Dar es salaam, Sep 30, 2009: More than 500 Rotarians, friends and wellwishers participated in our first Dar Rotary Walk '09 on Sunday the 27th September 2009. The walk was flagged off as early as 7am and retired president Ali Hassan Mwinyi (picture: holding Rotary flag) was our guest of honour. He walked the 8 kms at great pace. DGE Steve Mwanje travelled all the way from Uganda to walk with us on the day. Dar Rotary walk ’09 was envisaged at a joint board meeting by the 6 Rotary clubs of Dar es salaam with our current District Governor Tadesse Alemu from Ethiopia in attendance about three months ago. The challenge was to do an activity jointly as 6 clubs and raise funds for a common cause. At that meeting it was unanimously decided to select the environment as our cause as throughout the world currently there is an awareness of our environment and the impact of the global climate change.  We joined the UNEP “Plant for the Planet billion tree” campaign which was an idea by the Nobel peace prize laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai which links people, trees and the environment and is also a way of giving public expression to the challenges of climate change, forest and ecosystem degradation.
Our goal for this campaign was to plant approximately 100,000 trees in Tanzania and to this end we are proud to announce today that we have raised 90 million Tanzania Shillings (approx US Dollars 71000. -ed) for this cause! You can continue monitoring our tree planting exercise on www.rotarycharitywalk.co.tz and all efforts towards this will start now. |
