How the Rotary Club of Kasangati was formed:
It all started as a friendly club “BUMU CLUB” translated as “TOGETHERNESS CLUB”. The club consisted of 16 members all from Nangabo Sub County. The members used to meet at “Kayebe Source Packers”, a food processing factory owned by Mr. Emmanuel Katende (RIP). For the club to be introduced to Rotary International a resident lost a wife and among mourners was Rtn. Robert Rutaagi from Rotary Club of Kampala- the oldest club and Rtn. Joel Sekabembe from Rotary Club of Kampala East. A prominent member of the Bumu club, Hon. Sam Njuba (RIP) invited Rtn. Robert and Rtn. Joel for a drink at Kayebe Source Packers and as Rotarians they had an opportunity to meet other members of the Bumu Club. It was during this interaction that the idea of forming a Rotary Club from Bumu Club was tabled. The first assignment for the Bumu Club was to identify different professions within the community who are ready to provide voluntary services to change lives for the unprivileged.
Bumu Club continued meeting while doing its assignment and on 3rd September 2001 the Bumu Club had increased its membership from 16 to 37 members. With the increase in membership, Bumu Club was given a new name “The Provisional Club of Kasangati”. As a provisional club, the meeting venue changed from Kayebe Source Packers to Kasangati Resort Centre to accommodate the increasing membership. Members of the provisional club agreed to meet every Monday 7:00pm – 8:00pm at Kasangati Resort Centre. The Rotary International District Governor then appointed Rtn. Joel Sekabembe as the District Governor’s Special Representative and Rotary Club of Kampala East became the mother club for the Provisional Rotary Club of Kasangati. September 29, 2001 saw the election of officers for the Provisional Rotary Club of Kasangati as per RI constitution and bylaws. On September 12, 2002, Rotary Club of Kasangati was officially admitted to Rotary International with thirty-two members. Seventeen years after its charter, the Rotary Club of Kasangati still exists with 52 members of whom ……. are men and …… women. Out of the 52 members the club is privileged to still have 2 active charter members. These include: Past President Ben Sekamatte and Past President Thoephilus Mukasa Kaddu. One charter member is still in contact with the club that is Past President Gadi Gumisiriza currently a member of Rotary Club of Mbarara.
A group of Rotarians led by Rtn. Robert Rutaagi visited a friendly group and encouraged them to mobilise more members to form a Rotary club. The members embraced the idea, invited more people, who continued to meet under the mentorship of Rotary Club of Kampala East. The District Governor’s Special Representative was Past Assistant Governor Joel Ssekabembe. On September 3, 2002, Rotary Club of Kasangati was officially admitted to Rotary International with thirty-two members.
As a semi-rural club, Rotary club of Kasangati has become a vibrant club in D9211. It has scooped the following awards:
- District Governor’s Award for Best
- Bulletin for the years 2012-13; 2013-2014; 2015-2016 and 2017-2018.
- District Governor’s Award for Youth Service 2015-2016
- District Governor’s Award, 1st Runner-up for Community Service 2015-2016
- Rotary Club of Kampala North’s Singing and Dancing Competition Award – Most Creative attire 2013.
The club has continued to serve its community:
- Provided dustbins to all the markets and taxi parks in Gayaza and Kasangati;
- Constructed the outpatients Shelter at Kasangati Health Centre;
- Constructed an Outpatient Shelter for Kasangati Health Centre;
- Provided water supply through a submersible pump to Kasangati Health Centre in partnership with Rotary club of Eastbourne (D1120) and Rotary club of Alterburg,Germany (D1190)
- Provided scholastic materials to orphans both boys and Girls from mainly Northern Uganda in partnership with Rotary club of IIfracombe (D1170) England and several other Rotary clubs in North Devon.
- Provided Agricultural materials, animals inputs to help provide vocational skills to the students in partnership with RC IIfracombe (D1170) England and several other Rotary clubs in North Devon.
