Welcome to the new Rotary Year.
My Sisters and Brothers in Rotary: I feel incredibly privileged to be your District Governor Rotary year 2023/24 and to follow in the footsteps of amazing District Governor Hon Dr Mike Keneddy Sebalu.
I want to welcome you to the new Rotary year where our theme is “Create Hope in the World” A lot of amazing work has been accomplished in 2022- 23 but more is expected from us this Rotary Year in line with this year’s theme. Therefore, we will need the support of all Rotarians and Rotaractors to take our District to greater heights and if this is to happen, we have to lead from the front. Bill Owen reminds us that “True leadership lies in guiding others to success in establishing everyone is performing at their best.”
This Rotary year I expect all of us in District 9213 to do our best and that way we shall be able to achieve and surpass our goals.
The theme for this year is “Create Hope in the World.” It will be our challenge to strengthen and walk the talk of living the theme. Rotary gives us an opportunity to serve communities and we are the only premier organization in the world who pay to serve. This enables us to unite and take meaningful actions through our Motto “Service Above Self” This Rotary year, we are going to focus a lot on membership growth and retention by growing in numbers and innovate new ways of retention. We have to fix the leaking pot of where we lose significant members at the end of each Rotary year.
We shall continue to grow our foundation and this Rotary year we shall have no zero giving clubs. I request all of us people of action to donate a minimum of $10 (ten dollars) in the first month of July to kick start the year and we expect to raise $ 50,000 (fifty thousand dollars). This is dubbed (welcome to the Hope create year) Mother Theresa once reminded us “What we do in the communities we serve is like a drop into ocean but the ocean will never be full without a single drop.”
The Rotary foundation is the lifeline of Rotary and a vehicle through which we can impact our communities around us and those beyond. We should always remind ourselves of the Rotary vision statement “Together we see a world where people unite and take action to create a lasting change across the globe in our communities and in ourselves” Our Public Relations is going to be at the center stage both banners and content we have to be mindful of what we write, post or say. Our brand is a powerful tool built over the year so we cannot accept any shortcuts whatsoever.
The youth, we shall continue nurturing and developing our youth such that our future is guaranteed. This year Governors signature project is the “Boy Child Uplifting Program” which we successfully launched on our first day in office at Old Kampala Playground 8:00am. Let us support the Boy Child and guarantee the future of the Girl Child. I began my official club visits on Monday 3rd July 2023 and I will be sharing with you my detailed plans for our District goals. My parting remarks is to request you friends to tell your stories through the Rolling Wave Magazine because what we have done,what has impacted our communities must be talked about, so that it enables us to create hope in the world.
Looking forward to a very exciting year of service as we Create Hope in the World.