District 9212, Nairobi, KENYA
Rotary Club Of Muthaiga ISSUE 2/OCT-NOV/ 2014
WHAT IS YOUR VOCATION AND HOW DO YOU USE IT IN SERVICE ABOVE SELF?
SOME OF THE ROTARIANS FROM R.C. MUTHAIGA REPRESENTING DURING THE END POLIO WALK IN SEPTEMBER.
Service Above Self..
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e h t f o s th u ROTARY AND c on o F M OUR VOCATIONS
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As Rotarians we all heard these words during our long awaited induction ceremony, “You have been chosen to membership in the Rotary Club of ________ because your fellow members believe you to be a leader in your vocation....” We heard about how we are expected to uphold the values of Rotary in our professions and daily life and this is the time we realised that our vocations play a role in our place in Rotary and Rotary plays a role in our vocations. There is an interesting relationship that exists between Rotary and our vocations. Rotary betters us as professionals by giving us moral guidance in the 4-way-test. In this day of ‘survival of the fittest’ we find that many professionals are almost fixated about the idea of getting rich fast, getting to the top no matter who you had to step on to get there and beating all the competition that could possibly exist. In pursuit of success at all costs, we lose track of professional morals and ethics and once the returns begin to show on bank statements and balance sheets, the tiniest atom of professional ethics vanish. As a Rotarian, this does not need to be the case and we can revive professional traits such as trustworthiness, accountability and fair play in the business realm. We have been equipped with the 4-way-test that ideally should come to play in all dealings and relationships that we come across, and not only in Rotary. As ambassadors of Rotary, we have a moral duty to apply these guiding principles and this will only serve to better us and enrich our journey to success moving us back to being business savvy and shredding the shrewdness. Rotary is also considered as a platform that gives professionals the ultimate opportunity to network. Most clubs are diverse professionally with lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers, engineers, writers, businessmen and the list goes on. A Rotarian can access all these professionals for advice and consult. In the relationships that we develop in Rotary, we can support one another by offering professional support in each other’s best interest. The key element of being able to benefit professionally in Rotary is in how we view each other as Rotarians, if we consider each other as family then we should be willing to extend ourselves so as to have a positive impact on each other. As Rotarians, we engage in service projects that often require expertise knowledge and reality is that Rotary is a pool of professionals and we can and should utilise our knowledge in this respect too. Rotary touches our lives in every way and it would be an injustice to ourselves to be equipped with the exposure we have and not apply it to ourselves and our professions. Rotary is a stepping stone for Rotarians as it builds skills; leadership, mentorship, interpersonal, organizational- that we can benefit from in the workplace. In effort to pay it forward, we can use our vocations to see where our skills and expertise are best suited and needed and allow society to gain from it selflessly.
Together We Can Do More
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How Well Do you Know your fellow club member?
Uganda High Commissioner
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Rtn. Angelina C.
Wapokhabulo, On Being A Rotarian Born, bred and raised in Tosamaganga, a Catholic mission in Tanzania, HE Angelina Wapakhabulo, is a down to earth, proud grandmother of seven, who appreciates all the favours God has granted her. I met James, a Ugandan, while we were both students at the University of Dar es salaam and at 21 got married to h i m till death did us part 34 years later. Blessed with four children, I soon became a Ugandan Citizen and I must say, not once I have felt discriminated in because of my origins. I have been in business, social work, and by association in politics, where mobilization for what I believe in, is something I am very good at and love doing; but no thanks, after serving as a Minister's wife for 17 years, I turned down calls to take on my husband's constituency after his passing on.
Rotarian Angelina C. Wapakhabulo Uganda’s High Commissioner & Permanent Representative to UN-Habitat & UNEP
My Vocation In 2009, I was humbled and greatly honoured when HE Yoweri K Museveni appointed me Uganda's High Commissioner to Kenya, demonstrating the President's confidence in my commitment and loyalty to Uganda, my adopted home. As High Commissioner, I head a team at the Uganda Mission in Nairobi, whose prime responsibility is to promote and protect Uganda's interests in Kenya, consolidate and enhance good bilateral relations between our two countries, promote investment and trade between us, and provide consular services to our nationals, those wishing to visit Uganda and need visas. The Mission also promotes the East Africa integration process and participates in various forums towards achieving this. I also represent Uganda as the Permanent Representative to UNEP and UN Habitat, which are based here in Nairobi Rotary is my lifestyle As a Rotarian, I have always tried to make time to serve the community through participation in club activities and projects, as well as serving on a voluntary basis, on Boards of Community based Organisations (CBOs) in Uganda and globally. I am a co founder of an NGO that promotes provision of HIV/AIDS sensitization and treatment, within market places and currently serve as Patron. Over the years, I have won several commendations and awards, all relating to my work with the less privileged including programs, which build capacities of orphans and vulnerable children. I was the recipient of the 2014 Life Time Achievement Award by MTN Uganda. Rotary to me is a lifestyle you choose to live, regardless of the position you occupy or circumstances you are in! It is a lifestyle, I believe in and continue to live out. I therefore encourage those who are not Rotarians, to join us and experience the joy of, ‘Serving Above Self’.