- Constructed an 8-stance Toilet Facility with Bathroom facilities to cater for the disabled people at Kasangati Health centre.
- Handed over 10 beds, 50 mosquito nets and blankets plus 5 computers to Kasangati Health maternity centre to manage patient’s records.
- Contributed school fees towards a deaf child for the year 2009-2010
- Treated an ENT patient to the tune of Ugx.1,200,000/= from club mobilisation.
- Hosted RI President Kalyan Banerjee to a Cancer Parade at Kasangati
- Provided water to Bright Future Community
- Provided a Ready to Drink water (RD2) for the outpatient maternity and children’s ward at Kasangati Health Centre.
- Provided Geometry sets to five schools in Wakiso District in preparation for their Primary Leaving Examinations.
- Held several medical outreaches every year in Kasangati and Adopt A Village Makukuba and over 300 people within the community received free treatment of different ailments.
- Acquired a Global Grant of US$36,000 towards purchase of medical equipment for Faith Mulira Health Care Centre
- Launched the Adopt-A-Village Makukuba project
- Signed a Memorandum of Understanding with District 1040 International Service Committee to manage its Micro Loan Scheme in the Adopt A Village Mukukuba to help the Rotary VijanaPoa restart and expand their businesses
- Constructed a school with Teachers offices at our Adopt-A-Village Makukuba project
- Launched a Library and stocked it with informational materials and text books for children below 18 years at Shared Blessings Primary School
- Immunized over 60 children ages from 0-5 years against Polio in Kito
- Constructed the outpatients Shel-ter at Kasangati Health Centre;
- Constructed an Outpatient Shelter for Kasangati Health Centre;
- Provided water supply through a submersible pump to Kasangati Health Centre in partnership with Rotary club of Eastbourne (D1120) and Rotary club of Alterburg,Germany (D1190)
- Provided scholastic materials to orphans both boys and Girls from mainly Northern Uganda in partnership with Rotary club of IIfracombe (D1170) England and several other Rotary clubs in North Devon.
- Provided Agricultural materials, animals inputs to help provide vocational skills to the students in partnership with RC IIfracombe (D1170) England and several other Rotary clubs in North Devon.
- Constructed an 8-stance Toilet Facil-ity with Bathroom facilities to cater for the disabled people at Kasangati Health centre.
- Handed over 10 beds, 50 mos-quito nets and blankets plus 5 com-puters to Kasangati Health materni-ty centre to manage patient’s rec-ords.
- Contributed school fees towards a deaf child for the year 2009-2010
- Treated an ENT patient to the tune of Ugx.1,200,000/= from club mo-bilisation.
- Hosted RI President Kalyan Banerjee to a Cancer Parade at Kasangati
- Provided water to Bright Future Community
- Provided a Ready to Drink water (RD2) for the outpatient maternity and children’s ward at Kasangati Health Centre.
- Provided Geometry sets to five schools in Wakiso District in prep-aration for their Primary Leaving Examinations.
- Held several medical outreaches every year in Kasangati and Adopt A Village Makukuba and over 300 peo-ple within the community received free treatment of different ail-ments.
- Acquired a Global Grant of US$36,000 towards purchase of medical equipment for Faith Muli-ra Health Care Centre
- Launched the Adopt-A-Village Ma-kukuba project
- Signed a Memorandum of Understanding with District 1040 Inter-national Service Committee to man-age its Micro Loan Scheme in the Adopt A Village Mukukuba to help the Rotary VijanaPoa restart and expand their businesses
- Constructed a school with Teachers offices at our Adopt-A-Village Ma-kukuba project
- Launched a Library and stocked it with informational materials and text books for children below 18 years at Shared Blessings Primary School
- Immunized over 60 children ages from 0-5 years against Polio in Kito
- Chartered the Rotary Community Corps – Makukuba
- Chartered the community Rotaract Club of Nangabo Vocational Center
- Held the Buganda Youth Day Celebrations in partnership with Buganda Government and 3 Rotary clubs.
