Rotary Club Restates Commitment To Humanitarian Work

The Rotary Club of Port
Harcourt GRA District 9140, has restated its commitment to render more humanitarian services to the people.
The Club’s President, Rotarian Medline Tador who said this, during a vocational night in Port Harcourt said humanitarian services were what sets Rotary Club apart from other clubs across the world.
“Vocational Service is the very essence of Rotary Club. It is what sets Rotary apart from other service organisations”, she said.
She said Rotary Club of Port Harcourt GRA has embarked on several people-oriented programmes across its catchment area, noting that was career counselling programme was carried out in some schools in the state, recently and urged for massive participation of all in the club’s programme.
Also speaking, the President of the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (PHCCIMA), Engr. Emeka Unachukwu accused banks in Nigeria of frustrating the development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country.
In a lecture at the Rotary Club of GRA Vocational Service night in Port Harcourt, Engr. Unachukwu said that, banks were making it difficult for small businesses to grow because of the conditionalities for the access of loans by small businesses in the country.
He said that, the only way the situation could be checked was for government to stop giving money to banks to disburse to SMEs operators in the country.
According to him, rather than give money to banks to disburse to SMEs in the country, government should seek an innovative ways of financing Smalls and Medium Enterprises in the country.
The PHCCIMA President also called for the introduction of import restrictions on some goods in the country.
In his speech on “Preventing STD And HIV/AIDS,” the Chairman, Port Harcourt branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. I.K. Kurubo attributed the rising cases of HIV/AIDS in the country to cultural and religious barriers.
Dr. Kurubo said that more sensitisation was needed to check the spread of the disease, while everyone should submit himself to test.