Rtn. Angelina (Ug. Amb. to Kenya) & her fellow femal High Commissioners cutting the cake during the celebrations of Ugandas 52nd Independence
Fellow rotarians celebrating with H.E. Amb. Angelina W.
Her Excellency with the Attachee pesonally welcoming guests during their 52nd Independence day celebrations
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FELLOWSHIP MOMENTS
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Presidents of RC Muthaiga exchanging banners with visiting Rotarians from Germany
The board of Interact Club of International School of Kenya (I.S.K) when they fellowshipped with RC Muthaiga
FUN TIMES:
Kodak Moment as the S.A.A for the day
Ann’s Pazzle
Rtn. Ann Naliaka & Pres. Lilian Okado receive And the two sets sat and tried
a banner from visiting Rotarians
to solve this pazzle... All options failed but
Speaker: Anthony
Wendy’s chopper saved the day!
Millward, Princpal GEMS C.Int. Sch.
VISIT TO OUR INTERACT CLUB
Members of RC Muthaiga joined our interactors of ISK during their fellowship.
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IGNITE THE FIRE!
ISSUE 2/OCT-NOV/ 2014
Are you ready to hold the torch to light the path ahead? I am putting this question to you. Now I want to challenge you. Why not be the torch yourself? You have the fire inside you, waiting to be ignited. Fire is a most potent force. In the words of Nobel Laureate Tagore, fire can be the little lamp that stood up to the mighty setting sun’s arrogant declaration — “Who is going to light the world when I am gone” — and humbly said, “Lord, give me a chance and I will do my best.” Fire can be the light of the lantern that Benjamin Franklin used to keep on in his patio throughout the night. When asked why was he wasting the fuel, he replied that the light was not for him but to light the path of the passersby. Leadership, too, is a potent force, just like fire. You have the fire within you. You are the fire. Let me talk about priorities in Rotary leadership. When Rotarians desirous of becoming district governors approach me for my advice and good wishes, I compliment them for their willingness to take up bigger responsibilities in Rotary. At the same time, I give them a caveat in the form of a hope that they would have the extraordinary ability to continue devoting time for the family and caring for the business, profession, or other vocational activities while fulfilling their Rotary duties. I tell them that service in Rotary would enrich life but to always remember family as priority No. 1 and vocation as priority No. 2. It is true that as district governor you will be required to put in a substantial part of your time this year. Do find a balance. Rotary should be one of your priorities, but do not start thinking of Rotary as your career. I feel that Rotary has the greatest danger from “no time” Rotarians and “full time” Rotarians. Now, permit me to share briefly some experiences I have encountered that have been lessons to me and may not be found in leadership textbooks: • Flexibility. I asked you to be strong, but the great ancient philosopher Lao Tzu adds a new dimension. He says (paraphrasing): I choose to be strong by being soft and flexible rather than inflexible, brittle and hard. Yes, friends, all things, including grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life, dry and brittle in death. The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail. • Firmness. Flexibility — yes, but there must be no compromise with values you cherish, the principles you live by, the ideals of the organization you have adopted. Have the courage to stand up and speak against evil. If you don’t, you will only be seen collaborating with it. • Humor. A sense of humor is part of leadership qualities. Humor is the spice in human relationships. Handled correctly, humor is like grace — and shines on everybody. Humor connects people. Humor is not just jokes, and if so, the jokes have to be on oneself. A friend of mine has great sense of humor. I once asked him why he, an only child, did not have any siblings. Ready wit, he answered that he asked the same question to his parents and got their immediate response: “We just did not feel it necessary to repeat a bad joke.” • Take time. The world today is speed obsessed. In elevators, we smack the Door Close button in the hope of saving some seconds. The latest I have heard is that people with advanced cases of “hurry sickness” punch in “88” seconds on the microwave instead of “90” because it is faster to tap the same digit twice. Please do not get me wrong. I am not asking you to slow down in your activities, but I am surely asking you to slow down and take time for