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LONDON PARALYMPICS TORCHcomes to RCNCTRIBE 360: A Wealth of CulturesMEET ASHOKA’s NEWEST FELLOWCOMMITEE REVIEWSTHE ROTARACT PRESIDENCYParting Shot

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of the year again...It’s that time

...to celebrate our success.

RSVP: Caroline Kanini +254 723 540 444 Lucy Mwangi +254 731 946 980

EVENT: ALUMNI DINNER, 36TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AND AWARDS NIGHTDATE: 10TH AUGUST 2013 | VENUE: LAICO REGENCY HOTEL | TIME: 6.00 PM – 10.00 PM

CHARGES: 3,000.00

“Welcome our alumni, members, fellow Rotaractors, Rotarians, friends and guests as we celebrate 36 years of leadership development, community service, international service, great friendships and fun and reward

outstanding service.”

I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE…We are because you are.In the second quarter of the Rotary Year 2012/13, Professional Development Director Lucy Mwangi was still running the committee from a medical laboratory in Mombasa. The committee remains the best committee for the year switching places with the Club Service Committee from time to time and I couldn’t be more glad when the members elected Lucy Mwangi as the club’s President Nominee for the year 2014/15. I had a chance to visit Lucy in her lab and confided in her why her enthusiasm, dedicated service and outstanding performance was what motivated me to keep on undertaking my duties as the president of the club. In response she revealed that she too was on her toes because I was also on my toes.

And so, it is true, ‘I am because you are’ and ‘You are because I am’. Wisdom that has transcended the ages. When you realize that someone keeps on going because you keep on going and you keep on going because they keep on going, it is motivation enough to keep on going. I realized that should I have given up, then Lucy would have given up and should she have given up, I too would have given up!

It has been a marathon the past six months and it was only possible because all of us kept going. The members, the directors, guests and friends. Our events have been successful not necessarily because of good planning but because we had members and friends who supported us and made them happen. We have been because our members and friends have been. Over 185 Rotarians and Rotaractors from over 30 clubs supported our Rotary Thematic Calendar project. 695 girls have their year’s supply of sanitary towels financed through the generosity of our members and friends. Our International Service project, Tribe 360 has taken us on both virtual and actual journeys to different cultures across the globe as we celebrated African Art, Fashion, Music and our great friendships our cultural diversities notwithstanding. We have been because you have been throughout these safaris.

As we pass on the mantle of leadership to President Elect Norman Kuria and his team, there is no doubt that the years only get better. It has been an amazing six months. Thank you for being there to keep us going…

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EDITOR:Irinah Wandera

CONTRIBUTORS:Irinah WanderaJoe BazirakeLucy MwangiOzem MuriukiRayhab GachangoWangari MwanikiYvonne Wambua

PHOTOGRAPHY BY:Ace MainaCaroline NjokiDavis MuneneIrinah WanderaMartha NzisaNickson MwendaOtieno NyadimoRael AchiengWangari Mwaniki

DESIGN AND LAYOUT:Davis Munene(Skeltek Consult Ltd)

CONTACT PERSONS:Irinah [email protected] +254 723 582 492Nickson [email protected] +254 720 313 504

Contents RCNC BOARD OF DIRECTORS:President Irinah WanderaImmediate Past President Huma Kaoga KaseuPresident Elect Norman KuriaVice President Lucy WanjauSecretary Nickson MwendaAsst. Secretary Caroline KaniniTreasurer Vallery OkwendaAsst. Treasurer Sylvia Mutua & Godfrey MagetoProfessional Dev. Director Lucy MwangiCommunity Service Director Eve OchielAsst. Community Service Director Caroline NjokiClub Service Director Denis Munene ‘Legrand’International Service Director Charles MwakioPR & Fundraising Director Wangari Mwaniki

ADVISORS TO THE BOARD:Kimani MuhoroEric MungaiFredrick Ouko

BLOG:https://rcnckenya.wordpress.com https://tribe360.wordpress.com/

Facebook:The Rotaract Club of Nairobi CentralTwitter: @RCNC_Rotaract

Membership UpdateThe Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central

Peter KennethKeeps his promise to Rotaractors

RCNC Outgoing And Incoming Directors

The Love section premiere and the good that cane with it

They profit most who serve best

Tribe 360: A Wealth of Cultures

Tribe 360Art Bonanza

RCNC Calendar of Events

Fredrick Ouko, The Newest Ashoka FellowChampioning the rights of youth with disabilities through social enterprise

Pictorial

Parting Shot:The Rotaract Presidency and my Litter Affairs

London Paralympic Torch at RCNC with Amazing grace for 600 amazing girls

Reports

Financial Reports

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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.- Rtn. Sumeet Alakh, Sonepat RC, August 2009 -


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Membership update

The Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central was chartered in the Rotary Year 1977/78 by the founding father Rtn. Mike Eldon Eldon and is sponsored by Rotary Club of Nairobi. The founder and eventual charter members of the club were renowned lawyer and Rotarian Stephen Mwenesi and Kenya’s last vice president Kalonzo Musyoka. To date, the club boasts of over 500 alumni and the current membership stands at 41. Membership development remains key to the continuity of the club and as other members exit the club due to varied reasons that include retirement having hit the age of 30, proceeding to Rotary, relocation, transfers, simply dropping out among many other reasons, new members are admitted into the club after a rigorous induction that involves attendance of bi monthly

club meeting 3 consecutive times, participation in one club and community service activities and a self generated interest to get involved in the club’s committees even before joining the club officially. This Rotary Year, members Mike Waiyaki and Eric Mungai officially retire from the club after a very long and outstanding service throughout the over 7 years that each of them has been in the club. We wish them great success and we hope they will eventually join Rotary. Mike is famed for initiating the Rotaract IDP Housing Project in Maai Mahiu to settle at least 2 Kenyan families that had been displaced at the height of the 2007/08 Post Election Violence. The project brought together over 6 Rotaract Clubs and won the District 9200 Community Service Award at the 86th Rotary

District Conference and Assembly in 2011 in Munyonyo, Uganda. Eric on the other hand oversaw one of the club’s most outstanding Community Service project that is the Mathare United Community Education and Development Organization between the years 2007 and 2009. This particular literacy project continues enjoying support from other Rotary and Rotaract Clubs.

Members Jackie Macharia and Clara Wandera bid us farewell this year as they relocated to the America for work related reasons. Member and former Community Service Director Nicholas Njeru joined Rotary Club of Kiambu while member and current PR & Fundraising Director Wangari Mwaniki will be joining Rotary Club of Madaraka. Members Sylvia Mutua, Shiko Mbogo and Tyrus Gichu are sabbatical due to

academic and work engagements. We wish all of them much success in their different undertakings.

Despite the exit of these very active and long serving members, the club has been lucky to get new members who are keen on being active participants in the club’s activities and all is not at loss. We remain indebted to our sister club, The Rotaract Club of USIU which injected new leadership into our club and we were glad to bestow upon the club’s Immediate Past President Jovenal Ngesimana Honorary Membership status as his next order of business is still not yet confirmed after completion of his

The Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central

Founding Father >>Mike Eldon.

