution. As a result, the club’s charter was terminated by RI.
DG Jayesh welcome Judy, RI Presiden John’s wife on arrival
District leaders with the RI President
DG Jayesh addresses the Special Dinner with President John Hugh Masekela Jazz Act at the Special Dinner 2| The Wave February 2017
Undeterred, the club’s members continued to meet. They put an X over their Rotary insignia, made themselves new pins, and dubbed themselves the Ex-Rotary Club of Duarte as they continued to fight for the right of women to serve as Rotarians. Ten years later, a restored Rotary Club of Duarte sent Sylvia Whitlock, Rotary’s first female club president, to a presidents-elect training seminar. Not long after that, in 1989, Rotary’s Council on Legislation permanently ended Rotary’s status as a men-only organization. Today, with more than 240,000 women in our clubs, Rotary is stronger than ever. We are women
and men from nearly every country of the world, serving our communities in more than 35,000 clubs. At the club level, we need men and women of all backgrounds, ages, cultures, and professions; internationally, we need clubs in every city, country, and region of the world. The better our clubs reflect their communities, the better we can serve them. Our diversity is our strength. It is difficult for most of us to imagine today why anyone argued so strongly against the idea of women in Rotary. Looking back, I think that opposition came from a simple resistance to change. Rotarians loved Rotary the way it was and couldn’t imagine it any other way. We still love Rotary as much as we ever did. We love the friendships and connections we make there, and the ability Rotary provides us
to serve humanity. We believe Rotary has tremendous value in our own lives and in the world at large. And we recognize, more than ever, that for Rotary to continue to grow, it needs to embrace the world it serves – in all of its diversity, all of its variety, and all of its evolving needs for service. The Rotarians of today owe a debt of gratitude to the Rotarians of Duarte 40 years ago. Their determination, persistence, and enduring goodwill set the stage for the organization we have become: Rotary Serving Humanity.
John F. Germ
By Rtn. Julie Kamuzze-Musoke Assistant District Governor’s Newsletter Editor
Speaking at the commissioning of blood bank RI President meets Uganda speaker of parliament, Rt Hon Rebecca Kadaga
RI President with Rt. Hon Ruhakana Rugunda Prime Minister of the Republic of Uganda opening the Rotary Blood Bank in Mengo Hospital.
RI President’s Press conference
RI President John F. Germ commissions health facilities in Uganda to mark 60 year celebrations The atmosphere in KampalaUganda was electric on Saturday, February 25, 2017 as Rotarians awaited for the arrival of Rotary International (RI) President John F. Germ. President John who was in Uganda for a three-day visit was going to take part in several activities lined up to mark 60 years of Rotary in Uganda and 100 years of The Rotary Foundation. Uganda got the first Rotary club on 4| The Wave February 2017
May 20, 1957. This is the Rotary club of Kampala (Arch) mothered by Rotary Club of Nairobi. To-date Uganda boasts of 93 Rotary clubs and over 150 Rotaract and Interact clubs with growing project profiles and service to humanity focusing on bigger and bolder projects. On arrival President John accompanied by his wife, Judy Germ, was welcomed by Rotary International President Nominee,
Rtn. Sam Owori and his wife Rtn. Norah Owori in the company of District Governors and District officials from Uganda and Tanzania President John F. Germ guides 1.2. million members in more than 200 countries for projects ranging from serving humanitarian needs on the local, national and worldwide level and the eradication of polio in the world. During his visit President Germ
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commissioned the Rotary Hospital in Mukono, Rotary Blood Bank at Mengo Hospital, Rotary Cancer Centre at Nsambya Hospital and Rotary Vocational Training Institute in Buikwe.
Medical outreach in Rotary Mukono hospital
He also participated in The Rotary Foundation Dinner, Isaiah Katumwa and Huge Masekela concert, World Understanding and Peace Charity Walk. In addition he addressed a joint fellowship of Rotaractors and Interactors. He concluded his trip with courtesy calls to Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda and Ambassador Deborah R. Malac, U.S. Ambassador to Uganda. Mengo Hospital Rotary Blood Bank
The Rotary Foundation
WASH Ambassadors The first class of five Rotary sponsored scholars graduated with Master of Science degrees in water education from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Unesco-IHE Institute for Water Education
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lease be informed that Rotarians. Harish Bhatt and Moses Musitwa have volunteered and been appointed by the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG) to be WASRAG Ambassadors in Tanzania and Uganda respectively.
