Rotary Club of Maryland donates essentials equipments and services to Maryland community

 

The Rotary club of Maryland has on Tuesday donated essentials services and community services to provide help for people living in Maryland community during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This was done at the official visit of the District Governor Rotarian Bola Oyebade to his home club, part of the community services included, Donation of foot operated hand wash sanitizing unit, infrared thermometers, sanitizers and face Mask which was done at Command Day Secondary School, Maryland.

Donations of pregnancy kits to pregnant women to Primary health center, Aina Eleko street, Maryland.

Commissioning of rehabilitated toilet facility at the Onigbongbo neighborhood market.

Speaking at the event the District Governor, Rotary Club International District 9110, Rotn. Bola Oyebade said that the project is laudable.

“This is a very laudable project by Rotary Club of Maryland.

This project and donations from the Rotary Club of Maryland will be used to contain the spread of coronavirus in the school, especially as we await the resumption of schools.

All these things are quite expensive and they tend to finish on time considering the population of students in the school.

This covid-19 preventive commodities should be replenished to ensure sustainability of this project.” He said

Also speaking the Acting Commandant, Command Day Secondary School Ikeja, Major Olalekan Dimeji Bamiteko said that Rotary Club is known for their good deeds of providing humanitarian services to people at large.

“When Rotary Club of Maryland approached me as it concerns the donation of the foot operated hand wash and sanitizer booth, it was something we never expected.

This is in line with what is affecting everyone globally.
Covid-19 is a global pandemic that we must live with.

As regards school resumption protocols and guidelines as directed by the government and NCDC to schools, these donated items will assist in meeting the guildlines.

Although, we already have 28 point of handwash and sanitizer unit installed at the entrance of the school.

We have standard Covid-19 procedure in line with the NCDC guidelines as regards the resumption of schools.

The leadership of the Nigerian Army is working to ensure these things are in place with your support.

I thank you for your donations..
Also the trees planted will health in ensuring a healthy and conducive environment, especially with the combustion of fuels from vehicles.
These are laudable project and we will ensure we maintain them. He said

The President, Rotary Club of Maryland Obafemi Obadina said that the water and toilet facility falls under one of our major areas of focus, clean water, sanitation and hygiene and also disease prevention.

“We discover a lot of people come to the market and they might need to use a toilet, which is why we rehabilitated the toilet facility for the use of the community.
We also embarked on the tree planting exercise at Command Say secondary school, to commemorate the world tree planting day.
We also donated some PPEs in anticipation of their school resumption.
Here at the Onigbongbo health center we donated pregnancy kits and PPEs” Obafemi said