Tag: Rotary Club

  • Rotary Club of Accra La East donate items to Junior Girls Correctional Centre

    Rotary Club of Accra La East has donated items worth over ¢5,000 to the South Labone  Junior Girls Vocational Centre in Osu, Accra.

    The items donated to the Centre include cooking oil, bags of rice, flour, beans, gari, liquid soap, washing powder, toiletries, yam, and plantain, among others.

    President of the Club, Julia Asante Anim, explained the donation formed part of this year’s Rotary Christmas celebrations and that it was necessary for the club to have identified a facility and contribute its quota.

    Ms. Anim added that the provision of the food and other items was a knock on the door of the Centre to present other opportunities to them in terms of education and shelter.

    Rotary Club of Accra La East donate items to Junior Girls Correctional Centre

    ’’We are here today and have identified other focal areas and I can assure you that the Rotary Club of Accra La East will be back to support other areas of this facility. Over the last few years, the Club has supported various schools, orphanages and other social and community interventions and currently working with the Ministry of Health on a nationwide eye screening project,”

    “For us to collaborate with any other people interested in the welfare of people then it is okay with us. It doesn’t matter the denomination, once you are interested in helping other people, we are also interested in it, so to collaborate is not an issue,” She said.

    Rotary has six areas of focus Peace and conflict resolution, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, economic and community development, and so on are all covered by this donation.

    Source: myjoyonline

  • Take off taxes on sanitary products – Government advised

    Yaw Lartey, Partner at Deloitte Ghana and President of the Rotary Club of Accra, Westlands, has urged the government to abolish duties imposed on the entry of sanitary items into the country as part of the International Girl Child Celebration.

    He claims that this will make the product more accessible to young ladies across the nation.

    Speaking to Joy Business at the presentation of sanitary towels and other souvenirs to young girls by the Rotary Club of Accra Westlands to Anumle Basic Schools at Kisseiman also in the Greater Accra region, he said many Ghanaian girls are unable to afford sanitary towels when they menstruate due to the high cost of such products on the market.

    So as part of the International Girl Child, we decided to come to one of the schools we have adopted within our jurisdiction to support them”.

    Take off taxes on sanitary products – Government advised

    “We have been doing this for years and we shall continue to offer help to these young girls and not just young girls but boys as well”, he said.

    He added that plans are underway to support the school with other information technology tools to support the agenda of moving away from just theoretical approach to a more pragmatic approach

    “Over the years, we have supplied them with some computers and we will continue to do so”, he maintained.

    Take off taxes on sanitary products – Government advised

    Administrator for the Rotary Club Accra Westlands, Geraldine Osafo Ntim indicated that the club will reach out to other schools within the area.

    “We have adopted Anumle Cluster of Schools but we will also reach out to the schools. This is of great importance to these young girls”, she stated

    The International Day of the Girl Child is observed on October 11 every year to raise awareness on the rights of a girl child and the potential she holds for the future.

  • FBNBank staff support Rotary community projects

    For the third year running, staff of FBNBank Ghana have displayed exemplary commitment to their communities by making a cash donation to the Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central in support of their child-focused projects. This was after the Club’s ”Walk for a Child” fund-raising walk on the University of Ghana campus.

    The Club’s 2022 child-focused projects are the completion of the Berekuso community clinic at and the renovation of toilet facilities at the La Bawaleshie Presbyterian Primary School. For these two Rotary projects, the staff of the Bank made personal contributions totalling Fourteen Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢14,000) which was presented to the Club.

    Acknowledging the contribution of the FBNBank staff, Kobla Nyaletey, President of Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central said, “service to our communities is core to what Rotary is about. Extending a helping hand to communities in need is a responsibility for all. We are very grateful for the support that our friends from FBNBank Ghana continue to lend to our efforts to positively impact lives. We remain eternally grateful and I believe the beneficiaries of our projects, like the people of Berekuso are also grateful.”

    Since 2019, FBNBank Ghana staff have been supporting the activities of Rotary International’s clubs in Ghana aimed at delivering benefit to the communities. These include the renovation and construction of classrooms and library for the Golden Spring School in Tetegu and the purchase of essential equipment for the children’s cancer unit at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. This is apart from donations the Bank has also made over the years to support the work of Rotary especially in the area of polio eradication.

    Commenting on the donation by FBNBank Ghana staff, Mr. Victor Yaw Asante, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer who is also the District Governor of Rotary District 9102 said, “at FBNBank our people are expected to live our values of ‘entrepreneurial, professional, integrity and customer-centricity.’ We believe these values are the main drivers of the effort to continue to be of service to our communities. In seeking to achieve this we have joined forces with a worthy partner, Rotary International and through this partnership the personal commitments of our staff find a useful platform to deliver exactly what we intend to achieve. The people of Berekuso and the students of the La Bawaleshie Presbyterian School, just like many other people in the numerous communities in Ghana need support particularly in the areas of education and health and we are willing to continue to support all efforts which seek to address these needs.”