Charter MemberHon. Kalonzo Musyoka

CATHERINE MUEMANew Member

STEPHEN MWENESI Charter Member

HUMA KASEUPast President

LINDA NAMDENew member

CLARA WANDERARelocated

JACKIE MACHARIARelocated

MIKERetiring

SARAH NGICHIRINew Member

ERIC MUNGAIRetiring

JOVENALHonorary

NICHOLAS NJERUUnto Rotary


Membership Boad of Directors


studies in Kenya. He was of great help, a great friend to the club and initiated strengthened partnership between the two clubs during his tenure as president together with our Immediate Past President Huma Kaseu. In the eventuality that he does not relocate, Jovenal shall be a member of RCNC and if he does relocate, he shall be always welcomed at RCNC as his home club whenever he is in the country and will be our goodwill ambassador whenever he visits other Rotaract clubs. Our newly inducted members Catherine Muema, Sarah Ngichiri, and Fela Linda Namde are now challenged to ensure that they too contribute diligently to the continuity of this club.

ROLL OF HONOR

The active membership of the club through their generosity with time, means and expertise has enabled us to remain vibrant even in the most difficult of situations and we continue thanking those who go beyond the call of membership duties and give a little more out of their own selves. We remain indebted. A special mention goes to Lucy Mwangi and Denis ‘Legrand’ Munene who have not tired at any one point in serving the club diligently as the Professional Development and Club service directors respectively. A special thank you also to the most active members for the two quarters Martha Nzisa and Dickson Njuguna who have also not tired at any one point. Your dedicated service is exemplary. We look forward to a successful completion of this Rotary Year of Peace Through Service with renewed commitment for the next two months and great support for the incoming board of directors. <<

SHIKO MBOGOSabbatical

SYLVIA MUTUASabbatical

TYRUS GICHUSabbatical

WANGARI MWANIKIUnto Rotary

RETIRING MEMBERSEric MungaiMichael Waiyaki

RELOCATEDJackie MachariaClara Wandera

TRANSITION TO ROTARYWangari MwanikiNicholas Njeru

HONORARY MEMBERSHIPJovenal Ngesimana

NEW MEMBERSSarah NgichiriCatherine MuemaFela Linda Namde

OUTSTANDING SERVICE ROLL OF HONORLucy MwangiDenis ‘Legrand’ MuneneMartha NzisaDickson Njuguna

RCNC OUTGOING AND INCOMING BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The active membership of the club through their generosity with time, means and expertise has enabled us to remain vibrant....

IRINAH P.K. WANDERA President 2012/13 & Immediate Past President 2012/13 | Rotaract Kenya Country Chair Elect 2013/14

LUCY MWANGIProfessional Development Director 2012/13, President Nominee 2014/15

NICKSON MWENDA Secretary 2012/13, Deputy Finance Director 2014/15

CAROLINE KANINI Assistant Club Secretary 2012/13, Finance Director 2014/15

VALLERY OKWENDA Finance Director 2012/13, International Service Director 2014/15

HUMA KASEU Immediate Past President 2011/12

NORMAN KURIASergeant At Arms 2012/13, President Elect 2012/13, President 2013/14

LUCY WANJAUVice President 2012/13

SYLVIA MUTUADeputy Finance Director 2012/13

EVE OCHIEL Community Service Director 2012/13, Vice President 2013/14

CAROLINE NJOKI Assistant Community Service Director 2012/13

WANGARI MWANIKIPr & Fundraising Director 2012/13

“The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.” - Rtn Sumeet Alakh, RC Sonipat, India, August 2009 -

WHEN: 6TH – 7TH JULY 2013 | WHERE: OSOTUA CAMP, KIKUYU ESCARPMENTCHARGES: KSHS. 2,500.00

RSVP/MPESA PAYMENTS: Caroline Kanini +254 723 540 444 Norman Kuria +254 725 900 394

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. - Andre Malraux -

INSTALLATION OF THE 36TH BOARD OF DIRECTORSOF THE ROTACT CLUB OF NAIROBI CENTRAL


Boad of Directors

DENIS ‘LEGRAND’ MUNENEClub Service Director 2012/13

FREDRICK OUKOAdvisor To The Board 2012/13

DICKSON NJUGUNAAssistant Community Service Director 2013/14

KYOKI WAWERUClub Service Director 2013/14

MARYLYN MUSYIMIClub Secretary 2013/14

CATHERINE MUEMA Professional Development Director 2013/14

MARTHA NZISACommunity Service Director 2013/14

CHARLES MWAKIO International Service Director 2012/13, Pr & Fundraising Director 2013/14

ALVIN KIMANIAdvisor To The Board 2012/13

ERIC MUNGAI ADVISOR TO THE BOARD 2012/13

Life offers you nothing, except an opportunity to love and grow.

- Chamberlain Nworgu, October 2009 -


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They profit most who serve best

Rotaract stands for Rotary in Action which is a Rotary sponsored youth voluntary

organization focused on self development through service and fellowship. We run a variety of projects with meaningful and positive impact on society as we develop our leadership skills.The theme for the year has been Peace Through Service which has been coincidentally in line with many of our projects this year. We just successfully concluded our national elections under much

tension due to the previous post election violence and Rotary and Rotaract clubs in Kenya were not left out in promoting peace with several projects:

• Promoting cultural understanding

• Lobbying for peace studies in the school curriculum (Umeclick)

• Peace is a Must Campaign• Peace be with Kenya

We are constantly reminded that we

How often would you see food on the table and think about the path that got it here?

I spill the overt secret today that food is made out in the open, by the add-up process of seemingly incompatible stuff, rooted in mud! The food’s picturesque delivery never takes us through its path, lest many a naysayer would not be content with simply being vegetarian.

March 11th - 17th saw the Rotary world celebrate World Rotaract Week. As my last year in Rotaract I hope to transfer to Rotary in a few months I’ve been thinking about what Rotaract has meant to me in my life.

only get from Rotary what we put into it. Other than friends for life and a passion to serve, I have grown my leadership skills which have served me greatly in my personal and professional life. I may not have done much but I have done something; after all the mighty oceans are but many drops of water.

To Rotary and Rotaract the world over!

Service Above Self

By Wangari Mwaniki

In actual fact, when you go to purchase ingredients for your next meal, you would definitely look out for the most potentially pleasing groceries. It is the path of the finest, getting to their destinations first! This doesn’t just happen, but often requires consistent attention. The groceries that make it ahead, had a farmer to take care of them: applying fertilizer, taking care of the weeds, protecting them from crafty pests, and harvesting them on time.Notice that the things that might appear trivial are the ones that add-up to make room for the eventual product. The recipes remain the same, but only the ingredients vary to produce completely different

Who Did My Add-Ups?

By Joe Bazirake Rotaract club of Rubaga.

results. For this reason, we know that neither success, nor failure would just happen. It is simply an add-up process, consistent with all that is added to the equation. Adding up is something we can all draw lessons from. In all the things we think, say or do, observe that the consistency of adding up rarely takes a random form. One ought to be reminded of the add-up logic at all times, whether in corporate or individual undertakings.

And just like the groceries would not hold the grocer responsible for overstaying on their shelves, we need to know where to direct our inquiries for the add-up situations that we find ourselves in.

