Rotary Club Abuja grandfather Advances Menternal Health And Basic Education Projects In Kabusa

Rotary Club of Abuja Grandfather completes second phase of education and healthcare projects in Kabuza. The Rotary Club of Abuja Grandfather has taken its maternal and child health and basic education literacy projects to Kabuza Community Secondary School, where two science laboratories were renovated and equipped with modern facilities. The initiative also saw more than 43 students receive scholarships as part of activities commemorating Rotary's 43 years in Nigeria. Speaking at the event, the president of the Rotary Club of Abuja Grandfather, Rotarian Terva Uza, emphasized the importance of supporting rural communities, describing such interventions as a core part of Rotary's mission to improve lives and promote sustainable community development. It's with so much joy that we are handing over this project today, powered by the Rotary Club of Abuja, and not just the Rotary Club of Abuja, but to Rotarians and to even non-Rotarians people contributed to have this project come to light people contributed to the scholarship that we are giving today that are not in the Rotary Club of Abuja so it is not just about Rotary Club of Abuja but our friends and our partners a couple of months ago when we came to this school which of course we've been doing a lot here Roche and Hadja has I always call her P.P. Hadja Khadija Roche and Dr. Khadija has really pushed us to do projects here and when we came here to do a needs analysis of the projects that we wanted to do for this Rotary year we realized that there are a lot of things they needed. We went around with the principal and we had a series of discussions, a series of meetings for months trying to see how we can narrow down things based on the available funds we have there's a need for an ICT center there's a need as the there's a need for the class in fact they needed the building showed us why they needed the structure there and they needed decks and when we came to the lab as well we saw a need in fact we came here with officials of Universal Basic Education Commission, which the ESR, so the executive secretary herself, directed those people to come with me here, to come and look at the needs of what they wanted. And they took that report to the secretary, the executive secretary. But of course, we know there are a lot of processes for government to do what they want to do. So we don't know when they are going to come back to us. But of course, I've been having those discussions with them. But as a club, and as a Rotarians, we went ahead to see what we can do immediately while we're also waiting for intervention of the government. And we could renovate a class, or we could drop decks in one class, and it would benefit just a few people. But when we saw the lab, we discovered that this lab is going to serve the entire school. Both the science people, the agri, you know, everybody and all. And we saw the NIC, it was in a very dilapidated state. For those of you who have been here before, you see what the new look is compared to what we met. Yeah, I would talk to do something that's going to be beneficial to everybody. Just like the area of focus for Rotary, which is basic education and literacy. I was having the 42 years of Rotary Club and they also decided to We give students, based on performance, it's not just a normal scholarship of a team. It's based on the performance of a student. We selected 43 students from this school. I think it has helped the parents and also the school. Here is a rural area where parents are struggling to pay school fees. So with this, I think the parents will also be happy, including myself. I'm a person who is always happy to see when they put smiles on people's faces. So the joy you can see from the students and also the parents present, that shows that Rotary Club has impacted the lives of people who have lost hope in pain, even in these times of crisis. As part of the project, the club also visited Shireti Primary Health Centre, where medical equipment was donated to strengthen healthcare delivery. The donated equipment was formally commissioned by the community chief. May God support these people with mercy. Amen. I didn't know how I would show my appreciation with this gift, for this NGO or whatever you want to call it. God Great Law. I want to thank you people and I want to thank God. I want to thank my own people community. With this support, I will be nearing even crying. Because other people say, if you don't have mother on call, and God be your mother, you receive gift where you're not expecting. So what you people do for this community is only God can present a more gift for you people. Amen. My name is Ruth Victor, the officer in charge of Charity PSC. These are the items donated by Rotary Club of Abuja, Grandfather Club. We indeed appreciate them. This is not the first time they are coming. All the benches we have in the facility that our clients are using were donated by the Grandfather Club. And with us here, we have the Centrifuge. It's a device used in the laboratory. It's mainly used to separate blood. When you want to run a test, you separate, you have the serum, you have the cells and others. This is what it's used for. This is a BP machine that is used to check the blood pressure of the clients. This is a sphygmomanometer. As you are using this, you use this to get the correct reading of the blood pressure. This is hematocrit. It's a machine used to check PCV, blood level of patients. In fact, if there's anything that is giving me joy today, it's this machine. Because for long, you have mothers coming for antenatal. You cannot ascertain their blood level. If they come for delivery, you don't know what you are going into labor room with. But with this, we have assurance that if it is what we cannot handle, we take decision immediately to refer to a bigger center. Yes. Then here we have mosquito nets for our antenatal mothers. Yes. This is just a sample. We have some of them in the sack. Then this is baby's cot. When they came, they discovered that in our delivery room, there's no cot for baby. Once we deliver baby, baby must be on the same bed with the mother. So this one is donated by Rotary Club. As soon as we have somebody in labor now, maybe that baby will be the first beneficiary of this. Yes, and making themselves comfortable. We have plastic chairs and tables. Tables are some of the things that we don't have enough. And this will go a long way in helping us and making our work more easier and more comfortable. inside there are so many other things that are not displayed here we are going to bring you more because I saw you have 500 pieces of okay thank you very much this is hepatitis malaria okay so these are all now back approved yes the grandfather yes your name is registered on my head highlights of the event included musical performances and displays of nigeria's rich cultural heritage celebrating the contributions of rotary club members and bringing together parents and other community stakeholders the projects underscore rotary's commitment to improving access to quality education and health care particularly in underserved communities point 3.