Upcoming events • 86th District Conference and Assembly Rotary District 9200 20th to 23rd April 2011 Common Wealth Resort and Conference Centre, Munyonyo Uganda. - Please register early and enjoy the discounts. Visit the district website for more details. From the District Governor RI Theme: World Understanding Issue 8, February 2011 D ear Friends, Exactly 90 years ago, in 1921, the Rotary Convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, instituted International Service as part of the Object of Rotary. Our founder Paul Harris then declared, “Yesterday, our Rotary was a child. Today, in strength and vigor, it steps out into the world”. As we celebrate World Understanding Month, we need to remember those prophetic words. Our strength lies in the fact that we look beyond ourselves in order to serve humanity. Now 90 years after the Edinburgh convention, International Service continues to serve as the foundation for some of Rotary’s most popular and enduring programs. I can never forget my own experience in 2005, when I led a GSE team from our District 9200 to District 1270 in the UK. I cannot find the words to relay that experience. As a Rotarian who grew up in small rural community, I can easily relate with Paul Harris and his desire to make friends and help his communities. I therefore feel very privileged, first of all as a Rotarian and secondly to serve as your District Governor this year more so at a time when we are being called upon to Build Communities and Bridge Continents. The theme for this year, Building Communities, Bridging Continents, can also be seen as a call for World Understanding and Peace. How else can we build communities and bridge continents without peace? In Rotary, we work towards peace through understanding, and we build understanding through service. I have witnessed, through my visits to clubs with Dorothy how projects have created understanding and brought people together. When we carry out projects that involve both Rotarians and beneficiaries, and when we carry them out with the help of other partners, then we are truly building world understanding and peace through building communities and bridging continents. All Rotary projects, no matter how small, have the potential to build understanding and peace. Which reminds me of the words of Dr. Noboru Iwamura of Japan, who was the first recipient of the Rotary Award for World Understanding and Peace in 1981, “Go to the people; live among the people; learn from the people; plan with the people; work with the people; start with what they know; build on what they have.” As Rotarians, we need to do exactly that. We need to work through Rotary and its Foundation to improve the human condition and provide hope to the hopeless. International initiatives, such as Polio Plus have changed the course of history. The 2010-11 Presidential Citation provides each Rotary Club with a unique opportunity and motivation to contribute to the building of bridges that will further strengthen World Understanding and Peace by specifically requiring clubs to go beyond lip service in starting initiatives that promote International Service. It is our District aspiration that every Club in the District will engage in and score at least 35 scores in each of the Four Avenues of Service. February, my friends is an opportunity for us to review our commitment not only to the promotion of World Understanding and Peace but also our participation in the International Avenue of Service. Through our humanitarian work, we shall leave a lasting legacy. Let us therefore continue doing what we do better than anybody else in the world, Building Communities, Bridging Continents by creating a better world and a better future. Also in this Issue: • DG’s planned Visits, • Your Rotary Knowledge, Your comments on the DG’s newsletter • Quarterly attandance records, FAQ’s DG Newsletter Theme: World Understanding Building Communies - Bridging Connents: Creang a beer world and a beer future! February: World Understanding Month Highlights of February events FEB, 2011 WORLD UNDERSTANDING AND PEACE MONTH 15 23 Monthly Attendance Reports to the District Attendance Chair District Team Training Seminar(DTTS) 106th Anniversary of Rotary International / World Understanding and Peace Day RC of Kampala West to Host ALL WEDNESDAY CLUBS JOINT FELLOWSHIP (Celebrate RI Birthday and conduct Inter-club Quiz) Fundraising “DANCING NIGHT” – RC of Entoto, Ethiopia 8th meeting of each of the club committees 8th Club Board meeting COTS/ROTS 86th DISTRICT CONFERENCE AND ASSEMBLY 86th DISTRICT CONFERENCE AND ASSEMBLY Rotary International-District 9200 20TH-23RD APRIL, 2011 MUNYONYO COMMONWEALTH RESORT KAMPALA-UGANDA BUILDING COMMUNITIES BRIDGING CONTINENTS REGISTER NOW ! PLENTY TO EXPECT: Safaris, City Tours, Entertainment, Great Speakers e.t.c From the District TRF Chair Improving our Stewardship with TRF Funds Did you know that the most common stewardship concerns, based on random project audits conducted during 2009-10 were: 1. Complete hand over of grant funds to either the cooperating organization or the beneficiary; 2. Lack of participation by the host and/or international Rotarian sponsors; 3. Undisclosed conflict of interest; 4. Lack of financial documentation; 5. Lack of or improper Rotary signage. Please evaluate all your club projects against these and take corrective action! And remember: a progress report is due every 12 months on theanniversary of the grant payment, and within two months after completion of the project Rtn. Tusu, DRFC “Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi
discounts.Visit the district website for more details.
