Member Roger White Visits Uganda

Hello Members of the Rotary Club of St. Thomas. Past district Governor Diana and Club Member Roger White will be in Uganda again from October 7 - 21. This is connected to Roger's role as part of the management team of the Rotary Jaipur Limb project and some members may recall our club's involvement with this Rotary charity in the past. Below is from Roger;

 

The main reason for the trip is to meet with a hospital in Western Uganda near the Congo border which is interested in the Jaipur technology as well as the RC of Kasese which would be the host club for any grant application and the eyes and ears of Rotary Jaipur Limb project going forward for reporting etc. We will be also taking the opportunity of visiting some of the existing RJL clinics in Uganda including, and excitingly for me, in Lira where we will overnight and be able to attend a meeting of RC Lira. This club and its Past President Abongo Levi have been partners with RC St. Thomas on a number of projects over the past nine years and I am delighted to have the opportunity to visit Lira again. It was our visit in 2007 which helped bring about the establishment of a RJL clinic in Lira itself and, again, some members of our club may recall our involvement in the first grant we did with RC Lira from which 150 persons received limbs at the existing RJL clinic in a town called Kumi. This was prompted by the land mine issue at the time caused by the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army. Rotary's involvement in that project raised awareness to the extent that there is now a Rotary club in Kumi, thanks in part to RC St. Thomas - you never know where these things will lead! 

 

I hope that will be of interest to some and I will give an update upon our return. We are due to visit STT for a couple of weeks starting on November 16.