Car Boot sale

The Rotary Club of Kajjansi over the weekend held a two day Car Boot sale at the Uganda Clays Grounds Kajjansi. The Car boot sale started on Saturday 28th and ended on Sunday 29th April. It was well attended by Rotarians and members of the community who thronged the grounds in big numbers and bought used but usable items in aid of the destitute abandoned children we are looking after at Buikwe.

It all started with a fellowship on Wednesday at Dreams Guest House, where the Rotarians who had attended the District Conference in Nairobi reported to the club how the conference faired. Later on Rotarians were told of the preparations of the Car Boot sale.

The following day they cleaned the clothes and on Friday, they all went to Rt. Apollo Kakunda’s place in Kigo to do the ironing, sorting and labeling the items for sale. It was such a marvel to see Rotarians working with one heart during the whole exercise.

Come d-day, the members enjoyed selling the items the way people in down town St. Balikuddembe market do their trade.  It was very interesting to see AG Kimera and Rtn. Monica selling the items and enticing buyers in Luganda. President Peace was everywhere like the MTN network. At one point in time you’d find him at the molokony stall, then at the tent for crafts and in blink of an eye you’d find him selling shoes.

P.E Enid spiced here trade by singing and dancing thus attracting clients at her stall of jeans. You couldn’t miss Rtn. Isma and Rtn. Flavia who were very busy counting every coin that came in, their eyes were widely open, in that the times they blinked their eyes was not more than four. Thanks guys for that enthusiasm.

PAG Charles Byanyima spent his time enticing policemen to buy skirts and blouses for their spouses. Rtn. Mahogany who came in at 4:00pm on Sunday amused buyers when he started selling belts saying that they were good for bend over dance. He actually attracted a number for his antics.

Pp Karooli and PP Theresa made sure that whoever came in went back with something they would sweet talk them telling them how the items were going to make them better family people, which enticed people to buy at least one item.

Rtn. Juliet was wearing the widest simile ever, when she saw people coming in one by one to buy items in aid of the destitute children. You could read it from the way she walked with a swag across the grounds.

When AG Ann came she couldn’t believe that the Rotary Club of Kajjansi could do such a wonderful car boot sale. She went away satisfied that ekintu kyabadde kya nnyo.

Rotarian Annet tried as much as possible to woo police women to buy clothes for their children telling them how such children would become inspectors of Police. This enticed the female police officers to buy for their children so that they don’t miss the chances in future “anti ebirungi biri mu maaso”.

The others who made the car boot sale worth noting included Rtns Andrew and Rose who danced paka chini to the amusement of the buyers who wondered why the two couldn’t join Amarula family.

Rtn. Adrine and her Andy made sure people had something to eat and drink. Others included Rtn. Mukalazi, Rtn. Rose and our new Rtn. Frank.

Yes Rtn. Hajati Safina was busy selling anti-aging creams to every lady who visted her stall and by the look of things she left the show grounds a satisfied lady.

Rotaractors from Kisubi did a wonderful job with their little ones the interactors from New Hitech. They did almost all the work you can think of from singing songs calling customers to packing customers’ goods in buvera.

IPP John  Mary came in walking in a swagarific way nodding his head as a sign of satisfaction that RC Kajjansi had not ashamed him.

And of course yours truly was busy taking both motion and still pictures to tell the story afterwards.

Thanks everybody who made this car boot sale a worthwhile event. We also that thse Rotary Clubs that visted and participated, Kampala central, Entebbe, Kampala South, Kyengera, and our Rotaract club of Kisubi Brothers University, and Interact Club of New Hitech SS

 

DCA PHOTOS

These are pictures for the DCA

Rotary Uganda Cancer Ward phase I at Nsambya hospital ready

Below is a speech given by IPDG  Stephen Mwanje on Sunday 15^th April 2012 at Rotary Club of Kajjansi President Peace Taremwa’s home in Akright Kakungulu

The Speech has been transcribed by Rtn. Hannington Sebuliba

The project is a joint venture with Centenary Bank. Centenary Bank partnered with Rotary D9200 and Nsambya Hospital in April 2011 in the ‘Bridge the Cancer gap campaign’. The 3 year project will see a cancer ward built in Nsambya hospital and 12 cancer awareness days held around the country. Centenary Bank is investing UGX 380m in the project. The cancer ward will be the second in the country and will have two floors, ground floor for cervical and breast cancer patients and first floor for prostate cancer patients. The cancer awareness day’s activities comprise of sensitization, testing, counseling and referring patients to where they can get help. We believe by the end of the project many lives will be saved. 

Am happy to be here on this fellowship it reminds me of the words of PAG Martin Kiyaga, he used to encourage us to have home hospitalities at your homes. “If you don’t invite us to your homes willingly, they’ll find themselves in your home unwillingly” what he meant is that you’ll loose some one and we shall be forced to come to your home unwillingly. So he used to encourage us to host home hospitalities in our homes. I thank you president and your Ann for hosting us to this home hospitality today.

Artistic impression of the Centenary Bank and Rotary Cancer ward in Nsambya hospital.

I want to thank this club for induction of new Rotarians with more hands you are going to do well.  My request for the year, I want to request Mr. President that you support the programs that are running in this country. Rtn Margaret here will tell you how many programs that are running in this Country. Water Plus, Gift of Life, but I got special intrest in cancer programme. As you are already aware, we are building a cancer ward in Nsambya Hospital. As I speak now, the building is going up, we have finished phase one, and it was supposed to be handed over to us next week but because of the DCA, we have postponed. We are going to phases two and three. My appeal, is that this Club comes and support.

We have two initiatives coming up in the month of May we shall have a music concert  in Serena Hotel and the proceeds 50% will go towards building the cancer ward. I want to appeal to you to participate by buying as many card for that concert as possible. In the month of August on the 26^th, 2012 we are going to have the first ever Rotary  run  in Uganda  (cancer run) we are targeting more than 10,000 runners to participate. I appeal to you  to encourage all your friends to join us in this run. In addition to this fundraising, we are carrying out cancer parades because we believe that you can’t treat cancer without awareness. Cancer is killing our people, we are starting with women. Cervical Cancer and Breast cancer are the biggest killers of women today. It is killing our sisters, it is killing our mothers, our wives, daughters and yet we know it can be prevented. As Rotarians, we are carrying out parades to let people know about this disease and how to prevent it.

My appeal to you is that this club organizes at least one cancer parade. Please talk to women there and encourage them to come for free cervical and Breast cancer screening.

Thank you very much for inviting me this evening.