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PRESS RELEASE
Dar es Salaam,
09th April 2018
The popular
Charity Goat Races in Dar es Salaam will continue. After last year’s
announcement by the former organizing committee to discontinue the popular
charity and family event the Rotary Club of Dar es Salaam Oysterbay decided to
carry on with the organization of the races in future. The new organizers will
keep the structure of the event, but hope to attract new fans in addition to
existing goat race enthusiasts.
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The
Rotary Goat Races Board Chairman, Amish Shah speaks to reporters in Dar
es Salaam today during a media briefing to announce the club’s intention to continue
with the organization of the Goat Races in 2018. Left is President of Rotary Club Dar es Salaam, Oysterbay, Anne Saels and the head of Goat Races Organizing Committee, Mathew
Helela (right).
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In the past 17 years the Dar es Salaam
Charity Goat Races were a staple in the annual event-calendar and one of the
premier charity events in the city. The decision by the former organizing
committee not to continue with the organization of the event left many fans
disappointed. After intensive discussions with the predecessors, the Rotary
Club of Dar es Salaam (DSM) Oysterbay decided to carry on with the races. Under
the new brand “The Rotary Goat Races” this year’s event will take place on June
23rd at the Green in Oysterbay banking on the previous assets of the
races: a fun family-event with proceeds going to charitable projects.
Other than in the past, however, the
proceeds of the Rotary Goat Races will not be given to various charity
organizations but are going to be used for own service projects of the Rotary
Club of DSM Oysterbay.
Those projects will focus primarily on different aspects
of education benefitting the local community. “Rotary International and its
member clubs have the reputation of very efficiently carrying out projects via
its member volunteers, directing almost one hundred percent of project funds to
the beneficiaries”, said current President of Rotary Club DSM Oysterbay, Anne
Saels. “We believe that with the planned education projects we can make a huge
difference in the lives of the people in our community and we are happy that the
Rotary Goat Races will play an important role in this”.
The Rotary Goat Races Board
Chairman, Amish Shah, is convinced that the Rotary Goat Races 2018 will not
disappoint. “With the Motto ‘Wakanda Goat Are You’, we give reminiscence of the
year’s most successful movie ‘Black Panther’, hoping to attract new fans and
previous Goat Race enthusiast likewise”. As in previous years, says Shah, the
Rotary Goat Races 2018 were able to attract large sponsors such as Toyota,
Swiss International Airlines and Coca Cola. “We are thankful for the trust in
our organizational capacity that our sponsors have given us and we are
confident that the Rotary Goat Races 2018 will be a fun event for everyone”.
The Rotary Club of DSM Oysterbay
was founded in 2009 and has currently about 70 members. It is the largest of
the eight Rotary Clubs in Dar es Salaam and supports the community with a wide
range of projects including a Community Health Initiative that organizes
biannual medical camps in rural and urban Tanzania, the Vijana Poa
project to help young university students find employment, the Rotary Dar
Marathon to assist the work of CCBRT-Hospital, and Rotary Mission Green,
a district effort to plant trees. Furthermore, the Rotary Club of Oyster Bay is
currently building various Rotary Community Corps in order to deliver direct
community support to beneficiaries.
For media enquiries:
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Angelika El-Noshokaty (The
Rotary Goat Races PR-Committee)
angelika@el-noshokaty.com, +255689619930
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Abdulrahman Hussein (2018
Organizing Committee)
akhussein@gmail.com, +255
715 361 300
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Mathew Hellela (2018
Organizing Committee)
mhellela@gmail.com, +255 758 178 850
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