Courtesy call by Rotary District 9212 Governor Leonard Ithau, District team and coast region Rotary Presidents, including Rotary Club of Kilifi to Kilifi County Governor’s office for partnership talks.

In attendance #AfriBOP2024

Join Rotary Club of Kilifi Rotary Club of Kilifi and partners (in flyer) for a Blood for my Valentine drive on 14th and 15th of February at Pwani University grounds. Come share the gift of blood with loved ones.

Glad to see Kenyans donning face masks in all forms of public transportation, without the general public throwing glances helter skelter. This has been the norm in other countries, among citizens with respiratory illnesses like the flu. Let’s continue with this good discipline.

Rotary Club of Kilifi Rotary Club of Kilifi supports The Rotary Foundation in Rotary year 2023-24, which funds community projects globally; we also celebrated 119 years of Rotary International, the umbrella Rotary.

Rotary Club of Kilifi Rotary Club of Kilifi and friends delivered food items to Chumani Islamic Center and enjoyed a fellowship lunchtime meal with the Muslim brothers and sisters before the start of the holy month of Ramadan.

Rotary Club (RC) of Kilifi in conjunction with RC Nairobi Thika Road & others were hosted by RC Arusha 🇹🇿 for a joint Kenya-Tanzania WASH project followed by a Arusha to Moshi road trip - creating strong bonds with majirani 🇹🇿 while serving East Africa!

Rotary Club of Kilifi Rotary Club of Kilifi received a small grant to run a water harvesting and farming projects at Kaya Godoma rescue center for neglected elderly in Kilifi.

Detailed Mpox presentation on the new clade that has emerged in the DRC, which following our naming scheme was named as Clade Ib. Clade I of Mpox is more severe and seems to be a recent emergence from non-human reservoir. Detailed results at: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Rotary Club of Kilifi Rotary Club of Kilifi participated in the inaugural Sunshine Rally, coast region recently; a day for entertainment for children with disabilities in coast. Rotary Sunshine Rally dates back to 1979, and has been held countrywide since.

Multiple short term fellowships for advanced genomics and bioinformatics at CERI, South Africa.

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Rotary Club of Kilifi Rotary Club of Kilifi partnering with Roll Out the Barrels Trust (UK) delivered durable and mobile water barrels to villages in Moshi 🇹🇿. The barrels are easily rolled on the ground making fetching of water easier in drought-affected areas.

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Finally, for 2023-24 Rotary year, Rotary Club (RC) of Kilifi Rotary Club of Kilifi hosted RC Northumpton, UK for a needs assessment visit, resulting in a successful desks project to be undertaken by Kilifi GK prisons where desks will be made for a deserving school.

Breaking News - I will also be dissolving my cabinet shortly.

Owuor et. al., 2024, “Local patterns of spread of influenza A H3N2 virus 🦠 in coastal Kenya 🇰🇪over a 1-year period revealed through virus 🦠 sequence data" nature.com/articles/s4159… just published James Nokes Charles Agoti Virus Epi & Control. Publication 5 of 5 🥼

Dear Influenza, I hope you are doing well. I have not forgotten you even though I moved on to other pathogens. You still remain the spikiest virus virus 🦠 wow. See, I even participated in studying you again medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. Sincerely…