MKU PHARMACY STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY- KIGALI CAMPUS

CONSTITUTION
PREAMBLE
We hereby constitute the Mku Pharmacy Students Association.

Our Mission: MPSA is a student pharmacist organization devoted to the
development of future pharmacists, who reach out from the classroom
to our community and beyond in order to promote professional,
Compassionate, knowledgeable, and ethical pharmacists through
leadership and enthusiasm for patient care.

Our Vision: MPSA will excel to the forefront of student pharmacists
organizations by promoting ourselves and our school with the highest
commitment to service, professionalism, development, education, and
Partnership. We will accomplish this by working in alliance with our
communities and affiliated professional organizations, taking full
advantage of our knowledge and skills. Our community will be
positively impacted by our work and will recognize our members
professionalism. Our members will feel a close connection
Between involvement in MPSA and their professional development.

Our Purpose: MPSA will produce servantleaders who promote the
profession of pharmacy through interactions with patients, healthcare
professionals, fellow students and faculty which give life to the core
values embodied in pharmacy practice. Civility, collaboration, honesty,
integrity, lifelong learning, motivation to improve, mutual respect,
service to others, and tolerance are the pillars we will use to build
MPSA. In doing so we strive to create a unified but diverse body and a
supportive atmosphere where students participate in social networking
by communicating with each other, healthcare professionals, and
pharmacy organizations. Above all we seek to encourage
selfdevelopment in the practice of pharmacy through core values and
underlying themes for future service to Rwanda, East-Africa, Africa and
the world in general.

ARTICLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. Name: This organization shall be known as the Mku
Pharmacy Student Association (the Association: or MPSA).

Section 2. Majority vote: In all cases, except where specified to the
contrary, a majority shall mean a majority of votes cast by the
membership in attendance.
Section 3. The committee shall have a period of one year in the office
starting to act from the month of September.
ARTICLE II: MEMBERSHIP

Section 1. Three categories of membership will exist in MPSA. These
include full membership, alumni membership, and honorary
membership.
Section 2. Membership is open to all without regard to race, creed, sex,
sexual orientation, national origin, or handicap.

Section 3. All students enrolled in the School of Pharmacy are eligible
for full membership in the MPSA. Full membership will include all
benefits of membership. Full membership will include voting privileges,
the opportunity to participate in MPSA business and hold MPSA offices
granted that the member meets his or her financial obligation to the
MPSA.
Section 4. Any graduate of in the school of Pharmacy is eligible for
alumni membership in the MPSA. Alumni membership fosters a
connection between MPSA activities and alumni, but does not include
any voting privileges, opportunities to participate in MPSA business or
to hold MPSA offices.

Section 5. Anyone making a significant contribution to the MPSA is
eligible for honorary membership.
Honorary membership is recognition and does not include any voting
privileges, opportunities to participate in MPSA business or to hold
MPSA offices. Honorary members can be nominated by a member of
MPSA and a majority vote will determine approval.

III. LEADERSHIP
MPSA committee structure and its office description:
1. Executive committee composed by:
President: - In charge of coordination of all activities of the
association.
- Represents the association in case of need.
- Ensures that the rules and regulations of the
association are maintained.
- He/she should be innovative.


Vice-president:
- Advises the president
-Represents the association in case the present is not able.

Secretary: - Types, fills and organizes official data and
information.
- Organizes and manages official
correspondence and mails.
- Facilitates organization of internal and external
meetings as well as workshops.
- Communicates everyone in case there is a
meeting.
- Makes sure that the room where the meeting
is supposed to take place is prepared.
Treasurer: - creates the association funds.
- keeps the association wealth.
- Innovates activities generating incomes.
2. Four (4) commissions: each made by 3 to 4 persons.

I. Public health:

- Evaluates public health status
-Studies the challenges and affordability of reaching solutions and
advocate them.
-Proposes affordable solutions to improve public health well being
through reaching communities.

II. Information and education:
-Serves as center of information and education to the association
-Upholds the information rights for the benefit or interests of the
association by promoting and ensuring softness in flow of information
-Serves as engine of any sensitizational and educative approache for
the benefit or outcome of the association
III. Research and publication:
- Updates members and the community in general about pharmacy
and health related researches
- Conducts research about drugs and health in general according to
affordability of the association.
-Provides solutions through research.
IV. Student exchange studies:
- Promotes national and international relations and exchanges.
-Provides student support through holding seminars as well as
attending national and international seminars and meetings.
3. Advisory council
Composed of all class representatives and their assistants studying
pharmacy: -Supervises the executive committee.
- Advises the executive committee.
- Prepares and conducts elections.