Group Study Exchange is Rotary’s International Exchange Program for Young Professionals. The GSE team will visited District 5710 April 28 – May 28, 2013, and visited the Central Lawrence Rotary at our May 15th Lunch Meeting. The team is from East Africa and all are medical professionals and their leader Caroline Abeja Apunyo is Medical Doctor from Uganda working as a public health consultant. She is also Past President for Rotary Club Kampala South and Past Assistant Gov D9200.
District 9200 comprises the six East African countries Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The geographical variation ranges from beautiful coastal beaches (both in Kenya and Tanzania), to Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and Lake Victoria, the largest fresh water lake in Africa. The Big Five – lion,
leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo – still roam our vast savannahs and bush land. The equator passes through Kenya and Uganda. The total population of all five countries is about 130 million in an area of 3,139,000 sq kms.
Caroline Abeja Apunyo, Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team Leader from Rotary District 9200, poses with her Lawrence Central
Rotary host Kate Campbell during the team’s visit in Lawrence in mid-May.
Apunyo is medical doctor with a specialization in Public Health in Kampala, Uganda. Since 2010, she has run her own business, ABJA Consulting Services, providing public health consulting services in Uganda and neighboring countries. She has been a Rotarian since 1996.
While in Lawrence, the GSE team of five medical professionals shadowed physicians at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and toured Health Care Access, Heartland Community Health Center, Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, and the Lawrence/Douglas County Health Department.
Below are scans of the Rotary trading banners the team exchanged with our club.
