The
Rotary Club of Fajara Friday presented ten new computers to five schools within
the Greater Banjul Area, at a ceremony held at the Senegambia Beach Hotel.
The
computers were distributed among the five schools equally.
The
computers came through the Rotary Club of Fajara supported by one Ebrima Sosseh
who is based in England, and has been working very closely with the Rotary Club
of Fajara.
The
beneficiary schools included Bright Star Nursery, Bakau Lower Basic School,
Trankil Academy, ABC Learning Centre, and Rose Aston Primary School and Nursery
School.
Speaking
at the presentation ceremony, the vice president of Rotary Club of Fajara,
Minyan Jobe, said the gifts were provided by a friend based in England, Ebrima
Sosseh, “who is a good friend of the Rotary Club of Fajara”.
Mr
Sosseh had visited the Rotary Club of Fajara on many occasions, and did make a
promise to provide the computers, which had been realised.
Mr
Jobe expressed gratitude and appreciation on behalf of the members of the
Rotary Club of Fajara to the donor, for the “magnificent gesture”.
He
said education is a focused area of Rotary International, and Rotary providing
gifts for needy people is their way of life in supporting local schools.
Providing
these kinds of gifts is their way of giving back to the society, communities,
as well as helping the children at school level.
According
to Mr Jobe, at the level of Rotary Club of Fajara they would be monitoring the
various schools to assess the impact of gifts in the lives of the school
children.
He
said if the computers are used accordingly, then the Rotary Club of Fajara
would continue to provide support to the schools.
Also
speaking at the handing over ceremony was Claudiana Cole, Regional Education
Director for Region One, who thanked the Rotary Club of Fajara and the donor
for providing the gifts, which is very important.
She
said education is a fundamental human right, and it is a very important aspect
of human life.
She
described the donation of the gifts as very timely in support of education.
She
also spoke extensively about the role and importance attached to education and
its benefits to human life, saying “without education you would lose a lot in
life”.
“So
education is key and anybody who supports education is supporting a very
important aspect of human life.
“I
want to thank the Rotary Club of Fajara for intervening in the area of
education by providing IT materials such as computers to our schools,” she
said, adding that information and communication technology is a very important
area.
“It
is ICT that is ruling the world today. It is, therefore, very important that
ICT materials are provided for school children to be able to compete in the
world, as the world has become a global village due to technology.
The
assistant District Governor, Safiyoung Manneh, said education is the foundation
that forms the club, and it is the educated people that came together and
thought it wise to put their resources together and help those less unfortunate
people in society.
Providing
these computers is one of the ways of supporting the society through education,
he said.
He
advised the beneficiaries to make the best use of the materials as they are
very important, adding that the donation was in line with Rotary’s area of
focus.