From the District Governor
RI Theme: World Understanding Issue 8, February 2011
Dear Friends, Exactly 90 years ago,
in 1921, the Rotary Convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, instituted International Service as part of the Object of Rotary. Our founder Paul Harris then declared, “Yesterday, our Rotary was a child. Today, in strength and vigor, it steps out into the world”. As we celebrate World Understanding Month, we need to remember those prophetic words. Our strength lies in the fact that we look beyond ourselves in order to serve humanity. Now 90 years after the Edinburgh convention, International Service continues to serve as the foundation for some of Rotary’s most popular and enduring programs. I can never forget my own experience in 2005, when I led a GSE team from our District 9200 to District 1270 in the UK. I cannot find the words to relay that experience. As a Rotarian who grew up in small rural community, I can easily relate with Paul Harris and his desire to make friends and help his communities. I therefore feel very privileged, first of all as a Rotarian and secondly to serve as your District Governor this year more so at a time when we are being called upon to Build Communities and Bridge Continents.
The theme for this year, Building Communities, Bridging Continents, can also be seen as a call for World Understanding and Peace. How else can we build communities and bridge continents without peace? In Rotary, we work towards peace through understanding, and we build understanding through service. I have witnessed, through my visits to clubs with Dorothy how projects have created understanding and brought people together. When we carry out projects that involve both Rotarians and beneficiaries, and when we carry them out with the help of other partners,
then we are truly building world understanding and peace through building communities and bridging continents. All Rotary projects, no matter how small, have the potential to build understanding and peace. Which reminds me of the words of Dr. Noboru Iwamura of Japan, who was the first recipient of the Rotary Award for World Understanding and Peace in 1981, “Go to the people; live among the people; learn from the people; plan with the people; work with the people; start with what they know; build on what they have.” As Rotarians, we need to do exactly that. We need to work through Rotary and its Foundation to improve the human condition and provide hope to the hopeless. International initiatives, such as Polio Plus have changed the course of history.
The 2010-11 Presidential Citation provides each Rotary Club with a unique opportunity and motivation to contribute to the building of bridges that will further strengthen World Understanding and Peace by specifically requiring clubs to go beyond lip service in starting initiatives that promote International Service. It is our District aspiration that every Club in the District will engage in and score at least 35 scores in each of the Four Avenues of Service. February, my friends is an opportunity for us to review our commitment not only to the promotion of World Understanding and Peace but also our participation in the International Avenue of Service. Through our humanitarian work, we shall leave a lasting legacy. Let us therefore continue doing what we do better than anybody else in the world, Building Communities, Bridging Continents by creating a better world and a better future.
Also in this Issue: • DG’s planned Visits, • Your Rotary Knowledge, Your comments on the DG’s newsletter • Quarterly attandance records, FAQ’s
DG Newsletter Theme: World Understanding
Building Communities - Bridging Continents: Creating a better world and a better future!
February:World Understanding Month
Highlights of February events
FEB,
2011
WORLD UNDERSTANDING AND PEACE MONTH
15
23
Monthly Attendance Reports to the District
Attendance Chair
District Team Training Seminar(DTTS)
106th Anniversary of Rotary International /
World Understanding and Peace Day
RC of Kampala West to Host ALL WEDNESDAY
CLUBS JOINT FELLOWSHIP (Celebrate RI
Birthday and conduct Inter-club Quiz)
Fundraising “DANCING NIGHT” – RC of Entoto,
Ethiopia
8th meeting of each of the club committees
8th Club Board meeting
COTS/ROTS
86th DISTRICT CONFERENCE AND ASSEMBLY86th DISTRICT CONFERENCE AND ASSEMBLY
Rotary International-District 920020TH-23RD APRIL, 2011
REGISTER NOW !PLENTY TO EXPECT: Safaris, City Tours, Entertainment, Great Speakers e.t.c
From the District TRF ChairImproving our Stewardship with TRF Funds Did you know that the most common stewardship concerns, based on random project audits conducted during 2009-10 were: 1. Complete hand over of grant funds to either the cooperating organization or the beneficiary; 2. Lack of participation by the host and/or international Rotarian sponsors; 3. Undisclosed conflict of interest; 4. Lack of financial documentation; 5. Lack of or improper Rotary signage. Please evaluate all your club projects against these and take corrective action! And remember: a progress report is due every 12 months on theanniversary of the grant payment, and within two months after completion of the project Rtn. Tusu, DRFC “Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi
14:10 - 14:15 Introduction of session speaker PDG Nelson Kawalya
14:15 - 14:45 Building communities, Bridging
continents: Is Culture Still Relevant?
