The Empowering Girl Initiative Committee of Rotary International District 9125 and five clubs have commissioned over N8 million worth of toilets and bathrooms for Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) in Dutse, Abuja.
Both the district committee and the clubs built five toilets, five bathrooms, 13ft by 12ft soak away and renovated four toilets and four bathrooms.
The partner Rotary Clubs are Abuja Kubwa, Abuja Prestige, Abuja Aso-Golf, Abuja Maitama and Abuja Lugbe VON in District 9125.
The governor for District 9125, Dr. Goddy Nnadi said the projects covered many areas of focus including disease prevention and treatment; water and sanitation; maternal and child health and basic education and literacy.
Nnadi said Rotary places a premium on impactful projects.
He said the organization will continue to embark on projects that will touch lives in the 23 states and Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja in the district.
He said: “All the projects we have done are projects that will impact human beings. We will continue to do more to improve the quality of life in the society.”
Explaining how the district’s committee selected GGSS, Dutse, the governor said: “We conducted a needs assessment.
When we came here, the first thing we did was engagement. We engaged the school authorities to identify their areas of need. This assessment is important for you to know what they want and that it makes sense to them.
“And then we realized that the environment was not so good, especially for our young girls. It is a kind of human debasement when you have a lady bathing and defecating outside. There were not enough toilets and some toilets had collapsed.”
On the cost of the project, Nnadi said, “The project should be about N8 million. The whole project took us less than eight months to complete.
“I’m so pleased that it is so impactful, that when they get in there, they will feel dignified, to stay inside, take a shower and come out.”
The GGSS School principal, Hajia Fatima Muhammad, who commended Rotary for the intervention assured that the facilities will be adequately maintained.
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