Rtn PDG Harish
They have been recommended for this role because of their knowledge and commitment to promote excellence in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects. As a WASRAG Ambassadors Rotarians Bhatt and Musitwa will seek to support you and your clubs in the following ways:
Rotary Foundation and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education The Rotary Foundation and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education are working together to tackle the world’s water and sanitation crisis and are offering up to 10 scholarships for graduate study at UNESCO-IHE’s Delft campus in the Netherlands. The partnership aims to increase the number of trained professionals who can devise, plan, and implement water and sanitation solutions in developing areas. The scholarships also are designed to promote long-term productive relationships between Rotarians and skilled water and sanitation professionals in their communities.
• Develop and promote a “Speakers’ Bureau” to provide speakers for your club meetings and district events. • Encourage local activities within your region that will support the objectives of Rotarian water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) initiatives. • Act as a conduit between WASRAG and your clubs to provide the most current information about Rotary WASH related initiatives and objectives.
Scholars will receive a Master of Science degree in urban water and sanitation, water management, or water science and engineering. Graduates work with their Rotary club sponsors on a related project to benefit their local community. The application deadline is 15 June. For more information, review the application toolkit and scholarship terms and conditions.
• Encourage resources within your region to engage in various Rotary and WASRAG pursuits, e.g. sustainable water, sanitation and behavior change initiatives.
If you have questions, please contact grants@rotary.org.
• Identify individual Rotarians in your region that may support club initiatives, in activities such as grant development, project review, school certification application scoring, project enhancement activities, etc.
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Rtn Moses Musitwa
• Disseminate information/needs assessment data in the effort to enhance the quality, relevance and sustainability of projects your clubs undertake.
Clean Water Supply is Global #6
Club News
RC Arusha Mt Meru conducts a blood drive
In an effort to support the country’s National Blood Transfusion Program, the club mobilized Rotarians and other residents to show up and donate blood for the country blood bank. This is the first effort for the club to conduct this activity for the National program where 53 units were collected including some rare blood types like AB negative and O negative were also collected. The club in collaboration with the National programme will also create a list of the rare blood group people so that they may be easily contacted in case of an emergency. 8| The Wave February 2017
In Tanzania the availability of safe blood supplies is still a scarce commodity and largely influenced by low participation rates amongst the citizens therefore blood drive activities are encouraged to ensure that the national bank has enough for the needs of patients. While the club is planning to conduct in the future a nationwide campaign they will also conduct another camp in August 2017 in Arusha.
RC Dar es Salaam sponsors women for business training
RC Moshi changing lives with their community development project
By Jasmin Kanza – RC Moshi
RC Dar es Salaam has been supporting training for young talented women in finance and business skills. The training is geared at personal growth and providing business skills in a one year programme which takes place at the Mabinti Centre in Dar es Salaam. Ten courageous ladies who were part of a group recovering from obstetric fistula surgery have just completed their training and are ready to go into the market to promote their products. The young ladies were between the age of 14 –20 and suffering from obstetric fistula which is one of the most shattering consequences of child marriage, as young girls are especially prone to developing fistulas. In our society women suffering from obstetric fistula are still often stigmatized and face a life of isolation as they are typically excluded from normal social and economic activities. Therefore the ten women on the programme were selected to be a part of the year-long course to assist them to be productive members of the society. These young women posses reativity in developing hand made products that are beautiful and useful. Through this program they will be able to use the training and their talent to provide financially for themselves and their families. The business training has given these young ladies a purpose and the club recently attended their graduation as they completed the programme.
