District Conference

82nd District Conference & Assembly

16th to 19th May, 2007, Speke Resort & Conference Centre Munyonyo - Uganda

Theme: Our Environment, Our Future

The cycle of life and death, like the cycle of seasons, are inevitable, beyond our control, we only try to control the quality of both. Primitive homo sapiens, more attuned to the continuum of life and death and being in oneness with the environment, appreciated and lived as part of the environment, maybe because of the immediacy of impact of changes on survival, modern homo sapiens has created artificial distance from the environment, forgetting that we are part of it. We have torn its Covering off in many places and raped it, creating desert.

We recklessly tear into its guts with insatiable greed, not for survival, but for over-exaggerated material well being. We poison the water sources, our very life stream, with concentrated populations, industrial effluent. We destroy parts of the atmospheric cover that shield us from the negative ravages of solar radiation. Drought, famine, pestilence and disease, become the order. We have lost focus on the continuum of life, and see life only in our personal time span on planet Earth.
Like the crippling debt of many of our countries, we are creating a huge environment deficit, to be painfully settled by future generations, many of them through their lives.

One sees the need to call the forgotten past modern, and the current times primitive.

Our Environment, Our future: Plan to come to Kampala to discuss, to reflect, to think, and to create action so that as Rotarians, we can make a difference. Let us be that difference.

“Be the change you want to see in the world”
Mahatma Gandhi

Documents and forms for download:

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	Conference Brochure (PDF, 483KB)
	Conference Registration Form (PDF, 49KB)
	Conference Registration Form (WORD, 152KB)

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