The Rotary Club Of Kitante is Club 100 in District 9211 (Uganda & Tanzania). A young club chartered by the Past Rotary International President Barry in 2018, the Rotary Club Of Kitante was birthed under Mother Club RC Kampala, the oldest Club in Uganda under the stewardship of DGSR Henry Rugamba. The Club currently has 37 young professionals with an average age of 35 to 45 years panning under different professional classifications. The Club’s main Service project is provision of clean, piped water in the Urban Informal Settlement of Kamwokya in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda.
Project Area
Kamwokya is home to over 41,000 people living under semi-permanent tin-roofed structures of mud and concrete, some without doors. Just like any other slum, the area has no structured utilities like drainage, power, sanitation and health facilities. Each structure houses 4-7 members living in small one or two-roomed 10sq meter shacks and the population sometimes goes higher at night to shelter homeless laborers. Kamwokya is a multi-racial area housing war immigrants from war-torn neighboring countries of Somalia, Eritrea, Southern Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The area is characterized by high rates of crime, prostitution, drug abuse, rape, domestic violence and child abuse. Government agencies have been and continue to be very instrumental in offering the essential social services.
It is a swampy, low-lying area below the hills of Kampala city where dirty storm water gathers, hence disease-prone with high disease prevalence with only one small health center but with close proximity to Uganda’s main referral hospital – Mulago Referral Hospital. It is upon this background that the Rotary Club Of Kitante has set out to support the socio-economic well-being of Kamwokya.
Water and Sanitation
Since inception, The Rotary Club of Kitante and partners embarked on a project to extend clean, piped water to Kamwokya slum with a target of installing eight or more communal piped taps by June 2021.
In partnership with Kamwokya Christian Caring Community (KCCC), a faith based NGO with 32 years of experience in the project area, the Rotary Club Of Kitante has so far installed eight piped water meters subsiding the cost of clean water by over 90 per cent.
The Objective of Rotary
The objective of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as the basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular to encourage and foster.
FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
SECOND: High 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;
THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business and community life.
FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
The Four-Way Test:
OF THE THINGS we think say or do:
The following code of conduct has been adopted for use of Rotarians:
AS A ROTARIAN, I will:
