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Julius Muzira was appointment \u00a0the next President of the Rotary Club of Garuga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The DG thanked \u00a0Mr Benjamin Bwanika, the Charter President of the Club, for his sterling contribution and outstanding leadership throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, UCAA has previously partnered with almost all the Entebbe corridor Rotary Clubs, including RC Bwerenga, Lubowa, Bwebajja and Entebbe, among others in execution of different projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bamwesigye attested to the &nbsp;power and influence of Rotary-noting that &nbsp;a few years ago, UCAA made a modest contribution to the Rotary Club of Entebbe, which liaised with&nbsp; The Rotary Foundation through the Rotary District 9214 and secured very expensive Orthopeadic Equipment that was recently handed over to Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moto for the Rotary movement is &nbsp;&#8220;Service above Self&#8221; and for the last 115 years of development, the association has &nbsp;grown from a four-member club to an international service organisation of over 35 000 member clubs and 1.6 million Rotarians across 200 countries and regions worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UCAA made a contribution of Ug.Shs. 3M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor: msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech read for him by the &nbsp;Corporation Secretary, Mary Hellen Wenene the Director General of Uganda Civil Aviation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F1UggzvWIAAngKd.jpeg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4171,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/fred-bamwesigye-appointed-new-ucaa-boss\/","url_meta":{"origin":9500,"position":0},"title":"FRED BAMWESIGYE APPOINTED NEW UCAA BOSS","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Mr Fred Bamwesigye Kanyangoga has been appointed as the new Director General of Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA), according to an instrument signed by Minister of Works and Transport , Gen. 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