Rotary Club of Abuja Central Business District (CBD) has pledged to train over 100 youths and women in various vocational skills and donate start-up packs to the trainees in the next year.
The club’s new president, Rotn. Katherine Sambo-Adamu, made this pledge at her investiture as the 8th President of the Rotary Club of Abuja CBD.
Sambo-Adamu also said the club would collaborate with other clubs to carry out disease prevention and treatment programmes and other medical outreaches to assist society’s needy.
She also assured that in her next one-year tenure, the club would complete the school it started some years ago in the Gidan Gimba community of Nasarawa State along Abuja Keffi Way.
The new president further pledged that her leadership would revamp a borehole that the club installed in a village to ensure clean and safe water while embarking on visitations to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps to donate books, writing materials and other interventions.
“I know fully well that with the responsibility saddled on me, the club members are expecting us to perform magic as the theme of the year implies, to bring back our club members and make fellowship more interesting and much fun. I promise by the grace of God and with your maximum cooperation and support from you all, I will do my best.
“However, we will not lose focus as a club or carried away with much fun than concentrating more on the seven areas of focus in rotary by doing what is expected of us and working as a team,” she said.
In a keynote address, Emeka Okonkwo harped on the core values of Rotary, which are service above self, integrity, leadership, diversity, and fellowship, saying, “Were everyone a Rotarian, we would see the eradication of fraud, poverty, war, racism, bigotry, inept leadership, and disease.”
Okonkwo urged the Rotary Club of Abuja CBD under the leader of Adamu to work strictly in tandem with the Rotary’s areas of focus, including conflict resolution and peace promotion, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, community economic development as well as environmental protection and advocacy.
In her remarks, the Club Convener, Evelyn Onyilo lamented that elected representatives and government generally was not doing enough to develop communities, including those in and around the nation’s capital, Abuja.
Onyilo said that while Rotary would continue to do its best in service to humanity, those in positions of authority should let their conscience speak to them and do what they constitutionally swore to do.