What kind of grocery would you be? Consult your farmer, who is reading this NOW! <<

EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS

WHAT: Amazing Grace Team Challenge with the London 2012 Paralympics Torch and Getrude MungaiWHEN: 23/10/2012 WHERE: Laico Regency HAPPENING: Fundraising for A Girl A K Sanitary Towels Project

WHAT: Interact Careers & Leadership DayWHEN: 9/2/2013WHERE: Kenya High School HAPPENING: Mentorship and Career Clinics

WHAT: Carbon Offset: Karura EditionWHEN: 6/4/2013WHERE: Karura ForestHAPPENING: Annual Tree Planting

WHAT: JKF Books for Sanitary Towels ExchangeWHEN: 22/3/2013WHERE: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation HeadquartersHAPPENING: Donation of Sanitary Towels to JKF Scholars and Receiving of Text Book Donations for MIsori Primary School and Hot Springs Girls Secondary School

WHAT: Karaoke Made in AfrikaWHEN: 1/12/2012WHERE: Tamasha, LangataHAPPENING: Tribe 360 celebrates African music

WHAT: KNH Children’s Cancer Ward Art DayWHEN: 20/10/2012WHERE: Kenyatta National HospitalHAPPENING: Annual visit

WHAT: Thogoto Home for the Aged visitWHEN: 8/12/12WHERE: Thogoto, KikuyuHAPPENING: Annual Visit

WHAT: RCNC Arts BonanzaWHEN: 6/11/12WHERE: Laico RegencyHAPPENING: Tribe 360 celebrates African Fashion & Art

WHAT: Hot Springs Girls Sanitary Towels Donation & MentorshipWHEN: 7/10/2012WHERE: Maai MahiuHAPPENING: A Year’s Supply of Sanitary Towels for 55 girls

TRIBE 360 Celebrates African Art & Fashion


Tribe 360’s Arts Bonanza Tribe 360’s Arts Bonanza


With Julia Thitai, Jeremy Gituri, Rafiq Mohammed, Irene Ouso & Nuru Bahati

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1. & 2 Julia’s Afrifab Models at the event. 3. RafiqMohammedartisticimpressions.4. Ola Tor and guest from the Polish Embassy.5. Members Grace Mbogo (l) and Sarah Ngichiri (r) with visiting Rotaractor Dennis

Gachango follow the presentations.6. Guest artist, Graphc designer Irene Ouso.7. Guest Trevor Mutogoria of Bugika Entertainment with friends.8. GuestArtist,glassartspecialist,JeremyGituriandpotraitsketcherRafiq

Mohammed take members and guests through their work.

Top Models showcase Afrifab Designs at the Bonanza

“Make dreams Real.” - PP PHF Rtn. Shashank Agrawal, August 2009 -


New Ashoka Fellow New Ashoka Fellow


Fredrick Ouko, The Newest Ashoka Fellow: Championing the rights of youth with disabilities through social enterprise

Based on his social entrepreneurial work, Fredrick was elected an Ashoka fellow in October 2012 through this citation:

‘Fredrick is creating a barrier-free and equal opportunity society for youth with disabilities; and in doing so, is unlocking their previously untapped potential within society. To do this, he is working to create a platform (in and outside of the formal workplace) to remove unfounded fears and discrimination towards people with disabilities. In addition, this platform helps youth with disabilities to shed their self-victimizing attitudes and to develop the skills and confidence they need to become active agents of change in their lives and communities. His organization is the first and only organization that

focuses specifically on employment challenges faced by youth with disabilities on a national scale, Fredrick is leveraging this unique position to make this a focus for the mainstream disability movement.’

Fredrick Ouko, a member of RCNC, is the executive director of Action Network for the Disabled, a national disability organization working to create a barrier-free society for persons with disabilities in Kenya. He is an international disability rights activist focusing on the rights of youth with disabilities and currently the secretary general of African Youth with Disabilities Network, an advisor to Disability Rights Fund (Boston) and Global Disability Rights Library (Washington DC).He has a training background in Business Administration

and currently pursuing a course in Political Science at University of Nairobi.

He founded Action Network for the Disabled (ANDY) in 2003 as a community based organization and later registered it as a national organization in 2009 due to the pressing needs of youth with disabilities countrywide. ANDY key areas of intervention is employment,sports,health,human rights and creation of awareness in the community on disability issues in a bid to end discrimination on the grounds of disability.

Ashoka is the world’s leading network of social entrepreneurs – extraordinary changemakers, who find new solutions to social problems; like Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the microfinance sector. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka supports social entrepreneurs with stipends, professional support and access to its large network of global peers. Ashoka has elected and supported more than 3,000 social entrepreneurs in 70 countries to date.

In August 2012, Fred’s organization, ANDY also got a rare invitation to carry the Paralympic torch in London, this was in recognition of the work they do in using sports to support the development of youth with disabilities in Kenya. ANDY was selected for this prestigious event amongst many worthy applicants and was accompanied

by its Wheelchair Basketball coach Simiyu Barasa and UK partners in the Paralympic relay just before the beginning of the Paralympic games 2012.

RCNC is indeed privileged to have among its members such a young and dynamic leader who is indeed a living proof of the inner potential we all need to exploit and make a difference in our society.

Fred’s take on RCNC“I learnt of RCNC in 2011 through a friend who was a member and told me of the clubs activities and I immediately took an interest since I was previously an interact club member and official in high school, I was then inducted in 2012 and went on to be given the role of an advisor to the board. It has been a learning experience meeting other young professionals from different fields and being able to fellowship together. This has also given me an opportunity to share my skills in organization and strategic thinking as an advisor. I cannot also forget the fan moments and the usual hangouts for a member which enables people to connect more deeply as friends. As a young social entrepreneur, I believe RCNC is the place to be and its young people who are going to author the future of this country and this has to start now through the small connections we make at the club.


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Parting Shot Parting Shot


As I moved from one level of the Kenyan school system to the next, all the misconceptions that I had about leadership were gradually erased by

real life leadership experiences and hard decisions I had to take through each phase.

As a pre-schooler who had no idea of the responsibilities bestowed upon me, I thought leadership was about getting other pre-schoolers to do as the teacher had instructed. Back in the village, we used to pick litter around the school compound. As the designated eye of the teacher among the tiny little people, I held a long stick and I would watch over the other kids as they picked litter. I can’t remember whether it was teacher Truphena or Truphosa who quietly called me to the side and she said, ‘being a prefect does not mean you watch as the rest pick litter. You too must pick litter and show the others how it is done.’ I got rid of my shepherd’s rod and I remember an incidence in class three when my classmates stood on the side and watched as I showed them how to make patterns and plaster the classroom with the village plaster that is a paste made out of cow dung, water and soil. Our classes were made of mud. On that day, I learnt my first leadership lesson. The day that either teacher Truphena or Truphosa called me aside, still in preschool, I learnt that a LEADER MUST LEAD BY EXAMPLE!

When I was thrown into a boarding school, two years before I sat for my final primary school examinations, in an area that was neither a village nor a town, there I found out that it is not only in the village where litter is

PARTING SHOT: The Rotaract Presidency and my Litter AffairsI have never really quite understood why a pre-school class would need a class prefect to watch over their pre-schoolmates. I am made to think ours was a special school. I always forget to check one or two other schools to see if pre-school classes do indeed have prefects.

picked. Here, however, there was no one to pick litter like back in the village school where we picked litter every day. I can’t quite remember how we used to keep the school compound clean but I remember one day my eyes were really sore from the sight of a littered compound and the school’s filthy compost area which was right in front of the administration block and near the assembly area where we raised the Kenyan flag every Friday! Hygiene in the school was not the best of sorts but we tried anyway.With my eyes sore to the point of almost tearing, I tried to compel my classmates to lead the school by cleaning but perhaps my art of persuasion was wanting. The idea fell on deaf ears! No single student volunteered. I guess I have never been so good at getting people to do unpleasant tasks. With the litter not disappearing into thin air, with my eyes not sore any less and with the constant and frustrating bother of me living in such a filthy environment, I broke down, cried, went, and grabbed my boots and my red school bucket. For a whole day, I picked litter in the school compound from one corner to the next with as many onlookers as the rest of the school. Even I, thought I had gone crazy. I did fail to understand why not a single a person was together with me bothered about the sorry litter affair of the school. As I collected and emptied bucket after bucket of the mess we had all been party to creating, I learnt my second leadership lesson – SOMETIMES TO BE A LEADER, THERE ARE SOME JOURNEYS YOU WILL HAVE TO WALK ALONE!

