The newly installed 36th President of
Rotary Club of Uyo, District 9142 in Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Idongesit
Domingo-Inyang, has decried the situation where pupils still sit on the
floor of their classroom to learn in the state, Brainnews report.
Mr.
Ifiok, a resident of the community, told NDV that the poor condition of
the school had forced many parents in the community to withdraw their
children from the school to nearby Use Offot Primary School.
However,
stepping in, Domino-Inyang, a Paul Harris Fellow, embarked on
fund-raising ceremony to provide writing desks and seats in Primary
School, Nsukara Offot, Uyo Local Government Area of the state.
According
to a Vanguard report, she explained that the club decided to embark on
the N1.5 million project designed to lift the pupils from floor to desk
in order to preserve human dignity, but that it requires a total of
N12.550 million to execute its community service projects for the Rotary
year.
“I urge you to help us connect the world through
friendship and humanitarian service by donating generously. We will
apply your kind donations to the following life touching project to
create lasting impact and transform our communities:
”Building of
toilets, reticulation of borehole in selected secondary schools,
installation of sick bay and medical equipment in selected secondary
schools in the state. We intend to build toilets for Government
Technical College, Ewet, because we noticed that the school, with a
large population, has no good toilet facility.
“With your
support, we will be preventing diseases by providing medical equipment
and consumables, reticulation of borehole and perimeter fencing in a
selected primary health centre,” she said.
“As the
newly-installed President of Rotary Club of Uyo, I thank you for your
goodwill donations and for your future donations. I know I can count on
your financial and technical support today and within the Rotary year.
With you on my side we will be able to achieve this effectively,”
Rotarian Domingo-Inyang added.
Other areas of focus she listed
include empowerment of 10 indigent, but productive widows, training of
youths in skills acquisition and provision of reading aids to
visually-impaired persons.
