Richard Kojo Anim
The Rotary Club of Sekondi-Takoradi, an organisation that provides humanitarian services, will as part of its activities for the year embark on a medical outreach project on breast cancer.
The project will help educate the Ghanaian populace, especially women, about the nature of breast cancer and how to avoid it as well as the need to seek early treatment.
The club will also undertake a free eye screening exercise and help those with some ailments or any problem with their eyesight to seek early treatment.
Richard Kojo Anim, in-coming President of the Sekondi-Takoradi Rotary Club, revealed this during a gala to climax activities marking the 50th anniversary celebration of the club in Sekondi-Takoradi.
The programme also saw the handing-over of the club’s president’s position from the immediate past president, Nana Konduah Dickye, to Richard Kojo Anim.
Mr Konduah Dickye indicated that the club would collaborate with the USAID to provide water and sanitation facilities in six regions in the country.
He disclosed that the water and sanitation projects would cover 13 districts nationwide at a cost of $4 million and stressed that in the Western Region, the project would be located in the Amenfi Central District.
Mr Konduah Dickye stated that as part of the project, the club would construct toilet facilities for the people of Banso in the Ahanta West District and a primary and junior high school at New Takoradi, a shanty and deprived community in Sekondi-Takoradi.
“The schools do not have their own toilet facility and therefore they have to walk a few distance to use the facility of a nearby school during nature’s call,” he stressed.
Mr Konduah Dickye indicated that for the past 50 years, the Rotary Club in Sekondi-Takoradi had consciously assisted a lot of communities with some basic necessities of life and promised that the club would continue to advance the course of serving humanity.
In his goodwill message, the District Governor of the Rotary Club, Sam Worentetu, encouraged members of the club to keep on serving humanity, adding, “We need to grow our membership, social understanding and increase public awareness about the club.”
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi