Rotary Club, Fagge branch in Kano has distributed wheelchairs to 10 victims of poliomyelitis in the state.
This humanitarian gesture was aimed at putting a smile on the faces of the underprivileged and the needy.
The gesture was part of its year-long projectsunveiled in Kano during the investiture of the third president of the branch, Rotarian Anthony Victor Egejuru.
Egejuru, who expressed happiness with the WHO’s declaration of Nigeria ‘polio free’, said his one year in office as the president would focus more on healthcare interventions.
Speaking on his motivation to help polio victims, he said, “When I move around the roads not only in Kano but in the whole country, I see people crawling and when you ask them they say this is the way they found themselves. I started looking into it, to see how I can support them, how we could put a smile on their faces.
“Thank God now Nigeria has been certified free of polio, so what we are doing is to keep polio at zero level. My club sees it as a joint effort for all Rotarians and well-wishers to see how we could support these victims of circumstances who had been incapacitated by this wild polio virus.
“Most of these people are people that have been rejected in the society, most of them are less impacted, knowing that it’s not their fault, is just nature that brings them to this circumstances, so looking at that I decided to take it as part of our project for the year to provide wheelchairs for them so as to ease their movement and to make them feel loved” Egejuru added.
He further disclosed other areas of intervention to include drilling of boreholes in communities, medical out reaches and support to hospitals in areas child delivery and medication.