When it comes to the unpleasant tasks, you may have to go it alone. When everyone is okay with okay, you will have to go it alone to fine. The hardest tasks, the detailed perfectionism for each task, you may have to go it alone. At that point, my misconception about leadership being about always appealing to the masses especially when the task is unpleasant was erased. Sometimes you will have to walk alone.

After my village and semi-urban school life experiences, I finally managed to make it to an urban secondary school, one of the oldest and finest girls’ boarding schools in the country. A sigh of relief from the village schools litter affairs! So I thought. Not so! There was a lot of litter picking in this school which came along with compound cleaning, flower gardening and a lot of farming, otherwise known as shamba work! With some misconceptions about leadership still lingering in my system, I tried to dodge these social responsibilities. I had overheard that leaders in the school didn’t have to get their hands dirty. So, when my new Form 1 class teacher asked who wanted to volunteer to be the class prefect from those among us who had confirmed we were head girls in our former schools, I quickly shot up my hand even though I was not a favorite among my classmates. They thought I was power hungry – the girl in the blue uniform who wouldn’t let Rhoda Omenya eat a mango in class. I already knew all the school rules by heart! But power hungry I was not! I just thought I didn’t have to do the litter affair all over again. A prefect I became and litter I did! In this school, the prefects actually did most of the work. Four years of leadership at the Kenya High School erased that misconception and my third leadership lesson was learnt – TO BE A LEADER, YOU WILL HAVE TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY. YOU MUST DO WORK!

Campus was much of a relief. No litter picking affairs. I would occasionally, when people failed to dispose off their trash in the right place! Perhaps I wasn’t interested in campus leadership because I really didn’t have to pick litter. Every other leadership position the last more than 12 years had involved litter picking! My litter picking years were over! This time, I wasn’t avoiding picking litter, perhaps I just didn’t see any use of being a leader when there was litter picking involved. Not really. I wasn’t into competitive politics, not really

a competitive person. I decided to give it a break. But even then, I learnt three more important lessons in leadership. As affirmed by the Athenian statesman Solon - HE WHO HAS LEARNED HOW TO OBEY WILL KNOW HOW TO COMMAND. He who wants to rule must learn to obey. He will learn to rule, he who learns to obey! After 12 consecutive years of leading others, it was time for me to be led. The true test of whether I could respect authority given that these were my peers, some younger, some older, others my age. I was used to telling people what to do, being the one people had to listen

to. Even though I believed respect was give and take, I had never been in a position

where I was predominantly the giver. I was always on the taking side.

This was it. I hope I did pass the test MLO!

It was also during this self imposed ‘leadership break’ that I learnt that LEADERSHIP IS NOT ABOUT TITLES! There aren’t enough titles to go round for all leaders. Leadership responsibilities will always

be upon us even in the absence of titles and we

must pick litter, get our hands dirty and sometimes we will

have to go solo. Walking Alone. And the best lesson of all from

campus leadership was that A LEADER MUST TAKE A BREAK. CHILL OUT! Let others

lead you! Rejuvenate and perhaps Bounce Back!

It was in Rotaract that all six lessons came to be most useful. It has been the Rotaract leadership experiences from 20th January 2009 when I was inducted into RCNC at the same time the first black (Kenyan) was sworn in as president of the United States of America. As he became president of the most powerful nation in the world, it was made clear to me and has been confirmed through my stay at RCNC, I was being inducted into the most vibrant Rotaract Club not just in Kenya but in District 9200. It has been during my four and a half years stay at RCNC that I applied 5 of my leadership lessons that I had learnt from the first day I set foot in class over 2 decades ago.

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Parting Shot Happy Moments


favored by chillers but dreaded and loathed among the dictators. I finally get to rest. It is my turn to be led by Norman Kuria and the 2013/14 RCNC Board of Directors. I have done them all. I have led by example (I hope!), I have gotten my hands dirty (most certainly!), I have sometimes had to walk alone, and I have had to respect the authority of my seniors at the country and district and Rotary level. Now, it’s time to break to be led. To chill out, to rejuvenate and most certainly bounce back! It’s time to take responsibility without a title. Every moment of it has been enriching, challenging, tasking. I have made great friends that are a liability yet indispensible like Wangari Mwaniki. I have laughed, cried, slept working in the office and now it’s time to chill.

It’s time for Norman to lead. It’s time for me to respect authority. I wish him and his team much deserved success and I hope he too has learnt along the way vital leadership lessons that he will very much need to apply here in the next 12 months. Everyone has lessons of their own from their own past experiences. These are my lessons. Everyone must draw from their own lessons. If your own lessons cannot inspire you, if you cannot draw from them, mine certainly won’t inspire you and you cannot draw from them!

Thank you RCNC members for giving me the opportunity to apply all these leadership lessons in running your affairs. Thank you my right hand men and women

Caroline Njoki, Huma Kaseu, Lucy Mwangi, Legrand Denis, Nickson Mwenda, Caroline Kanini, Wangari Mwaniki, Charles Mwakio, Evelyne Ochiel, Vallery Okwenda, Norman Kuria, Alvin Kimani, Eric Mungai, Fredrick Ouko, Dickson Njuguna and Martha Nzisa for making the journey easier.

Thank you Rtn. Vickie Winkler and Rotary Club of Nairobi for the leadership and unwavering support, cheering on, nurturing and mothering that have never tired. We are because you are.

Thank you dear active membership, fellow frequent guest Rotaractors, friends, sponsors, partners, service providers and all who have played different roles in contributing to the success we have had not just this year but even in yesteryears. Thank you Kitheka Wambua, David Njihia, Charles, Davis, Elijah and the entire Laico Regency management for every other Tuesday we are here. Thank you Wangari Mwaniki for always putting things into perspective an d for being my harsh reality checker. Thank you Caroline Njoki for bringing me to RCNC and thank you Dickson Njuguna for always being the last man standing with me.

To those who think I take Rotaract too seriously, well, I learnt to take leadership seriously the first day I landed in pre-school. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks! Take your leadership roles very seriously! <<

CELEBRATION OF LOVEWAKATI congratulates past President Michael Waiyaki and his wife Muthoni on their union


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COMMITTEE REVIEWSProfessional Development

Others were: Anne Marie, Jeremy Gituri, Rafiq Mohammed, Irene Ouso, Alex Saunya, Dickson Njuguna, Catherine Muema.

SPEAKERS

Mentorship – Hot Springs Girls Secondary, Interact Kenya High School and Nairobi School, Careers & Leadership Day

Getrude Mungai

Nuru Bahati

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3. Rtn. Vickie Winkler presents a token of appreciation to guest speaker Rtr. Silas Ndote, President - the Rotaract of Muthaiga.

4. RCNCPresidentElectNormanKuriaPresentsacertificatetoShininaMuthiora.

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He was supposed to have been the speaker 2 weeks before that but unfortunately he was

unable to make that meeting. I wrote a post about the fact that he had disappointed Rotaractors and guests by not attending.

