Rotary Club installs Babalola as new president
Wasiu Adeyemo Babalola
The Rotary Club of Isolo, Lagos has installed Rotn. Wasiu Adeyemo Babalola as its new President, to run the affairs of the club for the 2016/2017 year.
At the Investiture and Induction of Board members, held at the weekend, the newly elected president said Rotarians understands what it takes to serve humanity in every
possible way, hence, the need to reach out to all sectors in its host community schools, hospitals, orphanages and so on.
Babalola, who is the 36th president, stressed that the objective of rotary is to encourage and foster the idea of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster unity.
He noted that the present administration, will strive to make more impacts and touch more lives in Isolo community and its environs and also have interaction programme outside Nigeria. “We will be focusing mostly on our host community and this will start with free eye screening, completion of the school project at Ansar-U-deen primary school,support general hospital Isolo to build a paediatric wards for the kids and also to support them with other project and other things that may come up.
“Though this is my fourth year as a member of the club, but presidential position is a responsibility that one has to fulfil in one way or the other. I think it is my own time to be called to service and can only pray that it gets better in my own time and ends well.”
“I never knew what it takes to give without receiving thank you,until I join this club, and these are people you might not meet in your life time, touching lives is our mission,” he asserted.
He advised that people should see rotary club as an avenue to contribute their own little quota to create a big effect in the lives of the less privilege, saying “whatever you give today will in one day come back to you in manifold measures. You don’t have to be well known and wealthy before you can impacts life, it doesn’t have to be money always to help others it can also be giving your time to encourage, or training in a particular vocation.
The Chairman installation Committee, Rotn. Abiodun Shodunke noted during his speech that as part of the mission of selfless effort to positively affect lives, Rotary club of Isolo has attained an International District 9110 Nigeria and can stand tall among other clubs in the
district, considering the fact that the club in its 36years has executed projects, produced highest major donors to the Rotary Foundation, and leaders who had served
the nation in its various capacities.
Immediate past and first female president of Rotary club Isolo Mrs Lolade Temitope Ogungbe, said rotary is all about doing well to those around and the world in general.
“It is all about making the world a better place for all to live in and as an avenue of service in rotary we support the wards in different areas including child and maternal health, economy and community development.
“This is something we love doing, not because we have so much but because we understand what it means to be hungry, that is why we tend to support people to be able to have their livelihoods. Also, because we understand what it means not to have peace, we try to support peaceful co-existence in
the community we operate.”
She noted that, on 24th July 2014, Nigeria was certified as a polio free nation, in which Rotary club is also instrumental to end polio in Nigeria, by spending over 120 billion in its campaign and vaccines
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