Rotary Club honours outstanding individuals

As part of measures to improve the dwindling standards of education in the Volta Region, students, schools, communities and teachers have been rewarded for their outstanding contribution in the sector.

Individuals, groups and communities, which also excelled in improving the sanitary conditions of their environment, received deserving awards.

The beneficiaries were rewarded by the Rotary Club of Ho (RCH), during the Club’s recent handing over ceremony.

In all, nine awards were given out to individuals and groups in the sanitation category while in the education category, 18 students received awards for their success in the 2014 Basic Education Certificate Examination.

Some teachers and schools also had awards for their outstanding contributions to education as well as to their communities.

Mr Rockson Kwesi Dogbegah, outgoing President of the Rotary Club of Ho for (2014/2015), commended the awardees for their outstanding contributions, saying “when people play their specific roles diligently, no matter how little, a lot of positive transformation and development could happen”.

He used the opportunity to recount some of the achievements of the over the last year; some of which he described us unprecedented in the history of the Club and District 9102 (Rotary Clubs in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Ivory Coast).

Mr Dogbegah said RCH was able to charter nine new clubs in one single Rotary year, including Rotary Club of Hohoe, two Rotaract Clubs, and Keklebesi Rotary Community Corp and Five Interact Clubs; AWUSCO, Mawuli, Sonrise, OLA and Mawuko Girls SHS.

He said some humanitarian projects have been undertaken under the disease prevention and treatment and this is besides a sanitation task force established in the district and community levels.

Mr Dogbegah said the club has endorsed a Rotary Peace Scholarship support for one David Normanyo of the National Peace Council for further training in the promotion of peace and conflict resolutions in the region.

He said supplementary reading materials and E-Reading devices have been donated to some schools including Seven Garrison School at 66 Artillery Regiment, Lepers Village and Keklebesi Primary School, in Agotime Ziope.

The occasion was used to launch the All Inclusive Model School Project, which is aimed at integrating both able bodied people and the physically challenged under one roof.

This project was championed by the Kekeli Foundation (an NGO) in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Ho, the Norwich Rotary Club, Pencils of Promise (an NGO), Ghana Education Service and other NGO’s.

Madam Susana Delali Kudjoe, the new President, commended her predecessors for the work done and thanked the Club for electing her lead them for a new Rotary year (2015/2016).

She promised to continue all ongoing projects adding that new ones would be undertaken with a special focus on education and maternal health.