Last night Peter Kenneth started by first apologizing for not making it to that meeting. That evening there was a meeting by the Jubilee coalition after the signing of a pact between politicians at the Laico Hotel. Peter Kenneth saw that this would not have been a great time to appear at the Laico Hotel so he sent his apologies. Afterwards there was a lot of heat towards him on social media by Rotaractors, friends of Rotaract and yours truly. P.K. said he would make it up. Many were skeptical about it, knowing politicians. Anyway he made it up. It takes a great man to apologize for not being able to keep a promise, and an even greater on to make up for it. Peter Kenneth did both, thereby showing what kind of a man he is, and the value that he puts on his word.

PETER KENNETH KEEPS HIS PROMISE TO ROTARACTORSBy Rayhab Gachango

Peter Kenneth started his talk by giving out statistics on the number of youth in the country and the rate of unemployment. The point being that the youth are the most in the country and they are also the ones mainly affected by unemployment. This is a very worrying trend. He mentioned a book that he is reading called Africa’s third liberation by

Greg Mills and Jeffrey Herbst.The first liberation was from the colonial powers and racist regimes, the second from the autocrats that often followed foreign rule. African now has the potential for a third liberation – from political economies characterized by graft, crony capitalism, elitism, and social inequality. (gotten from Penguin books South Africa website for the book Africa’s third Liberation.)Peter Kenneth talked about the things he is getting from his

interaction with the book. The third liberation must be about the economy and creation of opportunity. He said Kenyans and Kenyan youth should not be comfortable in our own position. He gave the example of Zimbabwe and of Tunisia. He has visited Tunis this year and there was tension in the air.

Peter Kenneth said that we must define leadership. He gave the example of Rotaract being a service club. In order to move around we must be able to be assured of security. We must therefore have

passion about security issues. We should not blame the government if there is insecurity, we should blame ourselves for putting in a government that does not consider security issues as important. He gave an example of the city council and the fighting that goes on there. We watch them on TV fighting and we laugh, asking what is going on with the council but we are the ones who put those councillors there. In the last election he said we were worried about whom we

On the night of 18th December 2012, The Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central had the pleasure of hosting Peter Kenneth as the speaker for the evening.

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3. KNH children cancer ward art day out with Rotaract UoN.

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would choose as president and as members of Parliament, but did we care who we elected as councilor or we just ticked the person who was our parties’ representative without knowing who they were, and their agenda. Nairobi produces 60% of the country’s GDP yet we don’t care who runs this city and we don’t think who we give the posts of taking care of Nairobi.

Peter Kenneth talked abit about his past. Being brought up by a single mother and growing up in Eastleigh. He talked about going to Starehe Boys Centre and using a timetable to get the bus. He said that growing up the police post had 20 police cars and no one had to worry about security. Now that police post has only 2 cars, one for the OCS and another for patrol. We don’t put enough emphasis on security is his argument.

P. K talked about infrastructure. About the hours we lose in traffic jams. He asked how we can build an economy when it takes 2 hours 30 mins to get from JKIA to town during peak hours and that’s the same amount of time it takes to get from Lusaka to Nairobi by plane, actually it takes 2 hours 15 mins by plane.P.K. talked about some of the issues that we should be keen about. The fact that there is not enough water for the whole population plus irrigation, healthcare services are broken. When he was growing up P. K and everybody went to city council dispensaries then health centers if things were serious. Kenyatta hospital was a referral hospital only and people only went there for really serious issues. He also talked about the primary education that is being offered now, saying that it is quantity over quality. He

asked where the youth who don’t make it to university will go when polytechnics have been killed off.P.K. also gave insights into our economic growth rate. It is at 4.3% which is low; we need to grow at a rate of at least 10% in order to achieve vision 2030. If we don’t grow economy we will not feel the impact of the plans that we have made. It is important to grow the agricultural sector, for farmers to make profits, and make people want to go back to farming. This will ensure that there is self employment and also food security which is also important. He also talked about our tourism sector which is struggling with lack of infrastructure and security issues. He said that Kenya is the most beautiful country in the world and that we have everything but lose out because of policy and leadership.

P. K. said that as a parent and like most parents he is trying hard to give his children the opportunities he never had. But the question he and others are asking “why work so hard, what country will the children live in? ” are there opportunities for the youth after parents sacrificing so much to educate their children, is what I think is the question.On a sad note P. K talked about the young female lawyer killed after being given a lift. She was from his constituency and she was in the prime of her life. He talked about the murder of the 3 young ladies and talked about how security is lacking. That some young men would do something like that is very shocking and to find out that they are students at USIU is even more shocking.

P. K talked about the youth being the determinants of the next election.

1. Because we are the majority. 2. Because we are not tribalists, especially for those who grew up in Nairobi, we did not grow up in tribal cocoons. Tribalism never developed a state, or developed a nation, it divides us only. P.K. said that we should be deliberate in defining a government that will work for us. If we do not speak we will use another 5 years to get things right. We should speak out. We are the voters. P.K. says that in the last four years we have gotten into debt to the tune of 1.7 trillion which we will have to pay for and our kids also. Where has this money gone? Apparently we are the country with the 2nd highest debt (borrower) in the world. Greece in number one. Things to thing about and worry about also.Peter Kenneth answered questions by rotaractors.

P.K. said this about elections “let elections not be about individuals but about issues. It’s about your issues, your future, and your children’s future. This election is not about Peter Kenneth. It’s about leadership and the role of leadership in defining Kenya’s future” he said if we make the wrong decisions let’s meet at the jam.

P.K. is passionate about security. His take is that insecurity is caused mainly caused by unemployment. We need to deal with this issue. Otherwise other sectors like tourism cannot grow and investors will also be weary of putting money here.P. K on gender representation he said he had just come back from UK so he needs to study what has being going on. He said he believes that the constitution should be implemented to the letter but also that he thinks it requires reform on a continuous basis.

P.K. said that Kenya needs financial discipline. We have refused to take control of our spending. Foreign policy should be attached to trade and bilateral agreements not personal friendships but benefits to the country. We need to work on our security and infrastructure. This is very important.

P. K asked rotaractors to look at timelines for his agenda. Look at the statements and ask if they are being truthful. Will they work? He says that we should look at each leader’s development record in the constituency. If they can’t work in the constituency, they can’t work for the country. He said that the Ministry of Planning has the best plans and best minds. But that treasury does not align money with those plans. Financial discipline is key.

P.K. talked about the issue that is on everybody’s mind. That P.K. is the right candidate but not popular. He said we box ourselves into choices. That there are only 2 horses but when race is over where will we be. He says we should throw away the box, free our minds and think outside it. We shouldn’t box ourselves in. he talked graciously about Martha Karua and Ole Kiapi. He said we make the horses popular. Mass hysteria has never done anything for us. Change starts with you and me.

We had a great discussion. I asked Peter Kenneth a question about why we should join a political party and he said it should be out of ideologies. Parties make us come away from the idea of individuals. It’s about ideologies. Not about personalities or creating cults

around a person. We should join parties whose ideologies we share and that we believe will create impact in the society.

In his closing statements Peter Kenneth apologized again for missing the last meeting to those who had come in late. He said he believes in honoring his promises. He said he lives by the motto “if you don’t lie, you don’t have to fill up your brain to remember what you lied.”

