Rotary Club Earmarks N5 million for Disabled Abuja Health Clinic

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Rotary Club Earmarks N5 million for Disabled Abuja Health Clinic

 In order to ease the suffering of disabled persons in the society, Rotary Club of Abuja-Gwarinpa, District 9125 Nigeria, has earmark the sum of N5 million to facilitate the building of a modern health clinic in Karimajiji village, Abuja.

 The village, located at the Gwagwalada area of the Nation’s capital and play host to about 3500 disabled persons has been adopted by the Club. President 2015-2016 Rotary Club of Abuja-Gwarinpa, PHF Emmanuel Haruna

This was disclosed today at an event organized to mark the 7th Investiture ceremony of its President held in Abuja.Haruna, while speaking with journalists, noted that the conditions of persons at the village prompt its club to adopt it thereby catering for their needs. "If every Nigeria man, woman, child would take up challenge, national development would be obvious ready."

 According to him, “You know, when the All African Games was held in Nigeria, Federal Government carried all the beggars and disabled people on our street and go and dump them there and created a colony and abandoned them. When we went there, the document they gave to us and that we saw, there are about 3500 disable people there.

 

“Majority are disabled from polio, some, from other forms of disabilities, some are blind are all there. For us on health ground, decided to adopt the place, we have given them water, we have given them skill acquisitions, and we are trying to build them a health clinic to improve their health because government has abandoned them there. In fact, we have donated wheel chairs already and crunches for those who have walking challenges.

 

 

Speaking further, Haruna said, “There was a time we went there, there was food in the bow for them but, if you see the kind of fight among them just to get a bite of food, so you can begin to have an idea about the kind of people that are in this place. We are trying to affects everyone. Those that can see we give them skills, some, sowing. It’s a large population and they are increasing everyday in that place. So, it’s an adopted village that we are working on very seriously.

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