Rotary Club undertakes sanitation services in Jos community

The Rotary club International, Districts 9127 and 9210, have conducted free evacuation of refuse, in Zot Sabon Gari, Kwang Community in Jos.

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The exercise was led by Prof. Godwin Osaigbovo, a Past Assistant Governor and Chairman of Rotary Friendship Exchange Programme of District 9127, on Saturday in Jos.

Osaigbovo noted that the waste dump constituted a major health threat to the people of Zot community, and as a club that served humanity, Rotary was evacuating the waste to forestall any disease outbreak.

“One of our focal areas in Rotary is environmental sustainability. We always carry out activities that promote a clean environment to reduce incidences of diseases that are a fallout of unhealthy or poorly kept environment,” he said.

Osaigbovo expressed worry that the mining camp in the community, which had more than 500 persons, had two toilets, which were grossly inadequate to cater for members of the camp who also engaged in open defecation.

He said his counterparts from district 9210 from Zambia and Zimbabwe, were collaborating with District 9127, through the friendship exchange programme to get a grant.

According to him, the funds will be used to construct more toilets, and also an alternative dumpsite and incinerator, where the refuse collected from the community could be destroyed.

He further said that through the grant, the club would also resuscitate the community’s borehole water supply.

Osaigbovo noted that the projects would help improve the living standard of the community.

Similarly, Ms Suzana Millapo, Past Assistant Governor of Kisita, who led Rotarians from Zambia and Zimbabwe, urged members of the community to ensure they sustained the various projects that would be executed by the club.

The community leader of Zot, Sabon Gari, Mr Chuwang Pamfe, expressed immense gratitude to Rotary Club International for coming to the aid of the community.

Pamfe assured the club of the community”s resolve to own and sustain the various projects that would be carried out in the community.

The Rotary Friendship Exchange programme, is when a group of Rotarians from one Rotary district in the world travel to another for fellowship.

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