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Since May 20th 1957, District 9211, R.I Zone 20A RCKLA Rotary Club of Kampala Web: www.rotarykampala.com Since May 20th 1957, District 9211, R.I Zone 20A RCKLA Rotary Club of Kampala Web: www.rotarykampala.comPB 1

Rotary Club of Kampala | Club 17287 | Vol 9 Issue 05 | Thursday 1st August 2019

Rotary International President’s Message 2019-2020

Rotary International President 2019-2020Mark Daniel Maloney

During 2019-2020, I am encouraging Rotarians and Rotaractors to grow Rotary. We must grow our service, we must grow the impact of our projects, but, most importantly, we must grow our membership so that we can achieve more.

Let us try a new approach to membership, one that is more organized and strategic. I am asking every club to form an active membership committee consisting of people of different backgrounds who will look methodically at the leadership of the community.

Your club’s membership committee will then apply Rotary’s classification system — designed to ensure that the range of professions in your community is well represented — to identify potential leaders with the skill, the talent, and the character that will strengthen your club. If your club’s membership committee is unsure how to proceed, look to the club membership committee checklist on Rotary.org for clearly defined steps to organizing its work.

How else will we connect to grow Rotary? We will also form new types of clubs — either independent clubs or satellite clubs — with different meeting experiences and engaging service opportunities, not just where there is no Rotary, but also where Rotary is already thriving. No Rotary club in the world can possibly serve all segments of its community. Therefore, we must organize new clubs to engage the community leaders who cannot connect with our existing clubs.

Growing Rotary is all about taking the connections that make our organization unique in the world and strengthening and multiplying them. Let us commit ourselves to growing Rotary and to welcoming the next diverse generation of women and men as Rotary Connects the World.

Would you like to contribute further to Rotary by serving or recommending someone to serve on a Rotary International

committee?

Apply Here: https://rotary.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Us0sW2qpamGzlj

Learn More About Rotary International Committeeshttps://my.rotary.org/en/news-media/office-president/rotary-inter-

national-committees

Conventions | International Assembly | Audit | Communications | Constitution & By Laws | Districting | Election Review | Finance | Networking & Service Groups | Joint Committee on Partnerships | Leadership Development & Training | Membership | Operations Review | Rotaract | Shaping Rotary’s Future Committee | Strategic Planning | Young Past Governors | Youth Exchange

“Men spend years schooling themselves for business in order to live more comfortably and satisfactorily. But our education is lacking when it fails to teach us how to live with other people.”

~ Everett W. Hill, May 1939

WHEN AND WHERE CLUBS MEET!Mondays Venue TimeKampala Munyonyo Green Valley Hotel 7:00pmKampala Naguru Kati Kati 7:00pmKampala North Nommo Gallery 6:00pmKampala South Hotel Africana 6:00pmKasangati Kasangati Resort 7:00pmMengo Pope Paul Social Cub 1:00pmMityana New Highway Hotel 6:00pmRotaractMulago Galloway Hostel 6:00pmTuesdaysBukoto Kabira County Club 7:00pmBwoyogerere Hotel Mamerito 6:30pmIbanda M&B Executive hall 6:30pmIganga Mwana Highland Hotel 6:00pmKampala Nsambya Mukwaya Hospital-Nsambya 8:00pmKampala Wandegeya Kolping Hotel Kavule 6:00pmKampala-Impala Kati Kati 1:00pmKasese Margherita Hotel 6:30pmKololo Hotel Africana 6:00pmKyotera Colombo Hotel 7:00pmLubowa Grace’s Restaurant 7:00pmMakindye Shanghai Restaurant 6:00pmMasindi Masindi Hotel 6:00pmMbale Mt. Elgon Hotel 5:00pmNaalya Ndere Cultural Center 7:00pmNkumba ARABA Hotel 7:00pmRubaga Pope Paul Social Club 1:00pmRwampara Rwekishokye County Club 6:00pmSunrise Club Shanghai Restaurant 7:00amWobulenzi Networth Hotel 5:30pmRotaractKampala City BBQ Lounge 6:00pmWednesdayArua Heritage Inn Hotel 6:00pmBushenyi Bushenyi Guest House 6:00pmEntebbe Windsor Lake Victoria 7:00pmJinja Crested Crane Hotel 6:00pmKabalagala White House Inn 5:00pmKabarole Toro Golf Club 5:30pmKajjansi Dreams Guest House 7:00pmKampala Central Hotel Africana 6:00pmKampala west Shanghai Restaurant 1:00pmKiwatule Kabira county Club 7:00pmKyambogo Sports View Hotel 6:00pmLugazi Scouts Office Club 6:00pmMasaka Masaka Sports Club 6:00pmMubende Nakayima Hotel 6:00pmMukono Colline Hotel 7:00pmMuyenga International Hotel 6:30pmNansana Ivory Hotel 7:00pmPortbell Silver springs Hotel 7:00pmTororo Crystal Hotel 7:00pmRotaractMakerere University Guild Carteen 6:00pmThursdayBugolobi City Royal Hotel 7:00pmBwebajja Cabana Restaurant, Kawuka 7:00pmGaba Green valley Hotel 7:00pmGulu Acholi Inn 5:30pmHoima Hoima Resort Hotel 6:30pmKalisizo Tropical Gardens 6:00pmKampala Sheraton Hotel Kampala 12:30pmKampala Day Break Grand Imperial Hotel 7:00amKampala East Hotel Africana 7:00pmKampala Ssese Nommo Gallery 6:00pmKampala. City-Makerere Kolping Hotel, Makerere, Kavule 6:00pmKayunga Katikoomu Soc.Cen 6:00pmKitante Protea Hotel 6:00pmLira Margarita Hotel 5:30pmMbarara Rotary Peace Chnn. Cen. 5:30pmNajjera Vision Club 6:00pmNamugogo ABBA Hotel 7:00pmNateete Kampala Ivy’s Hotel Wakaliga 7:00pmRukungiri Rukungiri Inn 6:00pmSeeta Ridah Hotel 7:00pmSource of the Nile Crested Crane Hotel 6:00pmFridaysKampala Kibuli Hotel Africana 6:00pmKampala Metropolitan Mackinnon Suites 7:00pmKampala Muyenga Breeze Hotel Int. Muyenga 6:30pmKyengere Rose Gardens 7:00pmNtinda NOB View Hotel 7:00pm

