The Rotary Clubs of Abuja Jabi Lakeside in collaboration with Preggies Arena Charity (PAC) Project, offered free health care services to 100 pregnant women in Kuchigoro and Karanmajiji communities of FCT Abuja, to mark the Month of Maternal and Child Health under Rotary International calendar.
The health care services include; medical checks/antenatal care services, birthing kits, prenatal vitamin supplements, and health education.
Speaking with journalists, the president of the Rotary Club Abuja Jabi Lakeside, Rotarian Olayinka A. Aduloju, said that we have decided to reach out to 100 pregnant women in this adopted community in line with the mandate of Rotary International.
“We are here to provide and give health care services support for hundred pregnant women in Kuchigoro and Karanmajiji communities of FCT Abuja in collaboration with Preggies Arena Charity project.
“Some of the things that we will be doing here today is to give medical checks for hundred pregnant women, free antenatal care services, kits delivery, prenatal vitamin supplements, and health education. All is to make sure that they deliver safely,” she said.
Aduloju further said that the project is one of the areas of focus of Rotary, that Rotary has seven areas of focus and this month is maternal and Child health, and that was why they are having this project in the community.
“Rotary Clubs have a way of doing things, in the sense that each Club must have an adopted community so that they can do an impactful project in that area. Especially for the youth, women. In fact for everybody in that community. Everything that needs to be done will be done in that community.
“So Rotary Club has it that, every Club must have an adopted community and provides for that community at least to some level before leaving that community to another one.
“So right now, Kuchigoro is our adopted community and Karanmajiji is a nearby community, we wanted to get a hundred pregnant in Kuchigoro and we decided that we might not get hundred pregnant women in Kuchigoro, so that is why we included Karanmajiji community,” Rtn. Olayinka said.
She calls on well-meaning Nigerians to partner with the Rotary Club of Abuja Jabi Lakeside to impact and deliver on more projects in the society at Large.
The convener of Preggies Arena Charity, Olufisoye Modukpe said that Preggies Arena Charity is a platform where they support women by educating them and also intervening and supporting pregnancy in different ways.
“We started in 2020, during the pandemic and since then we are growing bigger and bigger. We have over a thousand pregnant women that we carter for.
“This project today is impacting because we clock three years and we want to reach out to as many women as we can. It has been a passion for us as health care providers because we use to sponsor ourselves but we are happy to do it. We are in collaboration with Rotary Club Abuja Jabi Lakeside and this month is their maternal and child health month.
“Intervention is the hundred safe arrivals and in this project they are supporting because one of our goals is to reach out to pregnant women,” she said.
One is the beneficiary, Mrs Ogolo Augustina expressed her happiness for being one of the beneficiaries. Saying pregnancy is something that needs to be given much more care.
She noted that today the country is facing economic hardships. While thanking the Rotary Club Abuja Jabi Lakeside for the kind gesture.
