Niger Delta
Rotary Club Recommits To Community Service
The Rotary Club of Port Harcourt District 9141, has rolled out a six programmes to improve the lots of the citizenry within the next one year.
The six points programme according to the club’s new president, Rotarian Adaure Odu, will focus on water and sanitation, disease prevention and treatment, basic education and literary as well as peace and conflict prevention/resolution.
The rest are Economic and Community development as well as maternal/child health.
Rotarian Odu said in her address, during her inauguration as the new president of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt District 9141 in Port Harcourt, that the programme was inline with the club’s commitment to community development and human upliftment
She said that the new Rotary year would witness the provision of infrastructures and service in the areas of water and sanitation, basic education, maternal and child health as well as a micro credit scheme for the people.
We will procure and distribute treated mosquito nets to pregnant and nursing mothers to avert the effect of malaria.
We will embark on breast cancer awareness campaign.
She also said that the club would pursue peace and conflict prevention/.resolution processes, while vocational training would be organized for youths in the clubs and host communities.
According to her, the training will focus on welding and fabrication, fashion design/tailoring, Ankara, shoe making and fascinator making.
Earlier the club’s outgone president, Rotarian Lucky Akhiwu said that the outgone executive had done so much to project the ideas of the club.