Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta and his wife Rashi have arrived in Uganda on a three-day visit.

He started his visit by inaugurating the Board of Trustees for the late Sam Owori, Rotary Vijana Poa Village.

The village is a 40-acre expanse of land on which entrepreneurship skills are imparted onto unemployed youth aged 15-30 years.

The visit is part of the seven African Nation tour.  

He has so far visited Kenya, where he offered help in Education, Water, Sanitation, Health issues on behalf of Rotary, and promised to set up Eye Hospitals, Blood Banks, E-Learning in Kenya. 

Mehta, an accountant, is chair of the Skyline Group, a real estate development company he founded in India. 

He is also a director of Operation Eyesight Universal (India), a Canada-based organization. He is also the chair of Rotary Foundation (India). 

He is the 4th Indian in 115 years to be nominated as the President of Rotary International for the year 2021-22. 

President Shekhar Mehta

Mehta was born in 1959 in Kolkata India. A keen academician, he graduated from St. Xavier’s College, and has a Masters in Commerce, is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Company Secretary. 

He joined Rotary in 1985 and is a member of Rotary Calcutta Mahanagar. 

He served as District Governor in 1999-2000 and was elevated to the Board of Directors of Rotary International for 2011-2013. 

He has been Chairman of Joint Partnership Committee of Rotary International, Strategic Planning Committee of Rotary International, Rotary India Literacy Mission, Rotary Foundation India, Rotary India Centennial Celebrations and Rotary India Humanity Foundation.

 He served as Director on the Board of Rotary International from 2011 to 2013, and helped Rotary add two countries to its fold – Bhutan and Maldives. 

Mehta has led many major service initiatives in India and South Asia, including among others, constructing 500 homes for Tsunami survivors at Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and starting the Shelter Kit program in India which has served about 20 disasters and benefited about 75,000 disaster victims. 

During his three-day visit to Uganda, he will break ground for Construction of the Linear Accelerator Bunkers' Structure - Rotary Centenary Bank Cancer Center at Nsambya Hospital, launch of the Maternal and Child Health Program at Kawempe Hospital, meet with President Yoweri Museveni and the speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, among others.