Osu RE Rotary Club launches 30th anniversary
The Rotary Club of Osu RE has launched its 30th anniversary celebrations in Accra, with four months’ long activities to mark the occasion. The club, which started with 23 chartered members on February 9, 1987, has expanded its membership to more than 100.
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Launching the anniversary, the Vice-President of the Club, Mr Eric Defor, said the activities lined up to mark the anniversary were geared towards the object of the Rotary Club.
“From now till the end of June, there will be an activity once every month to commemorate the anniversary,” he announced.
Water and sanitation
Starting with a walk in March, the activities would be climaxed with a fund-raising dinner to complete its water and sanitation project for the Mangoase Senior High School, which still requires GH¢100 million to complete the sanitation component.
Giving a brief history of the club, a former President of the club, Mr Joseph Doku, said the club was formed in 1986 by the Rotary Club of Accra West with a Past President, Adam Babah Alargi, being appointed as the district governor’s special representative to lead the team towards the establishment of the club.
He said the first meeting of the provisional club took place on September 25, 1986 at the Gris Farm Hotel at Osu-RE (Royal Engineers) where the British Engineer Regiment was stationed during the Second World War.
Provisional Club
Mr Doku said the club elected K. G. Osei Bonsu, a former Minister of State, as its first President on October 23, 1986.
The club then met as a provisional club until February 9, 1987 when it was admitted to Rotary International, when it received the cub charter.
To commemorate the charter, the club has built and presented a number of projects to the Osu-Re community and the Ghana Police Service with an ultra-modern bus shelter, containing a public telephone booth and a kiosk for sale of confectionaries and newspapers, as well as a police traffic stand and tripods for directing traffic.
Community projects
Mr Doku said the club had since undertaken several projects in some communities. The projects include a borehole each for Bawjiase and Otuam, both in the Central Region, as well as assistance to the Methodist Girls High School in the Eastern Region to get potable water.
Mobile dental clinic
He said the club had also provided gas cookers, ovens, blenders and other equipment to the Home Science Department and some classroom furniture to the same school.
The Osu RE Rotary Club has also donated a mobile dental clinic to the University of Ghana Medical School. The support enabled the Dental School to extend dental services to remote and deprieved communities.
According to the former president, the services of the club were not limited to the country alone but to other neighbouring countries, such as Togo and Nigeria, where the club has donated books to some schools.