Rotary Club To Embark On Water Project

As part of its contributions to state government’s effort to provide potable water to every community in the state, the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Abuloma District, says it would soon commence water project within its catchment area.
The President of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Abuloma District, Samuel Abel-Jumbo stated this during an outreach programme in commemoration of Rotary Club International 113th Anniversary.
According to him, a recent survey carried out by Rotary Club in the Abuloma axis shows that there are some areas in dire need of water.
Abel-Jumbo said “We have carried out several outreaches in Abuloma, giving economic empowerment in terms of micro and soft loans to traders within Abuloma Community. Very soon, we are starting a water project, we will be providing portable water to Abuloma community. Not that there is no water in Abuloma but there are areas we carried out survey and they are really in need of water. Water is very important and these are part of the things we are trying to do as Rotarians for our society, particularly for Abuloma which is one of our catchment areas”.
The Club, also used the programme to sensitise the public on the activities of Rotary International and to woo more members to the club. The sensitisation programme was carried out in partnership with a popular shopping mall around the Odili Road of the Port Harcourt metropolis.
The President said, February is also a month of Peace and Conflict Resolution for the Rotary.
He said: ‘Rotary is one hundred and thirteen years so we decided to celebrate this significant milestone by having this programme today in partnership with the Market Square. It is an outreach programme. We want to use it to reach out to the public to tell them what Rotary is all about and what it has been doing for the past one hundred and thirteen years.
“Again, this is the month of Peace and Conflict Resolution and so we are trying to combine all together to advocate for peace in our society. And in Rotary’s one hundred and thirteenth year, we say we want peace in the society and there is so much we can achieve through peace.”
On membership, Rotarian Abel-Jumbo said: “Membership of Rotary is not compulsory, it’s a service organisation. For those of us who are Rotarians, it’s been a fantastic opportunity and avenue for me to serve society; to give back my time, my talent, my treasure, a little of it back to society. So I expect everyone out there who wants to give some part of his/her time, treasure and talent to society to come join Rotary.”Rotary is a platform that provides such opportunity; the outreach of Rotary is global, we have membership of over 1.2million cut across over one hundred countries of the world.”
Abel-Jumbo, therefore, called on well-meaning individuals, especially those around Odili Road, Abuloma, Okuru, Amadi-Ama, Ozuboko, Woji, to come join the efforts of the club to continue doing good to society.
On her part, Rotarian Nkiru Enyia, the Up-President of Abuloma Club said the sensitisation programme afforded them opportunity to interract with members of the public.
The high-point of the outreach programme was the cutting of the 113th anniversary cake of Rotary International.