Peter Kenneth said at the end “don’t look for somebody out there to define and determine where country will be. Its not about individuals, it’s about all of us.” There is a scout motto that he loves “leave the campsite better then you found it” he says “leave the country better then you found it.” <<

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Freedom for Girls Freedom for Girls


THE LOVE SECTION PREMIERE and the good that came with it… By Emily Wasonga

Now 2013 started with silence. My sister and I were not out. We were all home bound and working. We talked to each other as we created our different pieces.

This was a very different turn to

a new year for us. Then a few weeks later, we were scrambling around getting everything together to head to LA. Hadn’t

we mentioned that? Okay,

let’s backtrack a tad. We had the wonderful privilege of heading to

LA to dress the cast of The

Love Section: http://thelovesection.

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However, us being us, we wanted to do more with this platform. So after much brainstorming, we

decided to work on ethnic pieces. Ethnic accessories, ethnic T’s, use ethnic fabrics and come up with

an array of pieces that showcased Africa. Why? There are problems in Africa. We know this. There are problems everywhere. However, most of these problems, in our eyes anyway, are man made. If they are man made then that also means they can be resolved by the actions of mankind. So this is us doing our bit to help start and stir solutions. One problem in particular that we are tackling is that of girls in Kenya who cannot afford sanitary pads. Our LHO team in Kenya, Eve Ochiel and Cyprian, brought this to our attention and we felt it was something we could not ignore any longer.

So we worked on ethnic pieces for the premiere but wanted to highlight this particular problem in Africa while Lawrence Adisa, Davetta Sherwood, Kellita Smith and Director Ronnie Warner wore our pieces.We thought the first thing we needed to do was raise awareness that there was even a problem to begin with. Get it out through the media and get people thinking. The woman behind a lot of our goodwill efforts since 2012 has been Daria Barwinska, author of To Be… in Africa. The one thing we all felt is we did not want this to be a donation program. As much as it takes $5 to sponsor a girl for a year, and our hope is to get these girls through high school successfully, we also

wanted to get people thinking. We are sure this problem does not only exist in Kenya. The confirmation came to us through a phone call as well from Davetta Sherwood, who has passionately taken up the cause and in her conversations with friends from various countries

had found out that they too knew the problem existed in their home countries.

So what are we working to do?We want to continue partnering with Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central to make sure they sponsor all 1500 girls they had hoped to sponsor this year. Right now, the club has raised enough funds for 600 of the 1500 girls, there are 900 still pending. AGAIN, It’s $5 to sponsor a girl for a whole year. This is an annual project that Rotaract Club Nairobi Central hope to run until the girls have graduated from high school.Now that’s the short term goal.Long term, we hope to create what my former student adviser Dr. Boggs at Anderson University, termed as “ripples of hope” effect. When you throw a stone into water, long after the stone has sank, ripples still spread out from that one place

the stone hit as it sank into the water. So we want to get people thinking. Every now and then, there is always a post put up about reusable sanitary towels that are hygienic and barely cost anything to make. We hope to get in touch with people who have been developing

such ideas and help them turn it into a staple in the areas of the world where people have to choose between providing their teenage daughter with sanitary pads or putting food on the table. We think a solution can be found and these parents should no longer have to make the choice to sacrifice their daughter’s education and well being. We hope to make this a problem that existed.

If you are a woman and you do have your monthly period please put yourself in these girls’ shoes and try and figure out, just try it, what you would do every month for 3-8 days if you did not have access to sanitary wear and didn’t have money for a plan B. What would your plan C be? Could you do that from month to month? What if you were in boarding school? What would you do then? What if your plan C got you

an infection? What would plan D then be?

This is what some of these girls go through, every month and have been going through.Let’s do more than say it’s sad and move on to the next thing. Let’s ask ourselves how we can come together and assist to make this a problem that existed in the past. The ripple effect will truly kick in when we all sit back and realize that all it took was a few people waking up and deciding they wanted to do something about the problem. So what else can we wake up and change in the world? Hmm. One thing to remember is when you throw the stone into the water, every ripple after the stone has disappeared is bigger and bigger. So we hope to get people to think about solutions to even bigger matters than this.

So now that you’ve read this post, get thinking. While you do that, here is the trailer to The Love Section: http://thelovesection.com/And here are more pictures for you to enjoy. Thank you to the cast again for coming on board and using their status to help make a difference. A big thank you to KGBC for inviting us to their studios to share our story and journey. Thank you to Eve and Cyprian all the way in Kenya, we love you both so much. And a big big thank you to Catherine Fritsch of Sweet Revenge Lingerie (our mentor) and Berny Martin creator of Midwest Fashion Week for making this trip and this work come to life. Thank you to everyone.Happy End Of Monday (until the next Monday of course)

LHO Team


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COMMITTEE REVIEWSCommunity Service

Sanitary towels distribution – Hot Springs Girls Secondary School (55), Misori Primary School (115), Altawoon Education Centre (50), JKF (140), Olerai (2). Pending: Embu Urban (100), Jomo Kenyatta Home for the Physically Disabled (25), Brydges (60), Altawoon (50), Hot Springs (45)

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4. Community service director Eve Ochiel presents towels to Altawoon Education Center in Babadogo

1. Playing and working hard at Thogoto Home for the Aged. 2. Dickson Njuguna, President Irinah Wandera and President Elect

Norman Kuria after the Karura forest annual tree planting exercise.3. RCNCmembersjoinADRRRichardMwangiduringofficialvisitof

DRR Enock Mukasa at Christ Chapel Childrens Home.4. Wangari Mwaniki at Nairobi National Park tree planting exercise.5. Guest performer and Limuru Rotaract Club Member Susan Gathee

entertainsparticipantsattheannualculturalthemedquiznight.6. President Irinah with Legrand Munene at the launch of Rotary

Peace Click Project.

courtesy of Stanchart Bank Eastleigh Branch.5. Presentation to Hotsprings Girls Mai Mahiu together with

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Wealth of culture Wealth of culture


TRIBE 360: A WEALTH OF CULTURES

With 81 participants drawn from 8 different nations representing 4 continents,

7th July 2012 saw the Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central embark on a journey that would take us on a great cultural expedition transversing different destinations celebrating our cultural diversities both online and offline. Tribe 360 is an International Service project of the club that seeks to celebrate our diversity of cultures

by participants exchanging cultural information thus promoting greater understanding among people of different cultures. We believe that greater understanding of different cultures will go a long way in enhancing Rotary’s efforts in Peace and Conflict Resolution and more so this year whose theme is “Peace through Service”. The 81 participants from Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, USA, Poland, the Maldives, Italy and France formed the first Tribe 360 community that has thus far increased to 225. The

project encourages young people to celebrate their own cultures and those of other people by organizing cultural events, attending and participating in cultural events as well as visiting areas of cultural significance whenever they visit another country and share their experiences through photographs, video clips and narrations.

Offline, under the project, the club has been able to organize various culturally themed events that include the official launch

dubbed ‘Jungle Affair Culture Fest & Installation ceremony; a Karaoke made in Africa; a mini-Polish exhibition and quiz where four Polish research students that the club hosted for two months were able to display and take participants on a journey through Poland and taught us the Polonez dance; an Arts & Fashion Bonanza celebrating African arts & fashion; a Cultural Quiz night where the Rotaract Club of Kenyatta University emerged winners; and the first ever Rotary thematic calendar was designed

adopting an African theme. The calendar gave an opportunity to some members of the club to visit over 30 Rotary clubs in Kenya and Uganda and received overwhelming support from over 170 individual Rotarians. Post cards and stickers were also designed under the project and together with the calendars boosted our fundraising and public relations efforts both in and out of the club. The project also saw a few members of the club attend and share their experiences at the Lamu Cultural Festival

and Focus on Kenyan Music live performances at the French Cultural Centre in Nairobi. Sheer coincidence came in when members were witness to Past President Michael Waiyaki’s Kikuyu traditional wedding ceremony and the Rotary Club of Nairobi traditional Installation ceremony that adopted the Nigerian culture. These experiences have been enriching for participants and have enhanced our appreciation of other cultures.

