By Fanen Ihyongo, Kano
The Rotary Club of Kano Dala Sunrise, District 9125, has renovated two classrooms at Fatima Muhammed Government Girls Secondary School in Gyadi Gyadi, Tarauni Local Government Area.
A visit to the school showed that the floor has been rebuilt, the wall and windows fixed and painted. 60 chairs were also supplied.
The club’s President Chris Idoko said: “In the past -about one and half years ago, we were in this school to provide exercise books to the students. And looking at the nature of the classrooms, we saw the need to uplift it.
“This year when we prioritised our projects, and assisting schools being one of the focus of rotary clubs, we said let us work on the classrooms. But with lean resources, we said we would start with two classrooms at the moment and continue later as funds flow in. We worked on the floor, wall, and windows, did painting and provided 60 chairs,” he said.
The school’s face lift has excited its principal, Haj Sadiya Muhammed and Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and inspired the state Education ministry to honour the rotary club with an award.
Ganduje, represented by the Executive Secretary, Kano State Senior Schools Management Board, Dr. Bello Shehu, described the gesture as a community service.
He said: “The state government is always happy with such organisations, individuals and groups who come out to render help and support for us to achieve our educational set goals and policies. We commend and thank the Rotary Club of Kano Dala Sunrise, but like Oliver Twist, we are asking for more.
“We have over 1,300 secondary schools and over 2000 primary schools in Kano State, so we need people and groups like the rotary club to come in and assist in our free compulsory education in the state. As a representative of the ministry of Education to this event, I will officially write an information memo to the Education commissioner for the onward briefing of the governor. In Kano state, it is education first; other things come second. Therefore, our doors are open to donors, including the World Bank to support us.”
Explaining the essence of the club, Rotary District Governor designate, Sani Ahmed, said: “A rotary club is not just about doing business. Through the rotary international foundation and from our contributions, we have many areas of intervention to improve activities of the communities such as in peace and conflict resolution, child and maternal health, literacy and numeracy (education) and water and sanitation etc. Thus, the Rotary Club of Kano Dala Sunrise did its analysis and discovered that the major area of intervention is the Fatima Muhammed Government Girls Secondary School.”
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