Fwd: Bob Collymore - July 10th Guest Speaker RC Nairobi East (POLITE REMINDER)

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Date: July 9, 2012 5:10:25 PM GMT+03:00
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Subject: Bob Collymore - July 10th Guest Speaker RC Nairobi East (POLITE REMINDER)

Cool Rotarians,

 

This is to confirm that our Guest Speaker on Tuesday 10th July is Bob Collymore, the CEO of Safaricom and Peter Arina, General Manager Safaricom - Consumer Business Unit. hh

 

 

They will be coming to talk to Rotarians about the "Bring Zack Back Home" Campaign and how Safaricom staff give service to community through a staff project called World of Difference - a prject that allws emloyees to share their time and skills with organizations.

 

Please invite your friends, workmates, relatives and other Rotarians.

 

Time: 12:45pm

 

Venue: Nairobi Club - Private Dining Room

 

Charge: KSh 800 for a buffet lunch (for those who want to eat)

 

  

About the Campaign

Zack was injured 8 years ago via a gunshot incident and is confined to a wheel chair and has embarked on a journey to South Africa for rehabilitation. He is doing this to get Kenyans to raise Ksh 250 Million in 60 days for the construction of Kenya’s first and only spinal cord rehabilitation and trauma centre in Kenya.

 

Kenya only has the National Spinal Injury Hospital (NSIH) whose core mandate is to offer medical treatment to a spinal injury i.e. undertakes medical procedures at acute stage to heal the injury and stabilize the patient and the rehabilitation centre to be built will seek to prevent secondary complications, maximization of physical functioning and reintegration of persons with a spinal injury into the community. NSIH has 32 beds only and there are over 200 persons waiting for treatment at any one single time, yet it takes on average six-6 months to treat a spinal injury with almost a similar time to rehabilitate an individual.

 

There is no facility in the entire Eastern and Central Africa to offer rehabilitation of spinal injury. On the continent, the nearest facility is found in South Africa and Egypt and the cost of rehabilitating one individual is a minimum of KES 9 million - an amount too high for any one to afford. Yet, hundreds of lives are daily either lost, maimed and or left with disability due to the rampant road accidents.

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Kind regards,
Carole Kimutai
Speaker Secretary, Rotary Club of Nairobi East
Tel: 0722 560 241
Twitter:@CaroleKimutai

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Kind regards,
Carole Kimutai
Speaker Secretary, Rotary Club of Nairobi East
Tel: 0722 560 241
Twitter:@CaroleKimutai