    The Berekuso Health Centre project is currently in Phase One of construction. The facility is being constructed on a parcel of land provided by the community. When completed it shall have amenities like an Out-patient department, a maternity ward, male, female and children’s wards, a laboratory, a psychiatric unit, injection and emergency room, an antenatal unit, a pharmacy, stores, washrooms, consulting rooms and a public health section among others.

    FBNBank Ghana has remained focused on putting its customers and communities first. This, it has sought to do through the rich value and excellence of what the Bank contributes to the relationship with its stakeholders as a whole, particularly the customers. FBNBank Ghana is a member of the First Bank of Nigeria Limited Group which is renowned for its great customer service and general stakeholder engagement garnered over its 128 years of operation. FBNBank Ghana has twenty-six (26) business locations; comprising 23 (twenty-three) branches, two (2) agencies and one (1) collection centre across the country with over 500 staff. FBNBank offers universal banking services to individuals and businesses in Ghana.

    Source:citinewsroom

  • Rotary Club has signed MoU with BlueCrest University College

    The Rotary Club of Accra Industrial Area has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with BlueCrest University College to enhance collaborations between the two entities.

    Under the agreement, Rotaract Club (an arm of Rotary) will be established in the school to enable students to provide service for the community and network with professionals from various industries.

    The agreement further seeks to provide scholarship opportunities for women who are interested in pursuing information technology (IT) and also make education affordable and accessible to all.

    In a brief meeting last Thursday, the President of the Club, Dean Selorm Senchim, professed his elation with the agreement, citing the benefits of leadership skills that students would gain from the Rotaract Club.

    “We are looking at making the BlueCrest Rotaract happen and engaging so that rotarians who have interest in some of the courses that you are offering will come in to learn,” he added.

    Education, Mr Senchim stated, was one of the areas of service of the Rotary Club, adding that the partnership would help make tertiary education more affordable and accessible to the youth.

    BlueCrest

    The Rector of BlueCrest University College, Dr Syith Jayaprakash, also expressed his gratitude for the partnership, saying that it would go a long way to bridge the education gap in the society.

    Blue Crest, he said, in its 10 years of existence, had trained over 5,000 students in IT and Fashion.

    He explained that the school majored in those courses because they held the potential of equipping students with entrepreneurial skills.

    Dr Jayaprakash added that BlueCrest also offered corporate trainings, workshops and refresher courses.

    He stated that he looked forward to collaborating with the Rotary Club to diversify the educational space and bring more women into IT.

    The Rector also offered the club one slot for the Women in IT scholarship programme, where the club would bring one lady to undertake a four-year degree programme in IT at the college.

    He expressed the hope that the partnership would connect students to industry professionals for internships as well as after-school employment.

    Source:graphic.com

  • Rotary Club improves water access in Upper West Region

    Mr Ahlex Kontor, the Past President of the Rotary Club of Wa, has announced plans by the club to improve access to potable water and good sanitation in the Upper West Region.

    As part of the agenda, the Club had collaborated with Rotary Club of Windsor in Canada to construct 12 boreholes in the Upper West Region at the cost of $163,094.

    Mr Kontor, who was addressing a handing over ceremony of the club in Wa at the weekend, noted that the project would benefit about 25,000 people in the Region.

    “The club in partnership with Rotary Club of Windsor in Canada has gotten approval from Rotary Foundation to undertake the construction of another 12 boreholes under the project “Bring clean water to Jirapa Municipality”, of which the construction of three boreholes has commenced”, he explained.

    Mr Kontor said the club, in partnership with Rotary Club of Oregon Florence in the USA, is also working to secure funding from the Rotary Foundation to construct 12 boreholes in 12 communities, including five health facilities in five Municipalities and Districts in the region.

    He said the club would also construct 28 micro flush toilets in the Wa Municipality to support the fight against open defecation.

    Other interventions being undertaken by the club in the 2019/2020 Club year included Hepatitis B screening for 400 people in the region and completion of phase II of the Jirapa town water expansion project among others.

    “Fellow Rotarians, let us remain committed to giving to the Rotary Foundation for that is the life-wire of Rotary projects,” Mr Kontor urged.

    Mr Sylvester Dery, the President of the Rotary Club of Wa, observed that the club could achieve its goals as the best humanitarian club through effective teamwork.

    He said the theme for the 2020/2021 Rotary year was “Rotary opens opportunities”, and that members could create those opportunities through the execution of the humanitarian projects.

    He pledged to work hard to enable the club to achieve its goals and to meet the theme for the year.

    The Rotary Club is a global humanitarian organisation that works towards improving the livelihoods of the people, especially less advantaged groups in society, in the areas of maternal and child health, water and sanitation, disease prevention.

    It also works to enhance Literacy and Education, peace and conflict prevention as well as community and economic development.

    Also present at the handing over ceremony was Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, the Upper West Regional Minister, as the Guest of Honour.

    Source: GNA