Corporate Member

Rotary Foundation

District 9211 RaisesOver $535k!!

Total contribution to The Rotary Foundation from District 9211 for the Rotary Year 2018-19 was $535,149.76 USD broken down as follows:

Polio Plus $ 98,679.22Annual Fund $283,516.90Endowment $ 71,750.00Other (District Fund) $ 81,203,64

Since May 20th 1957, District 9211, R.I Zone 20A RCKLA Rotary Club of Kampala Web: www.rotarykampala.com Since May 20th 1957, District 9211, R.I Zone 20A RCKLA Rotary Club of Kampala Web: www.rotarykampala.com2 3

Rotary Statistics (2018-2019)

Club Song

The 4 Way Test

The Grace

The Object of Rotary

Data is the lifeline for organizations to communicate their value and understand their position in accomplishing their strategic aims.

Please help us contribute to the Rotary story in Uganda and Tanzania (District 9211) as we build our portfolio of service to the community. I welcome any key metrics communicating our story.

We the Rotary Club of Kampala,Let us join our hands

And raise one banner togetherWe shall all reach our goals.

We pay homage to our cultures,Thoughts and deeds unite us all.

Let us ever toil in unity,Gracious Lord we thank you.

Of the things we think, say or do:FIRSTIS IT THE TRUTH?SECONDIS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED?THIRDWILL IT BUILD GOOD WILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?FOURTHWILL IT BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL CONCERNED?

For what we have received and are about to receive, may God make us truly thankful and

ever mindful of the needs of others. Amen

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and in particular to

encourage and foster:

FIRSTThe development of acquaintance as an opportunity for

service.

SECONDHigh ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an

opportunity to serve society.

THIRDThe application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s

personal, business, and community life.

FOURTHThe advancement of international understanding, good-will

and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of services.

Club PresidentHope Waira

Email: [email protected]: +256 772 432 710

Club SecretarySam Okello Kelo


Club TreasurerMary Odongo


DISTRICT 9211

Item District UG TZ

RotariansTotal # ClubsRtry Foundation#RotaractorsTotal # ClubsProject Funds

4,524154$296k 1,456121$68k

3,798112$282k

109

72642$14k

12

Oldest Member

Longest Serving

Youngest Keith Mugisha 22 RC Kampala City

Edie Wilson 89 – RC Morogoro Central

Amiril Somji 48 – RC Arusha

Christian Ngowo 26 – RC Mwika


Current Events & Member Ideas

Liquidity in Uganda

Liquidity is measured by the ratio of Domestic Credit available to the market against GDP. In

most middle-income countries this ratio is close to 100% and in developed economies it is closer to 200%. What this says is that for every $1 of

GDP the country earns, there is approximately $1 or $2 of debt available for firms to operate. In Uganda, the ratio is 16%, second lowest in the

region!

Business Insights

“A man is not an orange. You cannot eat the fruit

and throw the peel away.”