Her Royal Highness the Queen of Buganda Lady Sylvia Nagginda
14:45 - 14:50 Introduction of Session Speaker PDG Kaushik Manek
14:50 - 15:20
Future Vision of The Rotary Foundation – Challenges and Opportunities
Past Rotary Foundation Trustee Carolyn Jones
15:20 - 15:35 Women in Rotary: A Valuable Asset PDG Yusuf Kodwavala
15:35 - 15:50 Remarks by RI President Rotary International President
Ray Klinginsmith15:50 - 15:55 Vote of thanks PDG Francis Tusubira
15:55 - 16:15
Explanation of nominating committee procedures PDG Chris Mutalya
16:15 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30
1st meeting of the nominating committee DG Stephen Mwanje
17:30 – 18:30 Off to carnivore venue PP Frank Rushanganwa
18:30 - 22:30 Carnivore Night
Rosette Nabbumba / Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa RC Mukono/ RC Kampala North
22:30 - 24:00 Transport to Hotels Frank Rushanganwa
Day 3, Friday 22nd April District 9200 Assembly08:15 – 08:45 Delegates Assemble / Rotary songs SAA Peters Musoke / Margaret
Mwirumubi08:45 - 08:50 Introduction of DGE Eric Kimani DG Stephen Mwanje
08:50 - 09:40
The Rotary Year 2011/12
1. RI Theme 2011/12
2. Areas of Emphasis and Presidential Citation
3. District Goals for 2011/2012
DGE Eric Kimani
09:40 – 10:00 Discussion
10:00 - 10:10 Introduction of RI President RIDE Sam Owori
10:10 - 10:30 Address by RI President RI President Ray Klinginsmith
10:30 - 11:00 Health Break
11:00 – 13:00
Working Groups-Session 1
Presentation by Resource Person – 15 minutes
Discussions - 60 minutes
Wrap up – 10 minutes
PDG Vijay Talwar
Group A: Presidents Elect and Incoming Assistant Governors CC Harish Bhatt DGN Geeta Manek
Group B: Club Administration
Topics 1. Role and Responsibility 2. Developing Goals 3. Case Study
CC Teshome Kebede DSE Linda Longstaff
GROUP C: Membership Committee PCC Faye Cran AG Margaret MunghereraGROUP D: Service Projects Committee CC Phillip Katamba PDG Amir SomjiGROUP E: Public Relations Committee Rtn. Joe Otin PDG Robert SebunyaGROUP F: Rotary Foundation Committee PDG F.F Tusubira AG Jayesh Asher
Group G: Club Secretaries and Treasurers, Fund Coordinators AG Augustine Aghaulor PDG Tadese Alemu
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30
Session Two: Working Groups
Reports and DiscussionPDG Kaushik Manek
15:30 - 15:45 RI Strategic Plan RC Ben Aghazu
15:45 - 16:00 Closing Plenary DGE Eric Kimani
16:00 – 17:00
Break and Country / District Leadership Meetings DSE Linda Longstaff DGE Eric Kimani
17:00 - 19:00
District Governor Elections / Nominations DG Stephen Mwanje
12:50 – 13:10 Introduction of the DGN DG Stephen Mwanje
13:10 -13:30
RI President Reflections & Closing the 86th DCA RI President Ray Klinginsmith
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 18:00 Free Afternoon and ticketed city tours
19:00 – 22:00
DG’s Banquet and TRF [PHF] Recognitions by RI President
PP Miriam Wipfler / PDG F.F. Tusubira
Date Morning Afternoon
Tues. 22nd Feb. 2011
06:30 a.m. Depart from Dar es Salaam 12:15 p.m. Depart from
Dodoma
08:30 a.m. Arrive in Dodoma 01:15 p.m. Arrive in Iringa
08:45 a.m. Meeting with RC Dodoma 02:00 p.m. Meeting with
RC Iringa
04:45 p.m. Depart from Iringa
05:45 p.m.Arrive in Mbeya (night stop)
Wed. 23rd Feb. 2011
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
1st Mbeya meeting (RC of Mbeya)
05:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
2nd Mbeya meeting (RC of Mbeya Green Forest)
Night Stop in Mbeya
Thurs. 24th Feb 2011
06:30 a.m. Depart from Mbeya 12:15 p.m. Arrive in
Songea
07:30 a.m. Arrive in Sumbawanga 01:00 p.m. Meet RC
Songea
07:45 a.m. Meet RC Sumbawanga 03:45 p.m. Depart from
Songea
10:15 a.m. Depart to Songea 05:45 p.m. Arrive in Dar es
Salaam
District 9200 Clubs Monthly Attendance Report for October 2010
S R .
