[UAH] A Bright Day for UNAA

Dear UNAA Members and Friends of UNAA,

 

The email attributed to Rev Kamugisha with the heading "A sad day for UNAA" is a personal opinion and is not an accurate reflection of the hard work and principled dedication behind the effort to organize what is shaping out to be UNAA's most memorable convention.

 

The Executive Director of Oxfam International, a distinguished Ugandan personality who has lived with us in the diaspora for several years, Eng. Winnie Byanyima, has been invited as a featured speaker. She will grace our event alongside other featured speakers like the City of Dallas Mayor Mr. Mike Rawlings. The list of featured speakers is by no means complete so any indication that it lacks diversity is simply without foundation.

 

The 25^th Annual UNAA Convention is going to be hosted in Dallas, Texas also known as Oil Country. It is therefore of strategic interest to UNAA's members to hear from the developing Oil Industry in Uganda. The expectation is that our members will explore opportunities which can be exploited by forming partnerships with Dallas oil entities and importing needed specialized oil industry skills and services into Uganda. That is the specific objective for inviting the President of Tullow Oil Uganda as a Keynote speaker for UNAA Dallas 2013. If the President of Tullow Oil Uganda was of Chinese extraction and a member of the Communist Party, that is who would have been invited as our Keynote Speaker.

 

Thankfully UNAA members have time and again rejected all efforts to get divided along personal political and ethnic views and there is every expectation that this continues to be so today. This fact alone makes it a brighter day for UNAA.

 

Have a nice weekend, God Bless you all and God Bless the Ugandan North American Association.

 

Tim Gaburungyi

Director of Development

Ugandan North American Association (UNAA)

Cell : 914 439 6417

www.unaa.org

UNAA Dallas 2013 - Silver Jubilee Convention : Harnessing the Power of the Diaspora