STAMP ISSUES RELATED TO ICAO (1994-1995)

 

Uganda - 50th Anniversary of ICAO

 

Issue date: 14/11/1994

 

 

Depicts the impressive and efficient terminal building at the Entebbe International Airport, just outside the capital city of Kampala, and the ICAO logo.

 

Depicts the control tower at the Entebbe International Airport (tower above roof of airport) and the ICAO logo.

The air traffic controllers work in this Control Tower to ensure the safety of all travel across the skies of Uganda.

 

Cancelled to Order (CTO).

Full sheets of 15 stamps.

 

 

Official First Day Cover with unusual design of the ICAO emblem in the cachet. Two types of cancels.

Note that the acronym of the Organization should be written ИКАО instead of NKAO.

 

 

Private FDC:

The above cover celebrates Anniversaries and Events held/commemorated in Uganda in 1994 (see cachet from left to right, top to down):

 

Emblems

Notes

 

 

International Labour Organization (ILO). ILO celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1994, marking its founding in 1919. This anniversary also coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Philadelphia, which reaffirmed ILO’s principles for social justice and decent work. In 1994, ILO held in Geneva, from 1 to 14 June 1994, the 81st International Labour Conference.

See more information related to ILO at the following link: The International Labour Organization.

 

 

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). ICAO marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (also named Chicago Convention) on 7 December 1944.

Details related the 50th anniversary at the following link: ICAO 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Forty-six states issued stamps to commemorate this anniversary. See more details at the following link: ICAO Stamps 50th Anniversary.

 

Heifer Project International (HPI) is a global non-profit organization whose mission is to end hunger and poverty while caring for the earth.

It began in 1944 under the name of Heifer for Relief, sending 17 heifers to Puerto Rico.

Over time, it evolved into the present organization headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Their model is values-based and holistic; they combine livestock (or other farm inputs), training and business & market access, and a commitment to "passing on the gift" (where recipient families share offspring, training, etc.).

1994 marked the 50th anniversary of the first shipment of heifers by the Heifer Committee.

More information on HPI’s history is provided in the Background section below.

 

Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA). The Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA), overseeing Uganda's aviation sector, was formed in 1946, followed by the construction of the country’s airport at Entebbe in 1947. Entebbe International Airport was commissioned by Princess Elizabeth of England in 1952. Following the establishment of the East African Community, civil aviation services were under a DCA and several government departments, leading to segmentation. The need to harmonize and efficiently run the services led to the establishment of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on 8 February 1991 (Civil Aviation Authority Act, Cap. 354). On 20 February 2019, an amendment to the prior Act redesignated the CAA as Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA).

 

Background: The two stamps of this issue highlight important aspects of the international airport in Entebbe, a short distance away from the capital of Kampala.

 

Details about the Heifer Project International:

In 1936, as a Church of the Brethren relief worker, Dan West (USA, 1893–1971) travelled to Spain in order to serve as a relief worker following the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Sitting under an almond tree one day, he also felt the challenge of feeding hungry people as ubiquitous images of poverty and deprivation surrounded him daily. His project’s core idea, born from the experience providing milk rations, was to give families pregnant heifers that would provide milk for years and could then pass on the first female calf to another family in need, i.e., this establishment of a self-sustaining cycle of aid and empowerment.

Special issue by Uganda for HPI’s 50th anniversary in 1994, with the emblem of the anniversary.

On his return to the US in 1938, Dan West took the idea to his neighbours and church resulting in a volunteer Heifers for Relief Committee in 1939. It gained approval as a national project in June 1942; in January 1943, it was renamed Heifer Project Committee. The first shipment of 17 heifers left for Puerto Rico on 14 July 1944. On that day, one man’s vision became a reality. The first cows were named "Faith", "Hope", and "Charity", and recipient families had to promise that they would donate the first female calf to another poor family.

Later known as The Heifer Project, its continuing process would geometrically multiply animals worldwide as hundreds of cattle produced thousands of calves, and those thousands would likewise produce millions. Following the death of Dan West in 1971, the project was incorporated as Heifer Project International (HPI). Heifer International started working in Uganda in 1982.