NO.CLUB NAME OCT
NO. Av. Att. %
ETHIOPIA
1 Addis Ababa East 20 12.9 65
2 Addis Ababa West 49 26 53
KENYA
3 Bahari- Mombasa 25 15 63
4 Diani- Mombasa 21 12.8 61
5 Kakamega 13 8 62
6 Karen 30 12.9 43
7 Kilindini- Mombasa 34 13.6 40
8 Kisumu Winam 18 16.8 93
9 Maseno 28 10.5 38
10 Milimani 20 8.5 43
11 Nairobi Industrial Area 25 12.8 51
12 Nairobi North 39 12.8 33
13 Nakuru 38 18.5 49
14 Westlands -Nairobi 26 18.5 73
TANZANIA
15 Dar-es-salaam oysterbay 26 18.6 72
16 Iringa 11 2.3 20
17 Karagwe 9 8.6 96
18 Morogoro Central 21 13.6 65
19 USA River 13 5.3 40
UGANDA
20 Gaba 28 13 46
21 Jinja 50 39 78
22 Kalisizo 22 17.2 78
23 Kampala 61 42.2 69
24 Kampala Central 25 16 64
25 Kampala North 62 56 90
26 Kampala Kibuli 30 20 67
27 Kampala South 45 21.6 49
28 Kampala West 40 23.2 58
29 Kasangati 29 21.3 73
30 Kiwatule 41 27.6 67
31 Kololo 64 46.5 73
32 Kyengera 35 23.2 66
33 Makindye 48 20 42
34 Mbale 23 11 49
35 Mengo 51 29 57
36 Mukono 33 17 53
37 Ntinda 29 17 60
38 Nateete 25 14 56
39 Nansana 29 16.2 56
40 Rwampara 10 5.8 58
41 Seeta 59
42 Source of the Nile 24 15.8 66
43 Sunrise Kampala 31 20.3 65
44 Soroti Central 16 7.3 46
45 Tororo 13 6.5 50
GOVERNOR’S OFFICIAL CLUB VISITS IN february 2011
RI PILOT PROGRAMSDear Rotary Club President and President-elect,
This is an announcement to all Rotary club leadership that Rotary International is conducting four new pilot programs beginning 1 July 2011 and operating through 30 June 2014 and is looking for clubs to participate in them.
In support of the RI Strategic Plan goal to ‘foster club innovation and flexibility’ the Board would like to evaluate and measure the impact alternative membership types and club operations have on member activities and engagement, membership growth and retention, improved member diversity, increased community and international service, increased support of The Rotary Foundation, and overall club effectiveness. Below is a brief recap of each pilot program. At this link are more detailed fact sheets for each of these pilots, guidelines for selection, terms of participation, and an implementation plan:
Satellite Club The Satellite Club Pilot will allow a Rotary club to conduct multiple club meetings during a week, each taking place at a different location, a different day and/or a different time.
Corporate Membership The Corporate Membership Pilot will allow a corporation or company in the club’s area to become a member of the Rotary Club, through a club established membership approval process, and appoint a certain number of Designees as the individuals attending meetings, serving on projects, voting on club matters, serving as club officers and on club committees, etc.
Associate Membership An Associate Membership Pilot will allow an individual to become associated and acquainted with a Rotary Club, its members, its programs and projects, and the expectations of club membership with the intent of becoming an active member within a designated period of time.