~ Arthur Miller

Motivational Quote

Member IdeasHave an idea, thought, inspiration, or

photo, you would like to share?Contact the Editor by Sunday before Fellowship

Email Contact: [email protected]

Death of a SalesmanBy: Arthur Miller

Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence, and A scathing indictment of the ultimate failure of the American dream, and the empty pursuit of wealth and success, is a harrowing journey. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller defined his aim as being ‘to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life’.

Rotary News

Books To Read

During District Governor Xavier Sentamu’s visit to the Rotary Club of Kampala, membership was a key theme discussed at the Board Meeting. In addition to working on member engagement, building new Clubs was focused on. Upon asking the question, “How do you start a new Club?” the response was to go out and learn by yourself and learn from experience. That means identifying a Club who is now starting a new Club and learning through Trial and Error.

Or is there a better way?

Rotary International has been here before and has compiled a long list of resources to support you in opening a new Rotary Club. The key personnel to contact for any new Club starting is the District Governor, Xavier. See the link below for resources on starting a new Club:

https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/learn-topic/start-club

The minimum requirement to begin a new Club is to have 20 members and have a host / sponsor Club with at least 20 members. Other than this, it is up to the people starting the new Club what it is to focus on or what type of fellowship the Club will form – and there are many forms of fellowship:

https://www.rotary.org/en/our-programs/more-fellowships

How to Start a New Club

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@ Board Meeting Doing Business & Having Fun!

The Board of the Rotary Club of Kampala with District Governor Xavier Sentamu

Club President Hope Waira Exchanging Banners with District Governor Xavier Sentamu

Guest Rotarians Paying their Respect to DG Xavier

Guest Speaker Akash Patel from the USA speaking on Multi-culturalism

(From Left) Guest Rotarian from Texas Exchanging Banner with President Hope

District Governor Xavier with Bank of Uganda Governor and Rotarian Emmanuel Tumusime

(On Right) Rotarian Joseph Tinkamanyire


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Rotary International

Clubs: The Body Politic

By Nancy Shepherdson, a freelance writer and a member of the Rotary Club of Lake Zurich, Ill.

Rotary clubs are catnip to people running for public office: Rotarians are involved in their communities, civic-minded, and engaged in public improvement. Especially in an election year, clubs are likely to receive calls from candidates in search of a receptive audience.

How a club responds to these requests is completely up to the club itself. For many, it depends on experience with politicians and the preferences of the club officers. Rotary International requires only that clubs not endorse candidates or take sides on public issues.

But the role of politics in Rotary has been debated since the organization’s earliest years. At the 1916 Rotary Convention, R.B. Campbell of Wichita, Kan., opined on how involved clubs should be in political (“civic”) affairs: “I believe that politics should be brought into the meetings,” he said. “We are a business organization, and it is to our interest to see that the government of our city and state is run properly.” Samuel Botsford of Buffalo, N.Y., took the opposing view: “Rotary clubs have no business in politics.” Politics, he said, was about personality rather than facts, and therefore should not be brought into clubs.

Eventually, it was decided that clubs should educate their members on local political issues and that individual members should do with the information as they saw fit. One hundred years later, that continues to be Rotary’s position on the place of politics in clubs.

Given that freedom, some clubs have embraced a role in local politics. In 2014, Alan Burns, president of the Rotary Club of Cape Charles, Va., saw a chance to provide a service to the community and raise Rotary’s profile at the same time by hosting a candidates forum. Local organizations that had held such gatherings were no longer stepping up, so he asked the members of his club to put on the forum as a community service project. They agreed. “We wanted to be able to educate the community about the candidates,” says Wayne Bell, who organized and moderated the event.

The key to success, says Bell, was the establishment of a set of ground rules. The candidates were expected to answer screened questions from the audience, to respect time limits, and, most crucially, to be respectful of one another. Nearly 100 community members showed up to hear the candidates speak, he says. “It was very successful. We’ll do it again this election year.”

The Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset, Maui, is an hour’s drive from the seat of county government and a plane ride away from Hawaii’s capital, Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. The club is open to visits from any elected official or candidate, anytime. “We want to know what’s going on,” says Jenelle Van Eynde, a charter member of the club. “If they want to come, we want them. Some of our largest audiences have been for elected officials.”

The club also got a lot of recognition for bringing the mayor and his opponent to a town hall-style meeting about a month before the election. “We felt we were lucky to get them both as speakers,” Van Eynde says. “We always try to get all sides. We think our club meetings are a healthy place for dialogue.”

Many clubs invite elected officials to become members and believe they benefit from having these officials easily accessible. Other clubs, such as the Rotary Club of Barrington Breakfast, Ill., bestow honorary memberships on local politicians.

