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

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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.