Rotaract District Luncheon
(as prepared for delivery at Speke
Munyonyo
Rotary International President’s Personal Representative
District Governor, District 9211
Distinguished Rotary Leaders and Partners in Service
Honored Guests
All protocols observed
Kampala, Uganda Good afternoon everyone. How are you all doing? I am so very honored to be with you this afternoon and I’d like to thank the leadership of Rotaract District 9211 for inviting me to join you today, and to thank all of you for the very warm welcome.
Over the course of my career, in many countries, I have had the good fortune to attend Rotary or Rotaract events, whether standing meetings or special events like this week’s district conference. In some places, I struggled with the language and couldn’t follow all of the discussions. But what was clear and what needed no translation was the commitment to the Rotaract mission of leadership, professional development, and communit
By NJ Ayuk, Executive President of the African Energy Chamber.
If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, Greenpeace. There are obvious reasons for this: Greenpeace has been around for more than 50 years, and it has done a masterful job of bringing environmental concerns to the world’s attention and keeping them there. The group has a strong track record when it comes to advocacy and awareness, and it has a global reach. It’s truly one of the most visible non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the world.
By NJ Ayuk, Chairman of the African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org)
If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, Greenpeace. There are obvious reasons for this: Greenpeace has been around for more than 50 years, and it has done a masterful job of bringing environmental concerns to the world’s attention and keeping them there. The group has a strong track record when it comes to advocacy and awareness, and it has a global reach. It’s truly one of the most visible non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the world.
By NJ Ayuk, Chairman of the African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org)
If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, Greenpeace. There are obvious reasons for this: Greenpeace has been around for more than 50 years, and it has done a masterful job of bringing environmental concerns to the world’s attention and keeping them there. The group has a strong track record when it comes to advocacy and awareness, and it has a global reach. It’s truly one of the most visible non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the world.
by Mongabay.com on 19 April 2021
The $3.5 billion heated oil pipeline will connect oil fields in the Lake Albert basin in western Uganda to the port of Tanga on the Tanzanian coast.
Developed by French oil major Total and Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the project has faced staunch opposition from environmentalists who point out that it cuts through some of East Africa’s most biodiversity-rich areas.
The path of the pipeline will impact almost 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles) of protected areas, a quarter of that the habitat of eastern chimpanzees and African savanna elephants, and displace more than 12,000 families.