Nakibinge inducted as Rotary Club honorary member

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Over 400 Rotary Clubs in Uganda are celebrating new leadership in line with the Rotary International rules.

However, at the Rotary Club of Kampala, Kibuli, it was a double celebration on Friday night.

The joy of installing Rhemie Kiggundu as the 16th president of the club was heightened by the induction of the titular head of Muslims in Uganda Prince Kassim Nakibinge Kakungulu as an honorary member of the club.

Under Rotary International rules, honorary membership is the highest distinction a Rotary Club can confer and it is exercised under exceptional cases to recognise an individual for unusual service and contribution to Rotary and society.

The member is not obliged to attend fellowships all the time except at their discretion.

The member is also not mandated to honour contributions to the club and Rotary International except on their will.

The Rotary governor and member of the joint strategic committee for Rotary International Rossette Nabbumba at the function held at Kiggundu’s home in Kololo, Kampala, and decorated Nakibinge.

Nabbumba used the occasion to urge the club and members to do more community work in order to affect more lives.

Kiggundu pledges more PHFs

Kiggundu, shortly after installation, effectively replacing Patrick Don Bujingo, thanked the club members and the family for their support.

Narrating how she joined Rotary in emulation of Paul Harris who founded Rotary now one of the leading humanitarian organisations in the world, and encouraged many people to join Rotary.

She pledged that under her leadership, more members would be pinned as Paul Harris Fellows (PHFs).

Under Rotary, an individual who contributes $1,000 (about shillings 3.7 million), or in whose honour or memory it is contributed, is recognised, upon request, as a PHF. A PHF receives a certificate, pin and medallion.

At the installation hosted at her home in Kololo, two of her members were decorated as PHFs.

Boy child needs support

“We want to adopt a village and create a skilling centre for economic empowerment by creating jobs, especially for the boy child,” she said while expressing concern that a boy child has been neglected with all empowerment initiatives focused on the girl child.

“We have to support the boy child so that his role is not lost in society since all affirmative efforts including employment opportunities are targeting a girl child,” she added.

Kiggundu hopes that the members will extend effective support to her proposal for the centre and establish a physical building.

She also pledged to increase the club's visibility among others through membership recruitment and media campaigns.

Some members of her board, include President-elect Janat Karisa, Vice-President Francis Kiggundu and Club admin Brian Ssenoga.

Bujingo thanked the members for the support extended to him and his executive to record a number of achievements including increased membership, which is diverse in nature with young and old people working together for a common purpose.

He asked the members to extend to the new president all the support she needs in order to succeed.