Still, your mother warned you against talking politics in polite company for a reason. As Rotary attracts a more diverse membership, people on all points of the political spectrum are likely to be at your club. That can be a problem if politicians, making assumptions that Rotarians all share a certain political leaning, go on the attack against their opponents. An incident of that sort, involving a prominent elected official, occurred at my own club several years ago, embarrassing the members who supported that politician and outraging the rest.

Instead of listening to politicians, your club could just make money off them – and have fun doing it. The Rotary Club of Salem, Ind., finds that they are an irresistible attraction at its dunk tank at the county fair. “People stand in line to dunk the mayor, sheriff, councilmen, and other candidates and elected officials,” says John Mead, who helps organize the annual event at the Washington County Fair. The club makes about $2,000 every time – and now it’s rebuilding the dunk tank and putting it on wheels. Is any politician safe this year?


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Editors Note

Editors Note

Last week I had a conversation with a fellow Rotarian (call her B). What came to the surface was a fundamental dichotomy between a principle of Rotary and the loyalty towards a fellow Club Member of B’s Club. In the end, the first test in the 4-Way Test was not followed. So what happened?

A Rotarian in B’s Club suggested that our Club met at a particular time, which was false. I had requested the name of that Member so I could follow up. B would not disclose the name of the member who is in question, however. I continued to pursue the truth and B continued to protect the name of the member in B’s Club.

In this scenario, the 4-Way Test for Rotary asks us: Of the things we think, say, or do is it the truth? It does not command us to tell the truth. It asks us to ask ourselves if it is the truth. And that is where it stops.

What does this mean or tell us?

That Rotary, as an institution, can bring on any form of person ethical or not, just or not, of principle or not. It does not ask us if we have certain values or believe in certain gods or follow any political party. A case in point is the very fight for women in the 1950’s to the late 1980’s for which Rotary took the position of preserving a value sys-tem that prescribed members to a certain ethic or moral principle (i.e. that women are not allowed in Rotary).

In today’s Rotary, this is not the case. Rotary can include members who do not think alike, do not prescribe to any particular value system, are of various faiths, or even on the opposite sides of a political spectrum. Rotary only asks that we are law abiding, and that we give in the name of service. This means that it can attract people to come together who are from disparate belief systems and cultures to contribute to a particular cause or effort. This is very powerful. It is the power of Rotary.

On the other hand, the very essence of coming together in a group is also because we enjoy each other’s company and like to be in fellowship together. But when there are opposing belief systems, cultures, ethics, values, etc. then this becomes all the more difficult if these things are known among members. In other words, Rotary pro-motes that ideal that if you can cast away your religious,

political, and ethical beliefs, then we can come together. Otherwise, by knowing each other more, we find that we separate ourselves from each other through the var-ious differences that exist between members.

It then also supports or promotes members in ‘being quiet’ or simply not engaging in controversial discussions, since this would further bring out our differences and go contrary to what Rotary intends.

Why this is so significant is that it was an act of disobe-dience and a violation of Rotary International rules which allowed women to enter Rotary in 1977 at the Rotary Club of Duarte in California. Without this act of disobedience and violation of rules, there would be no women in Rotary today. So although Rotary has in its history a form of activism, it is not promoted widely. Even the founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, understood this when we said,

“If Rotary is to realize its proper destiny, it must be evolutionary at all times,

revolutionary on occasion.”

I leave you with this. The dichotomy of loyalty vs. principles is strong in Rotary, in practice. And the ideal of Rotary is by its nature required to be revolutionary at times. Yet the systems from which we work in Rotary can, due to cultural norms, mute our ability to speak out for things that are unjust, unfair, or not aligned with our value system. So where does Rotary stand in the end and what in fact does it stand for?

“Partner with Rotary”


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President Hope Waira and Friend

(From Left) Rotarian Kirunda Magoola still trying to figure out Sergeant At Arms

Rotarian Esther Owor Thanking Guest SpeakerNorbert Bwana

Fellowship on July 11, 2019

New Club President Hope Waira dawning the new Club President’s Ribbon

(on Right) Nina Mago of Purple Bench Receiving Award

Fellow Rotarian and Past District Governor Stephen Mwanje

(From Left) Rotarians Mary Odongo, Rosemary Mutyabule, Francis Gimara


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President Hope Waira and Friend

(From Left) Rotarian Kirunda Magoola still trying to figure out Sergeant At Arms

Rotarian Esther Owor Thanking Guest SpeakerNorbert Bwana

Fellowship on July 11, 2019

New Club President Hope Waira dawning the new Club President’s Ribbon

(on Right) Nina Mago of Purple Bench Receiving Award

Fellow Rotarian and Past District Governor Stephen Mwanje

(From Left) Rotarians Mary Odongo, Rosemary Mutyabule, Francis Gimara

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