Rotary International Women Improving Health in Uganda
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.
A financial advisor and wealth manager with 25 years of experience in his field, Michael Keefe Gorman currently serves as Managing Director of Investments for Merrill Lynch Financial Services in Ithaca, New York. With an impressive background in his field, he laid the academic foundations for his career while an undergraduate at St. Lawrence University, where he pursued studies in economics and Spanish. The recipient of a Vilas Scholarship and a top-ranked Division I skier, Michael Keefe Gorman graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts and subsequently joined the United States Professional Ski Tour, spending more than a decade with this organization.
In 1987, Mr. Gorman joined the investment professionals at Merrill Lynch and soon cultivated a solid reputation as a wealth management advisor, in which capacity he serves the needs of corporations, families, and individuals of high net worth. Because of his outstanding performance, he earned selection to the Merrill Lynch Circle of Champions in 1995, an honor given to top Financial Advisors across the nation. A member of the Circle of Champions to this day, Mr. Gorman has since accumulated additional distinctions for his work, including mention in Registered Representative Magazine as one of the Top 50 brokers in the U.S., and multiple listings on Barron’s annual roster of Top 100 wealth advisors. Committed to the highest ethical and professional standards of the finance industry, Michael Keefe Gorman holds membership in the Financial Planning Association, along with designation as a Certified Financial Planner.
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