Tag Archives: Rotary

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile will be remembered for encouraging people not to worry about the level of individual prominence they have achieved in life, but worry about the individuals around them that need to be helped to become better. In one of his statements as a Rotarian, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The construction of the long-awaited cancer radiotherapy bankers at Nsambya hospital is set to start next month, thanks to a series of fundraising drives led by Rotarians in Uganda. The construction of the banker is budgeted to cost 4 billion Shillings. So far, Rotary has …

  Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDNET |   KCB Bank Uganda has in honor of the Neuro-surgery Week, commenced its annual CSR drive, with a donation of Sh7 million to Cure Hospital in Mbale district.The donation will facilitate surgical operations for vulnerable children with life threatening conditions that include; Hydrocephalus, spinal …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With just hours left to the 2020 virtual Rotary Cancer Run, Buganda Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga, has pledged his participation in the virtual Rotary Cancer Run to be held on the 30th of August 2020. The Cancer run has for the past 9 years …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Communities in Merikit Sub County, Tororo district are celebrating the commissioning of a project water and sanitation project, donated in memory of Sam Frobisher Owori, a senior Ugandan Rotarian who died two years ago. The sh1 billion project provides ten 10 new boreholes for …

PICTORIAL: Thousands on Sunday converged at Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala, and a dozen others cities and towns across the world, to take part in the Uganda 2019 Rotary Cancer Run. At least 778 million shillings has been collected in the 2019 Rotary Cancer Run.  The money will go towards the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nabagereka of Buganda Sylvia Nagginda has called upon for the inclusion of cultural studies in the education curricula in order to eliminate some of the vices that have made the population unruly. The Nabagereka says that formal education without character is not as …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 150 Ugandan children suffering from Rheumatic Heart Disease have been given a new lease of life thanks to Rotary International. The international service organization has committed a 1 billion Shillings (USD 272,500) grant towards correcting the life threatening complication caused by throat-bacterial infections. …

“Optimism is what brings us to Rotary. But Rotary is not a place for those who are only dreamers. It is a place for those with the ability, the capacity, and the compassion for fruitful service.” Kampala, Uganda |RYAN HYLAND & ABBY BREITSTEIN | Sam F. Owori, 1941-2017. The Rotary flags in front …

Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | On July 13, Samuel Frobisher Owori, a distinguished professional Banker and Rotarian died from complications related to surgery in Dallas, Texas in the United States. Known simply to many of his friends as “Sam,” Owori was poised to become the first Ugandan and second African …