By Desmond Okon

ROTRACT Club of Ikoyi District 9110 has pledged to implement a range of projects geared towards improving education and youth empowerment, through vocational skill acquisition. The club’s new president for the 2014/2015 service year, Rotaractor Muyideen Gbadegesin, revealed this while speaking with newsmen recently.

Throwing light on the range of projects in the offing, Gbadegesin said they include: donation of first aid boxes to schools situated in Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA and environs, facilitation of career talk and donation of exercise books to pupils of Obalende Primary School. The club plans to donate mathematical sets to JSS 3 students of Boys’ Academy Secondary School, Lagos Island. It also plans to equip the adult literacy school at Falomo, Ikoyi with stationery and conduct a deworming exercise for children in Ijeh community, Obalende.

“In the course of the 2014/2015 service year we would also be working with our esteemed partners to facilitate a vocational training programme that would offer youths the opportunity to acquire skills in a range of vocations including; soap and bead making, fish farming and rudiments to start importation business,” the club’s president added.

By December Rotaract Club of Ikoyi, would be partnering with its twin club Rotaract Club of Adentan, Accra Ghana to raise awareness on cancer as part of its international project.   To achieve these goals, the club’s president, said it would be banking on support from corporate bodies and well-meaning individuals.