Through a $66,250 Global Grant, the Rotary club of Moshi is continuing to transform the Kilimahewa community located 3km outside of Moshi district. The grant’s objectives were to create a Global Digital Literacy Program that would provide an opportunity for continued education for the students and community members through the world of free learning and the internet by teaching computer literacy, software program skill development and global internet and tools. This program generates 100,000TSh ($42) per student that participates in the 3-month Short Term Certificate Course. In 2016, 54 students enrolled and generated 5,400,000TSh ($2,500) Also to establish a chicken egg production operation that will provide animal husbandry education, crop production techniques and business skills development that gives students the ability to support themselves
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while furthering their education and improving their economic situations. This program will also provide needed income support to the Global Digital Literacy program beyond the grant expiration.
project include a monthly revenue of Tsh 150,000-200,000 from the Vegetable Program (GreenHouse & Open Field), which pays for the operational costs of all the farming projects.
And finally to purchase and distribute 105 wheelchairs to provide local citizens with paraplegia or leg amputations the mobility needed to care for themselves to better support themselves economically.
More than 20 rabbits have been born and are waiting an increase in weight before selling at an estimate price of Tsh 7,500 TSh per 1 kg of weight. The plan to sell them is when the reach 3kg so each rabbit will generate 22,500TSh per rabbit. If 3 rabbits consistently give birth without problems they will generate 72 sellable rabbits each year and sell each for 22,500 generating a total of 1,620,000TSh in 2017.
The farming project and computer classes take place at Kilimahewa education while the wheelchairs were distributed to different families in Moshi and Arusha Region as identified by Rotarians. The students that attend Kilimahewa Education center are responsible for all farming activities with the help and support of the Husbandry Program Manager and working in Partnership with Sevia, which provides technical advice and support to students. The success so far from the farming
The Fish farm was stocked with 300 fish and the first harvest is due in February where it is expected that 250-300 fish will be harvested then every 2 months after up to 300-400 fish. During this year if the numbers stay consistent, the pond should generate an income of Tsh 4,500,000TSh.
ROTARACTOR’s fundraise to #showLove to cancer patients
For those of us who were closely associated with Rtn. Margaret as a friend and followed her courageous fight against cancer, we of course feared for the worst. But each time Margaret came home from those regular consultations in India, she brought us a new hope by the energetic manner she went about her business as if nothing serious was happening to her inner self….leave alone her well known lightheartedness which took nothing away from her seriousness. All the same, the news of her passing on came to all of us as a shock given that she continued talking to us on phone regularly.
Rotaract Club of Young Professionals and Rotarians from RC Dar es Salaam and Dar North
Reported By Moiz Adamji Rotaract Club of Young Professionals In commemoration of World Cancer day in the month of February, The Rotaract Club of Dar es Salaam Young Professionals went on a quest to raise funds in-order to show love to patients suffering from Cancer in the city of Dar es Salaam. The Rotaract Club conducted a couple of activities to raise funds for this initiative, a cup-cake sale and a Valentine’s party. Through these activities, they managed to raise Tsh. (est $450) which was then used to buy packs of hygiene products for patients at The Ocean Road Cancer Hospital.
at Muhimbili Hospital. This project was organised on the 19th of February by a group of citizens in Dar es Salaam.