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Graphics Design artist Irene Ouso takes some participants through her art work at the Arts Bonanza

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225 members continues to grow everyday and even though we have not managed our target of over 200,000 members, thus far the support has been overwhelming. With a facebook page, a wordpress blog, and a You Tube video clip, participants continue to share their cultural experiences through pictures and narrations. The compilation of a 360 paged online book of cultures is underway and was the ultimate goal of the project collecting 360 cultural experiences by young people.

The project has given us an opportunity to exploit our various abilities such as in design with member Gatei Waweru being the creative behind the Rotary Thematic Calendar, the project logo and the project homemade banner. Member Otieno Nyadimo was instrumental in the shooting and editing of the You Tube video clip and was the official photographer of the culture fest which gave us the opportunity to produce postcards under the

project. International Service director Charles Mwakio Emceeing came in handy at the Karaoke Made in Africa and Cultural Quiz Challenge. Tec savvy Club Service director has been instrumental in the online management of the project and has made it possible for us to have the online 360 paged book of tribes.

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Members and guests at the Culture Fest Installation ceremony

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2. Sleep over and Home Hospitality at Rtr. Alvin Kimani’s house.

3. Home hospitality and sleep over at Rtr. Legrand’s house.

4. President Irinah joins guest Karamta for her birthday.

5. Honorary member Jovenal (r) and President Erick Musomi (Rotaract USIU) at USIU awards night.

Rotary means “what goes around comes around”, “do good to receive good”. -IsmaelAyyoub,January2013-

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RCNC CALENDAR OF EVENTS

24th - 27th April 2013: 25th Rotaract Conference and Assembly | Diani, South Coast

30th April 2013: Club Meeting, Laico Regency, 6.00 p.m.

11th May 2013: Sanitary Towels Distribution, Embu Urban Primary School and Jomo Kenyatta Home for the Physically Disabled

14th May 2013: Club Meeting, Laico Regency, 6.00 p.m.

25th May 2013: Sanitary Towels distribution, Brydges Centre Children’s Home, Isinya

28th May 2013: Club Meeting, Laico Regency, 6.00 p.m.

8th June 2013: Sanitary Towels Distribution, Hot Springs Girls Secondary School, Maai Mahiu

11th June 2013: Club Meeting, Laico Regency, 6.00 p.m.

22nd June 2013: Sanitary Towels Distribution, Altawoon Education Centre

25th June 2013: Hand Over and official installation of the 36th Board of Directors, Laico Regency, 6.00 p.m.

6th - 7th July 2013: Installation Party, Osotua Camp, Kikuyu Escarpment

10th August 2013 Alumni Dinner & 36th Anniversary Celebrations and Awards Night


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a. VP Lucy Wanjau arrives at Karaoke Made in Africa at Tamasha Restaurant.

b. President nominee Lucy Mwangi at the Lamu Cultural Festival.

c. RCNC sister club USIU members with awards at the campus awards night.

d. Julia Thitai’s Afrifab Models at Arts Bonanza.e. President Irinah, Caroline, Martha and guest

scholar Grace Mwaura with the London 2012 paralympics torch.

f. President Irinah with Kenya Country Chair Sarah Maingi and Rotaract Club of Kampala the CORE member Arthur at RYLA Masaka.

g. Misori Primary School girls with their year supply of sanitary towels.

h. Hon.PeterKennethreceivescertificateof

appreciation from PD Director and President Nominee Lucy Mwangi.

i. Members at Karaoke and Dance made n Africa.

j. Guest Trevor Mutogoria and friends at the Arts Bonanza.

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LONDON PARALYMPICS TORCH COMES TO RCNC WITH AMAZING GRACE FOR 600 AMAZING GIRLS

It was in appreciation of the Kenya Paralympics team that the club saw fit to share with members and guests the rare opportunity it had been

afforded by Action Network for the Disabled (ANDY, Kenya) to have the London 2012 Paralympics torch at the club meeting. With Kenya’s first sex therapist in the house as the guest speaker and the first photo with the London Paralympics torch as the price for raising the highest amount, a one month online fundraising campaign was set up on facebook. Members were asked to form teams of 5 or more and raise funds towards our main Community Service Project ‘A Girl A K A Year’ to enable us support 1500 girls we had adopted from various schools across the country to be beneficiaries of a year’s supply of sanitary towels to

keep them in school all year without interruption during their menses. The campaign managed to raise Kshs. 309,000.00 with the winning team led by member Martha Nzisa pledging to raise Kshs. 100,000.00 and has raised 99,520.00 to date.

So far, 362 girls from Misori Primary School, Mfangano Island (115 girls); Altawoon Education Centre (50 girls); Hot Springs Girls, Maai Mahiu (55 girls), Olerai Conservancy (2 girls), Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Scholars (140 girls) have received their year’s supply of sanitary towels. The remaining distributions will take place in the coming few weeks before close of the year and will take us several journeys to Jomo Kenyatta Home for the Physically Disabled and Urban Primary School in Embu; Brydges Centre Children’s

NO TEAM NAME AMOUNT

1. PKMartha, Shelagh & Friends 99,520.00

2. 2011/12 RCNC Board of Directors 43,650.00

3. Kanyoni 31,600.00

4. Huma Kaseu 25,000.00

5. Charles Mwakio 19,000.00

6. Amazing Grace 13,000.00

7. Norman Kuria 11,000.00

8. Dixions (Dickson Njuguna) 10,000.00

9. Alvin Kimani 10,000.00

Home; back to Hot Springs Girls Secondary School and Altawoon Education Centre. Having to drop off 900 girls from the program due to lack of sufficient funds was not an easy decision for us as we did not want to see any of our girls left behind. The amazing grace from members towards the over 600 girls was appreciated by Love’s Hangovers, USA through Ms. Emily Wasonga who pledged to hold a fundraising dinner to raise the deficit to cover the 900 girls!In its second year, the sanitary towels project will run for eight years so as to ensure that the girls adopted are able to attend school uninterrupted the entire period they are in school from the time their menses commence to the time they finish their secondary education

10. Vickie Winkler 10,000.00

11. Marylyn Musyimi 6,000.00

12. Lucy Mwangi 6,000.00

13. Fela Linda Namde 6,000.00

14. Maggie Mugo 4,500.00

15. Nguna Kiilu 3,800.00

16. Fredrick Ouko 3,500.00

17. Jerry T. Akalu 3,000.00

18. Otieno Nyadimo 3,000.00

19. Sarah Gichimu 1,500.00

TOTAL 310,070.00

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KENYA HIGH SCHOOL INTERACT CLUB CAREERS AND LEADERSHIP DAY: The Interactor’s Review

The day dawned, bright and promising. We, the Interact Club of The Kenya High School, did the necessary preparations owing to the

career fair and the visitors expected in the school that day. This did not entail much as we simply placed our ushers in position and set up various career booths.

Fortunately the expected schools were punctual and arrived early, a clear indication that they were as excited for the event as we were. Those in attendance included Upper Hill School, Nairobi School and Hospital Hill School. Moreover, the Career Fair was graced by respected and experienced experts in vast fields as well as Rotaract and Rotary members.