Innovation & Flexibility This pilot project focuses on letting clubs self-determine their operations to fit better with their members’ and community needs. Clubs will be authorized to make changes to the Standard Rotary Club Constitution and to their Rotary Club Bylaws in any area other than RI membership dues requirements.
A total of 200 clubs will be accepted to participate in each pilot, with a goal of equal representation from the thirty-four (34) zones. Clubs wishing to participate must have been chartered prior to 30 June 2009. The deadline for submitting a pilot application form is 1 April 2011. Decisions for club selections will be made by 1 May 2011. Club and district officers will be notified of clubs selected to participate by 31 May 2011.
Question and Answer Service (Q&A Service)
Seeking feedback from Clubs
Do you receive at least three hard copies of the DG’s Newsletter?
What are your views on the Hard copies?
The Editorial Board invite your views and experiences on the above questions.
To participate in these pilot programs, your club must be in good financial standing and you will need agreement from the current club president and club president-elect along with the agreement of 2/3 of the members of the club. At this link are the project plan details and application form:
You may email questions to [email protected] or contact your Club and District Support representative. You may submit the application via email to [email protected] or fax to 1-847-556-2196.
I encourage all club presidents to consider participating in these pilot programs in an effort to ensure Rotary’s continued success and secure its future in a changing world.
Ed Futa General Secretary, Rotary International
RI PILOT PROGRAMS COnTInuED....
Gift of life, a program of participating rotary clubs has grown from sponsoring one child through partnership between RC of Kampala Uganda and RC Manhasset New York in 1975 to now saving over 12,000 lives through its 65 programs worldwide. In 2009 GOLI embarked on a new phase to establish sustainable cardiac surgical centers in underprivileged countries with the ‘Our Hearts are in …’ program.
Uganda being the birth of Gift of Life, GOLI did not hesitate to select this country as the first to implement the program now code named ‘Our hearts are in Uganda’.
This was a process that started in 2008 -2009 with sponsoring 66 children to 13 different countries in 25 hospital in order to create awareness of the needs of children with Heart disease in Uganda, a workshop in Kampala of all the different partners to create the program concept, to now performing surgeries at the Uganda heart Institute through sponsored missions consisting of expatriate surgeons working with the local medical team at UHI.2010 was the start of the missions. These have been coordinated by GOLI which also helped secure Rotary grants for 2 of the missions. The
Gift of Life International developing a Cardiac surgical program in uganda4 missions were conducted by teams from Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC in February; 10 children operated, May (medical team from Azienda Ospedaliera “Ospedali Riuniti Di Bergamo, Italy, Bristol Myer Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood University Hospital, Great Ormond St Hospital London, Nation wide Children’s Hospital , US, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, US and Carolina’s Medical Center, US teamed up), 6 children operated, October we had the Riley hospital doctors from US 11 children and in December Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.8 children. These missions each lasting 7 days, performed surgeries and trained the local medical team at Uganda Heart Institute. In total 86 surgeries (40 open and 46 closed) were performed during and in between missions. It’s important to note that this for the first time such a number of surgeries has been done at UHI in one year with an increase number of cases done by the local medical team on their own. Thus showing additional skills gained by the local team. Among children that received surgery were cases from Congo, Sudan and Kenya. Also through additional RI grant GOLI was able to secure equipment worth $45,000 for this unit.
In all these missions, Rotarians from various cubs participated in monitoring the missions and also visiting the children and parents at their bedsides to encourage them before and after the surgery and offer gifts. In particular, the mission in October was funded through the future vision grant by District 9200 and 6560 Indiana. The host clubs were Greenfield in Indiana and Makindye in Kampala however several clubs in Uganda and Indiana joined hands to raise the required club contributions needed for the $75,000 grant. The Rotary clubs of Kampala, Nateete, Kibuli and Makindye need special recognition for committing financial contributions to the grant for district 9200. This year it is hoped we shall have 4 more missions with 100 surgeries. Negotiations are on to treat some children from Tanzania. Due to the high cost of sponsoring the surgeries, Gift of Life is looking for more partnerships from Rotary clubs corporate organizations and Government. Once Uganda Heart Institute has developed to a Cardiac surgical center, we are optimistic it will be in position to serve the pending cases in Uganda and the wider region of District and beyond. We at Rotary should continue to support this program because without our help these children will just die.