The members of Rotaract Club of Young Professionals were happy to see the warm smiles, happy faces and hope from the children and adult patients that were reached out to. The club wishes to extend special On the 26th of February, 2017, the packs which thanks to Rotary clubs of Dar es salaam , Dar North contained toothpaste, toothbrush, face towels, soap , Rotary clubs of Oysterbay, Mikocheni and Rotaract and a hand sanitizer, were distributed to a total of 100 clubs of Alpha , Kairuki , Muhimbili-Muhas and adult patients. Rotaract club of Mzumbe University. Also, Ms. Bijal and group of citizens of Dar es Salaam, Dr. Heri Tungaraza, Part of the funds collected by Rotaract Club of Young Dr. Sajjad Fazzel, Dr. Harris Mapande, sister Ofaskara Professionals were also donated to a separate project and to the staff at Ocean Road Hospital and Muhimbili that provided food, sanitary and stationery items to over 80 children at the Rotary Pediatric Oncology Ward National Hospital. 12| The Wave February 2017
FAREWELL Rtn, MARGARET MUNG’HERERA
My closeness and friendship with Margaret started when I served as Country Trainer. She always had innovative ways of putting across the relevant messages convincingly; simple and down to earth. In spite of her busy professional schedule, she always found time to fulfill whatever roles were assigned to her…and always on time. I was honoured when as Country Chair under DG Eric Kimani, she invited me to serve as Country Membership Chair. Those collaborations strengthened our friendship and heightened my respect for the outspoken and firm lady. May be, she has passed on as the best lady District Governor that Uganda never had. Definitely, I fully agree with Daily Monitor Columnist, Dr. Munlini K. Mulera who titled his tribute to Margaret thus:”Dr. Margaret Mungherera lived for a cause, not for self”. In fact, she pushed her call of duty beyond the clinical and administrative services in her medical field to the dangerous limits of political opposition for the sake of justice and fairness to all. As a true Rotarian, Margaret lived up to the Motto of “Service Above Self” May her soul rest in eternal peace! PAG Jones Kyazze RC Kampala-Munyonyo
92nd DCA Arusha
District 9211 DCA Awards: 5. Interact Award:
1. Membership Award: To be presented to the club with highest net percentage increase in membership.
4. Rotaract Award: To be presented to the Rotaract club that has the highest average attendance of members to club activities: These include Fellowships, and Club projects
2. Vocational Service Award: To be presented to the Club that has excelled in Vocational Service through the pursuit of high ethical standards, recognition of all worthy occupations and contributing ones vocational talents to serve society. The Club must have undertaken several vocational service activities and must have participated in the annual programs of Rotary International on Vocational Service.
8. Membership Extension Award: 6. Club Bulletin Award: To be presented to the Club that has regularly produced a Club Bulletin that is both interesting and informative on Rotary matters (through the various avenues of service). Preference shall be given for publishing a weekly bulletin that has promoted fellowship, contributed towards Rotary education, has disseminated Rotary international news, and has been widely circulated (e.g. by electronic circulation)
3. Community Service Trophy: To be awarded to a club with projects and or an RCC, that address the highest number of the 6 key focus areas. ii. To be awarded to a club with the highest number of active RCCs. • Economic project (micro finance) • Club with highest number of immunizations • Education literacy projects • Disease prevention and treatment project • Water Project • Peace and Conflict
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To be presented to the Interact Club that has excelled in providing an opportunity for its members to work together in a world fellowship dedicated to service and international understanding. A high standard of club leadership is desirable as well as participation in District and International Conferences.
7. Rotary Foundation Award: To be presented to the Club with the best all round performance in the programmes of Rotary Foundation. The club shall have contributed to world understanding and peace through local, national and international humanitarian, educational and cultural programmes of the Rotary Foundation. The Club’s per capita contribution to the Foundation during the year, as well as Bequests made, shall be an important criterion.
To be presented to the Club that has made the most noteworthy contribution to membership extension through formation of new Rotary Clubs, RCCs, and Rotary Youth Clubs.
9. Family of Rotary Award: To be presented to the Club that has had the highest number of home hospitalities during the year.(Evidence of Numbers Is of Added Advantage)
11. Club with highest percentage of women: To be given to the Club who has the percentage of women by 31st March 2017. One Award for TZ and one for Uganda.
12. Club with the most participants in their youth programs (Rotaract & Interact): To be given to the Club who has the highest members participation in the Club youth programs and club members involvements with their Rotarctors and Interact clubs projects/ orientation/ training and support. One trophy for TZ and one for Uganda.
13. Conference Attendance Awards: • To be presented to a club that has attended with the highest numbers of club members • To be presented to a club that has travelled longest and with the highest membership percentage. One for Tanzania and one for Uganda.
10. Membership Extension with Gender and Cultural Diversity: To be given to a club that has attained the highest increase in women members and or cultural diversity.
92nd DCA Arusha theme nights
RI Convention special Offer
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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
Uganda Rtn. Julie Kamuzze-Musoke - Assistant Editor Rtn. Patricia Karugaba Kyazze - Contributor Contact:- dg9211news@gmail.com
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