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Foundation Centennial Ball, our club
assembly, visit to Rotary Cura Home, and
our Community Service meeting and home
fellowship . Our gratitude to Past Presidents
Mike Eldon and Evelyn Mungai for their
continued support to the home and for
hosting Rotarians over the weekend. It is
encouraging to have members take up and
lead projects.
I would also like to thank Rtn. Salim Fazal
for hosting the Community Service
Committee meeting and home fellowship.
Jessie and I look forward to hosting you for
the President’s Christmas Party on Sunday,
18th December. Thereafter, we shall break
briefly for the Christmas and New Year
holidays and resume our regular meetings on
Thursday, 5th January 2017.
Thank you dear Rotarians for your continued
support. I look forward to seeing you
tomorrow at fellowship.
Ahsante!
David Githanga
CLUB PRESIDENT, 2016/17
My Fellow Rotarians,
The Rotary WASH in Schools Target
Challenge is a pilot program created to
motivate Rotary clubs to develop water,
sanitation, hygiene, and education projects
using the expertise and resources available
through two of Rotary’s areas of focus:
basic education and literacy, and water and
sanitation. I am glad that our club, once
again, remains a leader in implementation of
WASH projects. Other than the two
sanitation blocks proposed this Rotary
year, two other projects were implemented
in the 2015/16 Rotary year and have been
completed.
The Meru Water project was completed in
September. This week, we share with you
the 2015/16 report of our project that has
been running for some years in partnership
with four Swedish Rotary clubs.
The project, through cost sharing with
communities, managed to build water tanks
in five secondary schools in Nyeri. I would
like to thank Rtn. Atia Yahya who has
spearheaded this project and ensured its
successful completion.
The last week has been eventful and I thank
you dear Rotarians for participating in the
various events including the Rotary
DEC. 2016 Issue 19. 2016 -17
NOTICES
E-WASTE
MANAGEMENT
Thur, 1st Dec 2016
Laico Regency Hotel
12.30 - 2.00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Tom Musili
ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING (AGM)
Thur, 8th Dec 2016
Laico Regency Hotel
12.30 - 2.00 p.m.
REGULAR CLUB
MEETING
Thur, 15th Dec 2016
Laico Regency Hotel
12.30 - 2.00 p.m.
Speaker: TBC
PRESIDENT’S
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Sunday, 18th Dec 2016 President D. Githanga
Residence
“There is nothing intangible about Rotary: It
is reality itself. To give is to receive;
to lose oneself is to find oneself; to be happy
is to serve. These are old truths…for
the individual…and the mass, whether
application be in the exchange of goods,
toil, knowledge, or love.”
— The Meaning of Rotary, THE ROTARIAN,
November 1921
THE WEEK
IN
REVIEW
JOHN F. GERM
RI PRESIDENT 2016-17
DECEMBER 2016
I joined Rotary as an engineer. There
are almost as many classifications in
the profession of engineering as there
are in Rotary, but I happen to be a
mechanical engineer. A mechanical
engineer calculates the heating and cooling loads for a new build-
ing, makes sure the right lights are in the right places, and plans the
plumbing so your hot water pipe doesn’t end in a drinking foun-
tain.
Mechanical engineers don’t stand out in a crowd, and they don’t
call attention to themselves with what they do. You probably have-
n’t thought much about the engineers who designed the buildings
you use, the car you drive, or the traffic patterns you follow. But
every time you get in an elevator, turn the key in your ignition, or
cross the street when the light says go, you are entrusting your life
to an engineer somewhere whom you’ve never met. You trust
that your elevator will open at the floor you want it to. You trust
that your car will start and stop as it should. You trust that the
traffic light is going to turn red before the walk light goes on. Every
day, you put your life in the hands of people whose names you do
not know and whom you might never meet. You might not think
about them at all – but they touch your lives every day.
I could draw the same parallel to any number of other vocations –
ordinary occupations with the same kind of life-changing impact. In
so many ways – some of which we see and some we don’t – our
vocations allow us to help other people live better, safer, and
healthier lives.
Just like the work we do in Rotary.
Through our vocations and in our clubs, in our communities, and
across continents, we are touching the lives of people we don’t
know and might never meet. And in every part of the world, every
single day, whether they know it or not, people are living better,
safer, and healthier lives because of the work of Rotary.
The people we help might not have met a single Rotarian. They
might not even know that Rotary exists. But they are drinking
clean water from a bore well that Rotary dug. They’re learning to
read with books that Rotary gave them. They’re living lives that
are better, happier, and healthier – because of Rotary Serving Hu-
manity.
NYERI CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION PROJECT
Five secondary schools and two women groups get water tanks through Rotary - Community project costs sharing
ATTENDANCE
NOV 25, 2016
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The 2015/2016 Clean Water & Sanitation for
Nyeri was supported by 4 rotary clubs of
Sweden namely RC of Arlanda, Sundbyberg,
Lidingo, and Stockholm-Lunda with of budget
of KShs.1,340,019 that was channelled
through Rotary Club of Nairobi.
The project started in slow pace and was
affected by the El Niño phenomena of last year.
The communities and institutions required
more time for the sensitization and
mobilisation. It should be remembered that it
took more than two years before the project
picked well in Nyandarua. This is quite normal
with communities since they require more
time to mobilise their resources since in this
project the cost sharing is essential for the
progress and ownership of the project.
There is no need to rush with community
project before the members understand its
concept since it will not be sustainable if there
is no commitment on their part. The schools
are now motivated and request from other
schools on the cost sharing for the tanks is
encouraging. The communities are picking
slowly and they are showing interest after
having seen the two constructed for Mwireri
Women Group.
Five 60m3 masonry water tanks were
constructed in secondary schools and two
35m3 constructed for members of Mwireri
Women’s Group. After the successful
conclusion of the constructions, the project
will move to Kirinyaga where the community
and schools have been mobilized and are ready
to share the costs of the project.