your human interactions. • You can be wrong. From childhood it is ingrained in our minds not to admit a mistake and never to say, “I am sorry.” On the other hand, to admit and apologize for a wrong or pain caused to another, even inadvertently, helps in rising in one’s own and the other person’s esteem. • Ego buster. You are going to be very successful, but I must warn you of a vicious cycle. Success leads to arrogance and arrogance leads to failure, and where the failure will take you, I don’t know — it may not necessarily be success. The cycle has to be interrupted at the very first stage, and it can only be done by a good dose of sincere humility. It is this virtue that will touch you with genuine greatness. It is this quality that will attract people to you and respect you. • Change. You have heard President-elect Kalyan emphasizing change, the change that you must bring about, change that would bring the progress. We all resist change and we say, “This is what has always been done, and the same I will continue to do.” Change is essential to our evolution as an individual, as an institution. It is necessary for our survival. Ordinary leaders fight it; visionary leaders delight in it. Ordinary leaders imitate; visionary leaders innovate. Change is the factor that offers new opportunity, new horizon, new lead to progress. What I have said, my friends, is my experience of the attributes of a leader, attributes that touch humanity, that lift the leader to new heights. These attributes have to come from within, where the dormant fire waits to be lit. In the words of George Bernard Shaw: “Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” So my friends, are you ready to be a splendid torch — to burn as brightly as possible, not just for your year but to pass on the fire to the generations of Rotary to come? Are you awakened? Are you inspired — ready to ignite the fire, ready to explore and achieve, ready not just for the launch but to last? Remember, your ultimate destination is to return home, completing your year, with Neil Armstrong’s words as he stepped onto the moon echoing in the ears: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Do these words say something to you? Your one, single year can be a leap for our institution, our Rotary. Go for it. Ignite the fire within you.. Extracted from a speech by R.I President
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MOMENTS FROM THE POLIO WALK..
OLE POLOS AMBOSELI CLOSURE OF PROJECT.
The Paul Harris Society & Majoy Donors Dinner. www.rcmuthaiga.com
Members & Their Vocational Classifications NAME Aburili, Anne Ansari, Nazia Hassan Asike, Jackie Bhatti, Athar Ahmad Braganza, Jason Foulser, Robert L. Gachango, Rayhab Wangari Gitoho, Isaac Hurst, Peter A. G. Kahenya, Kamunyu Kaiganaine, John Kanani, Keval Kantaria, Vijay Kantaria, Rakhee Kathurima, Lucy Khaleji, Audrey Kibue, Anita Njoki Kiraithe, Agnes Kiraithe, Bernard Maina, Stanley Malinda, Wendy Manek, Kaushik Liladhar Manek, Geeta K. Manek, Jay Manji, Salim M. Mbatia, Lorna Mbua, Ruth Michieka, Kemunto Mong'ina Mohamed, Farid Moraa, Sylvia Muchira, Esther Wangui Mundia, Evance Mung'oma, Jane Otima Muondu, Daniel Murimi, Robert Ndagi Muthami, Tabitha Mutuli Muthui, Anne Mwangombe, Marlone Kinango Mwibanda, Martin Wanjala Nabutola, Wafula Ndungu, Peter Njeri, Victoria Mary Njiraini, Douglas Gicho Nyuguto, Gerald Obath, Patrick E. O. Oguna, Benard Ogutu Okado, Lilian Parikh, Zubin Rames Raichura, Sundeep K. Raja, Sonia Ruitiari, Joyce Scholl, Hans-Juergen Tagodoe, Dodji Vayani, Salim Waithaka, Kuria Kihara Wangari, Eudia Wapakhabulo, Angelina Yassin, Jimia
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“Leadership next calls on your vocational integrity and excellence. You always have a choice of taking the path of right or wrong. The right way is to give, to share, to love. The wrong way is to grab, to exploit, to envy. You must always keep in mind that the choice you make, makes you. Thus, through the dignity of vocation and transparency of integrity, you seek purpose, satisfaction, and excellence in your vocation. People ask, is leadership an inborn quality or can it be acquired? I do not have the answer. But I know one thing: Leadership is a set of principles — dynamism, courage, creativity, and integrity — that flow from within. In different degrees these ingredients are embedded in us, but we need to locate them, unlock them. And then through introspection and nurturing, through dedicated and disciplined efforts, these seeds from within would sprout in the form of leadership: touching, caring, guiding, leading by example.”
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