As the Career Fair began, each school suggested a member to act as the day’s MCs, with our very own Yvonne being among them. Various speakers gave us advice and information on different career fields. Among them, was Carol Njihia, a respectable civil servant. She encouraged us to shun the notion that pay is a key factor in job consideration. Godfrey Ipalei touched the hearts of many because of his uncanny ability to work in the ICT sector despite his physical challenge which

By Yvonne Wambua

many would assume would deter him from pursuing his dreams. Joe Mwangi on the other hand emphasized on the importance of not degrading ourselves as Kenyans and Africans as a whole. He cited a good example, “Shame on you Kenyans for importing toothpicks yet you are capable of making them yourselves.” The afternoon session was quite interesting as we got the chance to visit the career booths and interacted one on one with experts in the fields of medicine, architecture, interior design among many others.

The auspicious occasion came to a close with a vote of thanks from selected representatives among them Rtn. Vickie Winkler, Rtrs. Lucy Mwangi and Irinah Wandera, and the Kenya High School’s very own Interactors Ruth Kihoro and Vivian Kiniga. Before departure, various awards were presented to the career consultants, Kenya High School Interact officials and the schools in attendance.

The career fair was a breath taking experience that helped us learn a lot especially from the speakers on our future careers. We, the Kenya High School, are greatful to the organizers of the event, The Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central, for having our interests at heart. <<

THE INTERACT CAREERS AND LEADERSHIP DAY 2013 REPORT By Lucy Mwangi

It was in efforts to develop leadership skills and professionalism, with promotion of high ethical standards and integrity among budding professionals, that the Interact Club of Kenya High School, under the mentorship of the Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central organised the Interact Careers and Leadership Day - 2013 for students in secondary schools in and around Nairobi. The Interact Careers and Leadership Day – 2013 was held on Saturday, February 9th, 2013 at the Kenya High School grounds.

The Objectives were:

To assist students gain more information regarding possible tertiary education options as well as possible career choices available both locally and internationally.

To assist to develop leadership skills and personal integrity; while emphasising the value of individual responsibility and hard work.

To bring together students and professionals in different fields for one-on-one interaction, enabling networking and ideas exchange.

Attendance

4 secondary were schools present:

Shame on you Kenyans for importing toothpicks yet you are capable of making them

yourselves.

Nairobi School (15), Hospital Hill Secondary School (20), Upper Hill Secondary School (15) and the Kenya High School (67) totalling to 117 students; together with the respective accompanying teachers.

Guests

• 19 Rotaractors from Rotaract Clubs of Nairobi Central, Muthaiga, University of Nairobi and Milimani,

• 3 Rotarians from Rotary Club of Nairobi,

• 6 Friends of Rotaract.

The day began with the Kenyan National Anthem led by a student from Nairobi School, and a welcome note made on behalf of the Principal of Kenya High School. The MCs for the day were Yvonne Wambua (Kenya High School), Tim Kut (Upper Hill Secondary) and Roy Kagema (Nairobi School).

The event was divided in two sessions, an open forum where speakers from various career fields shared their professional know-how with all students present; and a break out “clinic” session where the students got a chance to learn more from all the professionals present through one-on-one interaction with them. Careers represented were:

• Architecture

• Medicine

• Law

• Civil Service

• Insurance

• Design

• Marketing and Communication

• Finance

• Human resources

• Quantity Surveying

• Information Technology

• Environment

• Public Relations, Media and Advertising

In addition there were also two motivational talk sessions. During the one-on-one sessions, the students were able to get contacts form persons who were in the professions that were on interest to them. The students also presented songs and poems prepared for the audience. Through the day’s activities the students;

• Had better knowledge and understanding of tertiary and career options through the talks and one-on-one interactions with the guests.

• Learnt and enhanced various life skills pertaining leadership and professionalism, including never giving up, personal integrity, hard work and individual responsibility.

• Some students as well as other guests formed helpful networks with each other.

The day ended on a high note with presentation of certificates of participation to the visiting


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schools, certificates of service and appreciation items to the outgoing Interact Club of Kenya High School Board of 2012- 13, appreciation items were also presented to the guest speakers, the MCs and the teachers accompanying the students from the four schools.

The Kenya High School principal Mrs. Saina, the teacher on duty Mrs. Onimbo, the patron of the Interact Club of Kenya High School Mrs. Holi and the Rotary Club of Nairobi’s New Generation Director Rtn. Vickie Winkler were also presented with appreciation items. Each participating school was also presented with reading materials and literature donated by BirdLife International and Ecotourism Kenya for their libraries.

The Interact Club of Kenya High School was also presented with a copy of the 2nd quarter issue Wakati – a quarterly magazine by the Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central that featured articles written by two Interact Club of Kenya High School members. Singing of the Kenyan National Anthem marked the end of the event at 5.00p.m. <<

Rotary Club of Nairobi and the Rotaract Club of Nairobi Central made the event possible through their financial support; and through co-ordination by members of the Interact Club of Kenya High School, their patron Mrs. Holi and the Kenya High School administration, the event was a success.

FINANCIAL REPORT9 MONTHS FINANCE REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 1ST JULY – 31ST MARCH 2013

9 MONTHS FINANCE AGAK REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 1ST JULY – 31ST MARCH 2013

RECEIPTS Kshs. 845,606.00 Club Administration Kshs. 167,678.00 Events (Quiz Night, Karaoke, Alumni Dinner, Installation) Kshs. 335,750.00 Donations for Ad Hoc Service Projects Kshs. 86,278.00 Revenues from sales Kshs. 255,900.00

LESS EXPENSE Kshs. 929,433.00 Club Administration Kshs. 152,275.00 Events Kshs. 380,036.00 Ad Hoc Service Projects Kshs. 90,872.00 Sales Items Production Kshs. 306,250.00

BALANCE C/F Kshs. (83,827.00)

A GIRL A K A YEAR SANITARY TOWELS PROJECT Receipts Kshs. 310,070.00

LESS EXPENSE Kshs. 162,900.00 JKF Distribution- 140 girls Kshs. 63,000.00 Hot Springs Girls Distribution - 55 girls Kshs. 24,750.00 Altawoon Education Centre - 50 girls Kshs. 22,500.00 Olerai Community Distribution - 2 girls Kshs. 900.00 Misori Primary School – 115 girls Kshs. 51,750.00

BALANCE Kshs. 147,170.00

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“Theme is guide for all Rotarians.” -Snehal,February2010-


Vote of thanks

DONORS AND SPONSORSRCNC remains indebted to our members, donors, sponsors, partners and service providers who have been part and parcel of our 2012/13 journey both in cash and in kind...

Rotary Club of NairobiRotary Club of Chemainus Premchandabhai Foundation Rtn. Vickie WinklerRtn. Jackline MainaPDG Yusuf KodwallaPDG Mohamed AbdallaRtn. Ann VanlauweRtn. Jessica KazinaRtn. Paula Lanco Kevin Mungai Alvin Kimani Carol Etyang Maggie Mugo Eric Mungai Nickson Mwenda Winnie Malenya Irinah Wandera Caroline Njoki Geoffrey Gakami Terry Mungai Simon Kisse Norman Kuria Noreen Mutoro Naomi Warigia Lucy Mwangi Lucy Wanjau Nick Njeru Stanley KihongeCarlvin AbondoAbraham WachenjePurity WahinyaWangari Mwaniki

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