Serving as a wealth management advisor for Merrill Lynch, Keefe Gorman is also the vice president of investments. In addition, Keefe Gorman is a member of Rotary International.
Rotary International was founded in 1905 and designed to have a global reach. One example is Yumbe, a city with a population of 50,000 in the central African nation of Uganda. A group of business owners in Yumbe who started a community savings and loan organized a Rotary Club. Composed entirely of women, the club set out to improve water sanitation problems in the area.
In the nearby village of Achibe, home to some 600 Ugandans, many people had to walk over an hour to reach the only well in the area. The well’s unclean water led to diarrhea and other ailments.
The Rotary Club added a second, centrally located well and gave villagers 5-gallon buckets that filtered the water. In addition, the club provided Tippy Taps – basic washing stations controlled by a foot pedal. In one year, the number of children under 5 reporting diarrhea dropped from around 50 percent to just 5 percent.
The group received help from other Rotarians. The Topeka, Kansas, Rotary Club paid the chartering fee, and the Rotary Club of Arua in northeast Uganda sponsored the Yumbe chapter.
Michael Keefe Gorman 