STRENGTHENING GLOBAL BONDS: UJ’S ORANGE ARMY IN NAIROBI
Event Attendees
UJ CONTINUED ITS MISSION OF INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND COMMUNITY BUILDING BY HOSTING THE KENYA ALUMNI CHAPTER MEET IN THE HEART OF NAIROBI. THE AMREF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUS WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A HUB OF ORANGE-BLOODED PRIDE AS GRADUATES GATHERED TO RECONNECT AND CELEBRATE THEIR SHARED HERITAGE.
Prof Bettine van Vuuren, Registrar
This exclusive evening focused on providing Kenyan- based alumni with a platform for professional networking and the opportunity to reminisce about their time at UJ. The event highlighted the University’s commitment to its global footprint and its ethos of “Our Future Reimagined”. Prof Sarah Gravett, Senior Director, Division for Global Engagement, UJ, in the capacity of Programme Director, gave the official opening of the event, welcoming all those who are on the programme and the attendees, the alumni and associates of the great University of Johannesburg. During her opening remarks, Prof Bettine van Vuuren, the UJ Registrar, said that she was grateful to be in the wonderful country of Kenya and experience the good hospitality she received from the people of Nairobi. She spoke about the importance of the alumni of the great University of Johannesburg and how the graduates should feel special having graduated from the University, which places them at the top of their field. “Universities are the students, and UJ is very lucky to have such fantastic students and those ex-students who are now alumni are joining us tonight at this amazing event in Nairobi, Kenya,” Prof van Vuuren says. She closed by saying that the alumni are the University’s ambassadors and that UJ is because of them, “and through you, we build the bridges between countries as you fly the Orange flag high.”
Ms Nolwazi Mamorare, CFO
Prof Sarah Gravett, Senior Director (Acting), Division for Global Engagement
Prof Annie Temane, Executive Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences
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