The new governor of Rotary International District 9125, Rtn. Goddy Nnadi, on Friday, unveiled his goals for the 2022/2023 Rotary Year.
Nnadi, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja, said the promotion of health care, blood donation, mental health, water, sanitation and peace-building would be top on his priority projects as Governor of the District in the next one year.
He said the Rotary District 9125 would collaborate with the National Blood Service Commission to promote the culture of blood donation in order to save accident victims and patients in dire need of blood transfusion.
He said further that the District under his administration would also promote awareness on and treatment of mental health issues which is fast becoming a major issue for society and families.
The new governor also said the District is finalising arrangements to build a 24-hour service hospital in Abuja to be manned by Rotarians in the medical field within the city.
He said the District would also promote and encourage peace Building efforts by collaborating with relevant authorities through its Institute of Peace Building.
“For us our star projects are about four. One is that we intend to work with the National Blood Bank to expand the blood bank system in Nigeria.
“This is to ensure that the hospitals have blood available to them for accident victims. We have contacted the Director General of the National Blood Bank, we have had a series of meetings and we developed a Memorandum of Understanding through which Rotary District 9125 will work with them, first of all, to make our members donate blood and then create awareness for more people to donate blood.”
On the plan of his administration to curb open defecation, he said: “The next one is water and sanitation which leads me to the issue of open defecation.
“We have found out that in some of the schools that there is a real issue. The real issue is, you build schools and you build just one toilet to be used by both students and teachers – male and female – and that makes it susceptible for teachers to abuse some of these students.
“We intend to encourage all our clubs to make sure that these are done so that females are not abused and that they also have self esteem.”
He said his administration would promote and encourage peace-building efforts by collaborating with relevant authorities in the country.
“We also intend to engage in the promotion of peace-building. We have crises all over the place. We have an Institute of Peace Building and we have a committee nationwide working in collaboration with all the other Districts to make sure that we promote peace building through awareness creation, engagements with people in government and to make sure that everything is done.”
